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After nearly five decades, authorities have identified Emigrant Gap Jane Doe as Melinda Pip Beardsley, a mother of two strangled to death in a 1977 homicide. Beardsley, an energetic youngest child of six, went missing in the mid-1970s, with her last known sighting tied to a DUI arrest in Reno in 1976. Her family, who had long searched for answers, connected with the Doe Network last June, leading to a collaboration with Moxxy Forensic Investigations, Reno police, and Placer County officials. DNA from a family member confirmed the match in February, and now the Placer County Sheriff’s Office is working to bring justice to Beardsleys case.

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