Forensic genealogists put name to skull found on 2002 Boy Scout hike

Forensic genealogists put name to skull found on 2002 Boy Scout hike

ST. PAUL — More than two decades after a group of Boy Scouts stumbled upon a skull while hiking near Houlton, Wisconsin, a group that specializes in forensic genealogy identified the remains as those of a Stillwater, Minnesota, woman who died of natural causes in 2001 and was reported to have been cremated. The St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office contacted the DNA Doe Project in 2021, and the nonprofit soon created a genetic profile of the woman, …