Better late than never!

The remains of a woman declared missing over 100 years ago have been found at long last.The family of Mary Anne Tate, were finally able to receive their long over due closure. DNA samples confirmed that the skeletal remains of an old woman, housed in a display case  at the Manitoba museum, matched those of great grand-daughter, Connie Anne Tate, who instantly recognized her slack jawed relative staring back at her.

An extensive search back in 1910 was conducted by then chief of police, Byron Harman, who was forced to call off the hunt after the case went cold in 1912. One hundred and one years later, The still open case, was officially closed June,7^th, 2011.

“At first there were chills as I walked by that disgusting old skeleton, but something caught my attention when I glanced back at her,” remarked Connie. “Her haunting facial expression was eerily familiar. I quickly ran into the washroom and made the same face at myself in the mirror and realized, holy shit, this woman is a Tate!” stated Connie, who even noticed that her hair parted in the same place on her great-grandmothers decayed skull.

Convinced that the decayed, old crone on display at the entrance to the Legendary Knitters exhibit was somehow related to her, Connie summoned the curator of the museum, Chloe Spinx. Unfortunately, Spinx was not co-operative when asked how she acquired the corpse of Connie’s great-grandmother. Connie’s frustration mounted when she further noticed a name and description on the display case that read: “Olga Ortiz, Feminist and knitter, whose legendary walrus tusk needles in the 1930′s brought her impoverished family out of the depression.”

 “At first I thought, perhaps I should let my great-grandmother continue to inspire knitters under the assumed title of the legendary Olga Ortiz.” explained Connie, “but I was just too overcome with curiosity to let my quest for answers end here. Besides, I think that if my great-grandmother wasn’t so stricken with rigor mortis, she’d be out looking for her descendants, I’m doing this for her,” explained a misty eyed Connie, pointing at her creepy great-grandmother.

The dusty old corpse was confiscated by local police who rushed a DNA sample that compared a hair strand from Connie and her relative and revealed without a doubt that Connie’s great-grandmother was indeed the woman at the museum listed as Olga Ortiz. Shortly after the closing of this historic case police opened a formal investigation against Museum curator Chloe Spinx in hopes of bringing about more answers for Connie and her family.

“We here at police headquarters are not guaranteeing anything at this point, but we feel like there might have been some foul play,” a chubby police chief said with questionable integrity. The knitting exhibit has also been closed until the authenticity of the other corpses depicting famous knitters has been confirmed.

Connie and her family have decided to bury their new-found relative next to her daughter who passed away five years ago in hopes that they will be reunited in the after-life.