DNA leads to true identity of woman at center of bizarre "Mom-In-The-Box" cold case in California
In 2014, police found a deceased woman at home and another body in a box under the kitchen table.
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In 2014, police found a deceased woman at home and another body in a box under the kitchen table.
SALINAS – A cold case murder more than three decades old has been solved according to the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office, but the suspect will never be charged because he died before DNA testing confirmed evidence found under the victim’s fingernails matched his. On Jan. 3, 1991, Vicki Johnson, a 34-year-old mother of three […]
The old saying is that time heals all wounds, but that’s not the case for the family of Dena Dean. Dena was 16 years old, and a student at Webster High School.
The DNA was examined under new forensic techniques.
The victim, Sonia Carmen Herok-Stone, was 30 years old and lived in Carmel with her 4-year-old daughter at the time of her murder in 1981.