SkyNews - UK DNA Tests On Woman's Body Found 31 Years Ago
The wax reconstruction of the head of the woman found in the North York Moors National Park
10:38am UK, Tuesday January 24, 2012
Gerard Tubb, North of England correspondent
North Yorkshire Police are hoping advances in DNA profiling will help solve the mystery of a woman whose naked body was found by a remote roadside 31 years ago.
In August 1981 detectives were informed about the remains of the 35- to 40-year-old by a well-spoken man who phoned Ripon police station.
He told officers where to look for the body but said he could give no further details for reasons of national security.
No clothing or jewellery was found with the remains, which had lain undisturbed for up to two years close to Sutton Bank, near Thirsk.
The woman was buried at Malton Cemetery after an 18-month investigation, which failed to identify her despite the commissioning of the UK's first wax facial reconstruction based on the shape of her skull.
More than three decades on, 20 police staff worked through the night in a forensic tent erected over the woman's grave as the remains were removed so samples could be taken from the teeth and a thigh bone.
Scientists at the Forensic Science Service laboratory in Wetherby will use techniques unavailable to the original investigators to isolate DNA, which they will then try to match to samples in the national DNS database and to four families identified as potential relatives.
The body will be reinterred on Wednesday but the results of the tests, which could spark a murder inquiry, will not be known for four weeks.
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