‘Midtown Jane Doe’ cold case victim identified as Patricia Kathleen McGlone [Video]

NEW YORK – The “Midtown Jane Doe” cold case murder mystery is a major step closer to being solved after more than 50 years.

The victim has now been identified as 16-year-old Patricia Kathleen McGlone.

“Through my investigation, I was able to establish that she did go to school. She went to public school and went to Catholic school, and she grew up in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York,” said NYPD Detective Ryan Glas.

Detective Glas and the NYPD’s Cold Case Squad were able to use a genealogy tree that eventually led to McGlone’s DNA matching a family member who was killed on 9/11.

The teenager’s skull and some other body parts were first discovered inside a building in 2003 by construction workers getting ready to demolish the building on West 46th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues in Hell’s Kitchen.

According to Detective Glas, McGlone’s body was “buried within …