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SAN DIEGO JANE DOE: WF, 20-40 - Found in parking lot at 62nd
Street and El Cajon Blvd - Jan 24, 2000 *Nicole Weis*
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: February 9, 2020, 2:20 am
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The decedent is an unidentified Caucasian female. On 01/24/2000,
the fire department and police were notified by telephone of a
fire in the parking lot at 62nd Street and El Cajon Boulevard.
When authorities arrived on scene they found the deceased and
pronounced death on scene.
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Re: SAN DIEGO JANE DOE [2000]: WF, 20-40 - Found in parking lot
at 62nd Street and El Cajon Blvd - J
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: February 9, 2020, 2:20 am
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Demographics
Sex: Female
Race / Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Possible First Name --
Possible Middle Name--
Possible Last Name--
Possible Nickname--
Estimated Age Group: Adult - Pre 40
Estimated Age Range: (Years) 20-40
Estimated Year of Death--
Estimated PMI--
Height: 5' 5"-5' 9"(65-69 inches) , Estimated
Weight: 150-180 lbs, Estimated
Circumstances
Type: Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found: January 24, 2000
NamUs Case Created: October 11, 2018
ME/C QA Reviewed--
Location Found Map
Location: San Diego, California 92115
County: San Diego County
GPS Coordinates (Not Mapped)--
Circumstances of Recovery: The decedent is an unidentified
Caucasian female. On 01/24/2000, the fire department and police
were notified by telephone of a fire in the parking lot at 62nd
Street and El Cajon Boulevard. When authorities arrived on
scene they found the deceased and pronounced death on scene.
Details of Recovery
Inventory of Remains: One or both hands not recovered
Condition of Remains: Not recognizable - Charred/burned
Physical Description
Hair Color: Brown
Head Hair Description --
Body Hair Description --
Facial Hair Description --
Left Eye Color: Brown
Right Eye Color: Brown
Eye Description --
Distinctive Physical Features
Finger and toe nails: Red polish on toenails
Clothing and Accessories
Clothing: No clothing was found
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Re: SAN DIEGO JANE DOE [2000]: WF, 20-40 - Found in parking lot
at 62nd Street and El Cajon Blvd - J
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: February 9, 2020, 2:20 am
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El Cajon Blvd & 62nd St
San Diego, CA 92115, USA
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Re: SAN DIEGO JANE DOE: WF, 20-40 - Found in parking lot at 62nd
Street and El Cajon Blvd - Jan 24, 2000 *Nicole Weis*
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: December 19, 2021, 7:24 pm
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On January 24, 2000, a woman's body was found in a burning
cardboard box in the parking lot of College Avenue Baptist
Church located at 4747 College Avenue in San Diego,
California.[116] She had been bound with rope, stabbed several
times, and strangled before being dumped at the location. Her
killer had attempted to conceal her identity by severing her
hands and removing part of her left calf, where some sort of
identifying mark, such as a scar or tattoo, may have been
located. Prior to her identification, it was believed that she
had originated from Arkansas, although this later turned out not
to be true. In 2021, she was identified as 21-year-old Nicole
Weis, who had lost contact with the family after leaving
Michigan for Los Angeles. Little else is known about her
disappearance, and her murder remains unsolved.
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Re: SAN DIEGO JANE DOE: WF, 20-40 - Found in parking lot at 62nd
Street and El Cajon Blvd - Jan 24, 2000 *Nicole Weis*
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: December 20, 2021, 11:16 pm
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San Diego Jane Doe has been Identified as of 21-year-old Nicole
Weis of Los Angeles, CA.
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Re: SAN DIEGO JANE DOE: WF, 20-40 - Found in parking lot at 62nd
Street and El Cajon Blvd - Jan 24, 2000 *Nicole Weis*
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: December 20, 2021, 11:17 pm
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20 years later, San Diego police ID woman’s body found burning
behind church
Nicole Weis’ body was discovered Jan. 24, 2000, behind College
Avenue Baptist Church; her hands had been chopped off
By Alex Riggins
Sept. 30, 2021 7:29 PM PT
COLLEGE AREA —
For 20 years, the young woman whose hands were chopped off and
whose body was found burning behind a College Area church
remained identified only as Jane Doe.
But last year, as cold-case investigators scoured ancestral DNA
databases looking for potential relatives of the victim, they
caught a break. A man in Michigan who was adopted as a child had
just uploaded his genetic information into one of those
databases in search of his biological family — and investigators
determined he was Jane Doe’s half-brother.
Now, San Diego police cold-case homicide investigators know the
victim found Jan. 24, 2000, was 20-year-old Nicole Weis.
According to police, she grew up in Michigan but lost touch with
her family in the late 1990s when she moved to Los Angeles,
where it’s believed she likely resided at the time of her death.
What detectives don’t yet know is who killed Weis and set fire
to her body, which had been wrapped in cardboard and secured
with a rope, in the parking lot of College Avenue Baptist
Church, off College Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard.
In a video about the case, produced by the San Diego Police
Department, Sgt. Ronnie Philhower described being a patrol
officer in January 2000 and showing up first at the scene around
12:15 a.m. to find the body engulfed in flames.
A Union-Tribune story from the time described the body as
“burned beyond recognition.” A homicide lieutenant said the
victim was dead by the time officers arrived, and speculated she
may have been killed elsewhere before being dumped behind the
church.
Sometime later, police commissioned an artist’s rendering of the
victim, but for nearly two decades, no leads emerged based on
the sketch and her identity remained a mystery, according to
cold-case investigator Detective Lori Adams. So in 2019,
detectives enlisted the help of Barbara Rae-Venter, the
genealogist who helped crack the case of the Golden State
Killer.
The way investigative genetic genealogy works is that police
upload DNA from a crime scene into a public repository of DNA
profiles, in hopes that the evidence shares plenty of markers
with what’s already in the database. The more markers shared,
the closer the relationship, and the smaller the family tree.
But if the familial connections are too distant, the family tree
is large, with many potential branches to follow. That was the
case when San Diego homicide detectives first uploaded Jane
Doe’s DNA — they found only distant relatives.
As investigators were doing the methodical
process-of-elimination work needed to identify Jane Doe, adoptee
Glen Stevenson uploaded his DNA information online. It was a
close match to Jane Doe, who detectives later determined was his
half-sister.
From there, detectives tracked down another daughter of
Stevenson’s biological father, a Michigan woman named Kimberly
Beach. She told police she had a sister who lost contact with
the family in the late 1990s.
“We obtained Kimberly Beach’s DNA, and compared it to Jane Doe,”
Adams, the cold-case detective, said in the police video. “It
verified they are biological siblings. We now had Jane Doe’s
real name: Nicole Weis.”
With the victim’s identity confirmed, cold-case detectives are
now seeking to speak with anyone who knew Weis, or anyone with
information about the killing. Those people can call the San
Diego Police Department’s homicide unit at (619) 531-2293, or
San Diego County Crime Stoppers’ anonymous tip line at (888)
580-8477.
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