Authorities in Kentucky have positively identified the bones found last week in a storage unit as those of a missing Delaware woman.
Whitley County Coroner Andy Croley said today that the remains were those of Doris Wood, who disappeared from her Brookside home east of Newark in July, 1997. She was 42 years old at the time.
The bones were discovered Thursday night stuffed in three bags in a storage unit in Corbin once owned by Wood’s late husband Robert. They were found by Steven Terry, who purchased the contents of the unit at Pier Mobile Storage at auction for $170.
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Kentucky authorities used information gleaned from the National Missing and Unidentified Person System database to confirm Wood’s identity, which was made through the use of dental records.
Included in the information sent to NamUs by the Delaware Medical Examiner’s Office were photos of the missing woman, X-rays and dental records, said Hal Brown, deputy director of the state Medical Examiner’s Office.
Croley said the cause of death has not yet been determined nor has the manner been ruled a homicide at this point. The death remains under investigation.
New Castle County police spokesman Cpl. John Weglarz said today that Wood was reported missing on July 28, 1997, by her husband Robert, who told police that she left home to meet her sister but never arrived.
With the identification of Wood’s remains, the missing person case is closed, Weglarz said.
Robert Wood died in Huntsville, Ala., in May.
