She was found in 1969 in a steamer trunk in the woods behind the Oyster Bar in St. Petersburg, Florida. Now, she finally has a name.
She was found in 1969 in a steamer trunk in the woods behind the Oyster Bar in St. Petersburg, Florida. She had been strangled with a bolo tie and was wearing only a pajama top.
Newspapers and TV stations did stories on the Trunk Lady in hopes of shaking loose a clue that would lead to her identity and the name of her killer, but nothing ever materialized and the case went cold.“After 53 years, the Trunk Lady finally has a name,” Assistant Chief Mike Kovacsev said, identifying her as Sylvia June Atherton, a remarried mother of five who vanished from Chicago when she was 41.
Police exhumed the Trunk Lady in 2010, but found the DNA on her remains was too degraded to provide any useful information. Then last year, a detective found an original tissue sample from the autopsy, including a hair sample that had never been tested. Police contacted one of the people believed to be Trunk Lady’s children, Syllen Gates, and learned that her mother had disappeared.According to Florida cops, Atherton lived in Tucson, Arizona, with her five children but left for Chicago in 1965 with her second husband, Stuart Brown, and three of the children—two daughters and her adult son.
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