A woman whose remains were discovered nearly 41 years ago by children in Southern California has been identified by authorities.
The remains, which were discovered in 1983 in what is now Lake Forest, Calif., a city roughly 45 miles outside of Los Angeles, were positively identified by authorities as Maritza Glean Grimmett, according to the Orange County, Calif., Sheriff’s Department.
In a news release last Friday, the sheriff’s department said Grimmett, who was once identified as a “Jane Doe,” was a Panamanian native who was just 20 years old when she disappeared. Grimmett married a U.S. Marine during the summer of 1978 and later moved to the United States, giving birth to a daughter that same year, the department said.
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