Coroner, buoyed by recent DNA identification of Gacy victim, perseveres in trying to identify young Black woman found slain in Grundy County in 1976

Grundy County Deputy Chief Coroner Brandon Johnson prepares for an autopsy on Oct. 26, 2021, in Morris. For the past several years, Johnson and the coroner’s office have been trying to identify the body of a woman who was discovered in 1976 by a farmer and his daughter along a Seneca highway. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)