Teen murder victim discovered in California vineyard identified nearly 50 years later

Finally of 15-year-old Michelle Louise Collier says breakthrough in the case as brought ‘some closure’

Michelle Louise Collier vanished from Fresno in 1978 at age 15. Forensic genetic genealogy finally identified her remains found in a Kern County vineyard.

A Fresno family-whose loved one went missing nearly fifty years ago-can finally have some closure after the body of a teen discovered in a rural vineyard in Kern County in 1978 has been identified it as a 15-year-old Michelle Louise Collier.