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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:47:44 GMT -5
Name: FL - John Doe 1545 Classification: Unidentified Investigative Case #: TL-01-0041 Dental Charts Available: Y DNA Available: Y Skeletal Remains (y/n): N Located Date: August 5, 2000 Date of Death From: January 6, 1999 Area Found: Tennelle, FL Approximate Age: 35-60 Gender: Male Height: 66 to 67 inches Weight: pounds Race: White Hair Color: Unknown Eye Color: Unknown Identifying Characteristics: Individual suffered from degenerative joint disease, three right ribs had been previously fractured. Clothing: Wearing men's sport coat (size 40R), a "London Fog" slicker coat (size 42L), wool pants (approximate 36" waist), brown leather belt (size 35-36), blue long sleeved button-up shirt (medium), white T-shirt (medium), size 10-1/2 shoes, cloth hat (size 7 1/8" - 7 1/4"). Jewelry: Black and blue wrist watch and "Georgio Armani" reading glasses. Circumstances: On August 5, 2000 two hunters discovered skeletal remains in a wooded area in the vicinity of the intersection of US Hwy 19 / 27 and State Road 51 in Taylor County, FL. Forensic examination determined the individual had been deceased for at least one year. A handwritten suicide note dated Jan. 6, 1999, was found at the scene and said, “This was a suicide. The approximate $150 in my pocket will help pay for any related expenditures of disposing of the body. Sorry for all the inconvenience. I was an out of state resident". Also found was a briefcase bearing the initials M.I.B. or M.L.B that contained numerous personal effects, including a "Sony" walkman, a "Panasonic" CD player, a "John Coltrane" CD, and "Lucky Strike" cigarettes. A .38 caliber "Charter Arms" revolver was also located. Death was determined to be suicide caused by one self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Investigative Agency: Florida Department of Law Enforcement Phone: (800) 342-0820 www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/...php?A200401545S Attached thumbnail(s)
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:48:05 GMT -5
Name: DE - Jane Doe 1815 Classification: Unidentified Investigative Case #: 32-04-126414 Dental Charts Available: Y DNA Available: Y Skeletal Remains (y/n): N Located Date: October 14, 2003 Date of Death From: October 14, 2003 Area Found: Bear, DE Approximate Age: 20-24 Gender: Female Height: 63 to 64 inches Weight: 137 pounds Race: Black Complexion: Medium Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown Identifying Characteristics: Pierced tongue and ears. Clothing: Blue "Guess" jeans (size 31" waist), red "Gap" brand shirt with white and blue pin stripes, black "Keds" brand athletic shoes (size 7). Jewelry: Two rings worn on left ring finger, one silver depicting Jesus on the cross, the other silver with twisted band on top and small diamond chips. Also wearing silver/gold small hoop earrings and silver tongue stud. Circumstances: Individual was located on October 14, 2003 hanging from playground equipment at an aprtment building courtyard located in the vicinity of the 300 block of N. Barrett Dr., in Bear, DE. No indication of foul play. Investigative Agency: New Castle County Police Department Phone: (302) 395-8154 www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/...php?A200401815S Attached thumbnail(s)
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:48:28 GMT -5
Name: CA - Jane Doe 1813 Classification: Unidentified Investigative Case #: 60-31-95 Dental Charts Available: Y DNA Available: Y Skeletal Remains (y/n): Y Located Date: June 14, 1995 Date of Death From: June 1, 1994 Area Found: Susanville, CA Approximate Age: 35-45 Gender: Female Height: 60 to 61 inches Weight: pounds Race: White/Hispanic Hair Color: Unknown Eye Color: Unknown Circumstances: Skeletal remains were located south of Poison Lake approximately 1-1/2 miles south of Hwy 44 at a logging site in Lassen County, CA. Cause of death has not been determined. Primary Investigating Agency Investigative Agency: Lassen County Sheriff's Department Phone: (530) 251-8013 www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/...php?A200401813S Attached thumbnail(s)
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:48:50 GMT -5
Name: CA- Jane Doe 0407 Classification: Unidentified Investigative Case #: 95-10064 Dental Charts Available: Y DNA Available: Y Skeletal Remains (y/n): Y Located Date: March 29, 1995 Date of Death From: March 1, 1994 Area Found: Delta area west of Stockton. Area Found: Stockton, CA Approximate Age: 35-45 Gender: Female Height: 65 inches Weight: pounds Race: White Hair Color: Blonde Hair (Other): With reddish tint. Clothing: Blue sweatshirt, "Levi" shorts (size 30-32), "Victoria Secret" brand bra (size 34B), multi-colored knee-high socks with toes, and "Gorilla" brand boots. Jewelry: Wearing a one-third karat diamond ring. Two cosmetic jewelry type rings also located. Circumstances: Victim was discovered inside a refrigerator, in an irrigation ditch along Bacon Island Rd., in the Delta area west of Stockton. A "Hillary" brand sleeping bag was also found inside the refrigerator, along with other items that indicate it may come from the San Francisco Bay area. The victim is believed to have been deceased for one month up to one year prior to discovery. Cause of death has not been released. Primary Investigating Agency Investigative Agency: San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office Phone: (209) 468-4403 www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/...php?A200300407S Attached thumbnail(s)
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:49:11 GMT -5
Name: CA - Jane Doe 1574 Classification: Unidentified Investigative Case #: 030929 Dental Charts Available: Y DNA Available: Y Skeletal Remains (y/n): Y Located Date: May 26, 2003 Date of Death From: August 1, 2002 Area Found: Mammoth Lakes, CA Area Found: Mammoth Lakes, CA Approximate Age: 30-50 Gender: Female Height: 52 to 60 inches Weight: 80 to 90 pounds Race: Asian Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Unknown Identifying Characteristics: Teeth are slightly discolored and appear to have had little or no dental care, one artificial nail. Victim is determined to have had one full term pregnancy. Clothing: Black bra (size 32 AA), cropped denim spandex pants with lace up front (size 1), black socks, blue leather "Bass" brand shoes with 3" square heel (size 5). Jewelry: A single 1" gold loop earring, bracelet or necklace with small multi-colored beads, one silver "Jacklyn Smith" brand wrist watch with matching band. Circumstances: Unknown. Skeletal remains of a female between the age of 30-50 were located in a shallow grave at the base of a bluff approximately 1/4 of a mile north of the 100 block of Forest Trail, a wooded area on the north edge of Mammoth Lakes city limits. Cause of death has not been determined. Investigative Agency: Mammoth Lakes Police Department Phone: (760) 934-2011 www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/...php?A200401574S Attached thumbnail(s)
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:49:47 GMT -5
The end of a mystery? Investigator: ‘Jane Doe’ could be Okla. woman missing for 26 years October 27, 2004 By Donna Fielder / Staff Writer The young woman’s body sprawled in a creek bed, half in the water, looking as though she’d been running for her life and lost the race. Twenty-six years ago, Denton County sheriff’s deputies knew only that they had a "Jane Doe" who had taken seven bullets in that ditch off FM156 north of Krum. They never found out who shot her, why, or even who she was. They buried her in an unmarked pauper’s grave in Denton’s Oakwood Cemetery. Today, a sheriff’s investigator believes he finally has some of the answers to the quarter-century-old mystery. And soon, the woman’s remains will be exhumed for DNA testing to prove his theory. That could mean that a 79-year-old Elk City, Okla., woman finally will learn what happened to her daughter and the Beckham County, Okla., Sheriff’s Office can close a missing person case. Denton County Sheriff’s Investigator Don Britt began working the April 10, 1978, cold case four years ago, hoping to clear it off the books, he said. In an old file, he found photographs of the dead woman, who looked between 18 and 22 years old, along with the bullets, an autopsy file and the yellowed reports that reflected the frustration of Sheriff’s Investigator Dwight Crawford. Crawford, now retired, said the woman looked like she might have American Indian genes, and he looked in Oklahoma but never found a clue. There were seven jacketed .38-caliber bullets, one of which had passed through her body and was lying underneath her, he said. She had been hit four times in the back and in the head, side and chest. "It looked like she ran right down that ditch towards that creek," Crawford said. "If it was a revolver, which I think it was, they would have had to reload. I think they were coming south on I-35 and took the 156 exit. It looked like she got out and took off running and they shot her down." Britt ran the woman’s description and other information through an FBI database of missing persons. He got back a long list of possible hits, he said, and he began going through them. "I worked my way slowly, and I found one good one in California," Britt said. "I really thought it was her. But it just wasn’t." He didn’t give up, but he put the project on a back burner, returning two or three more times over the past four years, but the mystery remained unsolved. On Oct. 10, he read a newspaper article about a Washington State Patrol detective who solved an 11-year-old missing person case using the Web site www.doenetwork.us. A volunteer organization maintains the site that has photographs and relevant information about missing persons. Britt and fellow sheriff’s investigator Allen Gibson searched the site. "Allen said, ‘Hey, you ought to look at this girl,’" Britt said. "The longer we looked, the better it looked." The missing woman who looked like the photographs was Melba Lynn Hudgens, 18, of Elk City, Okla. According to the information listed, she was last seen getting into a car with two men after she and two friends experienced car trouble. According to the story, the two other young women refused to get into the car. Britt contacted the Beckham County Sheriff’s Office, which had put the information on the Web site only a month earlier. According to information from the Beckham County Sheriff’s Office, Hudgens’ mother first reported her missing in June 1978. She periodically checked with the office, and in September 2003 she again contacted sheriff’s deputies and the case was reopened. Hudgens’ mother and sister recently looked at photographs taken of the dead woman and believe it is their missing relative, according to the sheriff’s information. Britt is working with Tarrant County Medical Examiner Investigator John Looper, and they hope to exhume the body as early as this week. The remains will be taken to the medical examiner’s office in Fort Worth for examination. There is no stone, but they have a map of the old cemetery that locates the "Jane Doe" in a numbered plot. Looper said the body was buried in a wooden casket, which is sure to have collapsed by now. He hopes there will be bones and hair left. "If we can extract DNA from bones, we could have results in a week," Looper said. Britt is hopeful that he has the right woman. Original files in the missing person case in Oklahoma have not been located, he said, and the older woman is unsure of some of the details of her daughter’s disappearance. He is not sure why it took two months for her to be reported missing, but it explains why Crawford’s Oklahoma inquiries were not successful. Beckham County law enforcement officers have worked hard and were instrumental in the investigation, Britt said. They continue to work hard on the case, and so does he. "We think we’ve got her identified," Britt said. "But it isn’t over. Now we have a murder case to solve." www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/...a.2c98a274.html For more information concerning Melva Lynn Hudgens, Please visit The Doe Network link below: www.doenetwork.us/cases/1404dfok.html
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:50:17 GMT -5
www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=2613954Investigators in Marion County are trying to identify a woman whose body was found Wednesday. She was found by a hunter on the side of a road. The coroner is trying to figure out how she died. All investigators will say at this point is she is white, possibly in her 30's and has a distinct tattoo. Right now, they don't have any reports of missing females in their county. Authorities are checking with other counties to see if there are any reports of missing women.
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:50:42 GMT -5
UT trying to solve the mystery of the girl in the box November 17, 2004 KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- An East Tennessee murder mystery that's never been solved dates back more than 20 years. But new technology could help answer the question, who is the girl in the box? The remains of a young girl, possibly 13-years-old, were found in rural Campbell County in April 1985. No one has ever come forward to identify her. No one has been charged with her murder. The discovery of the girl's remains generated news coverage but no leads. By the time a local resident found her, there wasn't much left. Only her shoes were intact. Now, she lies in the deep recesses of east stadium hall on the UT campus in a box labeled UT 856. "How does a little girl just disappear like that?" 6 News asked UT's world famous forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass. "That's a great question," he says. "I wish I knew. Based on the physical evidence, Bass believes the child was killed in the summer of 1983, murdered on the edge of a strip mine. He believes her body was tossed down the slope where it remained for two years. "As a scientist, a forensic anthropologist, it's our job to identify these people and bring closure to families," Bass says. "And you feel like, what have I missed? What have I not looked at?" 6 News talked with the Campbell County Sheriff's Office. No one there worked the original case and could offer little information. And what's more disturbing, the case was never submitted to the FBI's National Crime Information Center, the NCIC. "It's so disappointing these types of information hadn't been passed on," says Dr. Lee Jantz, with UT. She and her husband, Richard, have taken up the cause, putting the child's information on the national network. They've found several possible matches. One was a child from Louisville, Kentucky missing since 1982 but the dental work didn't match. The most promising match is, "This child went missing in 1982, October 1982. It's the right age, white female, short in stature, 110 pounds, missing from Tacoma, Washington and her age is 13. It would be an ideal match," Jantz says. DNA samples, using technology not readily available in 1985, are being evaluated from the remains with DNA samples from the missing child's parents. It's possible this is the unidentified child. However, Dr. Bass has another theory. "This girl is probably from the Appalachian area, Kentucky, Tennessee. She did something the family didn't like and I think the family did her in and isn't telling anyone." Is it possible that a family could hide that secret for 20 years? Someone knows the truth. "Somebody has to miss this child," Jantz says. "Somebody took care of this child while she was alive. Where are they now?" Dr. Jantz hopes that DNA will provide some closure for identifying the remains. If not, Dr. Bass says they'll continue their search. The more troubling issue though is someone walking free after getting away with murder. www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=2581045
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:51:15 GMT -5
Camanche body’s ID still a mystery
Wednesday, November 17, 2004 By Jim Reece
County, state and federal officials have yet to put an identity to a man whose body was found shot and dumped near Lake Camanche in late August.
Capt. James Wegner of the Amador County Sheriff’s Office said the body of the 20- to 40-year-old man is still unidentified despite assistance from the California Department of Justice and the FBI, which have helped compare the man’s DNA, fingerprints and dental work to records of people reported missing around the country.
The case remains under investigation, Wegner said.
The man’s body was discovered by bicyclists on Aug. 29 and an autopsy showed he suffered multiple gunshot wounds. His death is being investigated as a homicide.
Investigators said that the man appeared to have been killed and his body dumped at about the same time, likely a few days before it was discovered. The body was found about 15 feet over the side of North Camanche Parkway and approximately 0.2 miles west of Rabbit Creek Causeway.
A September news release from the sheriff’s office said the deceased man was “of possible Asian or mixed race descent, 20 to 40 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 166 pounds with short, dark hair.” He had a “vertical surgical scar on the thoracic cavity” and “was missing his spleen, appendix and left kidney from a prior surgery.” He wore a “yellow metal necklace with a small charm, possibly associated with a religious denomination, black long sleeve shirt, square gray metal watch with a yellow and blue band, tan pants, black belt, white socks and tan ostrich-skin high-top shoes.”
“He obviously had some evidence of some prior surgery,” Wegner said but that information has not helped determine the man’s identity.
Anyone having information regarding this investigation or anyone who may have observed any suspicious activity in the area is urged to contact the sheriff’s office at 223-6500. For an anonymous call, contact the Amador County Secret Witness Program office at 223-4900.
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:51:42 GMT -5
tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=133380Researchers Hope to Identify Skeleton From 1918 Nov. 17, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Researchers hope DNA and genealogical records will enable them to identify the skeletal remains of a 15-year-old old boy who died in about 1918. The remains, along with a pair of No. 316 Marshall Field's boots and some rags, were found in 1998 in a cave near St. George by three hikers. Sorenson Genomics hopes to discover the boy's family. DNA samples from the boy's rib and molar are being tested against the 47,000 records of the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation Database, as well as the DNA of two Utah families with near-century-old missing persons accounts. Results of the tests are expected in two to three weeks, and Lars Mouritsen, laboratory manager for Sorenson Genomics, is guardedly optimistic. "Both the rib and the molar are in good condition, and we are able to use DNA from both," he said. "A lot of what happens with those samples depends on the specimens coming in from possible relatives and those in the database." The Sorenson DNA database, made up of cheek swab samples, mostly from Utah families, was launched five years ago. It represents families with roots in 156 nations; the goal is to eventually create a genetic archive capable of filling in not only missing family history links, but providing scientific proof of humankind's familial interrelatedness. Sorenson scientists will use both mitochondrial (maternal tracing) and Y-chromosome (paternal) testing techniques on the boy's bones, said Tod Schulthess, Sorenson Genomics chief operating officer. "What people are interested in here is the truth, and DNA gives you the truth," he said. Testing may not find any matches immediately, "but as our database and others grow, the answer still will come, eventually," he said. Shannon Novak, a former University of Utah forensic anthropologist now teaching at Idaho State University, examined the skeleton and put the boy's age at between 15.1 and 15.9 years. She also found rib lesions indicating an active pulmonary infection, perhaps from the influenza pandemic, which reached St. George around October 1918. She said there was evidence of an overdeveloped right arm, hinting at hard physical labor.
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:52:09 GMT -5
abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_1112...himneybody.htmlHuman Bones Found in Chimney (Bridgeport, CT -WABC, November 12, 2004) — A bizarre discovery at a Connecticut thrift store may solve a five year old mystery. Police believe the human bones found in a chimney at the Bridgeport Salvation Army store today are those of a man who was reported missing back in 1999. Bridgeport police are waiting for autopsy results to confirm the man's identity. The autopsy has been scheduled for Monday, said Sheila Santiago, a police spokeswoman. The body was found by a worker doing repairs on a furnace. Among the parts removed were clothing remnants, a thigh bone and a knee bone, officials said. Police also discovered a few personal belongings, which has helped them make the tentative identification. "We think this is the same person but we want to wait for the medical examiner's report to confirm," Santiago said
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:52:35 GMT -5
www.lamonitor.com/articles/2004/11/...news/news04.txtBody may be missing Los Alamos man CAROL A. CLARK, lanews@lamonitor.com, Monitor Staff Writer A body found by happenstance during a search and rescue canine training exercise Sunday appears to be a Los Alamos man who went missing July 3, according to authorities. Zeke Chase, 23, was last seen in the Cochiti Mesa area on July 3. His pickup truck was found nine days later parked on Forest Road 268 between Del Norte and Cochiti canyons. The 6-foot-1, 155-pound Chase was known to frequent the area to camp and hike. "Based on the evidence at the scene, the skeletal remains, clothing and backpack reported when he was went missing, we strongly believe it is Zeke Chase," said Lt. Jimmy Glascock, state police public information officer in a telephone interview from Santa Fe Tuesday. "Search and rescue volunteers were conducting routine canine training when the discovery was made Sunday morning. Investigators processed the scene yesterday (Monday) and the body has been transported to the medical examiner's office." Chase's mother Sarah Chase spoke of her son in a telephone interview this morning. "My husband Bill and I were there Monday and we know that it was Zeke," she said. "We were so lucky to have him and to share his life for as long as we did. "We felt Zeke was very courageous in dealing with his disease and to know he is at peace is a comfort to our family," Sarah said. Sarah and Bill praised the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) for giving their family so much support during an extremely difficult period. She also praised the Search and Rescue teams for their kindness and diligence over these many months. The Chases other children have all come to Los Alamos to be with them, Sarah said. Incident Commander Peter Dickson headed up the original search for Chase in July and said that like Sarah, he has no doubt the body is Chase. "I know for official reasons they have to perform an autopsy, but he had ID on him and his parents were out at the scene and we have no doubt," Dickson said in an interview this morning. Dickson said the search and rescue team notified the Albuquerque State Police in District five. "District 5 called me Sunday because they needed an incident commander," Dickson said. "We opened the incident number back up and I went up there to the scene. The following day the team completed their work. I know this is hard for the family but to be able to close this out has got to be better than not knowing." Dickson said the team had gone back to that area four or five times attempting to find Chase. "The Mountain Canine Corps did an absolutely superb job," Dickson said. Glascock said the body was found near Forest Road 36 at the intersection of Forest Road 289, about two miles from where Chase's pickup was found July 14. The cause of death was not immediately apparent, Glascock said, but there was no reason to believe that fowl play was a factor. "The body has been there for an extended period of time," Glascock said. "We always try to be very meticulous and cautious but everything indicates that the body is his. We will rely on autopsy results to determine the exact identity of the body and the manner of death." "Zeke was a very special person - brilliant in many ways," Sarah said. "He was unique. We are finding out that he knew so many people in Los Alamos that we have no idea how he knew them. We will miss Zeke so very much."
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:53:13 GMT -5
www.columbian.com/11102004/clark_co/210223.htmlWoman's body found in Hazel Dell Wednesday, November 10, 2004 By HOWARD BUCK, Columbian staff writer The mostly decomposed body of an unidentified woman, believed to be middle-aged, was discovered Saturday in a large, vacant field north of Northeast 78th Street in Hazel Dell. An autopsy is being performed to determine the cause of death. The Clark County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit is investigating the case. Two youths discovered the remains in a brushy, wooded portion of the lot near the Goodwill store and called 911, according to deputies. The fully clothed corpse apparently had been at the location for a number of weeks, perhaps months. Dr. Dennis Wickham of the Clark County medical examiners office determined the body is probably that of a middle-aged white female, and is working to find other clues to aid investigators. The woman had short to medium-length brown or reddish hair; her dental condition was poor. She wore size 16 blue denim jeans and an XX large size black, hooded coat with a zippered front. Sgt. Tony Barnes said there was "not a chance" the body was that of Kimberly Forbes, 45, missing from Hood River, Ore., since last weekend. Forbes has only been missing a short time while the body found in Vancouver has been there for "quite a while," Barnes said. Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Kevin Harper, 360-397-2032; Detective Eric O'Dell, 360-397-2040; or Sgt. Dave Trimble, 360-397-2020.
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:54:03 GMT -5
Identifying A Murder Victim October 22, 2004 New technology could provide a break in the infamous case of Orange Socks. Orange socks and a ring were all the victim was wearing when police found her face down in a ditch back in 1979. Specialists at the Department of Public Safety have renewed hope in identifying Orange Socks. They've submitted a sample of her DNA to the new state database in hopes of solving the longest running missing person case on file in Central Texas. Her identity is as silent as the cemetery she's buried in. "You'd hate for anybody to be buried unknown in a grave. If that were you, you wouldn't want to die that way," DPS Research Specialist Tricia Blake said. It was a brutal death -- strangled at the hands of a confessed serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. In 1984 Lucas was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. Williamson County Judge Ken Anderson, then a prosecutor, helped try the case. "When we had time to think about it, it did bother us that we had to try a capital murder case for somebody named Orange Socks and couldn't put a face and identity with that person," Anderson said. Nearly 25 years later, it still has not happened. "I hate for her to go through eternity known as Orange Socks. Her family has got to be out there somewhere," Blake said. For more than a decade, Blake has been looking for answers in the case and new technology may provide her with one. "DNA will be what identifies Orange Socks," Blake said. A sample of the unidentified woman's DNA has been submitted to the state's new DNA database which connects to the FBI nationwide system. "When a missing person's sample is submitted it will search through every other database." It's new technology that may solve an old mystery and finally give Orange Socks a name and give a family back their loved one. "So this way someone will know that that's their family member. It's not the answer they want, but they'll know," Blake said, "Yeah it gives me a lot of hope. I'd love to be able to identify Orange Socks and solve this case completely." DPS officials did not want to say exactly how they got the DNA or what samples they submitted saying it might hurt their case. News 36 does know the body was not exhumed leaving Judge Anderson to presume the victim's hair preserved from the crime scene is where the DNA may have come from. If you have any information on the identity of Orange Socks, call DPS at 1-800-346-3243. www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=2464369&nav=0s3cSGtp For more information concerning this case, including photos and a Sketch of Victim. Please visit the doe network at the link below: www.doenetwork.us/cases/33uftx.html Identity of 'Orange Socks' remains a mystery DPS asks public to help put a name with the woman found slain by the road 25 years ago By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press October 31 2004 AUSTIN - For the past 25 years, the woman found dead in a concrete culvert along Interstate 35 has been known simply as "Orange Socks." The Texas Department of Public Safety is once again asking the public for help to identify the woman whose slaying landed the notorious Henry Lee Lucas on death row. "Someone somewhere knows who this young woman was," said Heidi Fischer, program supervisor for the Department of Public Safety's Missing Persons Clearinghouse. "We want to find out who she is and be able to finally give her a real name, not a nickname. We want to know who her family is, and we want her family to know what happened to her," Fischer said. Lucas, who once confessed to 600 murders nationwide but later recanted them all, was convicted in 1984 of strangling "Orange Socks," so named by investigators because that was the only clothing she wore when she was found. Lucas confessed 4 times Her body was dumped near Georgetown, about 35 miles north of Austin in Williamson County, on Halloween 1979. No witnesses or physical evidence linked Lucas to the crime, but he confessed four times. A jury in San Angelo convicted him and sentenced him to die. Although he had eight other murder convictions in Texas and one in West Virginia, only the Orange Socks case produced a death sentence. Doubts were later raised about Lucas' confession after news reports and an attorney general's investigation indicated he might have been in Florida at the time she was killed. Then-Gov. George W. Bush commuted Lucas' sentence to life in prison in 1998. Lucas died in prison in 2001. Texas officials are again releasing a 1990 drawing of Orange Socks along with a detailed drawing of an elongated, oval-shaped ring made of abalone shell and silver that she was wearing. A vague description There are few details to provide about Orange Socks. She was white, in her mid-20s, 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighed 135 to 140 pounds. She had brown hair with a reddish tint, hazel eyes and pierced ears. Her teeth were in good condition with no evidence of dental work. Lucas gave what he thought her name was in his signed confession in 1983. "I think her name was Joanie or Judy — I don't remember exactly," he wrote. Tricia Blake, a researcher at the Missing Persons Clearinghouse, said investigators don't put much stock in that given Lucas' track record of potentially misleading statements. "He confessed to all kinds of things. When we do have a lead that comes in and the name pops up, the hackles go up a bit, but we're certainly not limiting it to a name," she said. Leads haven't panned out Investigators have put out the call for information twice before: in 1998 before Lucas' pending execution and again in 2001. The Orange Socks case was profiled twice on the America's Most Wanted television program, and hundreds of leads came in from around the country. The most promising was a call last year from California. A woman and her brother-in-law saw the drawing of Orange Socks on the Internet. The woman told Texas authorities her sister had been missing since traveling to Texas in the late '70s with an abusive boyfriend. Investigators got excited when a picture of the missing woman looked like Orange Socks, but DNA analysis proved it wasn't her. Orange Socks remains buried in a grave marked "Unidentified Woman" in Georgetown, and Blake said the case will remain open until she is identified. Every lead will be investigated. Anyone with information about Orange Socks can contact the Missing Persons Clearinghouse at 800-346-3243 in Texas or 512-424-5074 if calling from outside of Texas. www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/m...politan/2874076
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 8:54:37 GMT -5
www.ktvotv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=...39&nav=1LFsSr2HPUTNAM CO., Mo.) A hunter makes a gruesome discovery in Putnam county this weekend--skeletal remains. Sheriff Jason Knight said human remains were located northeast of Powersville, Missouri, including a skull and various other bones. The remains were located in a small brush covered area near the intersection of 100th Street and 117th Road in Putnam county, described as a very isolated area. Sheriff Knight said the remains are now in the hands of the Missouri State Highway Patrol in Macon, where they will be sent off for testing. Officials say there are no reports of missing people in Putnam county. Sheriff Knight says the department will be investigating.
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