A teenager whose name was unknown for over two decades following her murder at a Lynn, Massachusetts, YMCA has been identified.
The man who killed Tiffany Bradley and dumped part of her body at the parking lot of the Soldiers’ Home at Chelsea in November 2000 was convicted, but he didn’t know the 17-year-old’s name, officials said at a news conference in Boston where she was identified.
Until she was identified, Bradley had been known as “Chelsea Jane Doe.” A composite sketch of what she might have looked like was created after her head and hands were found in a bag buried at Nahant Beach, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said.
An FBI cold case team collected a DNA sample that led to her brother. Bradley had been reported missing on Nov. 8, 2000, from Allentown, Hayden said. She was killed five days later, after being trafficked to Boston.
The top FBI agent in Boston, Special Agent in Charge Ted Docks, said Bradley had been strangled, decapitated and dismembered, and the only hint investigators had from confessed killer Eugene McCollom was that her name might have been Lisa.
The head of the Massachusetts State Police, Col. Geoffrey Noble, noted that this is a rare case where a suspect is identified before the victim is.