Pearline Walton: Body Found In 1993 Identified

Forensic experts have said remains found by a hunter in a Wisconsin field are those of a Minneapolis woman who went missing 20 years ago.

The DNA lab at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) identified the remains found in Polk County as Pearline Walton.

Polk County Sheriff Pete Johnson said: "We now know who she is, which is a very important step for the investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death."

Ms Walton, from Minneapolis, was 22 when she went missing in the summer of 1993.

Her remains were found by a deer hunter in a field near a county road in Dresser, a village in Wisconsin near the Minnesota border, in November 1993, according to the newspaper Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Investigators now hope to talk with people who knew Ms Walton or were with her when she disappeared.

The discovery has shocked some family members.

"I thought she was out here running around doing her thing. I didn't think she was dead," her sister Wilmeta Walton, 48, told the Star Tribune.

She said they did not report her missing at the time because Ms Walton often vanished for months.

Ms Walton is the first person identified through a new state effort to match missing people with dozens of unidentified remains.

 BCA's DNA lab director Catherine Knutson said: "Like Pearline, many of these people were discovered decades ago when DNA testing was not available.

"Due to advancements in DNA technology, we can do more now."

In Ms Walton's case, the experts pulverised a sample of her remains into a powder, hydrated in a tiny vial and run through a computer, revealing the DNA.

Then that was matched with a DNA sample provided by her family.

Ms Knutson said that since May the BCA has received DNA samples of almost 40 family members of missing people, and that testing is already underway.

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