GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Ohio investigators plan to exhume a 1970 homicide victim whose remains were recently identified as those of a Wisconsin teen.
The family of Jeanne Marie Melville have asked that her remains be returned her Green Bay home for cremation.
Melville was last seen almost 40 years ago when she left Wisconsin to visit her aunt in Wayne Lakes, Ohio.
She was 18 when last seen in 1970.
Her naked and decomposing body was found in an Ohio cornfield but authorities only recently identified her using DNA samples.
That happened after a forensic artist studied the body's skull and produced a facial reconstruction. The aunt recognized the result and called police.
Earlier homicide investigations had gone cold but authorities have reopened the case. They say it helps to have positive identification but many questions still remain.
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