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Criminal Justice Update
Remains identified through Project LINK
9/26/2016
Skeletal remains found on March 22 in Lorain County were recently identified through the Ohio Attorney General’s Project LINK (Linking Individuals Not Known).
Angela Marie Hall, a 25-year-old mother of four from Lorain County, was last seen in August 1997.
Her remains were discovered on farmland about 40 to 50 feet off the west side of Rt. 58 near the intersection of Rt. 58 and New London Eastern Road in Huntington Township by a man who was checking his property after a car accident.
The clothes and jewelry found at the site provided little information about the woman’s identity, but Lt. Ed Super of the Lorain Police Department thought of the Hall case and contacted the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office.
On June 20, the DNA from one of Hall’s family members was provided by the sheriff’s office to the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI). The lab compared the sample to DNA from the remains and a match was made. The sheriff’s office then notified the family.
The Lorain County Sheriff is continuing an investigation into Hall's death. Anyone with information is asked to call the detective bureau at 440-329-3742.