Police used DNA analysis to identify a dead woman in Texas as a missing person who was last seen in San Francisco more than five decades ago.<\/p>\n
Cheryl Lanier was 27 years old when she was last seen in San Francisco in 1973, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n
The initial missing person’s report on Lanier was filed in 2010 and the case remained unsolved until a tip from Harris County in Houston in July 2025.<\/p>\n
San Francisco investigators contacted the Houston Police Department and collaborated with the California Department of Justice’s Bureau of Forensic Services.<\/p>\n
Using DNA analysis they were able to determine that a ‘Jane Doe’ in Houston was Lanier and closed the case, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n
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