CINCINNATI — The woman who was found dismembered in North Fairmount in November has been identified, the Hamilton County Coroner's Office announced Friday.
Coroner Lakshmi Sammarco identified the woman as 25-year-old Makaila Luckey. Luckey lived in Cincinnati, and she was known to frequent the West End, Sammarco said.
Sammarco said someone saw a Cincinnati police Facebook post in February asking for information about the woman. That person then forwarded it to a family member of Luckey's who helped identify her. Sammarco said that person was Luckey's sister, and they used Facebook photos for further identification.
Sammarco said the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation had Luckey's DNA on file, which helped definitively identify her, but it was not in forensic CODIS software that CPD had already compared it with.
Luckey was last seen getting on a Metro bus in the Lincoln Heights area to head downtown, Sammarco said.
"This is still a homicide," Sammarco said. "... We would still like to hold someone accountable for this heinous crime."
Luckey's torso was discovered on Nov. 5, and two months later, as Cincinnati police and FBI agents were conducting a search of the surrounding area, officials discovered more remains. Sammarco announced that her head had been found, but didn't specify if any other body parts were located.
Her head was found in a steep wooded area blocks away from where the torso was.
"There was no attempt to hide the head," Sammarco previously said. "As far as the body, I think the body was visible to the person that actually found the body."
Luckey's torso was found in a treeline after a man living on that street saw it, first believing it was a Halloween prop, Sammarco said.
In November, Sammarco said she believed Luckey had been killed on either Nov. 3 or 4, and she was likely dead before she was dismembered. Luckey's cause of death is known, but Sammarco declined to share that information with the public.
"What we really want is some justice for her and her family," Sammarco said.
