(FOX40.COM) — After 35 years, the stays of a girl present in Colfax in 1990 have been recognized as a girl who was final seen on Halloween 1989 in Berkeley, in keeping with the Placer County Sheriff’s Workplace.
The stays of then-21-year-old Wendy Abrams-Nishikai had been found off an embankment of Yankee Jims Highway in distant Placer County.
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Investigators on the time had been unable to establish Abrams-Nishikai’s stays and listed her as a Jane Doe chilly case.
In 2023, the sheriff’s workplace’s Chilly Case Investigation group reopened the case and utilized fashionable forensic know-how to advance the case.
The California Division of Justice Laboratory in Richmond was capable of establish a potential subsequent of kin in 2024 and set up a DNA profile that matched Abrams-Nishikai.
By acquiring extra DNA samples from relations, the sheriff’s workplace was capable of formally establish the stays in January 2025.
Investigators are persevering with their investigation into Abrams-Nishikai’s dying and anybody with info can contact the sheriff’s workplace at [email protected].
