An investigator with the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office cold case team uploaded that profile to two databases, FamilyTreeDNA and GEDmatch. They quickly found someone who appeared to be a first cousin of their mystery woman, Deputy Lane said. The Sheriff’s Office called the cousin to find out if anyone had gone missing in his family. In an interview, Mr. Lucas said that she and her son were living with him in Spokane when she vanished. “But that was the last time I saw her.”In good times, he said, his sister was a “loving mother and loving sister who always had a smile on her face.” But she was also struggling with the pressures of being a single mother.

Source: New York Times May 13, 2021 14:48 UTC