ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – At 10:30 a.m., on Tuesday, May 30th, the St. Petersburg Police Cold Case Unit will announce major developments in two separate cases, including the infamous “Trunk Lady” case of 1969.
The “Trunk Lady” of 1969 is the unidentified woman whose body was found in a steamer trunk beneath a tree in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Halloween night, 1969.
She was found wearing a green nightgown, wrapped in plastic. There were no suspects and the case remains unsolved.
The woman was white, between the ages of 18 and 25, and had long brown hair. She was 5’5″ tall and weighed about 120 pounds. She had a small scar on her right cheek and a vaccination mark on her left arm.
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The woman’s body was found by a group of teenagers who were playing in the woods near the tree. The trunk had been hidden by some brush and the teenagers had to move the brush to get to it. When they opened the trunk, they found the woman’s body inside.
The police were called to the scene, and they began an investigation. They interviewed the teenagers who had found the body, and they searched the area around the tree. However, they were unable to find any clues that would lead them to the woman’s killer.
The woman’s body was taken to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy. The autopsy revealed that the woman had been strangled to death. She had also been sexually assaulted.
The police released a composite sketch of the woman, but she has never been identified. The case remains unsolved.
In 2019, the St. Petersburg Police Department announced that they were using investigative genetic genealogy to try to identify the woman. The technique involves comparing DNA from the crime scene to DNA from commercial DNA databases. The hope was that this will lead to a match with a relative of the killer, which could then lead to the identification of the killer.
We will update this story as information is released Tuesday.
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