Her body was found in Lake Michigan in 1988. Decades later, she's finally been ID'd.

A body discovered in Lake Michigan 37 years ago was finally identified as a Chicago woman who had been missing since December 1987, according to the Michigan State Police and the DNA Doe Project. The body was originally recovered from Lake Michigan on April 8, 1988, near the "small seaside city of New Buffalo, Michigan," according to the DNA Doe Project , a nonprofit humanitarian initiative that "helps identify Jane and John Does through advanced genetic genealogy techniques." When the remains were discovered in 1988, authorities at the time were "unable to identify her despite exhaustive efforts," officials said. The victim, known as "New Buffalo Jane Doe," was believed to have died the previous year, but a "cause of death could not be determined," officials said. But that all changed on