Identified! WA - Cowlitz Co., Hisp/Nat Am girl in river, Sep'87 - Kamnee Narain

[Gardener1850]

Raj Narain is still listed in NAMUS: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/19514/

Her head has still not been found

photo of Raj Narain and her husband Ashok Narain in 1985. He is listed as missing by the Eugene, Oregon Police and was last known to have returned to Fiji in 1988 without having reported his wife and child missing.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Oh, man!

They found her and buried her, without even so much as keeping any biological samples! And wasn't DNA available then?

No, it wasn't. At least not in the US.

Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys of the University of Leicester (UK) had conceived the idea of using DNA for forensic purposes in 1984 and spend the next couple of years developing the idea and technique. It was first used to identify the perpetrator of several rape murders in the English Midlands and led to the arrest of Colin Pitchfork in September 1987, the same month as these female bodies were found. Pitchfork was convicted on the basis of the DNA evidence in January 1988 so there's no reason to blame the WA police for not having been aware of the advance at this time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Pitchfork

However, they should have kept biological materials for other forensic purposes.