Recovered/Located AZ - Stella Horrell, 18, Phoenix, 22 Aug 1943

According to the Doe network, Stella has been found:


  • Stella May Horrell
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    Stella May Horrell (3228DFAZ) is no longer missing per NamUs. No further information is available.

    Located & Identified Persons
 
Updated article:
Others outside the area could help as well. Janet Franson, a retired homicide investigator who runs the Lost and Missing in Indian Country Facebook page, has been in touch with Towell about getting DNA samples from three sisters of Native descent in the Yakima area whose grandmother, Stella Horrell, went missing in 1943. Horrell was living in Phoenix at the time.

“We worked with (Franson) and collected DNA from family here and sent it to Texas, where it’s going to be analyzed,” Towell said.

The swabs have gone to the University of North Texas, Franson noted, and processing them for DNA usually that takes about six months because of a backlog.
Cold cases heating up again as Yakima County sheriff plans task force
 
Updated article:
Others outside the area could help as well. Janet Franson, a retired homicide investigator who runs the Lost and Missing in Indian Country Facebook page, has been in touch with Towell about getting DNA samples from three sisters of Native descent in the Yakima area whose grandmother, Stella Horrell, went missing in 1943. Horrell was living in Phoenix at the time.

“We worked with (Franson) and collected DNA from family here and sent it to Texas, where it’s going to be analyzed,” Towell said.

The swabs have gone to the University of North Texas, Franson noted, and processing them for DNA usually that takes about six months because of a backlog.
Cold cases heating up again as Yakima County sheriff plans task force
Unfortunately I cannot access the two links so am unable to check their dates. What is confusing me is that unless they predate 2017 such effort seems unnecessary. The prior posts on this thread reference family trees on Ancestry from no later than that date which had already confirmed her life after 1943 and made it obvious that at least some members of her family knew of it (although when they knew is not clear). I assume either that these are old articles or there is some other, not obvious, reason for working on an already solved case.
 

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