Cops Crack ‘Nation River Lady’ Cold Case After Half-Century

Police say they have cracked a murder case that has been cold since 1975, using genealogical DNA tracing to identify a middle-aged woman found in a river and nab her alleged killer.

The victim was spotted floating in Canada’s Nation River by a farmer. A slender strawberry blonde, she had been strangled with a TV cable, and neckties were used to bind her wrists and ankles.

Nearly half a century later she has been identified as Jewell “Lalla” Langford, 48, who was a prominent Tennessee businesswoman at the time of her disappearance.

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