Michigan State Police and New Buffalo Police are again trying to identify a woman’s body who washed on the shore at the New Buffalo breakwater on April 8, 1988. She was exhumed Tuesday for a DNA sample to be taken for forensic genetic genealogy and the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS. The woman was between 40 and 60, five-feet-five, 175 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing men’s size 38 jeans with a heavy-duty bra, black ankle boots, full-length pantyhose and red, white, and blue shorts. Police say there are no records of her wearing socks or underwear and add she did not have a shirt. Her teeth showed she likely didn’t smoke or drink excessively and likely had money based on a porcelain bridge replacing a front tooth. She had no tattoos and had underwent a hysterectomy. Police are asking anyone along the Lake Michigan shoreline for tips.
