WAYNESVILLE, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say remains found in 1981 in Pulaski County
have been identified. The sheriff’s office announced Tuesday the remains were
those of Karen Kay Knippers. Her death is being investigated as a homicide.
Sheriff’s deputies found the body at a low water crossing near Dixon on May 25,
1981. Officials were not able to identify her and she was buried as a Jane Doe
in the Waynesville Cemetery. Her remains were exhumed in 2015 and forensic
analysis was done the next year. The remains were submitted to the DNA Doe
Project, in Sebastopol, California, in 2019, which found a brother living in
Virginia, whose DNA matched Knippers.
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