Fifty-two years after her death, the Weld County Sheriff’s Office is seeking help in figuring out how a California woman with seemingly no ties to Colorado was found dead west of Platteville in 1973.

The disappearance of Roxanne Leadbeater, who was identified just last year using forensic genealogy, is the county’s oldest cold case, according to a Weld County Sheriff’s Office news release .

Her remains were exhumed from Linn Grove Cemetery in April 2022, and usable DNA was collected and sent to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which identified her as Leadbeater on Dec. 3, 2024.

Since identifying Leadbeater, sheriff’s office detectives have learned she lived on West 163rd Street in Lawndale, California, and attended Will Rogers Junior High in Long Beach, California, in 1970-71 and

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