On Wednesday, the police in Utah were able to identify the person they believe was responsible for the murder of a lady whose body was discovered 24 years ago wrapped in a carpet and tied with a rope.

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On April 20, 1998, the body of Lina Reyes Geddes, who had been shot in the head, was discovered along Highway 276 in Garfield County, Utah, next to Maidenwater Spring. According to the Utah Department of Public Safety, she was discovered covered in plastic bags, wrapped in duct tape, bound with rope, and put inside a sleeping bag before being wrapped in a carpet. All of these things had been wrapped in a carpet.

Twenty years passed before anybody could determine who the corpse belonged to. When Geddes was last seen alive, she was 37 years old. She has not been seen since.

According to a statement released by the organisation, “Over the following two decades, detectives continued to pursue the cold case with little luck.”

That shifted in 2018, when the Utah State Bureau of Investigation got a break by publishing a picture of Geddes, which they had been searching for. During the same time period, the police in Youngstown, Ohio, published a photograph of a person who had been reported missing in April of 1998. Geddes was a native of the city of Youngstown.

The two photographs were able to link both mysteries together. After some time, DNA was gathered from family members who had gone to Utah from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and it was determined that Geddes’s corpse was the one that had been found.

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DNA evidence also led investigators to the conclusion that her husband, Edward Geddes, was responsible for her death. In 2001, he committed suicide in the state of Nevada.

According to the officials, the pair was married in New Mexico in 1996 and then went to Ohio. Her ashes were brought back to Mexico from the United States.