50-year-old missing persons cold case cracked after remains of San Francisco woman found in Texas ID’d

Source: New York Post

A cold case more than half a century in the making has been cracked after a San Francisco woman who vanished without a trace was identified as a Jane Doe who died more than 1,900 miles away in Texas. The San Francisco Police Department announced Thursday that DNA evidence identified Cheryl Lanier, a 27-year-old woman who was last seen in the Bay Area in 1973. “The initial missing person’s report of Lanier was filed in 2010.