🌱 Can Desert Center residents help name this 1994 homicide victim?

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• Can Desert Center residents help name this 1994 homicide victim?

Today's riddle: What did the carpenter ant say when he walked into the bar? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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📰 News we're reading

• Investigators seek public's assistance in identifying 1994 homicide victim (canyonlakeinsider.com) — Investigators are renewing efforts to identify a woman found murdered in the desert just north of I-10 in Desert Center back in 1994, and they’re asking for your help. A new facial approximation and DNA analysis suggest she was of Southeast Asian descent, and residents are urged to share any memories, jewelry clues, or consider DNA submissions that might finally give her a name.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Is the bar tender here? (Thank you W. M. for sending it in!)
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