A young mother from the Bronx went missing in the early 1990s. Around the same time, a farmer in Pennsylvania discovered a human skull in freshly turned soil on June 3, 1992. It would take 34 years before investigators were finally able to determine that the missing woman and the unidentified remains belonged to the same person.
The first thing the farmer did was contact authorities after making the discovery in a field on Christman Road in Windsor Township. Law enforcement officers subsequently uncovered a shallow grave containing skeletal remains. At the time, forensic anthropology was far less advanced than it would later become, particularly following the contributions of prominent scientists in the field such as Kathy Reichs, who is now best known as a major influence on the long-running TV show Bones.
