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On February 16, 1986, human remains appeared near the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation encampment in Warner Springs, California.

The remains belonged to a woman, but it took a full 37 years before police were able to identify the woman.

However, on May 23, the San Diego Sheriff’s Office’s homicide investigation division announced that a DNA test had finally provided the answer.

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The woman who was killed was said to be Claudette Jean Zebolsky Power, the sheriff’s office wrote in one pers conference.

The woman is said to have been born in Michigan in 1962 and lived in the early ’80s in Washington with her husband, before he left him and moved to San Diego in 1983 or 1984. CBS News.

Claudette was last heard from after her father died in September 1984, and since then her family has lived in uncertainty over what happened to her.

Although the body has now been identified, there is still a killer on the loose, local police said.

In a press release that went out on Thursday, they asked anyone with information to come forward.

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Sergeant Tim Chantler told CBS affiliate KFMB-TV that detectives were working to piece together a timeline of the woman’s life before she died. This is in hopes of leading to the killer.

– It took 37 years to identify who he was and solve the mystery. Now we have to reconstruct his entire life. Where did he live, where did he work and who did he know, Chantler said.

In regards to the identification, Claudette’s youngest sister, Laura Freese, spoke up.

– This is very difficult for our family, he said in a press release, and asked people with information to come forward.

– Someone knows what happened. If you are alive and know my sister and know what happened to her, please come forward. We need an end.

It must have been thanks to an investigative genetic pedigree that Claudette had finally been found.

According to police, this is a technique only to use when all else has failed.

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This technique involves uploading DNA found at crime scenes to a consumer genealogy website to locate the victim’s family members.

This method should also be used when searching for suspects.

In this case, the DNA information from a single hair is uploaded and compared to the profiles available on commercial sites.

Eventually, the detectives are able to track down someone who may be Claudette’s relative and who in turn sends them towards Claudette’s daughter, sister, and mother.

Around the same time that Claudette’s body was discovered, another body was found in roughly the same area.

The person has not been identified and police say the cases may be linked.