TOWN OF ELLERY, N.Y. (WKBW) — A woman found shot to death along Interstate 86 in Chautauqua County 42 years ago remains unidentified, as investigators continue their efforts to solve the cold case.

I visited the spot where the mystery woman was found dead on the morning of December 6, 1983, in the Town of Ellery.

Linemen working for Niagara Mohawk were driving by that snowy morning when they noticed what they thought was a mannequin on the side of the road. They backed up and went to investigate. It turned out to be the body of a woman who had been shot four times.

Tom DiZinno, an investigator with the Unsolved Chautauqua Unit of the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office, showed me the exact location where the body was discovered.

"See this creek here, she had been down in the creek," Diz

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