The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona named a woman found dead in 1971 as Colleen Rice, who was identified with a crowdfunded DNA-sequencing investigation.
Her file sat in the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office for decades until investigator Lori Miller pulled it out in the summer of 2020, determined to finally solve the mystery of the county’s oldest unidentified victim.
“We struck out there,” Miller said. “We struck out with dental records. And so last resort was to try to ID her through her DNA.”That wasn’t easy either. Pressed for funding, the sheriff’s office had to pay for the $7,500 genome-sequencing service with a public fundraiser organized by the testing company. But with it, finally, came a breakthrough. On Tuesday, the sheriff’s officethe woman as Colleen Audrey Rice from Portsmouth, Ohio — no longer Mohave’s oldest Jane Doe.
Othram’s tests work by building a “comprehensive” genetic profile using DNA extracted from remains, founder David Mittelman said. The company attempts to find matches for that profile within public databases of genealogical profiles, eventually homing in on a family tree and requesting follow-up DNA tests with people from that tree to confirm a match.
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