Missing woman from Michigan found murdered in Georgia 33 years ago identified

A girl discovered useless in Georgia 33 years in the past has been recognized as a lacking 19-year-old Michigan resident, authorities mentioned Thursday. 

The physique of Stacey Lyn Chahorski was discovered on Dec. 16, 1988 in Dade County, about 5 miles from the Alabama state line off Interstate 59, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation mentioned. Investigators mentioned she had been murdered however didn’t reveal how she died.  

“At the moment marks the day that we hunt for the killer now,” GBI Particular Agent in Cost Joe Montgomery instructed reporters. 

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Chahorski was recognized by way of DNA proof, the GBI mentioned. 

She was removed from her Norton Shores, Michigan residence when her mom reported her lacking on Jan. 17, 1989 after final listening to from her daughter in September 1988, based on the Nationwide Lacking and Unidentified Individuals System. 

Chahorski final spoke together with her mom over the phone and instructed her she was in North Carolina en path to Flint, Michigan. She mentioned she would then go residence to Muskegon County, Michigan. 

The unique police report mentioned Chahorski was touring from Knoxville, Tennessee to Chicago, authorities mentioned. 

A picture of Stacey Lyn Chahorski subsequent to a rendering of what she would have seemed like that was created earlier than she was recognized. 
(FBI)

She was initially buried in a Dade County, Georgia cemetery. 

Within the mid-2000s, the case was re-assigned and investigators discovered extra proof that was despatched to an FBI lab in Washington D.C. for additional testing. 

A DNA profile was created and entered right into a lacking particular person’s database. When the case was once more re-assigned in 2015, GBI investigators contacted the FBI a couple of new kind of family tree technique that had been credited with fixing different chilly circumstances, notably homicides.  

Authorities show a picture and rendering of Stacey Lyn Chahorski.
(Georgia Bureau of Investigation)

Chahorski was recognized utilizing that know-how. Her physique shall be given to her household and jewellery discovered on her has already been returned to her family members. 

The case now strikes to capturing whoever is accountable for Chahorski’s loss of life, Montgomery mentioned. 

“Now we’ve got a place to begin,” he mentioned. “We already know the place’s she’s from. Norton Shores (police) has finished numerous work on this case by way of the years identical to we’ve got. With that mixed info, I feel we’ve got likelihood of fixing this case and bringing the killer to justice.”