Woman Returns Alive 42-years After Police Declared Her Dead

Officers in Jonestown, Pennsylvania were shocked to find a woman they declared dead 42-years ago alive, well and hearty. 

Police ended a 42-year mystery search after a woman they thought to be the victim of an unsolved murder in 1973 turned up alive.
 
Detectives who had recently unveiled a forensic bust of the victim long suspected to be Miss Betsy Langjahr - a teenage runaway at the time of the killing in Jonestown, Pennsylvania - got a shocker recently.
 
Officers however were shocked after a news conference last week re-publicising the case only to find out that Miss Langjahr is in fact alive and well. Detectives had long suspected Miss Langjahr was the unidentified victim and had been unable to rule her out through DNA samples or government records.
 
According to Pennsylvania state trooper Nathan Trate told the Washington Post : "She had no clue we thought she was dead.
 
"She had a rough life throughout the years. She wants to keep her life private now.
 
"Investigations are tough when you have a mystery at only one end, but this is a two-front war. Who is she? And who killed her?”
 
Police had linked four runaways at the time of the murder and had been able to eliminate three from the enquiries but not Langjahr.
 
The woman murdered in October 1973 was a white woman, aged 16 to 20 years old. She was found naked under a tarpaulin sheet near Jonestown, about 90 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Police said she died about two weeks before her body was found.