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The remains of a woman found 13 miles east of Sweet Home nearly three years ago have been identified, Oregon State Police announced in a news release posted Tuesday, March 7, to Facebook.

The Linn County Sheriff's Office, with assistance from Parabon NanoLabs and the Oregon Medical Examiner's Office, identified the woman as Grace Lorna Narvaez-Weaver, who had last been seen at a downtown Olympia, Washington, post office in July 2019, according to a March 2021 tweet from the Olympia Police Department.

Her "partially skeletonized" remains were discovered Friday, April 3, 2020, in a remote, wo...