For almost 50 years, Ada Elizabeth Fritz was a Jane Doe, her body discovered in south Mobile County without hands. Investigators at the time were not able to identify her through conventional means, and when tips turned into dead ends, the case got shelved.
) - For almost 50 years, Ada Elizabeth Fritz was a Jane Doe, her body discovered in south Mobile County without hands.
But investigators never came close to being able to bring charges against Williams, who was serving a life sentence for his mother’s murder. Thornton said that murder appeared motivated by the mother’s decision to deny him access to her bank account. A renewed push at solving the mystery began in 2021. Olivia McCarter, who has been using DNA and genealogy records to solve cold cases since she was 18 years old, got involved. But investigators could not locate the body from that long ago. Eventually, they learned it had been cremated.
But they decided to try. They sent the mold to Intermountain Forensics, a nonprofit laboratory in Utah that focuses on hard-so-solve cold cases, processing sexual-assault kits and identifying human remains. Danny Hellwig, the company’s director of laboratory development, calls it the “island of misfit cases,” where technicians use the latest technology to uncover the darkest secrets. He suggested using an M-Vac, a tool originally developed to get food samples to test for bacteria.
McCarter went to work on a DNA database, eventually finding a distant cousin – a man who shared a common ancestor with her seven generations back. From there, she tracked down a nephew, who was able to identify Fritz from a photo. “So my idea is that once her mother died, she just kind of needed to get away. … I that that she came to the Gulf Coast for an extended fishing trip and then met Mr. Henderson Williams at the wrong time,” she said.
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