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Police share details of 29-year-old 'cold case,' ask for help
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SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake police detectives are making another attempt to identify the badly decomposed remains of a woman found 29 years ago in a sewage canal.
The only clues left today are a homemade dress, a homemade white blouse, jeans, a watch, a ring and a bracelet. Because of the style of dress, Salt Lake homicide detective Hilary Gordon believes there's a good chance the woman was a member of the Fundamentalist LDS Church.
But no women were reported missing from the FLDS community in 1986, and Gordon isn't sure the group's members would have reported a missing woman back then.
The woman is believed to have been white, between 20 and 40 years old, 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing about 115 pounds. The body did not have any hair left when it was found.
Detectives believe the body may have been in the canal for several weeks to a month or more before it was discovered.
Unfortunately, all investigators have to compare records with today are the woman's teeth.
"In '86, they didn't do DNA back then like they do now. She was cremated, so we do not have remains to make any other comparisons," Gordon said.
Investigators also have not been able to find any usable traces of DNA on the woman's clothing that can be tested.
Gordon said there were no missing people from Utah in 1986 that match the woman's description. She has even checked the records of missing people in Canada and other areas of known polygamist communities.
Anyone with information on the woman is asked to call Gordon at 801-799-3454.