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Unique-Public-8594 t1_iuifjho wrote

Sad story but I am pleased to see DNA/genealogy helping to solve mysteries.

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PakkyT t1_iuirrfl wrote

Am I the only one that is more shocked that a 1970s murder is the "oldest unidentified homicide case" in Massachusetts? Did we solve all the other ones from the past century or two or where all the ones previous to 1974 just closed out with no findings?

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BradMarchandsNose t1_iuitycf wrote

It’s not the oldest unsolved murder, it was the oldest unidentified body.

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PakkyT t1_iuj0hzm wrote

Understood but my question still stands, how do we have no unidentified (presumed homicides) bodies prior to 1974 in a place that has existed with laws for centuries?

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BradMarchandsNose t1_iuj37pn wrote

Policing as we know it wasn’t really a thing until relatively recently (around the turn of the 20th century). Before that, case files didn’t really exist. So yeah, you might be right, but they can only go off of what’s been reported. It’s very rare for a body to be left with no identifying characteristics like this woman’s. The FBI keeps a list of unidentified victims and they only have 53 of them in the whole country.

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redditor420_69 t1_iuigrl5 wrote

Based on her short haircut, does this confirm she was NOT in Jaws?

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Sylvio_ t1_iuiuvs9 wrote

IDK what is up with these downvotes. it was long believed that she was a woman in the background of Jaws as they were filming there right before her body was found

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Statest16 t1_iujbm80 wrote

It said oldest unidentified or unknown murder victim not oldest unsolved murder !

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