Smith County officials identify skeletal remains found nearly 40 years ago as those of Dallas-Ft. Worth-area woman

SMITH COUNTY, Texas — Smith County officials have identified skeletal remains found nearly 40 years ago.

According to the Smith County Sheriff’s Office, the remains were identified as those of Sindy Gina Crow, a Dallas-Ft. Worth-area woman. Her remains were originally located in 1985 off Interstate 20.

The sheriff’s office partnered with a DNA research organization in 2021 and also obtained grant funding. The results came back late last year. Officials used DNA from her daughter born in 1984 and the woman’s mother to help in identifying Crow. Her last known address was in Arlington. 

She was born in 1957 and she was likely in her late 20s at the time of her death. One of the detectives during the press conference said Crow was never reported missing and her family didn’t even know she was married. 

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