SACRAMENTO — Investigators used DNA family tree know-how to determine the stays of a lady killed in Northern California 18 years in the past, and sheriff’s officers at the moment are asking for the general public’s assist in figuring out her killer.
The id of Shannon Vielguth, who was born in 1969, was confirmed with the DNA of an in depth member of the family, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace introduced Tuesday.
Vielguth’s stays have been discovered close to Sacramento in March 2008. Coroner’s officers categorized the loss of life as a murder and decided she was killed in autumn 2004, the Sacramento Bee reported.
Authorities launched a genetic family tree investigation final yr, loading her DNA profile onto open-source family tree web sites.
Sheriff’s officers stated investigators realized that Vielguth was dwelling as a transient within the six months earlier than her homicide, spending time in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado, Nevada and California. She used different final names, together with Judkins, Hutchings and Joyce.
Investigators requested anybody with info concerning Vielguth’s homicide or her whereabouts within the months resulting in her loss of life to name the sheriff’s murder bureau.