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ANNANDALE JANE DOE: WF, 50-70, found in Pleasant Valley Cemetery
- 18 December 1996 *GRAPHIC*
By: Scorpio Date: December 14, 2022, 10:51 pm
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A groundskeeper at the Pleasant Valley Memorial Park Cemetery in
Annandale, Virginia found this well dressed woman near the
infant's burial section. She had placed clear plastic on the
ground and decorated a small Christmas tree. She had a tape
player with a recording by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner from the
2000 Year Old Man. She committed suicide by drinking brandy,
swallowing Valium, and covering her head with plastic to
suffocate herself. She left a typed note and cash for the
cemetery and the coroner.
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Re: ANNANDALE JANE DOE: WF, 50-70, found in Pleasant Valley Ceme
tery - 18 December 1996 *GRAPHIC*
By: Scorpio Date: December 14, 2022, 10:52 pm
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HTML https://identifyus.org/en/cases/6279
Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Name Constance Di Angelo
Agency Northern District ME Office
Phone 703-530-2603
Case Manager
Name Paul Yoakam
Phone 757 683-8366
Exclusions
The following people have been ruled out as being this decedent:
First Name Last Name Year of Birth State LKA
Teresa Abeja 1953 California
Geneva Adams 1922 Missouri
Linda Adams 1963 Washington
Frances Allen 1937 Kentucky
Kimberly Allen 1958 Wyoming
Dawn Amlo 1949 Connecticut
Carla Anderson 1964 Minnesota
Cynthia Anderson 1961 Ohio
Denise Anderson 1948 California
Denise Anderson 1948 California
Katherine Anderson 1954 Maryland
Eva Arehart 1922 Michigan
Ina Arnall 1934 Oklahoma
Maureen Baca 1950 California
Nancy Baird 1952 Utah
Lynn Baltzley 1962 Missouri
Dixie Barker 1926 Kentucky
Teresa Barnett 1956 Texas
Kathleen Bennett 1960 Michigan
Marie Blee 1964 Colorado
Lina Borges 1959 California
Linda Bowdre 1948 Ohio
Georgiana Breckenridge 1939 California
Kimberly Britts 1963 Virginia
Carlene Brown 1955 Wyoming
ROBIN BULL 1945 Washington
Mary Burns 1947 Washington
Sandra Butler 1962 Nevada
Patricia Calloway 1954 Kentucky
Sharman Carey 1956 Washington
Peggy Case 1960 Utah
Josephine Chatraw 1948 New York
Debra Childers 1954 North Carolina
Janet Clark 1955 Michigan
Rose Cole 1956 California
Cynthia Coleman 1963 California
Patricia Colyer 1948 Washington
Shelia Cooper 1952 Kentucky
Tina Coverdale 1963 Delaware
Andrea Coyle 1948 Pennsylvania
Rebecca Crist 1962 Virginia
Wilda Cross 1953 Louisiana
Frances Crownover 1953 Tennessee
BEATRICE CUBELOS 1950 New Mexico
Lois Darnopuk 1956 New York
Sherry Daughtery 1963 Arizona
Evelyn Davis 1962 Ohio
Deborah Dean 1961 Missouri
Eva Debruhl 1962 South Carolina
Jennifer DeLap 1951 Oregon
LORREE DENNIS 1965 Nevada
Patricia DePunte 1957 New Jersey
Josephine Despard 1958 New York
Audrey Dill 1946 Iowa
Linne Dominelli 1950 California
Kelly Dove 1961 Virginia
Debra Duncan 1957 Michigan
Lilli Dunn 1951 Michigan
Wendy Eaton 1959 Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Eisel 1962 Washington
Ann Ellinwood 1965 Oregon
Debbie Escalante 1960 New Mexico
Mary Etter 1959 Oklahoma
Sherry Eyerly 1963 Oregon
Marsha Ferber 1941 West Virginia
JENNIE FISHER 1953 Florida
Teresa Fittin 1957 Florida
Laura Flink 1947 Washington
Melanie Flynn 1952 Kentucky
Iva Foss 1901 New York
Francine Frost 1938 Oklahoma
Audree Gagne 1935 Nevada
Rachael Garden 1964 New Hampshire
DAVETTE GAUNT 1959 California
Rose Gayhart 1962 Florida
Mae Gebhard 1915 California
Judith Geurin 1945 New York
Pamela Golden 1949 Arkansas
Donna Gonzales 1964 Louisiana
Arisoneide Gosselin 1960 California
Linda Grimm 1961 California
Clara Grunst 1963 Missouri
Anita Gunn 1953 Virginia
Heather Guy 1953 Washington
Billie Hall 1960 Maryland
Gina Hall 1962 Virginia
Lynda Hanley 1948 Rhode Island
Marchelle Hansen 1964 Wisconsin
Nelda Hardwick 1959 Louisiana
Karen Harmon 1956 Oregon
Darla Harper 1960 Arkansas
Donna Harris 1956 Virginia
Donna Harris 1956 Virginia
Cindy Haumann 1959 Arizona
Katherine Heckel 1951 Pennsylvania
Charlotte Heimann 1954 New York
Rogene Helm 1952 Oklahoma
Ashley Higgins 1962 California
Mary Carol Hill - Frederick 1957 Florida
Sherri Holland 1962 Florida
Susan Hoppes Bennett 1948 Washington
Frankie Horsley 1964 North Carolina
June Howard 1951 Washington
Mary Hunter 1960 Washington
Elba Irizarry 1951 New Jersey
Gail Joiner 1959 Florida
Suzanne Justis 1950 Oregon
Gail Katz-Bierenbaum 1956 New York
Joyce Kennedy 1933 Washington
Debra Kent 1957 Utah
Nahita Khatib 1946 Wisconsin
Debra Kidwell 1952 California
Frances Kiefer 1949 Pennsylvania
Tracy King 1960 Pennsylvania
Shirley Klemgard 1940 New York
Hazel Klug 1962 Virginia
Gloria Korzon 1943 Pennsylvania
Marilyn Koski 1953 Oregon
Renee LaManna 1958 New Jersey
Peggy Lammon 1961 Michigan
Elaine Lehtinen 1945 California
Sherrill Levitt 1944 Missouri
Velda Leyba 1953 New Mexico
Dorothy Limestahl 1939 Minnesota
Dagmar Linton 1926 Washington
Lillian Lipscomb 1921 New York
Lori Lloyd 1961 Ohio
Ella Beth Lodermeier 1948 South Dakota
Sheree Magaro 1956 Maryland
Tammy Mahoney 1961 New York
Cynthia Maine 1959 California
Anne Manchester 1954 Delaware
Donna Manson 1954 Washington
Susan Marable 1956 Washington
Donda Martino 1961 Tennessee
Elisabeth Martinson 1960 California
Sandra Matott 1942 Utah
Deborah McCall 1963 Illinois
MARINTHIA MCCOY 1963 Florida
Teresa McKinley 1952 California
Martha McNiel 1959 North Carolina
Patricia Meehan 1951 Montana
Kathleen Meyers 1962 Delaware
Stephanie Miles 1961 Washington
Barbara Miller 1959 Pennsylvania
Frances Morales 1962 New Jersey
Sheri Muhleman 1964 California
Pamela Nater 1946 Florida
Madalene Neace 1955 Ohio
Barbara Nunez 1956 California
DEBBY OBERG 1954 Nevada
Deborah Owens 1955 California
Juanita Oxenrider 1947 Maryland
Barbara Paciotti 1949 Minnesota
Laurie Partridge 1957 Washington
Jan Pattinson 1955 Michigan
Susan Pearson 1935 Montana
Kathleen Pehringer 1947 Wyoming
Karen Penson 1952 Washington
Kristina Perkins 1953 Arizona
Rose Peterson 1948 Michigan
Robyn Pettinato 1960 Montana
Babette Phillips 1959 Louisiana
Evelyn Piper 1940 Alabama
ADA PLA 1933 Florida
Deborah Post 1961 Massachusetts
Behdokht Pyke 1952 Florida
Angela Ramsey 1961 Florida
Juanita Reedy 1943 West Virginia
Marcia Remick 1962 Virginia
Edna Reynolds 1921 New Mexico
Teresa Rhodes 1962 Pennsylvania
BEVERLY RIBLEY 1946 California
Dorothy Richardson 1960 Texas
Simone Ridinger 1960 Massachusetts
Anne Riggin 1956 Pennsylvania
Isabel Rizzo 1953 New York
Anne Robinson 1930 California
Lonene Rogers 1951 Pennsylvania
Martha Rooks 1936 Colorado
Guadalupe Rosales 1924 Michigan
Hannah Rowell 1964 California
Veronica Safranski 1956 Minnesota
Cheryl Scherer 1959 Missouri
Juliana Schubert 1959 Washington
Jeanne Scrima 1935 New York
Linda Seymour 1947 Illinois
Denise Sheehy 1954 New York
Jami Sherer 1963 Washington
Nancy Shoupp 1963 Colorado
Barbara Shumac 1953 Pennsylvania
Terry Slaugenhoupt 1962 Pennsylvania
Betty Smith 1942 New Jersey
Dale Smith 1933 Georgia
Verna Smith 1919 California
Sharon Sons 1965 Kentucky
Sally Stone 1964 Idaho
Mary Ann Switalski 1946 Illinois
Linda Taylor 1948 Tennessee
Flora Tobin 1936 Louisiana
Donna Urban 1959 Delaware
Darline Vaughan 1950 Virginia
Wilma Vermaas 1952 California
Debra Vowell 1957 California
Kathi Warren 1956 North Carolina
Mary Watkins 1925 California
Cherry Weaver 1941 Florida
Julie Weflen 1958 Washington
Vernette Wester 1947 Arizona
Joanne Williams 1956 Pennsylvania
Karen Wilson 1963 New York
Candace Wright 1947 Wisconsin
Jennifer Wyant 1958 Tennessee
Jerry Yell 1940 Oklahoma
Karen Zendrosky 1963 New Jersey
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Re: ANNANDALE JANE DOE: WF, 50-70, found in Pleasant Valley Ceme
tery - 18 December 1996 *GRAPHIC*
By: Scorpio Date: December 14, 2022, 10:52 pm
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HTML https://identifyus.org/en/cases/6279
NamUs UP # 6279
ME/C Case Number: N1996-41257
Fairfax County, Virginia
50 to 70 year old White Female
Case Report - NamUs UP # 6279
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number N1996-41257
Date found December 18, 1996 12:10
Date created November 30, 2009 06:20
Date last modified June 12, 2016 13:36
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed December 06, 2009 05:41
Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Name Constance Di Angelo
Agency Northern District ME Office
Phone 703-530-2603
Case Manager
Name Paul Yoakam
Phone 757 683-8366
Demographics
Estimated age Adult - Pre 70
Minimum age 50 years
Maximum age 70 years
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) 157, Measured
Height (inches) 60, Measured
Body Parts Inventory (Check all that apply)
All parts recovered
Probable year of death 1996 to 1996
Estimated postmortem interval Hours
Circumstances
Location Found
GPS coordinates
Address 1 8420 Little River Turnpike
Address 2 Pleasant Valley Memorial Park Cemetery
City Fairfax
State Virginia
Zip code
County Fairfax
Circumstances
Groundskeeper at the Pleasant Valley Memorial Park Cemetery
found the body of a white female. Two notes at the scene
requesting no autopsy and stating she had ingested valium and
alcohol prior to death.
Physical
Hair color Red/Auburn
Head hair
hair was almost copper color
Scars and marks
8" scar on midline of abdomen
Prior surgery
Clothing on body
"Eddie Bauer", size-M, Teal jacket.
"Classiques Entier" size- L, navy cardigan sweater.
"Classiques Entier" size-XL, red sweater.
"Classiques Entier" size-Petite L, sleeveles red silk shirt.
"Classiques Entier" size-L, navy knit wool pants.
Knee high stockings.
White sport bra (no tag).
White "Fruit of the Loom", size-5, underpants.
Clothing with body
Footwear
A pair of black loafer shoes, size- 7M.
Jewelry
Metal bead chain with medic alert pendant engraved with "NO
CODE, DNR, No penicillin".
A pair of earrings.
A watch.
A gold tone ring with green stones.
Dental
Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered
DNA
Status: Samples submitted - Tests not complete
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Re: ANNANDALE JANE DOE: WF, 50-70, found in Pleasant Valley Ceme
tery - 18 December 1996 *GRAPHIC*
By: Scorpio Date: December 14, 2022, 10:52 pm
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Re: ANNANDALE JANE DOE: WF, 50-70, found in Pleasant Valley Ceme
tery - 18 December 1996 *GRAPHIC*
By: Scorpio Date: December 14, 2022, 10:52 pm
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HTML http://doenetwork.org/cases/245ufva.html
The Doe Network: International Center for Unidentified & Missing
Persons Case File: 245UFVA
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Artistic rendering of the victim; Victim's personal effects and
Christmas tree
Unidentified Female
Date of Discovery: December 18, 1996
Location of Discovery: Annandale, Fairfax County, Virginia
Estimated Date of Death: Hours prior
State of Remains: Recognizable face
Cause of Death: Suicide
Physical Description
** Listed information is approximate
Estimated Age: 50-70 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'0"
Weight: 157 lbs.
Hair Color: Auburn or red, almost a copper color, curly.
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: She had an 8-inch scar on her
abdomen, probably from a C-section. Her fingernails were painted
red.
Dentals: Available.
Fingerprints: Available.
DNA: Samples submitted - Tests not complete
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Teal all-weather Eddie Baur hooded jacket (size M),
navy blue Classiques Entier sweater (size L), red Classiques
Entier sweater (size XL), red Classiques Entier sleeveless silk
shirt (size Petite L), navy blue Classiques Entier knit wool
pants (size L), knee-high stockings, white support bra, white
Fruit of the Loom underpants (size 6), and black loafers (size
7M). Her clothes may have come from an upscale store such as
Saks Fifth Avenue.
Jewelry: Two clip-on earrings, a small gold women's Guess watch
with a mesh band, a 14-karat gold ring with four jade stones,
and a metal bead chain with a medic alert "NO CODE, DNR, No
Penicillin."
Additional Personal Items: Bifocals with translucent frames. A
green knapsack that held Jeff Foxworthy's You Might Be A Redneck
cassette, a tape of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, two empty
juice bottles, and a new roll of masking.
Case History
A groundskeeper at the Pleasant Valley Memorial Park Cemetery
discovered the decedent's body near the section of the cemetery
where infants are buried, but not near any particular grave.
There was a clear plastic sheet on the ground with an 8-inch
Christmas tree adorned with gold balls and red ribbons. She had
a portable tape player with headphones, which were on her ears.
A recording of comedians Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner doing their
2000 Year Old Man routine was in the player.
She had committed suicide by drinking brandy (she had a 0.14
blood-alcohol level), swallowing Valium, and placing a plastic
bag over her head and tying it off with tape, suffocating
herself.
She left two fifty dollar bills; one for the coroner,and one for
the cemetery, both with the same typed note: Deceased by own
hand...prefer no autopsy. Please order cremation with funds
provided. Thank you, Jane Doe.
She had no receipts in her pockets for investigators to trace
her movements. Most of the headstones nearby where she was found
were fairly recent. The site would probably not be known to a
drifter.
Investigating Agency(s)
If you have any information about this case please contact;
Agency Name: Northern District Medical Examiner's Office
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 703-530-2600
Agency Name: Fairfax County Police Department
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 800-673-2777
Agency Name: Fairfax County Crime Solvers
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 800-411-TIPS or 703-691-8888
Agency Case Number: LE: 96353000549; ME: N1996-41257
NCIC Case Number: U989549567
NamUs Case Number: UP #6279
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with
information regarding this case.
Information Source(s)
NamUs
National Center for Missing Adults
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Re: ANNANDALE JANE DOE: WF, 50-70, found in Pleasant Valley Ceme
tery - 18 December 1996 *GRAPHIC*
By: Scorpio Date: December 14, 2022, 10:53 pm
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HTML http://www.defrostingcoldcases.com/missing-johanna-jopie-atalia-gersina-de-haas/
“This unidentified woman committed suicide on December 18, 1996.
She left two 50$ bills one for the coroner and one for the
cemetery with the same typed note:
Deceased by own hand…prefer no autopsy.
Please order cremation with funds provided.
Thank you, Jane Doe
She was located inside Pleasant Valley Memorial Park, a small
cemetery in Annandale, Virginia. There was a clear plastic sheet
on the ground. Next to the sheet was an 8″ Christmas tree,
adorned with gold balls and red ribbons.
In addition to drinking brandy (she had a 0.14 blood-alcohol
level) and swallowing Valium, the victim had two empty juice
bottles and a new roll of masking tape in her knapsack.
She had no receipts in her pockets to enable police to trace her
movements. She had a portable tape player, the headphones over
her ears and had listened to a recording of comedians Mel Brooks
and Carl Reiner doing their “2000 year old man” routine.
She had placed a plastic bag over her head and tied it off with
tape. This made her suffocate.
The site she chose, Pleasant Valley, probably wouldn’t be known
to a drifter. She lay down near the section of the cemetery
where infants are buried, but not near any particular grave, and
most of the stones nearby were fairly recent.”
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Re: ANNANDALE JANE DOE: WF, 50-70, found in Pleasant Valley Ceme
tery - 18 December 1996 *GRAPHIC*
By: Scorpio Date: December 14, 2022, 10:53 pm
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HTML http://reallifeishorror.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-cemetery-suicide-of-unknown-woman.html
The Cemetery suicide of the unknown woman
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(Image: Google Earth)
On the 18th of December 1996 in Annandale, Fairfax County,
Virginia, an unidentified woman was found dead by suicide in the
infants section of a small cemetery in Pleasant valley memorial
park.
She had premeditated her suicide, leaving a typed note saying:
“Deceased by own hand… Prefer no autopsy. Please order cremation
with funds provided. Thank you, Jane Doe.”
She left $100 in the form of two $50 bills to be given to the
coroner and the cemetery.
Jane Doe was found on a plastic sheet that she had laid out on
the ground. There was a small, decorated 8” Christmas tree
nearby.
She had ingested brandy and valium and her blood-alcohol level
was 0.14.
She was wearing head phones and listening to a stand-up comedy
cassette of “The 2000 year old man” routine by Carl Reiner and
Mel Brooks. There was a plastic bag over her head with masking
tape making it air tight at the neck.
There were no clues to her identity on her person and no leads
for investigators to follow, however the contents of her
backpack included:
-A portable cassette player
-2X cassettes including “Monty Python and the holy grail” and
“You might be a redneck” by Jeff Foxwirthy.
-2 empty juice bottles
-Roll of masking tape (the same one used to seal the plastic bag
around her neck)
The unknown woman was estimated between 50 – 70 years old,
Caucasian, around 5”0 tall with curly copper brown hair and a
C-section scar.
Her nails were painted with red polish.
Who was the cemetery suicide Jane Doe?
As always guys, if you have any leads on this case, contact:
Northern District Medical Examiner’s Office 703-530-2600
Fairfax County Crime Solvers 800-411-TIPS or 703-691-8888
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Re: ANNANDALE JANE DOE: WF, 50-70, found in Pleasant Valley Ceme
tery - 18 December 1996 *GRAPHIC*
By: Scorpio Date: December 14, 2022, 10:53 pm
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HTML http://z10.invisionfree.com/usedtobedoe/ar/t24550.htm
The clothing description is not that of which the everyday
normal person would wear.... this clothing is VERY expensive!!!
I looked up Classiques Entier wool slacks and they are $188.00 ,
A Classiques Entier silk sleeveless top is $98.00.....I am
thinking this woman had means , maybe a wife of a government
official, or some other profession that makes real good money to
afford clothing like this...
here is a site with the prices of the clothing:
HTML http://shop.nordstrom.com/C/2379375/0~2376...ers&pbo=2379375
Looked at the link on the clothing...this brand is exclusive to
Nordstroms---the state of VA only has five stores in the state
and NEW YORK has 4 Nordstrom stores...checked Washington, DC has
none...The cities in Virginia with a Nordstroms are Dulles,
McLean, Arlington, Richmond and Norfolk.
Nordstrum store distances from Annandale, where the uid was
found...
Nordstrom
1400 S Hayes St, Arlington, VA (2.37 miles away)
Nordstrom
8075 Tysons Corner Ctr, Mc Lean, VA (7.64 miles
Nordstrom
7111 Democracy Blvd, Bethesda, MD (9.76 miles away
Nordstrom
15760 Shady Grove Rd, Gaithersburg, MD (16.41 miles
Nordstrom
45575 Dulles Eastern Plz, Sterling, VA (20.40 miles
Nordstrom
2700 Potomac Mills Cir, Woodbridge, VA (20.52 miles
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Re: ANNANDALE JANE DOE: WF, 50-70, found in Pleasant Valley Ceme
tery - 18 December 1996 *GRAPHIC*
By: Scorpio Date: December 14, 2022, 10:54 pm
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Unsettling Tales of the Unknown Dead
By Tom Jackman
December 5, 2000
Just inside Pleasant Valley Memorial Park, a small cemetery in
Annandale, a freshly coiffed auburn-haired woman in her late
fifties or early sixties spread a clear plastic sheet on the
ground. Next to the sheet, she placed an eight-inch Christmas
tree, adorned with gold balls and red ribbons. She wore bifocals
with a translucent frame, a blue all-weather Eddie Bauer hooded
jacket over a blue sweater and blue pants, and she carried a
green knapsack.
In the darkness of a mid-December morning, she sat down and
finished off a flask of brandy, perhaps chasing it with bottles
of peach and mango juices. She turned on a portable tape player,
placed headphones over her ears and listened to a recording of
comedians Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner doing their "2,000-Year-Old
Man" routine. Then she reached into her knapsack and pulled out
a plastic bag and a roll of masking tape, placed the bag over
her head and tied it off with the tape. She put the roll of tape
back in the knapsack, then lay down and suffocated.
It was Dec. 18, 1996, when "Jane Doe" committed suicide,
apparently determined to remain anonymous. And nearly four years
later, she has.
It happens occasionally in every police department. A body is
discovered, and no one seems to know who it is. Sometimes it's a
homicide; but more often it's a suicide or death by accident or
exposure. Normally, the mystery is solved within hours, a few
days at the most.
But even in these days of automated fingerprints, DNA testing
and computerized police information networks, Virginia
authorities still must unravel about four similar mysteries
every year. For some counties, publishing an enhanced photo of
the person has led to a quick identification. That is being done
for the first time today for Fairfax's Jane Doe, with computer
enhancement done by the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children.
Statewide, of the 40 unidentified people found since 1990, 38
remain anonymous, said Cynthia Morrison, a medico-legal death
investigator for the state medical examiner in Richmond. Even
though the state undertakes a long series of scientific steps to
try to place a name with a person, many still evade
identification.
"With these unidentified people, they're like my children,"
Morrison said. "I want them to go home. I feel so horrible for
the families. Even if they weren't the cream of society,
somebody loved them. It's my own personal crusade."
Many of the detectives working on the mysteries feel the same
way. The case of Fairfax's Jane Doe shows why.
When cemetery workers found her shortly after 9 a.m., they
called police. Detectives Richard Perez and Mike Headley arrived
40 minutes later, and her body was still warm. As the
investigators checked her pockets for identification, they found
only two envelopes, one addressed to the cemetery and one to the
coroner. Both contained two crisp $50 bills and the same typed
note:
"Deceased by own hand. . . . Prefer no autopsy. Please order
cremation, with funds provided. Thank you, Jane Doe."
When they couldn't identify the woman through fingerprints or
locate any family from missing persons reports, police
distributed a drawing of the woman through the news media. Still
nothing.
Not everyone's fingerprints are on file. Not every missing
person is reported to police. "Just because we have the ability
to track people doesn't mean we're going to catch everybody,"
Morrison said. Some of the unidentified may have been mentally
ill or homeless, or they may have been substance abusers. "And
these are the people that are slipping through the cracks,"
Morrison said.
The number of unidentified cases has stayed roughly the same
over the years--no increases, but no noticeable decreases even
with the technological advances.
"What makes it so frustrating," Perez said of Jane Doe, "is this
isn't a case where we're dealing with skeletal remains. This is
a lady that somebody should recognize."
After a number of days have passed without an identification,
police and medical examiners have a standard procedure to try to
develop an identity. A complete set of photographs and X-rays,
from head to toe, is taken, and the clothes are fully
documented. Finger and palm prints are taken, as is a DNA
sample.
A forensic odontologist, a specialist in dental science,
performs a dental exam and devises a numeric code that is
entered into the National Crime Information Computer, as are the
codes for the fingerprints. A radiologist reviews the X-rays for
distinctive marks or breaks. A high-resolution photo of the
prints is sent to the FBI for closer examination. And if the
person appears to be from another country, the Immigration and
Naturalization Service is also consulted.
Sometimes, all those steps produce nothing. A man who apparently
was strangled and discovered in a trunk in Loudoun County in May
1996 remains unidentified. And a woman apparently shot to death
in Falls Church in May 1990 also is unidentified.
Technology has provided some help--twice by computer software at
the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that was
used to retouch photos, providing a far less traumatized view of
the person.
In Prince William County in 1996, a 19-year-old woman who had
been unidentified for two weeks was named the same day her
enhanced photo was broadcast on television. And in Alexandria
several years earlier, a man who had died of a heart attack on a
city street was identified only after his photo was retouched
and released.
Fairfax has two unidentified victims from the 1990s. Detectives
call the first one "the Bone Lady," because only her skeleton
was found in a Centreville field in 1993. When an anthropologist
from the Smithsonian Institution examined her, he found knife
wounds on the bones, probably dating to the late 1980s. Last
year, a Fairfax officer crafted a clay recreation of her face,
complete with eyes, hair, lips and her distinctive front teeth,
one of which was crooked and decayed.
The other Fairfax case is Jane Doe. Every year during the
holiday season, the case gnaws at Perez, because the woman's
body was found a week before Christmas. He figured that as
healthy and well dressed as she was, and with as many clues as
she left, he would have identified her long ago. But he resigned
from the Fairfax department Friday to take a job in North
Carolina, with Jane Doe still frustrating him.
"If she's a drifter, she's the best-kept drifter I've ever
seen," Perez said. She wore a gold Guess watch, a 14-karat gold
ring with four jade stones, and clothes that Perez thinks might
have come from an upscale store such as Saks Fifth Avenue. The
site she chose for her demise, Pleasant Valley, probably
wouldn't be known to a drifter.
The woman had an eight-inch scar on her stomach, possibly from a
Caesarean section. She lay down to die near the section of the
cemetery where infants are buried, but not near any particular
grave, and most of the stones nearby were fairly recent.
In addition to drinking brandy (she had a 0.14 blood-alcohol
level) and swallowing Valium, she had two empty juice bottles
and a new roll of masking tape in her knapsack. But, unlike many
suicides Perez sees, she had no receipts in her pockets to
enable police to trace her movements. "Most people don't think
about that when they commit suicide," Perez said.
"This lady appears to have taken a thoughtful effort to leave us
no clue as to who she is, and she's got it all plotted out,"
Perez added, noting the typed suicide notes, the money for
cremation, even the plastic sheet on the ground. "I don't think
I've had another case that's beaten me up like this one."
Anyone with information about the women may call Fairfax police
at 703-691-2131.
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Re: ANNANDALE JANE DOE: WF, 50-70, found in Pleasant Valley Ceme
tery - 18 December 1996 *GRAPHIC*
By: Scorpio Date: December 14, 2022, 10:54 pm
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