Police are asking New Yorkers for help identifying skeletal remains found along the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Brooklyn's Cypress Hills area earlier this month. Department of Transportation workers found the human remains off a grassy area near the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound Exit 1 on Aug. 6, according to the NYPD. Police described the victim as female, possibly Black or Hispanic and approximately 20 to 30 years of age.
"After more than 40 years, using advanced DNA testing and forensic genetic genealogy, the remains have been positively identified as Patricia Ann Hertel, who was presumed drowned in 1981."