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So if we rewind 31 years and three months on May 15th, 1992-For three decades, we knew very little about Mary Jane Doe. A partial autopsy was done at that time. What could be done.

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These steps led to the home where police found her body wrapped in a blanket in a flooded basement. The home no longer stands, but the mystery of her death still does.

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Corinne Brock did some articles articles in the newspaper regarding our Mary Jane Doe.

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Corinne Brock began working the mystery as a reporter for the Journal-Gazette.

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I learned that Fort Wayne has three unidentified decedents now, too. I was really interested in learning more about those and decided to reach out to the coroner's office and see if I could talk with him about those cases.

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Now with 21 Alive news, she's continued working to find out what happened.

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I just thought it was so strange that this 26 weeks pregnant woman wasn't identified. Nobody ever came forward and said, Hey, this might be my missing loved one.

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This week came a breakthrough.

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They were able to go through and confirm through DNA that Mary Jane Doe's father is 100% her father, and they were able to confirm her identity through that.

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Do we have a timeline that we can- Thursday, a news conference with law enforcement and DNA experts.

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Hopefully, like I said, we got her IDed now and she has the name again. And family. I think we're going to just go from here and hopefully get even better news.

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For the first time since 1992, one step forward. We now know Mary Jane Doe is Tabitha Ann Merlin.

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This is good, but we need to find out what happened.

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