DECADES-OLD SKULL IDENTIFIED AS BELONGING TO YOUNG WOMAN WHO DIED IN 1970S; DETECTIVES SEEK TIPS
Clackamas Co. Sheriff's Office Please reference CCSO Case # 86-025724 In 1986, two U.S. Forest Service workers found a partial human skull near Government Camp, Oregon. Earlier this year, genetic and genealogical investigators finally identified the skull as belonging to 19-year-old Wanda Ann Herr . Today, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help as it resurrects a decades-old cold case -- and investigates Wanda's mysterious disappearance and death in the late 1970s. A mysterious skull The case began on Aug. 2, 1986. Two Forest Service workers discovered a partial skull, several bone fragments, and a single human tooth on Still Creek Road 2612 and Road 145, near Government Camp off Highway 26. Eleven days later, an Oregon State Police forensic examiner determined the skull likely belonged to a twentysomething woman or small man. He also estimated the skull had been in the woods approximately 10 years -- putting the subject's death