Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have shared further details of how investigators finally identified the remains of the woman who came to be known as the Nation River Lady, decades after she disappeared.
OPP said they first identified the remains as Jewell Parchman Langford, as reported by CBC/Radio-Canada Tuesday, back in 2020 after a successful DNA profile match using forensic genealogy. It’s believed to be the first case in Canada where remains were identified using this method.
One of Canada’s best-known cold cases, Langford’s remains were discovered floating in the Nation River in May 1975 after being dropped from a bridge on Highway 417 near Casselman, Ont., between Ottawa and
