MCMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) — A Texas lab has confirmed that a leg discovered on the banks of the Willamette River belonged to a 58-year-old Corvallis woman who was reported as missing and suicidal in May 2007.
Yamhill County Sheriff Jack Crabtree says the leg was found in October 2008 — five months after a different leg was recovered in the river between Salem and Independence.
The remains were sent to the Texas lab along with DNA and blood samples of the missing woman — Gloria Knoll. The lab matched the two legs with Knoll’s DNA.
Crabtree says he hopes the identification brings some semblance of closure to the Knoll family.
