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DNA from missing-person case helps ID 2 legs found in trash

Sunday, March 24, 2019

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

Police say they have identified two human legs that were found in the trash at a waste-collection facility in Ohio’s capital two years ago.

Columbus police say a DNA match from a missing-person case helped identify the remains as those of a 22-year-old woman from the city’s northeast side named Candice A. Taylor.

Police trying to determine how her remains ended up at a waste facility on the city’s south side have investigated the case as a possible homicide.

The Columbus Dispatch reports authorities haven’t found additional remains linked to Taylor.