Skeletal remains stuffed inside a closet in Hawaii have finally been identified, breaking open a decades-long mystery. Mary Sue Fink - who was said to be between two and three years of age at the time of her death - was the little girl identified as the bones found wrapped in a newspaper in a steel can in a Honolulu apartment building in Advanced DNA testing finally allowed Fink, who has been the center of a decades-long murder cold case, to take her own name back this month.
In June , more than 50 years after Fink's death, cleaning crews inside an apartment complex in the neighborhood of Waikiki found a puzzling 7 to 10 gallon galvanized steel can inside a closet, Hawaii News Now reported. When they opened the metal box, they were met with a gruesome discovery - skeletal remains wrapped in old newspaper that dated back all the way to the s. Skeletal remains of a toddler discovered wrapped in newspaper and stuffed inside a steel can in Hawaii were finally identified to belong to Mary Sue Fink, who has been the center of a decades-long murder cold case.
Fink was said to be between two and three years of age at the time of her death and believed to be murdered as a young girl between and The Honolulu Police Department and the Department of the Medical Examiner both responded to the scene, but it seemed as though the case would remain a mystery. Due to the size of the remains, all they knew was that the victim was a young female who was roughly 33 to 35 inches tall and between two and six years old.
Fink's remains were first classified as a miscellaneous public case, but as investigators began to dig deeper into the grim reality, they learned that she may have had three siblings who were in their 50s at the time.
That same year, investigators also learned that the siblings' biological mother was dead and their biological father lived in another state.
