Woman turns up ALIVE 42 years after police believed she had been murdered

A woman police thought to be the victim of an unsolved murder in 1973 has turned up alive.

Police unveiled a forensic bust of the victim in a bid to end the 42-year mystery and suggested the body could belong to Betsy Langjahr - a teenage runaway at the time of the killing in Jonestown, Pennsylvania.

Detectives had long suspected Miss Langjahr was the unidentified victim and had been unable to rule her out through DNA samples or government records.

But after a news conference to re-publicise the case last week, officers were stunned when tips from the public enabled them to confirm she is in fact alive and well.

Pennsylvania state trooper Nathan Trate told the Washington Post : "She had no clue we thought she was dead.

"She had a rough life throughout the years. She wants to keep her life private now.