Murder of Karen Price

Karen Price
Karen Price
	Comparison of a clay reconstruction of Karen Price's skull with a photograph of Price.
Disappeared	c. 2 July 1981; Cardiff, Wales
Status	Identified circa 1990
Died	c. 1981
Cause of death	Homicide by strangulation
Body discovered	7 December 1989 ; Cardiff, Wales
Other names	Little Miss Nobody
Known for	Formerly 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]

^ "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.
^ Prior, Neil (17 March 2010). "Pathologist Bernard Knight to stop crime writing". BBC News. Retrieved 20 June 2015.

[swpm-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. Retrieved 20 June 2015.

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Karen Price
Comparison of a clay reconstruction of Karen Price's skull with a photograph of Price.
Disappeared	c. 2 July 1981 Cardiff, Wales
Status	Identified circa 1990
Died	c. 1981
Cause of death	Homicide by strangulation
Body discovered	7 December 1989 Cardiff, Wales
Other names	Little Miss Nobody
Known for	Formerly unidentified victim of homicide