CASE UPDATE
The San Bernardino County Coroner’s Office has been diligently
working with genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter trying to identify a teenage homicide victim from 2010.
On February 10, 2010 the head of an unidentified female was found in a backpack located along Lenwood Road, west of the I-15 Freeway in
#Barstow, California.
The female is estimated to be 14 to 19 years old. She had dark brown hair that was approximately shoulder length and both ears were pierced once.
The victim’s DNA has been uploaded into
#FTDNA and
#GEDmatch in attempts to identify her. The DNA confirms her Hispanic ancestry revealing very distant relatives from Mexico. While authorities have been successful developing sufficient DNA for upload into the ancestry databases the matches are low and difficult to work with. Authorities encourage anyone, specifically from the southwest region of the United States to test at FTDNA. If anyone has already tested at another ancestry company they too can help by uploading their raw DNA results into FTDNA and GEDmatch for no additional fees.