A story in the Dec. 2, 1982, edition of the Priest River Times details the discovery of a partial human skull in southern Pend Oreille County, Wash. DNA technology was used to identify the skull as that of Mildred (Allison) Hubertz — a discovery that was announced Friday.
April 1, 2023
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( ▶️ Audio story available.) Mildred Hubertz was 59 when she went missing from St. Ignatius, Mont., in 1968. In November 1982, hunters near Newport, Wash., — an almost four-hour drive from the small town 40 miles from Missoula — found a partial human skull in a remote wooded area north of the small Pend Oreille County community. Friday, Pend Oreille County officials announced the skull was Mildred's — a discovery they said was made possible through investigative genetic genealogy.