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Murder of Kori Lamaster

Year
1994
Where
California
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
1
What the record says

Kori JoAnne Lamaster was a formerly unidentified American murder victim who was found on January 29, 1994, after being killed in Pogonip Park, California, in 1993. She was reburied in an unmarked grave at nearby Soquel Cemetery. Lamaster's body remained unidentified for nineteen years until the comparison of familial DNA and a finger print card revealed her identity in 2013.

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