Kaelin Moore

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So this case starts on the morning of May 15th, 2001, when a maintenance worker was out mowing grass near Highway 67 close to West Elton, Mississippi.

It's an area north of St.

Louis that sits kind of along the Mississippi River.

When all of a sudden, as he's mowing this grass, he sees something in the distance just laying down in the grass.

The closer he gets, he can start making the outline of a body, and it's the decomposed remains of a woman.

Now, immediately he calls the police, and while the remains are too decomposed when the police arrive to identify this victim just by looking at her, the woman does have something on her that helps police make a positive ID.

Now, one source that I read said that it was this dental plate that she had in her mouth.

Another source coming from the St.

Louis dispatch said that she still had her fingerprints intact.

We don't know exactly how the positive ID was made, but regardless, she's able to be identified as 36-year-old Teresa Wilson.

And aside from her identification, just by looking at her body, the police can tell a few things about the scene.

One, foul play was definitely involved.

Two, Teresa was killed somewhere else and then her body was dumped in this location.

And three, this type of crime was not unusual for this area.

And actually, it was starting to become much, much more common.

Now, after learning the identity of the body, investigators learned a couple more things about Teresa's life leading up to her death.

In the spring of 2001, 36-year-old Teresa Wilson was living in Baden, a predominantly Black neighborhood in St.

Louis, Missouri, about 12 miles from where her body was ultimately found.