DNA forensics helps identify remains found in Colorado freezer as teenager missing for nearly 20 years

Harvey Castro talks about how AI could be used in cold cases and the symbiotic relationship between AI and a detective. A human head and set of hands found inside a freezer at a western Colorado home recently sold before the discovery in January have been discovered as those of a 16-year-old girl who went missing almost 20 years ago. On Jan. 12, people were cleaning out a Grand Junction, Colorado, home, located nearly 200 miles west of Denver, when they discovered a human head and hands inside a freezer. On Friday, the Mesa County Coroner's Office announced that, through DNA testing, the victim was identified as Amanda Leariel Overstreet. The Mesa County Sheriff's Office said Overstreet is believed to have been about 16 years old when she disappeared, adding that she had not been seen or heard from since April 2005.