From the Associated Press — Nearly 25 years later, authorities have identified the remains of a woman found in a roadside park in western Michigan. Investigators learned that she was Stephanie Judson, a Benton Harbor woman in her 20s who moved to the Grand Rapids area and was killed in 1997. DNA and genealogy tracing revealed the identity. Dustin Cook, a detective at the Kent County sheriff’s office, says the process was “incredible.” The investigation stretched from Kent County to distant relatives in Mississippi and then back to Michigan. Detectives found Judson’s sister, but their mother died before the mystery was solved.
