The breakthrough in Story’s case comes amid advancements in genetic testing that in recent years have led to more identifications and arrests in long-unsolved cases - from missing persons and homicide investigations to sexual assault cases.Įarlier this year, Othram also helped Nevada State Police identify a victim who was nameless for 45 years after her heavily decayed remains were found in a garment bag in a remote area of northern Nevada in October 1978, less than a year before Story was found dead in Las Vegas. The police department says it is now turning its focus to those two friends and how Story wound up dead near the Las Vegas Strip. When the two friends returned to the Cincinnati area in August that year - the same month that Story was found dead - they told the teen’s family that they had left her in Las Vegas, police said. Story’s family never heard from her again. They said she traveled with two male friends. Story’s relatives told police that she left home in Cincinnati in the summer of 1979, in search of her father in California.
