Crowdfunded DNA effort helps identify woman found murdered 50 years ago

Authorities named the victim found in Arizona desert in 1971 as Colleen Audrey Rice after money raised within five days of appeal

A community-funded DNA project has helped detectives identify a murdered woman whose remains were stuffed in a canvas sack and dumped in the Arizona desert more than half a century ago.

Authorities named the victim as Colleen Audrey Rice, who was born in 1931 in Ohio, and would have been about 39 years old at the time of her death, before her body's discovery in November 1971.