DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
The Lost and the Found
HTML https://theunidentified.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
DIR Return to: Florida
*****************************************************
#Post#: 1488--------------------------------------------------
LAKE COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, murdered in Sorrento, FL - 7
Dec 1991 - Unique earrings
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: February 11, 2020, 1:27 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML https://i.imgur.com/JFNh3LV.jpg
HTML https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/6031/details
The decedent was found in the woods by a hiker about 75 yards
north of Ethel Drive in Sorrento. Joseph A. Rolle Jr. was
convicted of sexual battery on the decedent and received a life
sentence. He was acquitted of her homicide.
#Post#: 1489--------------------------------------------------
Re: LAKE COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, murdered in Sorrento, FL -
7 Dec 1991 - Unique earrings
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: February 11, 2020, 1:27 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/images/412UFFL2.jpg
[img]
HTML https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSJ7DiVlrZjSp_a-85ajG0JQ1GXPa0Da-lLsNCI1pFSuyE8Hw3d[/img]
HTML https://i.imgur.com/ljy4Yff.jpg
HTML https://i.imgur.com/j6d6do4.jpg
#Post#: 1490--------------------------------------------------
Re: LAKE COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, murdered in Sorrento, FL -
7 Dec 1991 - Unique earrings
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: February 11, 2020, 1:28 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/images/412UFFL3_LARGE.jpg
Additional reconstruction by Carl.
#Post#: 1491--------------------------------------------------
Re: LAKE COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, murdered in Sorrento, FL -
7 Dec 1991 - Unique earrings
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: February 11, 2020, 1:28 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1997-04-16/news/9704151327_1_broumand-land-rover-jane-doe
Rolle Defender Tries To Shift Suspicion
Jurors Heard Testimony Of The Owner Of A Vehicle Found Near The
Woman's Body. Closing Arguments Are Expected Today.
April 16, 1997|By Frank Stanfield of The Sentinel Staff
TAVARES — The owner of a Land Rover sport utility vehicle
abandoned near the body of an unidentified woman testified
Tuesday that he had nothing to do with her rape, torture and
strangulation in 1991.
Alexander Broumand said his 1989 Land Rover was stolen in August
1991 from a parking lot near one of his former businesses,
Calico Jack's restaurant and lounge in Kissimmee. Investigators
found it several months later, on Dec. 7, near the body of the
woman dubbed Jane Doe in a desolate area off State Road 46 in
Lake County.
Broumand found himself on the defensive Tuesday, as attorneys
for Joseph A. Rolle Jr. tried to shift suspicion to him. Rolle,
30, a fast-food restaurant employee, is charged with sexual
battery and first-degree murder.
On Monday, defense attorneys grilled a former employee of
Broumand's, Ed Haerter. Haerter, a former bouncer at another bar
owned by Broumand, said he led his wife to believe that he was
somehow involved with the disappearance of Broumand's Land
Rover. Haerter told his then-wife, Jackie, that he had to leave
for a while after police found the vehicle parked near the body.
Haerter testified that his remarks to his wife were a ruse so he
could leave home and move in with another woman. His wife told
police, and his comments - including a rumor that Haerter helped
steal the vehicle so Broumand could collect the insurance -
ended up in investigative reports.
Assistant Public Defender Michael McDermott questioned Broumand
Tuesday about his finances, quoting him in a newspaper story
about losses at a downtown Orlando restaurant and citing
lawsuits. Broumand testified that he filed for bankruptcy in
1995.
Broumand denied making statements in the newspaper story about
losses at the Good Times Cafe, which was in a city parking
garage near Church Street Station. He has since sold the
restaurant.
He also denied trying to hire a prostitute before he was
arrested by vice squad officers in Orlando last year.
''I did not do that,'' he said. He said he ''settled'' the sex
case with authorities.
Lake County sheriff's detectives have not been able to identify
the woman known as Jane Doe.
She had cocaine in her bloodstream when her body was found, and
she had muscular legs, leading detectives to speculate that she
may have been an exotic dancer.
Haerter testified that Broumand tried to get him to go with him
to topless clubs in Orlando. When McDermott asked Broumand
whether he was with Jane Doe at a biker bar Broumand owned in
Apopka, he replied, ''Absolutely not.''
He then suggested Broumand might have attacked the woman in
retaliation.
''What did Jane Doe do to you?'' McDermott asked. ''I do not
know any woman, Jane Doe, in 1991,'' Broumand said.
Prosecutors are expected to recall Dr. Richard Souviron, a
forensic dentist, who has testified that he thinks bite marks
found on the woman's body match Rolle's teeth.
The case against Rolle was supposed to focus on DNA, or
deoxyribonucleic acid - genetic coding that crime lab
specialists say match a blood sample stored in a statewide crime
computer. Chances that anyone else could have the same coding as
Rolle's are 400 billion to 1, said crime lab analyst David Baer.
Rolle's arrest, based solely on a DNA computer data bank, was
one of the first in the nation.
Instead, much of the attorneys' attention has focused on
bite-mark evidence, and on defense speculation that Haerter and
Broumand might have had something to do with the slaying.
The jury is expected to begin deliberating Thursday. Closing
arguments are expected today.
#Post#: 1492--------------------------------------------------
Re: LAKE COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, murdered in Sorrento, FL -
7 Dec 1991 - Unique earrings
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: February 11, 2020, 1:28 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML https://janedoe.ie/2014/07/27/day-175-december-7th-1991/
Day 175 – December 7th, 1991
Yes, it’s been a long time and yes, there are reasons but
they’re uninteresting and irrelevant so let’s move on.
Jane Doe was found on the above date days after she was
murdered. Unlike her fellow victims in Blink. her murderer was
found and convicted of sexual battery. He was acquitted of her
homicide. His name is Joseph Algernon Rolle Jr.
I have spent the past week painting her portrait. Her face, aged
between 25 and 40 years old, is slightly perfect. The
proportions, the bone structure, the lips – if it wasn’t for the
grainy black and white photograph and the tight, papery quality
of her skin I would swear she was just having a beauty nap. This
is so difficult to write about, even more difficult to paint.
I’ve had a crisis of faith of sorts in the past weeks, I lost
something and it was with this and another portrait I completed
this week that I forced myself to reclaim my passion.
There was no moment of clarity, no spark of inspiration I simply
had to sit down and doggedly immerse myself in the work once
again. I discovered that balance is impossible in Blink. I
cannot delegate between the joys of daily life, of summer and
then return to the immense pressure I have laid on myself with
this endeavour. I am in or I am out. I’m painting 13 hours a day
or 0 hours. There is no middle ground. Unhealthy, perhaps but
unfortunately I have yet to find an alternative.
Every time I added another layer of paint to this canvas, every
time I screwed up a section and had to restart, every time I
wanted to give up I just kept repeating, ‘This woman was
murdered.’ Not only was she murdered but no one has lain claim
to her for almost 23 years.
Her case file tells us she had given birth to at least one
child. How old is he/she? Did they know their mother? Are they
still alive or do they have their own place in the unidentified
persons database? The questions are endless and yet the facts
surrounding her death seem quite clear.
Days after she was raped and murdered, a hiker came across her
semi-naked body in the woods in Lake County, Florida. He first
thought she was a mannequin. It’s possible that her brown hair
with blonde tips camouflaged with the stack of tree limbs she
had been temporarily buried beneath. The defence alleged the
crime scene had been botched; incompetent investigators brushed
debris out her multiple stab wounds after initially concluding
that she’d been killed (and covered?) by a bear. Later however,
after fully uncovering the posed corpse they discovered a glass
bottle protruding from her neck, framed by strangulation marks.
A stolen Land Rover was found nearby, the detectives working the
case questioned it’s owner but later ruled him out.
Then something happened. Or more correctly, nothing happened for
almost 4 years. The case lay dormant, along with Jane Doe’s
identity.
February 1995 – a computer matches Joseph A. Rolle’s DNA with
semen left on the victim. And suddenly Florida, and some argue,
the nation was transported into the modern age of criminal
justice.
Like many sex offenders, one victim was never going to be enough
for Rolle. And Jane Doe probably wasn’t his first. With a
charming demeanour, Rolle found no trouble in attracting women.
But he had a reputation for diverging the anger of apparent
ill’s in his life onto prostitutes. According to police, when
things went wrong at home he picked up working girls and raped
them. Of course, the case is the same now as it was then, the
word of a street girl is never good enough. Perhaps if someone
had listened, Jane Doe could have been spared the brutalisation
she endured. In 1992, someone did listen but not to a
prostitute. Holding a hacksaw to her throat to enforce
compliance Rolle violently raped a woman in a friend’s home.
He was sentenced to a meagre 18 months in a state penitentiary.
He served 6 months and was released to choke and forcibly rape
another woman four times. He lured her with the promise of crack
cocaine which indicates she may have been a sex worker and so
instead of being arrested for sexual battery he was held on the
lesser charge of violating his probation. A pattern has seemed
to emerge in the convict’s ferocious violence. One victim
reported a hacksaw being held at her throat whilst the other was
choked. Meanwhile, Jane Doe gets the full package – she was
strangled and stabbed in the neck with a glass bottle. Rolle had
a record of other crimes ranging from drunk driving to burglary.
After his previous conviction Rolle’s genetic marker is
submitted to what was then a state-wide computer database and
hey presto the police have a match.
Rolle became one of the first people in the nation to be accused
and convicted by a centralised DNA databank. The trial was
predictable. The defence argued against the prosecution’s
standard of evidence and investigation while the state
attorney’s office needed little once the integrity of DNA
evidence was explained to a jury who then would have known
little on the subject.
The jury came back with a guilty verdict on the sexual battery
but felt they could not be sure beyond a reasonable doubt that
he went on to kill the victim.
Thankfully, justice would have it’s day. Unlike so many sex
crimes both then and today Rolle was not under sentenced. Judge
G. Richard Singeltary went above and beyond the sentencing
guidelines for Rolle’s crime which was set between 12 and 40
years.
Joseph Algernon Rolle Jr. was sentenced to life in prison where
he still resides.
Once again, just as outlined in my previous post, the only
reason I was able to recover this information was because the
perpetrator’s identity was discovered and made public. Otherwise
Jane Doe’s case would only be the sum of the parts of her case
file. Justice was served and yet I can’t help feeling
unsatisfied. There was no family, no friends sitting on the
sidelines to support and remember their loved one while her
alleged killer sat comfortably with his mother and sister at his
back. The survivor of the first attack for which he was
convicted sat solemnly at the sentencing hearing and gave a
defiant fist pump to know that she could finally move on with
her life.
I hope she thought of herself as sitting in hypothetical
solidarity with Jane Doe and all of Rolle’s past and potential
future victims too. Jane Doe, in unknowingly sacrificing her
life ensured that no more women would fall prey to the barbarity
of Rolle.
#Post#: 1493--------------------------------------------------
Re: LAKE COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, murdered in Sorrento, FL -
7 Dec 1991 - Unique earrings
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: February 11, 2020, 1:29 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://articles.orlandosentinel.com
...00_1_jane-doe-unidentified-woman-woman-beauty
Victim Of Crime Still Has No Name
The Trial Of Joseph A. Rolle Jr. Is Over. But The Woman He Was
Convicted Of Raping Is Unidentified.
April 19, 1997|By Frank Stanfield of The Sentinel Staff
TAVARES — Joseph A. Rolle Jr.'s murder trial is over. He has
been convicted of raping an unidentified woman who was brutally
killed six years ago.
But Lake County sheriff's investigators and prosecutors are
haunted by the case - and not just because a jury did not also
find Rolle guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday.
They are haunted because the woman who once had a name and a
life will now forever be known as ''Jane Doe.''
No one has stepped forward to claim her body, say who she was or
give a substantive clue that would help put a name to the
battered face that investigators found in 1991 beneath a pile of
tree limbs in a desolate area off State Road 46.
Prosecutors think, however, that they found one person who may
have been one of the last people to see her alive.
''She was beautiful,'' Sherie Mitchell testified during Rolle's
nine-day trial.
Mitchell owned a beauty salon in Sorrento in 1991 and cut the
hair of a woman she thinks was Jane Doe. Mitchell, who also is
an artist, was so struck by the woman's beauty that she was able
to create a sketch of the woman from memory nine months after
the slaying.
When she testified Wednesday, Mitchell conceded that nearly six
years after the slaying, ''I don't know if she's the person
that's dead.''
But she remembered the woman's distinct earrings, an unusual
design of stars and a moon. She also remembered that the woman
had a reddish tint to her hair and that she didn't want her hair
cut in back.
Assistant State Attorney Bill Gross at one point stopped
questioning her during the trial, walked to the evidence table
and picked up an earring that investigators found tangled in her
hair.
''It does look like it,'' she said. ''I believe that's it.''
She also recalled that the woman in her shop had short hair on
the side, and longer hair in the back - just like Jane Doe.
Assistant Public Defender Mark Nacke pointed out that her
description differed somewhat in a statement she made to
detectives in 1992. She described the woman as having an olive
complexion, ''very, very dark hair,'' and an ''Indian look.''
But she also noted that the woman was wearing a white T-shirt
with lace ''and something with pink on it.'' Those descriptions
seem to fit what Jane Doe was wearing, too, Gross noted. Jane
Doe was naked from the waist down, her body posed suggestively,
but she was wearing a red sweatshirt and a white blouse beneath
the sweatshirt.
Detectives never learned her identity. Noting that she had
muscular legs, they figured that perhaps she might have been an
exotic dancer, so they visited scores of topless clubs in
Orlando and Casselberry.
Authorities even enlisted the aid of the late Dr. William Maple,
a world-renowned forensic anthropologist at the University of
Florida, to determine her age.
Jane Doe was described as white, 25 to 35 years old, 5 feet 4,
124 pounds, with hazel eyes and brown hair. She had given birth
to at least one child, Maples noted.
A homicide bulletin said she had a possible razor design on the
sides of her hair. The back of her hair was described as
shoulder length with sections of blond tinting. Other physical
clues, including a GM car key found near the body and a stolen
Land Rover, did not pan out, investigators said.
They were able to find one clue - semen - that ultimately led to
Rolle's conviction on one of three rape charges.
The semen matched genetic DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, in
Rolle's bloodstream, a crime lab analyst testified.
Investigators also sent the woman's fingerprints to 230 cities
that have computerized fingerprint searches. There were no
matches there, but the response to the police sketch and
requests for information was overwhelming, said Stu Hudson, an
investigator with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
About 240 agencies responded with information about missing
persons and unidentified women found murdered in their
communities. Hudson had to conduct meetings with police to
eliminate cases that were vastly different from the
strangulation and torture of Jane Doe.
Because of the meetings, four of those cases were solved, Hudson
said.
#Post#: 1494--------------------------------------------------
Re: LAKE COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, murdered in Sorrento, FL -
7 Dec 1991 - Unique earrings
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: February 11, 2020, 1:29 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/flyer.do?personId=63344
Florida Department of Law Enforcement - Sexual Offender /
Predator Flyer
HTML https://i.imgur.com/NgfosXv.jpg
Designation: Sexual Offender
Name: Joseph Algernon Rolle
Status: Search the Dept of Corrections Website
Date of Birth: 10/04/1966
Race : Black
Sex: Male
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Height: 6'01"
Weight: 167 lbs
JOSEPH A ROLLE JR, MICHAEL ALLEN MOORE, JOSEPH ROLLE, JOSEPH
ALGERNON ROLLE JR
06/16/1997 Lake, FL Guilty/convict
08/07/1995Seminole, FLGuilty/convict
#Post#: 1495--------------------------------------------------
Re: LAKE COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, murdered in Sorrento, FL -
7 Dec 1991 - Unique earrings
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: February 11, 2020, 1:29 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://bailbondcity.com/fldoc-inmate-ROLLE/760376
Florida State Prison Inmate Details for ROLLE JOSEPH A
HTML https://i.imgur.com/y9lpUZd.jpg
Florida State Prison (DOC) Booking Details
DC Number: 760376
Name: ROLLE, JOSEPH A JR.
Race: BLACK
Sex: MALE
Hair Color: BLACK
Eye Color: BROWN
Height: 6'01''
Weight: 173 lbs.
Birth Date: 10/04/1966
Initial Receipt Date: 06/19/1997
Current Facility: SOUTH BAY C.F.
Current Custody: CLOSE
Current Release Date: SENTENCED TO LIFE
Aliases:
MICHAEL ALLEN MOORE JOSEPH ROLLE
JOSEPH A ROLLE JR. JOSEPH ALGERNON ROLLE JR
JOSEPH ALGERNON ROLLE JR.
12/05/1991 SEX BAT/ WPN. OR FORCE 06/16/1997 LAKE 9500171
SENTENCED TO LIFE
08/15/1992 SEX BAT/INJURY NOT LIKELY 08/07/1995 SEMINOLE 9203046
7Y 0M 0D
05/13/1993 11/03/1993
06/19/1997 Currently Incarcerated
Prior Prison History:
04/12/1991 BURGUNOCCSTRUC/CV OR ATT. 04/29/1993 SEMINOLE 9101041
1Y 6M 0D
04/12/1991 BURGUNOCCSTRUC/CV OR ATT. 04/29/1993 SEMINOLE 9101041
1Y 6M 0D
08/15/1992 SEX BAT/INJURY NOT LIKELY 04/29/1993 SEMINOLE 9203046
1Y 6M 0D
#Post#: 1496--------------------------------------------------
Re: LAKE COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, murdered in Sorrento, FL -
7 Dec 1991 - Unique earrings
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: February 11, 2020, 1:29 am
---------------------------------------------------------
No one has stepped forward to claim her body, say who she was or
give a substantive clue that would help put a name to the
battered face that investigators found in 1991 beneath a pile of
tree limbs in a desolate area off State Road 46.
STATE ROAD 46, SORRENTO, FL
HTML https://i.imgur.com/zYH28PQ.jpg
*****************************************************
Page 1 of 1