Nevada 1982 Cold Case SOLVED After 37 Years — Details Shock the Community

Nevada 1982 Cold Case SOLVED After 37 Years — Details Shock the Community 37 years ago, the body of a woman was found in a remote meadow near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, shot in the back of the head and left without a single piece of identification, while no relative reported her missing. Authorities pursued more than 227 leads to identify her over nearly four decades, entered her DNA into federal databases, contacted Interpol, and distributed facial sketches to hundreds of law enforcement agencies — but she remained only Sheep's Flat Jane Doe, buried in a grave with no headstone, marked by a cheap plastic green flag of the kind people stick in the ground to indicate a water line, while the man who killed her was never named. However, through all those years, the Washoe County Sheriff's Office never closed the case because they believed the answer existed somewhere, only there wasn't yet the tool to read it. Then in 2018, a forensic investigator sat in the auditorium of a scientific conference in Seattle and heard about a new method that led to a result unprecedented in the history of American forensics that no one could have imagined. THE EVENTS AND INFORMATION IN THE VIDEO ARE REFERENCED FROM THE SOURCES: 1. DNA Sleuths ID Mary Silvani as Shooting Victim in 37-Year-Old Murder Case CNN national investigative feature from May 7, 2019, featuring exclusive quotes from Washoe County Sheriff's Detective Kathleen Bishop — who stated "if everybody had not done their job as this went along, this case never would have been solved" — and detailing how genetic genealogy researchers discovered Curry was an illegitimate son raised under a different name, a twist that nearly derailed the identification entirely. Source: https://www.cnn.com/20... 2. DNA Links Bay Area Killer to Lake Tahoe Cold Case Murder CBS News San Francisco / AP report from May 7, 2019, covering Sheriff Darin Balaam's full press conference transcript — detailing the complete forensic genealogy pathway from GEDmatch family matches to the Dallas, Texas couple whose three sons were investigated, ultimately tracing the crime scene DNA to Curry as an unknown illegitimate grandson previously hidden from the family. Source: https://www.cbsnews.co... 3. New DNA Evidence IDs Victim, Killer in 1982 Lake Tahoe Area Murder CBS News Sacramento report from May 7, 2019, featuring the first confirmation that Silvani's identity was locked in via a 1974 Detroit Police Department fingerprint from a misdemeanor arrest — the only physical record of her existence — and quoting Sheriff Balaam's announcement that the investigation is officially closed with James Richard Curry posthumously identified as her killer. Source: https://www.cbsnews.co... 4. New DNA Information in 1982 Cold Case Killing at Lake Tahoe; Woman and Suspect Identified MyNews4 / FOX11 Reno (KRNV, the local station of record for Washoe County) report from May 6–7, 2019, publishing the full official Washoe County Sheriff's Office statement including details of Silvani's clothing at the crime scene — powder blue T-shirt, blue jeans, yellow tennis shoes and bathing suit — and the complete timeline from discovery to the February 2018 forensic genealogy engagement. Source: https://mynews4.com/ne... 5. Confessed Bay Area Killer Linked Through DNA to Tahoe Cold Case From 1982 SFist (San Francisco investigative news) report from May 7, 2019, providing the most detailed account of Curry's known murder history — his February 3, 1983 confession to killing Gerald and Sharon Novoselatz in San Jose and Richard Lemmon Jr. in Santa Clara — and explaining how the DNA Doe Project's testing of all children of the Dallas couple confirmed Curry as a fourth, previously unknown victim's killer. Source: https://sfist.com/2019...