Samantha Molnar

I recall getting a call from Marion County and they had explained to us kind of what was going on in Ashland.

They asked me if I would be interested in doing a facial reconstruction, a clay reconstruction on this set of remains as another attempt to see if maybe we could get another image that might be more of what Sean remembered.

And then once we have that CT scan, we can actually 3D print an exact replica of the skull, which was very important in this case because she had been burned and her skull was pretty damaged.

So then once we had the exact replica of her skull, I basically start doing the clay reconstruction from there.

Start by building the muscle structure on the face, placing the average tissue depth markers, and then kind of finishing the sculpture from there.

Oh my gosh, I don't know how to explain it.

Meeting Sean Great was extremely eerie.

This was one of the worst cases I had worked so far in my career.

And then to meet him and he seemed kind of unalarming.

I could understand why maybe women were trusting of him or went with him willingly because he didn't look like a monster.

They tested a tooth and they tested a rib.

So it's going to tell you maybe geographically where you were born, where you lived the first few years, and then your ribs regenerate every 10 years or so.

And that would have told us maybe where this female had spent the last several years of her life.

And then once we finally got those results back, we found out that she likely was not an Ohio resident, but maybe that she was from the southern United States somewhere between Texas and Florida.

What we did next was go down and swab the daughter of Dana to be able to confirm her identity.

So your mom is gonna share 50% of the DNA as her children.

So we were able to swab her daughter, make that comparison, and then successfully identify Dana as the victim.

I learned that both of her parents had actually passed away before she had passed away.

I also learned that she was in a relationship and they had a couple of kids, that she was a mother, and that she had decided to travel selling magazines.

And I believe her intent was to come home to her family and she didn't get to.