A man walked through a rocky and picturesque coast or Trinidad head, located about 25 miles north of Eureka, when he saw something unusual and disconcerting.
The discovery of the man not identified in February 1993 turned out to be a partial human skull that delivered the nearby Fortuna Police Department.
To help identify the remains, the Police sent them to the Sheriff of Humboldt County, which extracted a DNA sample and entered the DNA DA DA DA database of the missing person of California and the DNA index of the unidentified national person.
The remains were not identified until the Sheriff’s department announced this week that he had linked the skull with the disappearance and death of a 48 -year -old woman from Trinity County. The discovery was made with the help of a third -party forensic tester and a federal subsidy.
Kay Josephine Medin was also known as Kay Adams.
(Courtesy of the Sheriff’s office of Humboldt County)
The authorities believe that the fragments of the skull are the third set of remains belonging to Kay Josephine Medin, also known as Kay Adams, a Primary School Master of Hyampom, who disappeared from that rural community in northern California in 1987.
No witnesses, potential suspects or positions have ever presented in what the authorities classified as a cold case homicide. Her husband, Nickolas, died in 2018.
While there is no leg progress to discover who killed Medin, this last set of remains provides the police with another track.
The officials responsible for enforcing the law, the credit representative Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) for providing a community grant designed to help eliminate an accumulation of cold cases.
In a short period, the Sheriff’s department contacted Othram, a Forensic Laboratory based in Texas That specializes in genome sequencing that helps unravel cold cases. The company affirmed its assistance to resolve 47 cases that involve unsolved murders, unidentified remains or kits of unresolved sexual assault in the last 90 days.
The company used its forensic degree genome sequencing to build a DNA DNA profile from the DNA sample from the discovered skull fragment.
In September, Ortham generated new potential clients about the possible identity of the skull, which included Medin, the Sheriff’s department. The report included possible genetic relatives, including a daughter.
Sheriff researchers located the daughter, obtained a DNA sample and confirmed that the skull was that of Medin.
Ortham said in a statement that Medin’s case was the 63rd instance of individuals identified in California through his trial efforts.
The consultations sent to Ortham and the Humboldt County Sheriff’s department were not returned.
“While the case of Mrs. Medin is tragic, I feel relieved of the community that she has allowed to rest,” Huffman wrote in a statement sent by email. “The funds like this to help solve cold cases can not only bring justice, but also the closure to families and communities. I am proud that we could do some of that in this case.”
The Sheriff’s department said anyone who has MEDIN advice must communicate with researcher Mike Fridley at (707) 441-3024.
Duration The summer of 1987, Medin disappeared while her husband was on a business trip.
Family property was recorded, while friends, family and their personal doctor were interviewed.
Medin’s bag and personal belongings were found at home, and the Trinity County Sheriff’s office listed his disappearance as a suspect.
Information From the moment he said about 100 peopleMostly volunteers, wanted in Trinity Remote and Woodsy County.
The local sheriff recognized at that time in an interview that had run out of potential clients.
Part of the mystery was resolved in November 1987 when the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office received a package of skeletal remains. A letter was included with the directives that lead to more, but what was found remained a set of incomplete remains.
These remains recovered in East Humboldt county, about 45 miles from Medin’s house, while the skull was discovered 100 miles away on the shore of Trinidad.
