Could AI, New DNA Evidence Solve a 25-Year-Old Tennessee Mystery?

I all the time puzzled if legendary Oscar-nominated actor, the late Robert Stack, ever thought, early in his profession, that the day would come when he would grow to be an immediately recognizable determine and NOT due to his motion pictures.

Unsolved Mysteries

For most individuals, I would think about, Stack’s title elicits ideas of Unsolved Mysteries, and with at present’s excessive curiosity in true crime (it is one of many top-ranked podcast matters), I am not shocked. And, regardless of a number of iterations and cancellations through the years, the ever present docuseries has returned and has been thriving on Netflix since its 2020 re-entry into our lives.

We’re undoubtedly captivated by the unknown, however it’s a far cry from leisure for the officers and detectives who pound the pavement and lose sleep over chilly circumstances. We seemingly reside vicariously via them of their investigations. And there is been a chilly case on the books in Tennessee on which some new mild, by means of DNA proof, could have been shed.

The Woman within the Lake

In March of 2000, a woman was found dead in Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge TN. In the present day, as then, her identification is unknown, and in later years, even dental information and DNA proof that narrowed down her age vary have been unable to unravel that individual challenge.

Nothing was actually working, for that matter, till a picture of the girl, often known as the Woman within the Lake, was created with the assistance of synthetic intelligence, and, all of a sudden, new leads have emerged. Specifically, the AI picture has led to 2 important tips on ladies who disappeared simply earlier than the Melton Hill Lake physique was found.

Nonetheless, extra leads have proceed to flood in, so it might take a bit of longer for authorities to positively establish the Woman within the Lake.