For more than 40 years, investigators were confounded by the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a pregnant New Jersey teenager whose unidentified remains were found in several suitcases along a riverbank in Pennsylvania, along with a nearly full-term fetus. It wasn’t until this month that relatives of Evelyn Colon, who was 15 years old when she disappeared in 1976, said they had learned from the authorities that the remains that had been dumped beneath a highway overpass along the Lehigh River in Carbon County were hers. Raped, strangled, shot and dismembered, and her fetus removed, she became known as Beth Doe to investigators, who had asked for the public’s help in identifying her and had chased some false leads. Image In 1976, a teenager Evelyn Colon, 15, and her fetus packed into suitcases along a riverbank in Pennsylvania. Credit... WBREThen on Wednesday, Luis Sierra, a Queens man who was 19 at the time and who the local news media reported was Evelyn’s live-in boyfriend in Jersey City, was arrested in her death, the authorities said.

Source: New York Times April 02, 2021 09:22 UTC