LOS ANGELES — Through DNA, authorities have identified a woman whose remains were found 31 years ago in Thermal, California, according to the Riverside County district attorney’s office.
The Riverside County Regional Cold Case Homicide Team, led by the district attorney’s Bureau of Investigation, identified the remains as Kathryn Coffey, a Baldwin Park resident born in 1954.
Cold case investigators met with Coffey’s sister in June and obtained DNA, confirming on Aug. 8 that the remains were Coffey’s and notifying her family about the identification.
