According to BBC World, a 79-year-old woman has gone on trial in France for a murder dating back to 1995. That year, a dismembered body was discovered in a trunk in the Seine river. The remains were unidentified at the time, but DNA testing has now connected them to the defendant's in-law, transforming a three-decade-old cold case into a current legal proceeding.

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