15-year-old girl found buried in a California vineyard in 1978 has finally been identified after 48 years, and her family has a chilling message for her killer

A school portrait of Michelle Louise Collier, who vanished from Fresno at the age of 15 in February 1978. Nearly five decades after a teenage girl was discovered buried in a shallow grave beneath a California vineyard, investigators have finally restored her identity through advances in forensic DNA technology. The victim, known only as "Arvin Jane Doe" for 48 years, has been identified as Michelle Louise Collier, who disappeared from Fresno at the age of 15 in February 1978. Her identification has brought long-awaited answers to a grieving family that spent decades wondering what had happened to her. While the breakthrough offers a measure of closure, it has also reignited a cold-case homicide investigation as authorities work to uncover who killed the teenager and why.Michelle Collier vanished in 1978 and became California's 'Arvin Jane Doe'Michelle Louise Collier disappeared from Fresno, California, in February 1978 when she was just 15 years old. Four months later, on June 21, a tractor operator cultivating a vineyard near South Wheeler Ridge Road outside Arvin uncovered skeletal remains buried in a shallow grave. An autopsy determined the victim had been murdered, but investig...