Murdered woman identified after 33 years as authorities seek killer
DNA profiling and forensic genealogy allowed investigators to identify the remains of Lisa Coburn Kesler, who was 20 when she was killed in 1990.
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DNA profiling and forensic genealogy allowed investigators to identify the remains of Lisa Coburn Kesler, who was 20 when she was killed in 1990.
DNA profiling and forensic genealogy allowed investigators to identify the remains of Lisa Coburn Kesler, who was 20 when she was killed in 1990.
Authorities in North Carolina have made a breakthrough in a decades-old cold case involving a woman found by road crews on a highway near Jacksonville in 1990.
"I believe we collectively demonstrated the value of dogged determination," Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood says, adding they will now apply that same resolve to identifying Lisa Coburn Kesler's killer.
The victim's identity was a mystery -- until now.