![]() The victim was known only as the Woodlawn Jane Doe, after the community outside Baltimore where she was discovered - strangled, sexually assaulted and wrapped in a white sheet, her hands bound. McAdoo, 53, had no idea she would apparently help solve a family mystery: what happened to her cousin, Margaret Fetterolf, a habitual runaway who went missing from her Alexandria, Va., home in 1975 at age 16.įor decades, Fetterolf’s family held out hope that she would one day show up for Thanksgiving dinner.Īll the while, cold case detectives struggled to identify a body found in 1976, 50 miles away near a Baltimore County cemetery. This year, in an effort to widen her search, McAdoo swabbed her cheek with a long Q-tip and sent her DNA to a genealogy website that specializes in making genetic family matches. “You can find the most amazing things about your history,” she said. ![]() (AP) - Shannon McAdoo, a former bookkeeper in Erie, Pa., spends her evenings hunting for ancestors on genealogy websites. Business & Finance Click to expand menu. ![]()
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