The human stays of a physique discovered greater than three many years in the past in Placer County have been recognized as these of a girl who went lacking from Berkeley.
In a press release, the Placer County Sheriff’s Workplace stated they used trendy expertise to show that they’ve discovered Wendy Abrams-Nishikai, who was final seen on Halloween evening in 1989 when she was 21.
Abrams-Nishikai’s stays had been discovered off an embankment on Yankee Jims Highway in Colfax in 1990, however authorities had not been capable of determine them.
The invention remained a chilly case till the Placer County Sheriff’s Workplace fashioned a Chilly Case Investigations workforce in 2023 that included members of the sheriff’s workplace and the district lawyer’s workplace.
The workforce utilized developments in expertise and forensic family tree and utilizing a DNA evaluation lab in Richmond had been capable of determine a subsequent of kin, the sheriff’s workplace stated. The workforce that obtained additional DNA samples from members of the family for additional comparability.
By means of these samples, the workforce was capable of determine that the stays present in 1990 had been Abrams-Nishikai.
“While her death is still under investigation and the case is ongoing, we hope this identification provides some closure to her surviving family members after 35 years of uncertainty,” the sheriff’s workplace wrote in its assertion.
