After 44 Years, Piru’s Jane Doe Has Been Identified Through DNA
The Santa Clara River Valley sits low and bright beneath the mountains, where the smell of oranges carries on the wind. In the early 1980s, Piru was a speck of a town along the valley road — a cluster of houses, a few small shops, and endless rows of citrus trees. Around a thousand people lived there, most of them Hispanic, families who had been in the fields for generations. The rhythm of the…













