Sylvia June Atherton, 41, was found dead in a trunk in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Halloween night in 1969 in what became known as the “Trunk Lady” case.
At the time, investigators weren’t able to identify her and couldn’t find anyone who matched her description who had been reported missing. Her name remained a mystery in what became widely known in the area as the “Trunk Lady” case, which police thought they might never solve, St. Petersburg Police Assistant Chief Michael Kovacsev said.they’d identified the woman as Sylvia June Atherton after they discovered a hair sample this year that had never been tested.
The mystery is one of only a few cold cases at the St. Petersburg Police Department that date back to the 1960s. The last surviving detective originally assigned to the case, Paul Drolet, now 87, also attended Tuesday’s news conference. At the time, detectives, including Drolet, had to make phone calls and write letters to different agencies in the region to see if anyone who had been reported missing matched the description of the body they found.They weren’t able to find a match then — or in the decades that followed as detectives kept the case on their radar.The body was exhumed in 2010 as part of an effort by the police department to identify victims known only as Jane or John Doe.
Atherton left Tucson in 1965 with her husband, one of her sons, one daughter who was around 4 years old, and another daughter who was around 19 and married with a child. Gates and a second brother were left with their father from Atherton’s previous marriage, according to police. The husband Atherton was married to when she moved to Florida, who died in 1999, did not file a missing-person report for Atherton after she disappeared in St.
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