shot seven times in addition to receiving blunt trauma. On January 5, 2023, the decedent was identified via matches with familial DNA samples as 28-year-old Vietnam veteran Daniel Garza Gonzales (b. March 15, 1944). Investigations into his murder are ongoing. Katherine Alston, aka "Bedford Jane Doe" On October 6, 1971, the body of a young woman was found hidden underneath a logging trail near Bedford, New Hampshire. Her cause of death could be ascertained, but authorities have always believed her death homicidal in nature and that the decedent had been killed between one to three months prior. After multiple attempts to identify her, the DNA Doe Project took up the case, and in January 2023, the Jane Doe was identified as 26-year-old Katherine "Kathy" Ann Alston of Boston, Massachusetts. Alston had disappeared while en route to meet her family at the Logan International Airport in the mid-to-late summer of 1971. Investigators are currently seeking information to help resolve the case. Earl Pizzoferrato, aka "Jefferson County John Doe" On March 10, 2019, a golf bag containing the remains of a man washed ashore of Douglas Lake near Dandridge, Tennessee. Although the exact cause of death could not be determined, authorities concluded that it was likely homicidal nature. After it was handed over to the DNA Doe Project, they were able to establish that the man had likely been adopted, identifying his biological parents. Further research was conducted, and in January 2023, the decedent was identified as 28-year-old Earl Joseph Pizzoferrato. Investigations into his murder are ongoing. Dorothy Ricker, aka "Lake Michigan Jane Doe" On October 24, 1997, the body of a woman was found floating in Lake Michigan near a break wall in Manistee, Michigan. She had no clothes, with the exception of one earring, but an autopsy determined that the cause of death was accidental drowning via asphyxiation. After failing to receive tips about the case, it was eventually handed over to the DNA Doe Project in 2020, which partnered up with Astrea Forensics to help identify the decedent. On January 9, 2023, she was identified as 26-year-old Dorothy Lynn Thyng Ricker, of Chicago. She was last seen on October 2, 1997, in St. Francis, Wisconsin, and according to a couple of officers who talked to her at the time, she was vacationing and enjoying the lakefront. She had been reported missing after her car was found abandoned on the