Murder of Karen Price

Karen Price
Comparison of a clay reconstruction of Karen Price's skull with a photograph of Price.
Born1966
Disappearedc. 2 July 1981
Cardiff, Wales
StatusIdentified circa 1990
Diedc. 1981
Cause of deathHomicide by strangulation
Body discovered7 December 1989
Cardiff, Wales
Other namesLittle Miss Nobody
Known forFormerly unidentified victim of homicide

Karen Price (known posthumously as Little Miss Nobody) was a 15-year-old Welsh murder victim who disappeared in 1981. After the discovery of her body in 1989, British facial reconstruction artist Richard Neave used her skull to create a model of her physical appearance.[1] The reconstruction and the matching of DNA in the body to that of Price's parents allowed her body to be identified. The case was cited as one of the first instances in which DNA technology was used in this way.[2]

  1. ^ "Every Contact Leaves a Trace – A History of Fingerprinting". South Wales Police Museum. Archived from the original on 5 August 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  2. ^ Prior, Neil (17 March 2010). "Pathologist Bernard Knight to stop crime writing". BBC News. Archived from the original on 12 March 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2015.