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A Pennsylvania woman known as "Jane Doe" for over five decades has now been identified.

Her name is Mary Marlovitz and she was found 50 years ago in the Arizona desert. Now, thanks to private funding investigators were able to use new technology to uncover her identity.

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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System has more than 15,000 open cases of remains found with no known name.

Until September of 2025, NamUs highlighted the 1972 discovery of skeletal remains of Marlovitz in Pima County, Arizona, as an active case.

She was found near her straw purse, a bus ticket and couple of cigarettes. Investigators believe that her body could have been in the desert for several year

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