Stacie Lee Ann Lutz Anderson, 30, had been missing since 1999 but her disappearance was never reported. In October 2010 investigators located her remains in a 55-gallon metal barrel concealed in the backyard of her husband’s Houston residence. Forensic examination determined Stacie had been strangled and her body had been hidden for more than a decade.

The barrel was found after a Crime Stoppers tip led police to the property. Her husband, 64-year-old Dennis Ray Anderson, had a prior conviction for the 1972 murders of Mabel McCormick, 54, and her 3-year-old granddaughter, Leslie Bowman, and had been paroled in 1989 after serving nearly 17 years. A manhunt followed the 2010 discovery; on October 29, 2010 Anderson was found dead by suicide in a Pensacola, Florida motel room and left a note confessing to his wife’s murder, saying he suspected her of theft.

Identification was difficult because no dental records or X-rays were available; forensic scientists instead used DNA from Stacie’s twin sister, Tracie De Ann Lutz, who had been murdered in 1990, to confirm the match.