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'Buckskin Girl' Identified: Arkansas Woman ID'd 37 Years After Death

'Buckskin Girl' Identified: Arkansas Woman ID'd 37 Years After Death

Marcia King (Miami County Sheriff's Office)

By    |   Thursday, 12 April 2018 05:27 PM EDT

"Buckskin Girl," has been identified 37 years after the Arkansas woman's body was discovered in a ditch along an Ohio roadway.

The "Buckskin Girl" name came from the distinctive buckskin jacket she was wearing.

Her body was found in Troy in 1981.

On Wednesday, the Miami County Sheriff's Office said the body had been identified using DNA as Marcia King, of Arkansas, who was 21 years old. She died of strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head.

Police say King was never reported as a missing person.

The sheriff's office says investigators are now focused on finding her killer.

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An Arkansas woman has been identified 37 years after her body was discovered in a ditch along an Ohio roadway. Up to now she had been known only as the "Buckskin Girl."
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