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HARRIS COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 16-19, found near King Highway in Ho
uston, TX - 23 Jan 1971
By: Scorpio Date: November 27, 2018, 2:58 am
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A passerby found the decedent's skeletal remains in a wooded
area near the intersection of CE King Highway and East Mount
Houston Road in Harris County, Texas.
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Re: HARRIS COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 16-19, found near King Highway i
n Houston, TX - 23 Jan 1971
By: Scorpio Date: November 27, 2018, 3:04 am
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Decedent's shoes and skirt
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Re: HARRIS COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 16-19, found near King Highway i
n Houston, TX - 23 Jan 1971
By: Scorpio Date: November 27, 2018, 3:05 am
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Date of Discovery: January 23, 1971
Location of Discovery: Houston, Harris County, Texas
Estimated Date of Death: 1 to 2 years prior
State of Remains: Not recognizable - Partial skeletal parts
only
Cause of Death: Unknown
Physical Description
Estimated Age: 16-20 years old
Race: Black or possibly Black/White admixture
Gender: Female
Height: 5'1" to 5'6"
Weight: 100-120 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Identifiers
Dentals: Available. Third molars partially erupted only.
Fingerprints: Not available
DNA: Available at UNT.
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: A red or orange mini skirt with a brown, white,
yellow and orange zig-zag pattern in horizontal stripes (size 24
waist), a long-sleeve brown shirt (size 16-36), a fringed suede
vest or jacket, white Bestform bra (size 32C), and brown Cuban
Towncraft(?)leather sandals with heels and a square-toe (size
6).
Jewelry: None located.
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Circumstances of Discovery
A passerby found the decedent's skeletal remains in a wooded
area near the intersection of CE King Highway and East Mount
Houston Road in Harris County, Texas.
Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences
Agency Contact Person: MEO ID Unit - Sharon Derrick
Agency Phone Number: 713-796-6774 or 6858
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: ML-71-0299
Agency Name: TXDPS
Agency Contact Person: Missing Persons Clearinghouse
Agency Phone Number: 512-424-5074 or 800-346-3243
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: U0312024
NCIC Case Number: U040004661
NamUs Case Number: 4541
NCMEC Case Number: 1126004
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Re: HARRIS COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 16-19, found near King Highway i
n Houston, TX - 23 Jan 1971
By: Scorpio Date: November 28, 2018, 6:07 pm
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Re: HARRIS COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 16-19, found near King Highway i
n Houston, TX - 23 Jan 1971
By: Scorpio Date: November 28, 2018, 6:07 pm
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Re: HARRIS COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 16-19, found near King Highway i
n Houston, TX - 23 Jan 1971
By: Scorpio Date: December 6, 2022, 10:54 pm
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Harris County Jane Doe has been identified as 18-Year-Old
Patricia Thomas-Wardell who went missing from Houston, Texas on
July 17, 1970.
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Re: HARRIS COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 16-19, found near King Highway i
n Houston, TX - 23 Jan 1971
By: Scorpio Date: December 6, 2022, 10:55 pm
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Daughter finds missing Houston mom after more than 50 years
HOUSTON - A Houston woman who’s been looking for her missing
mother for more than 50 years is finally getting answers.
Patricia Thomas-Wardell was just 18 years old when she went
missing way back in 1970. At that time the Beltway 8 Toll Road
didn’t exist. Her daughter Cynthia was just a year old, and
she’s been searching for her mother her entire life. Now DNA
confirms a woman found dead in the woods near what is now the
Beltway, was confirmed to be Cynthia’s missing mother.
"It’s been just like a bad nightmare," the grieving daughter
says.
With no real memories of her mom, Cynthia has been clinging to
photos of her mother, preserving old newspaper clippings about
her disappearance, and holding on to stacks of letters, like the
one she showed me from Unsolved Mysteries, after years of
begging for help to find her mom, to anyone who would listen.
"As I became an adult I was able to hire private detectives and
things like that," Cynthia explained. "My family has been
scammed by people who contacted us saying they have information
about where my mother is, and they ask for money."
Several family members gave DNA samples to Houston Police
investigators in 2016 in hopes of locating Patricia.
"We’re able to solve more missing person cases with the use of
DNA, familial DNA." Houston Police Department Missing Persons
Detective Darrin Buse explains
This past Friday, Detective Buse told the family DNA confirmed
Patricia had been buried minutes from where they live, in a
county cemetery as a Jane Doe, for years.
"It's hard to understand. It’s hard to wrap your head around
after all these years. She’s been so close all this time," her
brother Raymond Thomas, 82, who was a TSU student when his baby
sister went missing. "It’s been very, very difficult."
"It’s been lots of nightmares, you know, wondering where she
is," Patricia's 75-year-old sister Maxine McNeely added. "It’s
just been horrible."
"Even though it’s a bad outcome, it’s still a good outcome,"
72-year-old Leroy Thomas concluded. "Now we know for sure where
she is."
After more than 50 years, although it’s her grave they're
visiting, Patricia’s siblings and her baby girl are the closest
they’ve been to her in decades, but they were met by a locked
gate at the cemetery entrance.
"I’m just ready to go in," Cynthia said. "The lock is like
torturing me right now."
When Harris County found out, they immediately sent someone to
let the family in. The key to unfasten the padlock couldn’t
turn, and the gates couldn’t swing open fast enough.
"I'm glad to know she’s here," Cynthia said. "I can’t wait to
just be next to her."
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There at her mom’s grave for the very first time, 52 years of
emotion spilled out.
"And now maybe I can really and truly be happy and that’s what
I’m trying to get to because I’m all messed up right now,"
Cynthia said tearfully.
Turns out, that after Patricia went missing in 1970, her
skeletal remains were found in the woods near CE King Parkway in
January 1971. Somehow it wasn't put together that it was the
missing 18-year-old until now by a Missing Persons investigator,
who has his fair share of cold and new cases.
"We work north of 9,000 cases a year," Det. Buse explained.
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