JACKSONBURG, Ind. – Coroners using new DNA technology established that a body found by hunters off Interstate 70 in eastern Indiana in 1982 was a Wisconsin woman who disappeared 40 years ago. The woman, Connie Lorraine Christensen, was 20 years old when she disappeared. The last she had been seen was in April1982 in Nashville, Tennessee, 340 miles away. The body was found in the fork of a tree along Martindale Creek near Jacksonburg. She was shot in the head. She was wearing high-heel wood-sole clogs and had a gold ring with an opal and two diamonds. Coroners believe she was three or four months pregnant. When found, it was believed that she had been dead eight months.
Christensen. From the Wisconsin town of Oregon, population 3,800 at the time, south of Madison. Had left her 1-year-old daughter with relatives. When she didn’t return home as planned, the family reported her missing.