Ontario Provincial Police announced that they have solved a decades-old murder case and charged a man with killing a woman found dead in eastern Ontario 48 years ago.

The police said they identified a woman found dead east of Ottawa in 1975 as Lala Jewell Barshman Langford, who was 48 years old at the time, and police are accusing Rodney Nichols, an 81-year-old man residing in Florida, of the murder.

The victim's remains were found floating in the Nation River near the Highway 417 bridge on May 3, 1975, and the unidentified woman was known for decades as the "Nation River Lady".

A nonprofit organization working to identify victims in cold cases says that the woman was identified after someone contacted them for help in solving the case in early 2019.

The "DNA Doe Project" stated that the victim's DNA profile was uploaded to genetic genealogy databases in 2020, and their volunteer team identified Langford as a likely candidate within a few weeks.