An 18 year old girl's remains are identified 3 years later by her jewelry In the autumn of 1996, a young Caucasian woman named Crystal Soulier, aged 18, vanished after leaving her job at the Telemark Lodge in Cable, Wisconsin, on October 1st. The circumstances of her disappearance were troubling; it is believed she was left by her boyfriend to find her own way home. For months, her whereabouts remained a mystery, a void of information that would not be filled until the following spring.
Five months after she was last seen, in March of 1997, the body of a young
woman was discovered in a rural area of Rock County, Wisconsin. The remains were unidentified for a considerable time, leaving a nameless face to a tragic discovery. It wasn't until the year 2000 that forensic analysis confirmed the victim was the missing teenager, Crystal Soulier. The official cause of her death has not been publicly released, a detail known only to law enforcement and the person or persons responsible for her death.
To this day, the murder of Crystal Soulier remains an unsolved case, a cold file that has yielded no arrests and no publicly named suspects. Investigators have noted similarities between Crystal's case and the disappearance of another local teenager, Sara Anne Bushland, who went missing around the same time. The two girls bore a physical resemblance to one another and shared a number of mutual acquaintances, leading to speculation that their cases might be connected. Despite these leads and the passage of time, no charges have ever been filed, and the identity of Crystal Soulier's killer remains unknown.
