Recent identification of a Texas mother has led to the identification of remains found on a Colorado farm in 1998. Missing reports decades ago, authorities said Sunday.
The Baca County Sheriff’s Office stated that Nora Elia Castillo went missing in 1996, many years after she disappeared in 1986 or87. Investigators still are trying to find out how she died.
Castillo’s remains, which were located on a farm 20 miles southwest of Springfield, were discovered in June 1988. Investigators at the time believed that the remains were there for up to three years. Investigators tried to identify the remains but they were not found. The case went cold.
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Authorities said that Nora Elia Castillo’s remains, which were discovered on a Colorado farm in 1988 were used in a search for a missing Texas woman.
(Baca County Sheriff’s Office).
They were finally buried in Springfield’s cemetery.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation requested permission from local authorities in May 2021 to submit data from the case into NamUs (a national database of missing and unidentified people). According to the sheriff’s, genetic testing required new DNA samples due to limitations in technology.
Castillo’s remains, which were discovered in December 2021, were exhumed for new evidence. DNA samplesThese were then entered into the database. The results were linked to a McAllen woman who had submitted DNA samples on Sept. 26. Authorities said that the woman submitted the DNA samples to search for Castillo, her mother.
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“Descriptors, evidence and missing persons from McAllen Police Department Nora Elia Castillo has been identifiedThese were consistent with the evidence that Baca County investigators were capable of obtaining in our Jane Doe investigation from 1988, and it was determined Nora Elia Castillo & Jane Doe were positively one and the same person,” said the sheriff’s Office.
Investigators don’t yet know why Castillo died in Colorado. The investigation continues.
