Using DNA and genetic genealogy, investigators have identified remains found in western Oregon nearly 49 years ago as a missing 21-year-old woman last seen at a shopping mall.

The remains have been identified as Marion Vinetta Nagle McWhorter , a 21-year-old Native American woman last seen in 1974 at a mall in Tigard.

The skeletal remains were found on July 24, 1976, in Wolf Creek; it’s near Swamp Mountain in Linn County, about 110 miles southeast of where McWhorter was last seen, Oregon State Police said in a news release.

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