The victim in a west Texas cold-case death has now been identified.
Nearly 55 years after she died in the pool of a Pecos motel, a Kansas teenager's name has been connected to the death.
Jolaine Hemmy was 17 when she died in July of 1966. She and a young man had registered in the motel under assumed names and police found no identification in their rooms. In fact, the young man cleaned out the room -- including Hemmy's belongings -- when he abruptly left while paramedics were still working on Hemmy.
He has never been found and never been identified. Hemmy's body was exhumed in 2019 and investigators were able to identify her through a DNA match.
