Article: Mystery solved: Woman found dead 22 years ago identified as Californian

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A woman whose body was found in a southern Illinois cornfield 22 years ago has been identified as a 28- year-old drifter from California, authorities said Monday.

St. Clair County Coroner Rick Stone said the woman - long known as "The Summerfield Woman," after the small town where a farmer found her nude body in September 1986 - was Pholia Mylia Chavez.

"Finally, finally we can put a name to her and I can sleep better at night," said Stone, who wondered for years about the identity of the woman, who had been strangled and her pelvic area mutilated.

Chavez, of Costa Rican descent, had been buried in Belleville's Mount Hope Cemetery under a headstone inscribed: "Jane ...

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