(New Castle County Police) WILMINGTON, Del. - A Philadelphia woman has been identified as the victim in a cold case murder investigation that dates back to 1977, authorities in Delaware announced on Tuesday.New Castle County Police say back in 1977, the body of a female was located in a wooded area off Old Union Church Road in Townsend by a teenager who was riding home on his bike.Authorities responded to the scene and later determined the woman's manner of death to be homicide.
An extensive investigation into the woman's murder followed, but detectives were not able to identify the victim or obtain any leads and the case grew cold.On Tuesday, after years of working with forensic and DNA experts, New Castle County Police identified the.