Pennsylvania State Police said they identified a woman. Decaying remains found in Lebanon County forest More than 50 years ago.

Two Lebanon County game wardens, thinking they smelled a poached and rotting deer, found the remains under a plastic tarp and brush in a wooded area off Moonshine Road near Ridge and Tomstown roads in Union Township on Oct. 10, 1973, state police said. . .

The female had long brown or blonde hair and was approximately 5 feet 3 inches to 5 feet 6 inches tall with a slim to average build. State police estimated him to be between 16 and 20 years old.

His identity will be released at a news conference Nov. 21 at the Lebanon County Emergency Services Department, state police said.

In 2016, state police told reporters that the cause and manner of Jane Doe’s death could not be determined due to the time that elapsed between her death and her discovery. State police estimated he had been dead for a week or two when game wardens discovered his remains.

“Over the years, investigators have attempted to identify this young woman through various investigative efforts,” state police said in a statement Thursday. “As a result of these efforts, the victim was identified.”

I hope for it Bones may help establish identityresearchers exhumed his remains From Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Lebanon in 2016.

State police also released him the same year. Photos of 3D skull facial reconstruction It was created using a forensic anthropologist’s 1973 sketches.