This individual was recently confirmed to have been identified. Some details may change as more information is released publicly.
Kay Josephine Medin (Adams) was a woman whose partial upper skull was found on a beach in Trinidad, California in 1993.
She was identified by Othram in May 2025.
Case[]
Medin was reported missing in August of 1987, after her husband Nickolas told police he had returned home from a business trip on July 31 of that year and found she was gone.
Skeletal remains were later mailed to police in November 1987, with an anonymous letter giving directions to a location that yielded further remains, which were matched to Medin via dental records. A death certificate in her name was issued in 1988.
Police suspected that Kay's husband had killed her and wanted police to find enough remains to officially declare her dead, so that he could collect her life insurance. However, they were not able to find enough evidence to charge him with any crimes in connection with his wife's death. He died in 2018.
It is unknown how her partial cranium fragment, found in 1993, came to be found so far from the rest of her remains; police suspect it may have been carried by river currents or a scavenging bird.
The entirety of her skeleton still has yet to be recovered so she remains officially listed as a missing person to help facilitate identification of any further remains.
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