Florida investigators used DNA to identify a woman murdered in 1969 as Arizona resident Sylvia June Atherton. WFLA’s Josh Benson reports.
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Sylvia June Atherton rest in peace.
I hope you are rewarded in the next life and are given all the love and respect you deserve. Godspeed.
Sad, now kids can mourn, and find that friend…
Hubby dun it, a close friend of his helped ditch her coffin/trunk. Wonder if he is still alive? Neither reported her missing. Would not have gotten away with it nowadays… How did she die? battered? prob.
2 men? Any touch DNA?
So noone reported sylvia missing ? The homicide cops who originally handled the case sound like clowns.The first thing you would cross ref is missing petsons
Wonderful news! 🙏
Because so many years have passed, the person who did the crime is probably deceased. But the victim's family – many of the victims had children, who are now adults. What a relief at least to know that their loved one's remains have been found – and an ID can at last be made. Closure, if not justice…
Son an
Mother of five??? How horrible. I wonder who the two men were. Husband? Ex? Who would deprive five children of their mother?
There's more to the story? Guess they'll never know who placed her in the trunk but DNA did find out who she was. Wow 53 years later.
That data base is scary
Such a lovely name.
💐🕊
If she was alive today she would be 95 years old. Mother missed out on her kids graduating High School going to college getting married and seeing her grandkids. Life is unfair and unpredictable. I always say Live Laugh Love…
Woah, my great grandparents left me that exact same trunk when they passed away. Creepy
Thank you Lord! This is closure to her children.
did they find trumps dna?
Now if they could find out whatever happened to D.B. Cooper and Judge Crater…
Clearly the hubby/bf isn't still alive…
I wish there was more information.
Who killed her/ how/with what
/ why & when
I wonder what the back story is in the events leading up to her death. Who was she with? Why did she leave? Why she was discarded in that way? Who killed her?? Etc. I'm very glad that she was found, but the inner detective in me wants to know the deets. 🧐
When we going to prosecute all those brothers and sisters lynched between 1865 – 1980?
At least her family has some closure. RIP!