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This July 9, 2019, photo shows a marker that was donated and will be placed at Mary Silvani's grave site at the Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery in northwest Reno, Nev. For 37 years, she was listed only as a &quot;Jane Doe,&quot; the victim of a brutal murder near Lake Tahoe in 1982 that only recently was solved and her name revealed through advances in DNA technology. (Marcella Corona/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)

New Reno grave marker for victim of 1982 Lake Tahoe killing

By MARCELLA CORONA - Associated Press

Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam speaks at a news conference in Reno, Nev., on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, announcing he has closed a 37-year-old murder investigation at Lake Tahoe after new DNA evidence determined the woman whose body was found near a hiking trail in 1982 was killed by a man who committed suicide in jail a year later after confessing to three other murders in California. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Genealogy site, DNA used to help solve decades-old murder

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press