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After nearly five decades, the mystery of Emigrant Gap Jane Doe has been solved. Melinda Pip Beardsley, a Nevada mother and waitress, has been identified through advanced DNA testing and genetic genealogy. Beardsley, who vanished in the mid-1970s, was found strangled in a California snowbank in 1977. Despite earlier efforts to identify her, including sending fingerprints to agencies nationwide and exhuming her remains, no matches were found until last year. Beardsleys family, who had no answers for decades, is now seeking closure as Placer County deputies reopen the homicide investigation.

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