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Has anyone posted about this updated info yet? UPDATE: Chattanooga family, police helping in investigation of human bones found in suitcase
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Has anyone posted about this updated info yet? UPDATE: Chattanooga family, police helping in investigation of human bones found in suitcase
Has anyone posted about this updated info yet? UPDATE: Chattanooga family, police helping in investigation of human bones found in suitcase
Police have identified the skeletal remains found in a suitcase along I-985 in 2016 as a woman who had been reported missing. Dental records and medical records have confirmed that the bones belong to Jessica Ashley Manchini, 29.
“A tag from the suitcase appeared to have faded blue ink that was no longer visible to the human eye. Several lighting tests were done in 2016 to try and read the writing, but the ink appeared to have washed away,” Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Michele Pihera wrote in a news release.
This month, the tags were re-examined with new technology that revealed a partial name and address.
That led them to Jessica Ashley Manchini, 29, a missing woman originally from Pennsylvania who spent her last few years in Gwinnett County.
Manchini was reported missing in December 2014 by her mother.
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From the left: A released photo of Jessica Ashley Manchini, who police identified as the woman whose remains were found stuffed in a suitcase along a Georgia highway three years ago. Police released a forensic illustration in 2016 of what the woman might have looked like based on the remains.
According to authorities, the new technology revealed a partial name and a Pennsylvania address on the suitcase. Manchini's identity was then confirmed using dental and medical records...
LINK:
Remains found in suitcase in 2016 finally ID'd using new technology, police say