This is a doe network missing persons case I’ve always found a little strange. It’s really poorly sourced, stating that the sources are a family member and ancestry.com, yet there’s a pretty decent physical description and a very exact date of disappearance. I can’t find any free Massachusetts newspaper archives to see if there are any contemporary reports on said missing person. Has anyone nosed around more to find more information on what happened regarding said disappearance?

I've mentioned before that I have an interest in these photos, and I've been trying to find the whole thing that was released to the public in 2010. I found it!

Rodney Alcala is a serial killer that may have been active in the years 1965-1979, murdering and assaulting girls, women, and possibly even boys. Fortunately he died demented and imprisoned in 2021, but unfortunately that means of a less possibility of the women he photographed being identified.

Some have speculated that within these photos' subjects are:

-Amy Bilig (To be photo 68)

- Pamela Sue Hobley (To be photo 53)

-Simone Ridinger (To be photo 21)

-photo 58 to be 543UFTX (Doe Network)

-Denise Sheehy (To be photo 85, both girls pictures with the same mole near their left eye on the side of the bridge of the nose)

-Teresa Fittin (To be photo 88)

I also just want to point out that changes in stuff like hair color, eyebrow shape (if possibly plucked), or teeth (if they have record of braces) might not be the best way to decide if the person in the photo is the missing person. Photos can be taken years apart, and the pictures shared of missing people might not always reflect how they looked when they disappeared. Some of those photos could be from a year or more before they went missing, and a lot can change in appearance in that frame of time. What's most important is the description of the person's appearance when they went missing, such as features like birthmarks, their nose, eyes, face shape, jawline, etc.

I'm sharing it here so for the people that are interested in giving back these women their names

P.S. There are probably some women here that have been identified dead or alive. Christine Thornton (Photo 109) has been identified as a Jane Doe that was discovered not far from where the photo was taken, confirming her to be a Rodney victim. Photo 47 has also been identified as Andrea Feldman by some, but she died in 1972, so it's not possible to truly prove it.

Link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200210151133/https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/serial-killer-rodney-alcalas-photos-released-can-you-id-any-of-these-women/1650156/

please help find Tara

a woman from my hometown went missing about a week ago, and there’s some weird shit going on. i’ll paste the link below to her MPIA page. for some reason this site and all of the missing persons flyers and posts claim she was last seen on Nov 1, however when you go into the comments of these posts on social media there are multiple locals claiming she was last seen on Nov 5, and that the Nov 1 date is a typo? her boyfriend (who she was last with) has also been commenting things on social media like “she’s sitting pretty in a 5 star hotel” etc. (insinuating she’s not actually missing) the local PD has also allegedly failed to conduct any searches whatsoever, and personally, i don’t think they can handle it knowing their reputation. i really wish they would get the state police of FBI or someone involved. any info or ideas you guys have could help. her daughter is so distraught. thank you in advance!

https://missingpeopleinamerica.org/missing/Tara-LaRoche?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1uWY5Y5v4XVrQTM5LsaDY4BcKG2NnFINTWvqxzdfgZwlK2wEF0YF9hJq0_aem_yYj79G4tX4bnzCOE-dSv2g

Hello all! I usually lurk this page, but decided to make a post about this case.

Could Cheryl be Jane Doe - Newport, Pennsylvania: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/unidentified-persons/jane-doe-23

It takes roughly 2 hr 26 min (126.5 mi) via I-76 W (via Google maps) to travel from Secane to Watts Township where Jane Doe was discovered on an embankment between the eastbound lanes of Route 22/322 and the Juaniata River.

Cheryl was known for running away, so I believe it is plausible that she could have disappeared in 1977 and have lived until the year that Jane Doe was found in 1979. This length of time could also account for differences in weight between Cheryl (120lb) and Jane Doe (approximated to be 170lb).

Just a theory: Since she was affiliated with David Thompson, who was involved in what looks like a dispute between biker gangs, is it possible that Cheryl also found herself a target of retributive violence?

I also think that the photo and the reconstruction image look similar enough.

(If this Jane Doe case has been solved, I did not encounter the news on my search.)

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https://charleyproject.org/case/cheryl-ann-moser-iacovone

https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/2510/details?nav

Cheryl was last seen walking to a friend's house in her hometown of Secane, Pennsylvania on July 12, 1977. She never arrived as expected and has not been seen again. She lived on Chipmunk Lane at the time of her disappearance.

Following Cheryl's disappearance, authorities got tips that she'd been murdered by members of a motorcycle gang and dumped in Tinicum Marsh. Six other local girls between 15 and 19 years old were murdered in the mid-1970s and some of them were found in the marsh; all had ties to biker gangs.

Cheryl was dating 25-year-old David Thompson at the time of her disappearance, and she may have gone to see him that night. Although he was not a biker gang member, in 1978, Thompson was convicted of conspiracy and assault in connection with the fatal beating of a member of the Warlocks motorcycle club, and sentenced to 6 to 23 months in prison. His current whereabouts are unknown.

Cheryl didn't have direct ties to any motorcycle clubs, but in addition to her connection with Thompson, one of her friends was a long-time associate of another biker gang, the Pagans.

Cheryl's mother stated her daughter was going through a rebellious phase at the time of her disappearance and had run away several times, but she would always call home to say she was okay. After her July 1977 disappearance, she was never heard from again.

Her case remains unsolved and foul play is suspected. There has been no sign of Cheryl since 1977.

In 2019, a man in the Philippines has been arrested and charged with murdering a woman, cutting her head off and eating her brains.

Lloyd Bagtong, 21, was taken into custody by Talisayan police in the Misamis Oriental province following the discovery of the unidentified victim's body a little over two miles from Bagtong's house, bound at the wrists and missing her head. The corpse was clad only in a pair of jeans.

Witnesses reported seeing the woman and Bagtong arguing near a cemetery. He allegedly hit her in the head with a metal object before sawing her head from her body with a sickle-like tool called a sanggot.

When police took Bagtong into custody, he was found with a similar tool tucked into his waistband. In addition, a bloody piece of cloth was found in his apartment that officials believed he used to carry the severed head home.

He then allegedly threw the skull into a hole near his home.

Bagtong is being held in police custody pending murder charges. Officers are working to determine the identity.

According to a video update, while Bagtong was being driven to the psychiatric facility for an evaluation if he was fit to stand to trial the police van he was riding with had a punctured tire. Whilst the police were changing the tires he asked of he can go outside to urinate and was apparently granted permission, as soon as he exited; he snatched a policeman's pistol. During the struggle he managed to fire 1 shot before 3 rounds from the policeman was able to fatally kill him. He was rushed to a nearby hospital but he was declared dead.

This happened in 2019 and the lack of update from the case as well as it's obscurity means that the woman has yet to be identified.

What was she doing in Talisayan? Was she there to meet someone? Was she travelling alone? Was she doing a travel vlog and may have lost her way? I really hope this young woman gets identified someday, she does not remain as a Jane Doe.

This video discusses the case with more details https://youtu.be/ZrM9rI3QOuw?si=eRQnmM7VvC73hmkx

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.philstar.com/nation/2019/12/08/1975152/man-held-beheading-woman-eating-her-brain-slain/amp/

It is July 30, 2002, we are in Bremen, Germany. It's around 5pm. a young woman is found dead in the Weser River, near the Weser Stadium, in the Peterswerder district by a boater who reports seeing a "beam" on the surface of the water.

In the center of the bundle, tied with strings, nylon ropes and a blue clothesline, the remains of a woman were found. It is a 2 x 3 meter multicolored carpet with a red polyamide edge; whitish linen sheets designed with green-stemmed red flowers, with added yellow coloring; what may have been a duvet/quilt with a similar pattern to sheets with a blue and purple coloring, an air pillow, and a light-colored bag made of woven plastic (similar to that of a tarp) with red markings , blue and green measuring 100cm x 60cm. Adhesive tape was also used to secure some materials. The descriptions of these elements, unfortunately, differ depending on the sources, giving us a confusing picture - what is certain is that whoever killed the unknown woman in the Weser River made a great effort to get rid of her corpse.

It is unclear whether the body was disposed of near the location from which it was recovered or whether it was carried by the current from Lower Saxony to the marina. The cause of death is established only in a second place; there is trauma to her neck, she was strangled - however, it cannot be ruled out that she drowned after being placed in the water.

The stranger from the Weser River is approximately 167 cm tall and has light skin, is visibly slim, weighs 50 to 55 kg, is petite, has an almost childish build. Her hair is about 43 cm long, it is dark blonde dyed golden blonde, it is wavy, possibly permed, in general well-groomed. She has thick, curved eyebrows, shaved body hair, long manicured nails with purple and gold nail polish, and has purple nail polish on her toenails.

From the examination of the body it emerges that the woman may have had a natural birth between 1985 and 1999, it is not known whether it was an alive or stillborn child, and if alive, the child would probably have been between 3 and 17 years old in 2002, he would currently be between 24 and 38 years old. No other obvious scars or tattoos were found on her body, her appendix is ​​present.

The information about her teeth is clear and specific: her dentition is intact, without misalignments.

The third molars have completed the development of the crown, the root formation is largely completed, the apex is still open. All wisdom teeth are in the process of erupting. The degree of abrasion is low, it is periodontal disease or periodontitis. There is a slight build-up of tartar on all teeth. With the exception of the left mandibular second molar, all first and second molars are affected by mild to moderate fissure decay, a root canal treatment has been carried out on tooth 14, a large filling extending over the distal half of the crown has been placed roughly and still shows no signs of wear. It protrudes a lot towards the 15th, filling the interdental space - this dental treatment took place at most a few months before the woman's death, it could be a temporary filling, waiting to proceed with the permanent one later. Regarding tooth 26 there is a small fissure filling, a crown filling, inconspicuous and integrated into the abrasion surface.

The woman is only wearing light cotton panties, size 140, a children's size - otherwise she is completely naked. She wears a butterfly-shaped hair clip, neon green, it is flashy, very visible, it is made of plastic with a metal clasp and is probably of Russian origin. She wears a silver earring with a red stone, produced in 1956 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, almost all sources state that it is a "Juwelenkombinat", made in a former socialist country. She also wears a gold-colored earring with a black stone, with a gold-colored clasp engraved with "NIFREE", "nickel-free". The jewels, described as unique, could aid identification. We know that at least one of the earrings comes from Ukraine, but it is also possible that the woman purchased them in another Eastern European country or in Russia - it is the presence of these jewels that makes us hypothesize that the woman is originally from Eastern Europe.

On 10 May 2023, the case of the unknown woman from Bremen was also taken up by Interpol's Identify Me project, a public appeal to name more than forty unidentified women whose bodies were found in various European countries; most of these women were murdered and were probably foreigners, often from Eastern Europe.

Also in 2023, a possible new lead to follow emerges, on the other hand we don't know whether he is a mythomaniac or not. A man calls the program "Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelöst", and claims that in 2002, in Bremen, he found a package containing the same hair clip worn by the victim - and this is all we know about the woman from the Weser River, at least until today.

(sources; https://www.polizei.bremen.de/fahndung/kriminalfaelle-ungeklaert/fund-einer-weiblichen-leiche-23335

https://www.interpol.int/What-you-can-do/Identify-Me/Countries-in-which-the-bodies-were-found/Women-found-in-Germany/DE04-The-body-in-the-carpet

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases-int/490ufdeu.html

https://www.bka.de/DE/IhreSicherheit/Fahndungen/Personen/UnbekannteTote/Kampagne_NL_B_D/Yachthafen_Bremen/Sachverhalt_Weser_Bremen.html

https://toteohneidentitaet.hpage.com/unbek-weibliche-wasserleiche-bremen.html

https://www.swp.de/unterhaltung/tv/aktenzeichen-xy-irre-wendung-mordfall-anrufer-gibt-eigenartigen-hinweis-71466723.html )

On October 2nd 2001, in Cavaria, a town in the province of Varese, a child made a macabre discovery. While playing in a meadow next to an elementary school he found a boot in which there were human bones: a fibula and a foot. It was a woman's black "amphibious" boot, size 37, with a thick "armored tank" sole. About one month before, for the start of the school year, the town's gardener had cleaned the meadow, and the boot was not there.

The rest of the body was found over the following days, hidden in a hole, in the little wood near the school. The model of the bra worn by the victim was produced only after mid-1995. To recover the skeleton the investigators decided to turn to Milan's Institute of Forensic Medicine.

"A very particular technique was used," explains Cristina Cattaneo, a doctor at the Institute, "called 'forensic archaeology', which makes it possible to avoid damaging the bones."

Thus is was discovered that the body belonged to a woman between 20 and 25 years old, probably caucasian, about 1.60-1.65 meters tall, normal build, and medium-length brown hair with a layered haircut. Starting from the skull, a reconstruction was made of the woman's face. "The features could bear a resemblance, but not be identical, while the teeth correspond perfectly to those of the dead woman." She had very visible spaces between the upper front teeth, her upper lateral incisors were missing antemortem, she had various caries and no dental treatments. She was wearing a round wristwatch with a rubber strap, and she had three gold colored earrings in her right ear, two shaped like a flower and the other in a ring shape.

The young woman, probably a prostitute and killed with a stab wound to the lower abdomen, was probably buried in the wood between 1995 and 1998. According to a number of those questioned, the woman could have been a young prostitute who used the name Viola and is thought to have disappeared around 1995, a period that would coincide with the date of the murder (considering that she could've died around 1995 and 1998). At the time, Viola, a young Albanian prostitute, was twenty-three years old. She had been arrested during police round-ups in Milan, and probably went to the Tuscany and Emilia regions as well, before retuning to Lombardy. In Milan she could frequently be found in the Piazza Duca D'Aosta, on the Via Vittor Pisani and in the ''Gran Bar'' café at the train station. It is not known whether any records of her arrest exist.

Several users on the internet agree with the fact that, if Viola were really Albanian, her non-identification situation would not be strange. During the years of her disappearance, given the countless riots and the complex political situation, many disappearances were never reported or were reported with very long delays (sometimes up to ten years). Furthermore, most of the women who emigrated to Italy ended up becoming prostitutes and when they disappeared, as Italy did not have much contact with Albania, their relatives had no news of them.

(sources: https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Viola

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases-int/291ufita.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20030509060753/

http://www.chilhavisto.rai.it/clv/English/Misteri/2001-2002/CavariaGialloStivale.htm

https://www.labanof.unimi.it/old/10.htm

https://www.laprovinciadivarese.it/chi-lha-visto-d-un-nome-allo-scheletro-di-cavaria-56366/

https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/italy-whtfem-20-25-skeletal-stabbed-cavaria-varese-4-oct-2001.433890/ )

• Backstory

On June 24th, 1973, in New Orleans, Louisiana, an arson attack was committed at UpStairs Lounge. 32 people were killed, but 30 were identified, but one wasn't identified until 2018, so I'll be talking about him too. The prime suspect was a man named Roger Dale Nunez, but despite the confession and evidence he did it, it was not proven.

• The victims

All three victims were listed as white males, only known to be older than 18. In 2018, one of the three, was identified as Larry Norman Frost, a 32 year old male! The other two unidentified men were only listed as "Unidentified White Male" on the memorial.

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Larry_Frost

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Orleans_Parish_John_Doe_(1973,_Victim_A)

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Orleans_Parish_John_Doe_(1973,_Victim_B)

We are in Germany, the state is Brandenburg. We are at Lake Bugsin, in German Bugsinsee, in Althüttendorf, near Frankfurt on the Oder. The lake is divided by a railway line and belongs to the Schorfheide biosphere, it is located near the Joachimstahl motorway exit of the A-11 federal motorway, between Berlin and Stettin - it is June 26, 2004, an elderly amateur fisherman spots a travel bag near the shore. It is very similar to those used by the Bundeswehr (German military forces) but it is not original, the color is olive green, it is big, it can be carried with two straps - the man looks more carefully, a human leg sticks out of the bag. That Saturday afternoon Wolfhard Trenn, an investigator of the Eberswalde homicide squad, a branch of the Frankfurt police headquarters, is on duty. The control center informs him of the discovery of the body, he immediately goes to the lake with a colleague of forensic sciences at around 3:00 pm.

What has just been found is the body of a woman, she has nothing with her that leads to her identity - no documents, no personal effects.

The woman is fully clothed. She is wearing a black and grey striped long-sleeved bodysuit with lace trim in the shape of waves around the neck and sleeves with a width of approximately 3.5 cm, size L, brand "MARTINA 81516", dark blue stretch jeans of the brand Bulani with grey corduroy back pockets and 12 cm long slits on the legs trimmed with corduroy. She is wearing a pink underwired bra of the brand Gina Benotti with lace and padding, size 80b, and a black thong with three metal rings. Both Bulani and Martina are not registered trademarks in Germany in 2004, while investigators are having better luck with the underwear. The bra and panties were sold in Ernsting stores in northern and eastern Germany for four months starting on 27 December 2001 - the store where they were purchased, however, remains a mystery. The woman is wearing a single blue left sock, some sources also mention the presence of a size 31/27 belt, the only brand present is "Made in China".

We soon learn that the bag was stolen from its original owner, so it gives us no information on the identity of the executioner or that of our unknown woman.

We have some information about her physical appearance. Average height, between 160 and 165 cm, Caucasian, her body weighs between 50 and 60 kg, her shoe size seems to be 34-35, her hair is dyed red, naturally brown, 30 to 35 cm long, she has a completely healed scar of 8.5 cm on the upper right arm and a scar of 1 cm x 0.5 cm, on the right knee joint. She has two holes in her left ear and one in her right ear, she has no scars from smallpox vaccination and has not had an appendix operation. As for her teeth, they are described as poorly positioned: the incisors are slightly overlapping in the upper and lower jaw, a characteristic that is evident to a more careful eye. It is precisely the teeth that help us learn more about our unknown. To determine the woman's age, an expert uses the study of the so-called anulation of the dental cement. The layers of dental cementum that have deposited on the root of the tooth are counted. "They are similar to the annual rings of trees," explains Wolfhard Trenn. It is with this method that the age range initially attributed to the unknown woman changes drastically; if older sources attribute her to 17 to 25 years, now we know the truth. The unknown woman from Althüttendorf is between 34 and 45 years old.

The woman's teeth had been restored, which suggests regular visits to the dentist. The existing amalgam fillings immediately arouse the investigators' interest. This is gamma-2-free amalgam, which in 2004 has not been used or sold on the German or Western European market for several years - in Eastern Europe, however, it is still in use - but the theory that the fillings were placed in the GDR era, therefore certainly before 1989, cannot be ruled out immediately.

It is estimated that she died between 3 weeks and 6 months, the body is decomposed, swollen from being in water, the woman's face is unrecognizable, the cause of death seems undetermined - too much time has passed, the water has erased part of the crime. Forensic experts even manage to reconstruct the softened papillary ridges of the victim so that they can take an imprint from each finger. They try to find matches in the fingerprint identification system, they do the same in the DNA database, all in vain - no information attributable to the poor woman from Lake Bugsin.

The investigators publish their findings on the woman's teeth in the Zahn Ärzteblatt (a dental magazine) of Berlin and Brandenburg. Again, no match - but this does not discourage the investigators. In December 2009, the murder investigators contact the LKA in Saxony-Anhalt, they meet with a facial reconstruction expert in Magdeburg. Facial reconstructions are produced to help with her identification, the reconstructed face should and should resemble that of the woman as much as possible, while the hairstyle was freely chosen - the woman from Lake Bugsin finally has a face.

https://images.app.goo.gl/mgCkn5nmBiMwsW1v7

This is one of the many facial reconstructions, the other ones are on her Unidentified Wiki Page:

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Alth%C3%BCttendorf_Jane_Doe

The investigators are not going to leave any leads untried. They have twice decided to have an isotope analysis performed at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Munich, the test uses bones, hair, teeth and nails to determine where and how a person grew up and what their diet was in recent years.

"In March 2006, when the method was still relatively new, the experts found that the woman must have lived in an area close to the Romanian environment, as a child and a teenager," Trenn says in the report. The unknown woman from Lake Bugsin could therefore have lived in Romania or in areas close to the border of the former Yugoslavia.

"With this result, we started a public search in the Balkan countries and turned to Romania with a request for legal assistance," says the criminologist. However, there were not enough clues to help the Brandenburg homicide squad. Six years later, when the isotope analysis becomes more sophisticated, Trenn turns to the experts in Munich again. As expected, the result was more accurate.

“We can say that the woman was born in Romania, Yugoslavia or Greece. Everything also suggests that she spent the last three years of her life in Germany or Italy,” Trenn says. As he browses the database of missing persons from war zones in The Hague through Interpol, he has the Balkan war in mind. Result: negative - again.

Theories to investigate seem to be running out, Trenn provides a more classic, more common version: the unknown woman could be a foreign prostitute who was living illegally in Germany. Investigations in the red-light district of Barnim have revealed that no prostitutes are officially missing from the area. Perhaps, says Trenn, the woman was a lover, someone's concubine.

The main file on the murder case now comprises 13 volumes and there are various key folders with secondary leads and investigative information, four volumes contain the results of forensic analyses - in total there are thousands of sheets on the case.

There is a new investigative approach to the case: animal hair found in the duffel bag. Specialists from the Federal Criminal Police Office identified it as dog hair. "Maybe we can move forward," says the homicide investigator, without wanting to elaborate further.

Wolfhard Trenn says that the perpetrator did not make life easy for the investigators. "Water makes it incredibly difficult to identify a dead person" Now the investigators in Eberswalde are just hoping for a witness who recognizes the woman in the photos after so many years - somewhere, there must be someone wondering what happened to her sister, her best friend, her girlfriend, or even just her neighbor, the woman she exchanged a few words with that one time in the supermarket.

(sources: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/seit-19-jahren-raetseln-brandenburger-ermittler-wer-ist-die-tote-aus-dem-seesack-li.317054

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases-int/465ufdeu.html

https://www.bz-berlin.de/archiv-artikel/tote-im-see-gefunden

https://www.facebook.com/Vaunde/posts/26062004-unb-tote-in-bugsinsee-althuttendorf-brandenburggesch%C3%A4tztes-todesdatum-3/745557482569959/

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Alth%C3%BCttendorf_Jane_Doe

https://web.archive.org/web/20040910173528/http://www.szczecin.kwp.gov.pl/poszukiwani/zag/index.php?id=168 )

Altena-Bergfeld Jane Doe was a young female found murdered in a wooded area in Germany, between Hemecker Weg and Bergfeld, in North Rhine-Westphalia. She had been raped, strangled, and burned alive. Unspecified evidence has proven that she was killed by a relative and efforts were made to conceal her identity. The body was burned and the upper half was very disfigured, making it hard to recognize her.

The date of the woman's death is probably June 1, 1997, and while some sources say it is possible that the woman died up to a month earlier, we can be pretty sure in saying that the woman was killed no earlier than 48 hours after she was found.

On Monday June 2, 1997, around 7:30 pm, a young motorcyclist, who is living out his urge to move on his off-road bike, found the partially burned body of a young woman at the end of a forest path above the Rahmedetal in Altena (pop. 23,077 in 1998). The motorcyclist immediately called the police and forensics is conducted late into the night. The woman was naked and her left leg was slightly angled, protruding unnaturally from her body. She was found in a wooded area in Altena-Bergfeld, Germany, near the city limits to Lüdenscheid.

https://images.app.goo.gl/q64Ks7DwzGbi4pF17

The facial reconstruction you're seeing now was made by Ursula Wittwer-Backofen, famous anthropologist from the University of Freiburg.

The woman was very petite, standing at 5'1" (150-155 cm) and weighing 100 lbs (around 45 kg), and is estimated to have been between 14 and 22 years old (probably more around 18-22, as her skull was fully developed) at the time of her death. At first she was thought to have blue eyes, although it is very likely that her eyes were dark, Frank Haarmaan, who is currently leading the investigation, stated that they could've lightened after the woman's body was set on fire. She had a pale complexion, and auburn to dark brown hair. The woman's teeth were very well taken care of and she may have worn a gem on one of her incisors (tooth 12, possibly a diamond-like, likely imitation, ornament around 2mm), which investigators believe may have been purposely removed during her murder to avoid her identification. She may have additionally recieved orthodontic treatment prior to becoming a teenager and she may have worn braces in the past before she turned 12. Her shoe size was likely 33/34/35 (EU), (2,5/3/3.5 US), her toenails were painted with red polish. The body was nude, yet blue/gray fibers at the scene may have been from fragments of clothing, an isotope test was inconclusive, however, it is believed she spent the first 15 years of her life in Eastern Europe.

Postmortem examination indicated that the woman had been raped, strangled with a nylon stocking, and then doused in some kind of fuel and set on fire, she was probably killed elsewhere. During the autopsy skin was found under her fingernails and semen was found inside of her vagina. DNA discovered on the woman's body was examined and found to belong to a male relative (a lot of German articles say it was her own father).

It's possible that the family or father claimed that the girl moved away or ran away. It could also be possible that they claimed to have reported her missing but never did. Further examination of the woman's body revealed she was still alive when her killer set her on fire, smoke was in fact found in her lungs, although she was not necessarily visibly alive to the perpetrator, as she could've fainted. The reason for her burning was probably to cover up evidence, as it seems that the killer tried to erase whatever features that might have led to her identification. They speculate that Jane Doe and whoever murdered her may have belonged to a family travelling through the area, who by chance headed for the remote woodland on the mountain field to kill the young woman there.

Also, some believe that she could have been a part of a group passing through the area for the rifle festival in the city the weekend before her death, it's possible she could have belonged to a group of showmen. However, police didn't find any information that would support the theory. In fact, some people remembered two twins who worked in a circus, one of whom always performed with her father, but this lead did not produce any results. The two twins, in fact, are both still alive and well.

Investigator Ulrich Kayser said he didn't think a foreigner would find the place the body was found, as it was a very remote area, but he also didn't think a family in the area would have been able to keep a family member's disappearance a secret. In 2017, twenty years after the murder, Kriminalkommissar Ulrich Kayser told Westfalenpost: "There must be a family somewhere that misses their daughter."

There is speculation on the Doe's Websleuths thread that her death could have come as an islamic honor killing and she may have been of Turkish descent, however it's not very likely, considering that she is probably Romanian (although this is just a theory). The case was recently featured on Germany’s biggest (unsolved) crime show, Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst . It really went into detail and also talked about some theories, like a taxi driver, that came forward years later, that said she drove a young lady and three older men into the woods, she said that they spoke a foreign language she couldn't understand, they said they were the father and the brother of the girl and they left the taxi as soon as they began to approach the woods, even though it was late night.

Identifying the victim could also lead to the crime being solved. If you have any information, please contact the Hagen police headquarters, Tel. 02331/986-2066, or any other police station. Her fingernails and her DNA are available for comparison, probably also her teeth.

[sources: https://www.wr.de/wr-info/article5201322/die-jagd-nach-dem-grausamen-moerder-geht-weiter.html

https://victimsofhomicide.fandom.com/wiki/Altena_Jane_Doe

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Altena-Bergfeld_Jane_Doe

https://web.archive.org/web/20031005194444/

http://www.lka.nrw.de/fahndung/hagen/default.htm

https://www.wp.de/region/sauer-und-siegerland/article212643923/vom-vater-missbraucht-und-verbrannt.html

https://www.come-on.de/luedenscheid/bergfeld-leiche-polizei-hofft-tv-sendung-1455014.html

https://www.bka.de/DE/IhreSicherheit/Fahndungen/Personen/UnbekannteTote/Kampagne_NL_B_D/MK_Bergfeld_Hagen/Sachverhalt.html

https://missingdoe.com/uf-0011/

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases-int/309ufdeu.html

https://www.interpol.int/How-we-work/Notices/Operation-Identify-Me/DEO3-The-burned-body-in-the-forest

https://www.bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/ruhrgebiet-aktuell/fall-bei-aktenzeichen-xy-wer-ist-das-mordopfer-mit-den-schoenen-zaehnen-84811718.bild.html

https://www.bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/ruhrgebiet-aktuell/ermittler-wenden-sich-an-zahnaerzte-glitzerstein-soll-cold-case-aus-altena-loese-84904584.bild.html

https://www.bild.de/news/2023/news/bka-kampagne-mordopfer-unbekannt-wer-kennt-diese-toten-frauen-83865912.bild.html ]

I'm sorry for my poor English, unfortunately I'm not a native speaker, I'm still learning.

We are in Germany, this time in the Baden-Württemberg region, in the far south of Germany, the city is Todtnau, which currently has just over five thousand inhabitants. It is July 24, 1997, the partially burned body of a woman is found buried in a pit in the forest hiking parking lot "Weissenbach" in the Präg district in the Heidelbeerbülhl area, we are about thirty kilometers from the Swiss border, it's a place frequented by hikers of several nationalities - the clothing of our woman, however, does not resemble that of a hiker.

The unknown woman from Todtnau is wearing a light-colored Speedway T-shirt, a long dark blue De Ville skirt with a light floral pattern, a blue plastic belt with a gold-colored buckle, white Roberto Santi sandals with gold-colored ornaments, size 38, a light-colored bra, white Trend panties in cotton, size S - she may also have been carrying a "DeLanee" bag with her, which was later found by the owner of a restaurant, the "Präger Böden", less than ten kilometers from the place where she was found. The investigators are positive, they are convinced that the distinctive clothing could help to identify her. About her clothes, currently sold in second-hand shops, we don't known exactly where they were sold at the time. While various sources tell us that in 1997 they were available in Vögele stores in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, deputy spokesman for the public prosecutor's office Michael Blozik claims that they were only available in Switzerland and in some shops on the border. Her sandals, made by an Italian company, could also have been resold and purchased in any other country. She is around 164 cm tall, her age is estimated to be around 20 years old, she has brown hair, about 34 centimeters long and the size of her clothes suggests that she has a slim build.

We don't know who she is, what her name is, or how she got there. We only find out later that she was left in the Weissenbach for at least several days, possibly up to two weeks. Establishing the exact cause of her death is almost impossible, probably due to the state of decomposition of her body. We only know that it was doused with a substance that accelerated its combustion, probably gasoline - the berry hunters who found her quickly looked around, the first thing they noticed was a construction shovel not far from the body.

There aren't many theories about what happened to her. It's very likely that she was a murder victim, given the circumstances of her discovery. Opinions are divided about her origins, some believe she isn't from very far away, others theorize that she could be from Eastern Europe, or even Turkey, maybe she was a victim of human trafficking. Chief detective Matthias Höfling is instead convinced that the woman has some connection with the Swiss border, given the origin of her clothes.

There are no missing person reports linked to the woman, and if there are, the police have not been able to find one to her in all these years.

On May 10, 2023, the case of the unknown woman from Todtnau will become part of the Identify Me project, an operation launched by Interpol to solve cold cases across Western Europe to identify 22 unnamed women found dead in several countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. A public appeal has been launched for information on the unidentified women. Interpol, together with the Dutch, German and Belgian police forces, have released new forensic facial reconstructions, including that of our unknown woman, which was made public last year by the Stuttgart Criminal Investigation Department, along with other information needed for the investigation - after twenty-six years, the unknown woman from Todtnau finally has a face.

On 10 November 2023, the case was covered by Germany's most popular cold case TV program, "Aktenzeichen XY... Ungelöst", and thanks to this and the Black Notice of the Identify Me campaign, the Waldshut-Tiengen public prosecutor's office received at least around 120 reports, which, according to Blozik, are currently being investigated.

The authorities are asking anyone who thinks they have information about the case to contact the Freiburg police, who are offering a reward of 3,000 euros for information that can help them investigate the crime and identify the perpetrator, while any tip-off that leads to the identification of the woman will be rewarded with 2,000 euros. Anyone who thinks they may have witnessed the crime is asked to contact the Lörrach police at 07621/176-800, at +497621 176-800 or by email loerrach.kk.d1.coldcase@polizei.bwl.de.

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links to the facial recontrusction and the clothes.

https://images.app.goo.gl/W8DkG4syVz13FAZY9

https://images.app.goo.gl/dt1ENMkVNQK32Kx1A

(sources: https://www.bka.de/DE/IhreSicherheit/Fahndungen/Personen/UnbekannteTote/Kampagne_NL_B_D/Soko_Hochkopf_Freiburg/Sachverhalt.html

https://www.suedkurier.de/region/hochrhein/kreis-waldshut/tote-frau-20-im-schwarzwald-polizei-bittet-im-cold-case-fall-von-1997-um-hinweise;

https://fahndung.polizei-bw.de/tracing/todtnau-cold-case/

https://www.verlagshaus-jaumann.de/inhalt.mordfall-von-1997-in-todtnau-80-hinweise-gehen-ein.8217bdb1-7eb5-4fad-bf74-2ceb95e78883.html

https://www.watson.ch/international/deutschland/599165804-mord-in-todtnau-1997-polizei-erhaelt-120-hinweise-aus-der-bevoelkerung

https://www.badische-zeitung.de/cold-case-todtnau-praeg-polizei-hat-neue-hinweise-zur-identitaet-der-leiche-erhalten

https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.junge-frau-1997-bei-todtnau-getoetet-cold-case-aus-dem-schwarzwald-bei-aktenzeichen-xy-ungeloest.710dd61c-d46f-487b-807c-5dddabc64809.html

https://www.bild.de/regional/stuttgart/stuttgart-aktuell/ungeloester-mordfall-wer-diese-frau-kennt-bekommt-2000-euro-85686198.bild.html

https://www.20min.ch/story/todtnau-d-26-jahre-nach-leichenfund-das-ist-die-frau-im-blumenrock-898245609575

https://www.blick.ch/ausland/cold-case-nahe-der-schweizer-grenze-unbekannte-tote-hat-nach-26-jahren-ein-gesicht-id19119329.html

https://www.bzbasel.ch/basel/basel-stadt/toetungsdelikt-cold-case-in-basler-grenznaehe-neue-hinweise-koennten-zur-identitaet-der-leiche-fuehren-ld.2537960

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Todtnau_Jane_Doe

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1408o1k/an_unidentified_woman_was_found_burned_in_a/?rdt=38660 )

https://int-missing.fandom.com/wiki/Sandy_Rea
Sandy was last seen in Shawnee, Oklahoma on September 19, 1984. That evening she had plans to walk to a convenience store near Highland Street and Bryan Road to buy cigarettes. However, she was spotted by a group of friends who drove her to the Windsor Bowling Ally on the way. Sandy asked her cousin, who was employed there, to give her a ride, possibly to a party. He was unable to leave work so she went on to make several phonecards trying to find someone else who would be able to giver her a ride. She eventually left at around 9:00 P.M. with an unidentified individual. It is worth noting that Sandy would frequently accept rides from strangers. She hasn't been seen or heard from since.

Some investigators believe that Sandy may have left of her own accord, although her mother disagrees with this.

Some have theorised that Sandy may have accidentally died of a drug overdose at a party and that her remains where disposed of. She was described by some people as a "party girl" and would sometimes use marijuana and alcohol. A similar theory suggests that "suit partys", where local men would allegedly engage bribe teenagers to engage in sexual acts with them in return for alcohol and drugs, where somehow involved in her case. This is supported by the fact that one detective on Sandy's case believes that she attended a party on the night of her disappearance and that the other guests may know what happen to her. However, there is no solid evidence to support these theories.

Another theory is that Sandy's ex-boyfriend played a part in her disappearance. They had previously lived together and he had been physically abusive towards her. Despite this, the two would still socialize at the time of her disappearance.

Several possible witnesses in Sandy's case are now deceased and while police her still investigating her disappearance they haven't received any strong leads in years. There have been multiple searches for her body but it has never been found. 

the doe seems to match her. Thoughts?

https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/6559
https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/3939

On the 19th of April 1972, a young boy was walking upon a highway in Itu, Brazil when he made a rather grim discovery. He had found the nude body of a woman who was estimated by police to be around 30 - 32 years old and had blonde hair and nails, both were perceived to be "well groomed" by law enforcement.

She had bruises, scrapes, cigarette burns and six gunshot wounds lined across her body with internal bleeding, making it seem as she was brutally beaten and shot to death. While her body had obvious signs of this torture and the fact that she was nude, she had no signs of sexual assault on her and was seemed to have a "beautiful" complexion that was noted by medical examiners.

This evidence lead to the police thinking that this was a crime of passion and she was a model or an actress before her sudden end. The examiner estimated her death to be on the 18th.

Around a day later on the 20th of December, the police had decided to announce the public that they were going to show her preserved body in order to identify her. Despite hundreds of people showing up to this event, none could be able to identify or recognize her. Her body was buried four days later.

SOURCES: https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mysterious_Blonde_From_Itu

https://preview.redd.it/lvo8fgjoo4zd1.jpg?width=546&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03d4cba7f50a9f46be08cdb00b87fb13b39ae63b

On Wednesday, April 10th, 1968, employees at the Railway Express Agency facility at 1815 Egbert Street in San Francisco, California noticed a very foul odor emitting from a green steamer trunk that was sealed with surgical tape, and upon opening it they discovered the remains of an unidentified male. The steamer trunk had been shipped by train from the Newark Railway Express Terminal in Newark, New Jersey on April 1st, by a white woman with graying hair dressed in a black dress, black coat and stylish black hat. The woman was described as “petite” and “in her 50s”, with an approximate height of 5 ft 2 in (62 inches) and weight of 120 lbs, who claimed her name was Gerry Fedele and that she lived at the Belmont Hotel in Newark. She paid $57.50 in cash to ship the 215 lb trunk, along with a 55 cent tip. The steamer trunk had been marked “will call”, but no telephone number or address were listed. However, it was addressed to a woman named Janet Farise, but no records of such a woman living in the bay area were ever found. Authorities doubted such a woman existed.

The decedent was a White/Caucasian male between the approximate ages of 50 and 80 years old. His height was 5 ft 7 in (67 inches) and his weight was 116 lbs¹. The decedent had sparse, gray hair that was receding at the forehead/temples and brown eyes. He had a “husky” build. The decedent's remains were described as “decomposed” and his postmortem interval was 10 days. He had been wrapped in a bed sheet, and had been hogtied with heavy twine, with his knees drawn up to his face by the twine that had been tied around his neck. The bedsheet was branded with the name of a hotel, but authorities could not connect it to any hotels with the same name. The decedent's cause of death was due to a .32 caliber gunshot wound to his back. The bullet entered his back below the left shoulder blade, piercing his heart, nicking a rib and lodging itself under the skin on his chest.

When found, the decedent was wearing an undershirt (size 42), red pajama bottoms and socks. Found in the steamer trunk were 4 sheets, 2 pillows, 3 men's shirts, 2 pillow cases, 2 sofa cushions, a terry cloth robe, 2 wash clothes and a quilt. Mothballs were also found at the bottom of the trunk.

56 years on, this is where the case stands today. Thank you so much for giving the San Francisco John Doe (1968) a moment of your day.

¹Namus listed the decedent's weight as 116 lbs, but the Oakland Tribune listed his weight as 185 lbs.

Sources: Unidentified Awareness Wiki NamUs San Francisco Examiner Article 1 San Francisco Examiner Article 2 Oakland Tribune Article 1 Oakland Tribune Article 2 Paterson News Article

Delonte Taylor is a 14 year old African American boy who went missing on August 25, 2023 in Houston, Texas.

On October 30, 2023, the skeletal remains of a young African American male, thought to be between 16 and 22, was found in Houston, Texas.

Reasons why Delonte may be the Doe:

Missing in same place, during same time frame. Same gender and race. Photo of Doe even looks like Delonte.

Reasons why Delonte might not be the Doe:

Delonte is slightly younger than the proposed age of the Doe. However, the remains were skeletal at the time of finding, which makes it hard for the age to be certain.

Delonte:
https://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/2011479/1

John Doe:

https://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMU/2021479/1

Hello everyone,

I'm reaching out on behalf of my father, Shaun David Steward, who went missing on February 1, 2008, from Phoenix, Arizona. Shaun was last known to be living in the area of North 7th Avenue and West Indian School Road. He was 29 years old at the time, 5'6" tall, weighed around 170 pounds, and had blue eyes, brown hair, and a scar on his left arm.

I'm asking if anyone knows of any unidentified remains that may match Shaun's description. Any information could be crucial in bringing closure to our family. Thanks!

Here are some links to visit for more information about Shaun David Steward's missing persons case:

1. NamUs Case MP7406: View NamUs missing person case MP7406 for Shaun David Steward
2. Phoenix Police Department Missing Person Bulletin: Phoenix Police Department Missing Person Bulletin
3. The Charley Project: Shaun David Steward – The Charley Project
4. Missing People in America: 16 Years Later: Son’s Unwavering Search for Vanished Father

reconstruction of Lincoln County Rail Car John Doe done by Carl Koppelman.

on October 31, 1961, an unknown man was found inside of a train car in North Platte, Nebraska. his body had been found under 2,500 pounds of ice. the train had come from Roseville, California earlier that month. he was thought to have died the same year (1961), and his PMI was 1 month. he was Black, and believed to have been 60 at the time of his death, meaning he would have been born in 1900/1901; however, investigators now believe he could be much younger, as age estimates at the time were prone to error. his weight and height couldn't be estimated, and his eye and hair color is unknown.

none of the locals recognized him. the clothing he was wearing is not available online, but he was found with at least one item - a package of cigarettes with a California tax stamp. he was buried in Lincoln County, Nebraska, and his true identity has been unknown for 63 years.

in 2024, the DNA Doe Project made a breakthrough in his case - volunteer investigative genetic genealogists discovered that John Doe was likely from Texas and had recent ancestors in St. Landry Parish in Louisiana. while he had ancestors in Louisiana, he most likely grew up in Texas, and multiple branches of his family moved to Houston and Beaumont; he may still have living family in those cities today. there have been no genealogical links to Nebraska, but investigators believe he lived in California prior to his death due to the cigarette package and origin of the train.

the DNA Doe Project is urging anyone who may recognize him or with familial ties to St. Landry Parish or the Houston/Beaumont areas to reach out and upload their DNA profiles to GEDmatch, FamilyTreeDNA, and DNAJustice.

According to Janel Daniels, one of the researchers on this case, “During the second wave of the Great Migration from the South, starting around the 1940s, many African Americans leaving Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas moved to California. If there’s someone in your family who left around that time and was never heard from again, he could be this John Doe.”

thank you for taking the time out of your day to read about Lincoln County Rail Car John Doe.

The public can contact DNA Doe Project researchers at case-tips@dnadoeproject.org.

NAMUS

DNA Doe Project