Investigators have long tried to find the identity of a woman whose remains were found in Mullica Township in 1988.
The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office had been unsuccessful in finding anyone who knew the woman or a familial match to her DNA.
Until now.
James Whiting Jr. was found to be her biological father.
Whiting, who was known as "Crab Daddy," died in 2011, according to the Prosecutor's Office. He lived and worked in the areas of Atlantic City and Pleasantville.
His obituary mentions two daughters, both living, including one in Somers Point. An adopted son in Egg Harbor Township is also listed. He had 85 grandchildren, 57 great-grandchildren and 45 great-great grandchildren, it says.
Whiting worked as a truck driver for Casper's Truck Co., and was the owner of a grocery store on Rhode Island Avenue and a seafood business called Crab Daddy's and Crabby.
He last worked for Atlantic City's Public Works, the obituary states, where he retired as a foreman after 47 years.
Investigators now believe he had another daughter, the woman discovered July 19, 1988, in a cedar swamp off Weekstown Road.
An investigation found that she had been fatally stabbed two to four weeks before she was found. Evidence a the scene indicated she was coming from or going to a food store when she was killed.
Her remains were so badly decomposed, a forensic anthropologist was employed to determine her features that were then sculpted into a bust in 1989.
But despite the photos of her sculpted face being made public, no one connected to the woman came forward. The office previously said two possible identities were ruled out.
It is believed she was about 25 to 35 when she was found.
She stood about 5-foot-2 and had given birth at least once, so a child could be out there as well.
Before her death, there was an attempt to take out her wisdom tooth, but it had broke and the root was still in tact, investigators previously said.
Her DNA is entered in the Combined DNA Index System under unidentified remains.
Anyone who knew Whiting is asked to call the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office at 609-909-7666 or the FBI at 973-792-3000 or online at tips.fbi.gov.
