A body found in Lake Michigan has been identified as Dorothy Lynn (Thyng) Ricker, a Chicago woman last seen at a Wisconsin beachfront park.
Human remains found in 1997 along Lake Michigan's shoreline in western Michigan have been identified as those of a Chicago woman last seen weeks earlier at a Wisconsin beachfront park, police said Monday.
"Although DNA testing wasn't possible when Dorothy Ricker died, investigators are grateful that it brings her family some resolution today," police said in a news release. The next day, an abandoned vehicle was found nearby and its license plate came back as belonging to a person listed as "missing/endangered" by the Chicago Police Department. That information was not known at the time the officers spoke to Ricker, state police said.
The remains were exhumed in 2020 and bone samples were sent to Astrea Forensics under the DNA Doe Project for Forensic Genetic Genealogy, state police said. The next year, police informed about a possible genetic link to the Thyng family of Acton, Maine.
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