A grisly discovery has been made in a California chilly case involving a trainer who disappeared in 1987.
On August 3, 1987, a person from Trinity County named Nikolas Medin got here house from work to search out that his spouse, 48-year-old Kay Adams, was lacking. Her purse, glasses, and automotive had been nonetheless on the residence, however she was nowhere to be discovered, in response to SFGATE.
When investigators spoke to Adams’ boss, they mentioned she was in good spirits and good well being after they had final spoken.
Adams’ disappearance resulted in a large volunteer effort to find her within the tough terrain close to the couple’s house within the Trinity Mountains, however no hint of her was discovered.
In November of the identical 12 months, somebody despatched the sheriff’s division in neighboring Humboldt County a disturbing bundle. It contained an nameless letter and a few of Adams’ skeletal stays.
The letter advised investigators the place they may discover extra of Adams’ stays, which investigators used to find them close to a street roughly 45 miles from her house. The stays had been positively recognized as Adams’ by means of dental information, however no reason behind loss of life may very well be decided, and the invention led to no arrests.
In February 1993, a cranium was discovered roughly 100 miles away from the place Adams’ stays had been discovered. A person strolling his canine stumbled onto the cranium on a seashore at Trinidad Head. Police on the time took a DNA profile however couldn’t match it to anybody within the Mixed DNA Index System.
That cranium, because of advances in DNA know-how and the work of Othram DNA analysts, has now been recognized as Adams’.
Othram used a DNA pattern from Adams’ daughter to substantiate the match, in response to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Workplace.
“It’s unclear how the vast majority of her stays had been discovered 45 miles from her house or how her cranium was discovered nearly 100 miles away,” the DNA evaluation group mentioned in an announcement.
Adams’ husband, Medin, died in 2018 and police don’t contemplate him a suspect in her loss of life.
Regardless of the invention, police are nonetheless no nearer to an arrest. They’ve requested that anybody with data relating to Adams’ disappearance and loss of life to name the Humboldt County investigator Mike Fridley at 707-441-3024.
