Of the 400 unidentified bodies in Harris County's cold case files, some of the most confounding involve two people killed together whose identities remain lost in time. One of the most compelling is a pair of teens whose corpses were found, freshly murdered, in early January 1981.
This is their story -
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Investigators-hope-DNA-provides-answers-in-2296253.php
It's part of an occasional series we've done this year on the 400 unknown dead here - and efforts to use a new grant to try to identify some of them through DNA. Previous stories led to the identification of two people.
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