The body of one of two women found dead in a field just outside of Aberdeen in September has been identified as 25-year-old Jennifer Lynn Blankenship.
She was last seen in the Aberdeen area on June 4, State Police said, and was reported missing June 13, the day before police found the body of Lillian Phelps, 43, of Elkton, alongside a back road in Havre de Grace.
Due to the state of decomposition of the bodies of Blankenship and the second, still-unidentified woman found, investigators had to resort to DNA testing.
State police continue to investigate how Blankenship died.
Sheriff?s deputies found the body of Sheila Turner, 42, of Aberdeen, on June 2 in the same area where the bodies of Blankenship and the unidentified woman were found on Sept. 15.
Blankenship and Turner were found approximately 200 yards apart, Harford County Sheriff Thomas Golding said at a press conference in September.
At the same press conference, Harford County State?s Attorney Joseph Cassilly said police were investigating any links between the four dead women and believed a suspect was already be in custody.
Charles Burns, 35, whose last known address was in Bel Air, was arrested in June on charges of attempting to murder a woman in the Aberdeen area in May.
Held without bail at the county jail, Burns has since been charged with murdering Phelps and with physically and sexually assaulting five other women.
Sgt. Tina Becker of the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit previously told The Examiner that police would not be able to link a suspect to the bodies found on Sept. 15 until they were identified.
Becker could not be reached for comment Sunday.
