A woman whose body was found more than four decades after she went missing in 1919 has finally been buried in her home town of Sunderland.
Mamie Stuart has finally been laid to rest beside her parents in Bishopwearmouth Cemetery in Sunderland after her dismembered body was discovered in 1961 in an abandoned lead mine in Wales.
The dancer disappeared aged 26 at Christmas 1919 and her family reported her missing after she failed to contact them.
At the time, Mamie was married to George Shotton, a Welsh marine engineer, whom police became suspicious of, Wales Online reports.
He was questioned on suspicion of murder but there was not enough evidence to charge him.
However, police found evidence that he was already married when he tied the knot with Mamie and he was convicted of bigamy and sentenced to 18 months with hard labour.
There were multiple sightings of Mamie around the world but sadly these were proven to be false after bones and wedding rings were found in an old lead mine in 1961.
Detectives began a manhunt to trace her husband but found him in a cemetery in Bristol.
In the years after Mamie's bones were kept in Cardiff University until last year her great-niece Susie Oldnall found out her remains had been in storage.
She has now been laid to rest alongside her parents James and Jane in Sunderland, the BBC reports.
The burial was possible thanks to the efforts of Ms Stuart's great-niece Susie Oldnall and a forensic pathologist she described as an "absolute stalwart".
