Identified! OR - Linn Co, Willamette National Forest, WhtFem 30-50, UP67939, curly short brown hair, Apr'20 - Grace Lorna Narvez-Weaver

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The Linn County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) has identified human remains found in 2020 as a missing Olympia woman.
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Oregon State Police (OSP) said the remains of a partially skeletonized human body were found in an extremely remote, wooded area off a US Forest Service Road east of Sweet Home, Oregon on April 4, 2020.

Investigators determined that the body likely belonged to a woman between the ages of 30 and 50. The case was uploaded to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) and a bone sample was submitted to Bode Technology for processing.

The resulting DNA was uploaded to a database, but police said there were no genetic associations to a missing person or possible relatives. A forensic illustration was also made and uploaded to the NamUs website. Despite the efforts, LCSO was unable to find a missing person case that matched the characteristics of the woman.

The case was at risk of becoming "cold" so the Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office used grant funding from the National Institute of Justice and Bureau of Justice Assistance to perform innovative DNA techniques in the hope of identifying the woman.

A sample from the woman's tooth was sent to DNA Labs International and a different type of DNA profile was produced and provided by Parabon NanoLabs (Parabon). The DNA profile was able to predict the woman's eye color, hair color, skin color, freckling, the shape of her face, and biogeographic ancestry.

The genealogy report issued by Parabon suggested that the woman was Grace Lorna Narvez-Weaver, reported missing in Washington in 2019. LCSO then contacted the woman's family so they could provide DNA to compare to the woman's DNA.

OSP said families of missing persons can help by uploading their DNA profiles into a secure, open-source website called GEDmatch.com.

The Olympia Police Department issued a missing persons case in March 2021. At the time, they said Narvez-Weaver had not contacted her parents in eastern Washington since 2019.
 
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The genealogy report issued by Parabon suggested that the woman was Grace Lorna Narvez-Weaver, reported missing in Washington in 2019. LCSO then contacted the woman's family so they could provide DNA to compare to the woman's DNA.
Last month, Parabon said the DNA from the family member shared a significant amount of DNA with the woman. The amount of DNA shared was consistent with a parent and child relationship.


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The genealogy report issued by Parabon suggested that the woman was Grace Lorna Narvez-Weaver, reported missing in Washington in 2019. LCSO then contacted the woman's family so they could provide DNA to compare to the woman's DNA.
Last month, Parabon said the DNA from the family member shared a significant amount of DNA with the woman. The amount of DNA shared was consistent with a parent and child relationship.


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Wow, thank you.
 
The genealogy report issued by Parabon suggested that the woman was Grace Lorna Narvez-Weaver, reported missing in Washington in 2019. LCSO then contacted the woman's family so they could provide DNA to compare to the woman's DNA.
Last month, Parabon said the DNA from the family member shared a significant amount of DNA with the woman. The amount of DNA shared was consistent with a parent and child relationship.


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The drawn composite was pretty good! The hair color was a little light but it may have been sunbleached/dyed.
 

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