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'Trunk Lady' identified 53 years after her body was found in a St. Pete field

St. Petersburg Police detectives revealed new details in two cold cases Tuesday morning. More than 50 years after the body of an unknown woman was found in a trunk in a field in St. Pete, subsequently dubbed the "Trunk Lady" case, police said they've identified her. Sylvia June Atherton was 41 at the time that she was killed, police said. She left behind five children and was from Tucson, Arizona, with seemingly no ties to St. Pete.