# Murder of Melinda Beardsley

Unsolved · 1977

Emigrant Gap Jane Doe was a formerly unidentified murder victim whose body was found on December 17, 1977, near the intersection of I-80 and Highway 20 in Emigrant Gap, California. Despite extensive investigation by the Placer County sheriff's office, no identification of this decedent was made at the time. NamUs and The Doe Network announced that the woman had been identified in 2026.

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=78380440
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/murder-of-melinda-beardsley-w78380440

## On the record (quotes checked against the source text)

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## Timeline

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## Open questions

None posted.


## Unverified findings

None.


## Sources

1. Wikipedia record (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=78380440


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