The person whose skull was found at Trinidad Head has been identified. 

A breakthrough has been made in a complex and confounding crime mystery in Northern California, but authorities are still no closer to finding the killer of Trinity County schoolteacher Kay Adams.

On Aug. 3, 1987, a Trinity County man named Nickolas Medin returned home from a work trip to find his wife, a 48-year-old school teacher named Kay Adams, missing. Adams, who also went by Kay Josephine Medin, had vanished from the couple’s Hyampom home but had left behind her purse, glasses and car. Kay’s boss told investigators that she had been in good spirits when she was last seen, and she was reportedly in good health. 

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Over 100 local volunteers searched the rugged terrain surrounding the couple’s home in the Trinity Mountains to no avail. “I think any time somebody disappears, there’s room for thinking something’s amiss,” Trinity County Sheriff Paul Schmidt

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