Woman's Remains Were Found in 1976. Now 'Swamp Mountain Jane Doe' Has Been ID'd 49 Years After Disappearance

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Marion Vinetta Nagle McWhorter, 21, was last seen at a shopping mall in Tigard, Ore., in October 1974

A woman's remains were found in 1976 in Oregon’s Central Cascades, though she was known only as the "Swamp Mountain Jane Doe" for decades

A DNA profile added to NamUs in 2010 — and later refined in 2020 — was matched in June 2025 after a first cousin once removed uploaded to FamilyTreeDNA and Valerie Nagle’s DNA confirmed the identification

Nearly five decades after she vanished, the remains of Marion Vinetta Nagle McWhorter have been identified through DNA.

McWhorter was 21 when she was last seen at a shopping mall in Tigard, Ore., in October 1974, according to CBS News . Her younger sister, Valerie Nagle, now 62 and living in Seattle, said she was 11 at the time her s