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Arizona's 'Valentine Sally' Identified As St. Louis County Woman
Coconino County Sheriff's Office announced Monday that after 40 years they have been able to officially identify the Jane Doe from the Vale
February 23, 2021
Coconino County Sheriff's Office announced Monday that after 40 years they have been able to officially identify the Jane Doe from the Valentine Sally case. Valentine Sally was one of the oldest unsolved "Jane Doe" cases in Arizona. A young woman was found dead on the side of a northern Arizona highway by a Arizona Department of Public Safety officer decades ago on Valentine's Day, and nobody knows who she is until now. A young woman was found dead on the side of a northern Arizona highway decades ago, and to this day, nobody knows who she is. But is law enforcement any closer to solving this case? And who last saw this girl alive? Through funding from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), CCSO was able to send DNA samples to a private vendor testing lab to complete a familial DNA search for her relatives, according to a press release. The testing led them to find family members in the St. Louis area. It was found that the family members had a sibling who ran away from home around Christmas time in 1981. Detectives were able to retrieve DNA samples from relatives, which matched.
