It’s a mystery that seemingly started in 1978, but one that goes back more than 150 years.
Kane County officials announced Thursday that a skull discovered during the remodeling of a Batavia home more than four decades ago has been identified as belonging to Esther Granger, an 18-year-old Indiana woman who died after giving birth to a child in 1866.
Coroner Bob Russell unveiled a forensic sketch of Granger and described how she was identified through the use of DNA and Forensic Investigative Genealogy done by a Texas company called Othram Laboratories…