A cold case from 1978 has been reopened and a victim identified. The Kern County Sheriff’s Department made this announcement in a press conference. The victim, a teenage girl, was found in a vineyard.

Her body was discovered by a tractor operator. At the time, her identity was unknown and she was referred to by a different name. Further details about this case are available from the source, including the events surrounding her disappearance and the investigation that followed.

The case had gone unsolved for nearly 50 years before this new development.