Marietta police seek ID of remains found in ‘93
It's been nearly 19 years since construction workers unearthed the remains of a woman in east Cobb County. But still, her identity remains a mystery.
Marietta police hope a facial reconstruction, created by a GBI artist, will finally help close the cold case, Officer David Baldwin said Monday.
On June 25, 1993, a bulldozer operator working off Scufflegrit Road uncovered the remains while working at what is now the Brentwood subdivision.
Medical examiners determined that the remains were those of a 25- to 30-year-old white woman, between 5 feet 3 inches and 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing between 100 and 120 pounds, police said.
The victim was wearing a white halter top, a scarf with an orange and pink diamond print design, a sleeveless tan jacket, elastic band slacks, a 24-inch strand of white beads with imprinted blue flowers separated by gold-color metal beads, and multi-colored bead earrings, according to police.
There were no obvious indicators of how the woman died, Baldwin said, but investigators suspect her death may have been preceded by violence.
"We don't believe she was killed there, but that she was taken there," Baldwin told the AJC.
The remains likely had been there longer than a year at the time they were found, investigators later determined.
There were a handful of missing person cases at the time that police initially believed may have been linked to the remains, but investigators have since disproved any of those possibilities through forensic testing, according to police.
In recent weeks, DNA testing conducted by an FBI crime lab in Virginia determined that the remains were not those of a Cherokee County woman who disappeared in August 1992.
Now, investigators hope a sculpture of the woman's reconstructed face, created by GBI forensic artist Marla Lawson, will help identify the woman, who likely was born between 1957-1962.
Anyone with any information about the case is urged to call the Marietta Police Department Tip Line at 770-794-6990 or Lt. Steve Campisi at 770-794-5367.
