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HILLSBOROUGH JANE DOE: WF, 14-25, wearing pink sweatshirt with
bunnies in NC - 19 Sept 1990
By: Scorpio Date: February 12, 2020, 10:39 pm
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This young female victim was discovered by a clean up crew along
Interstate 40 approximately 15 feet down an embankment, east of
the New Hope Church Road exit.
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Re: HILLSBOROUGH JANE DOE: WF, 14-25, wearing pink sweatshirt w
ith bunnies in NC - 19 Sept 1990
By: Scorpio Date: February 12, 2020, 10:39 pm
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New technology could help ID victim in 27-year-old Orange County
cold case murder
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Nearly three decades since a woman’s
body was found on the side of Interstate 40 near New Hope Church
Road in Hillsborough, Orange County Sheriff’s Office
investigators are still working the case with a new set of eyes
on the evidence. The woman has never been identified.
The new investigator, just months on the case, just received new
photo-like images at the end of January showing what the woman
may have looked like, which he hopes will help someone recognize
her.
A three-person inmate work crew picking up garbage found the
body of a woman who had been strangled and dumped just feet from
the eastbound I-40 guardrail near New Hope Church Road 27 years
ago.
Investigators believe she was there four to six days before that
discovery on Sept. 19, 1990.
“I catch myself wondering how many people, how many people have
driven by since then?” said Troy Williams, an Orange County
Sheriff’s Office investigator, who said he was among those
drivers. He spent the better part of his 14 years with the
agency on patrol and unaware of the gruesome discovery years
earlier.
“I never had a clue this happened in our county,” he said. That
was until the box of evidence landed on his desk. It was filled
with more questions than answers, including the most basic of
all: who was the woman?
“I thought it was a bit odd that it had been that long that
nobody, not one single person, had come forward for this young
lady,” Williams said. “I’m having an issue knowing that that
nobody came forward to say that this is somebody to me.”
He received the box just months ago in late 2017. Inside were
investigative documents related to the case and a few items from
the victim – including a bracelet and a ring. “The fact that it
didn’t have a stone and the way that it was shaped for her
little finger at the time, they thought was very unique. So,
somebody who knew her would recognize that immediately,”
Williams said.
“The fact that she went away from here only having this, I
think, is just heartbreaking. Absolutely heartbreaking. Somebody
should be able to recognize one of those. Somebody.” An
examination showed she had dentistry work, but she was not able
to be identified through that.
The woman had a three-inch scar on her abdomen where her
appendix was removed. That did not help in identification
either. She had never given birth. Her toxicology report was
clean. The woman had dye in her hair, Williams said, leading to
a blonde color, though she was naturally a brunette.
The woman, believed to be 18 to 20 years old, wore just socks, a
bra and a sweatshirt. As part of the investigation, the
sweatshirt was reproduced. It replicates the original bright
pink color and unique design showing three bunnies on bicycles
and a unicycle. To this day it’s one of the most unique and
identifying pieces of evidence.
“We had people from the FBI, the NCIS, we had everybody and they
all said at same time, ‘I’ve never seen anything like that.
Somebody has to know where this sweatshirt came from,’” Williams
said. During the investigation 27 years ago, two people said
they saw a woman in the shirt at an Alamance County truck stop.
“At the end of the day, when everything was all said and done,
that was really the only good lead that they had,” Williams
said. “Because of the circumstances at the time, and the area
where the witnesses say or may have seen her or observed her,
she may have been asking for a ride. It could have been as
something as simple as, ‘Can you give me a lift?’ which turned
into, obviously, something very bad.”
Williams can’t rule out that the woman might have been a
prostitute. “We never want to bring bad light on somebody,
especially someone who has lost their life in a manner like
this, or for their family or who might be surviving or who might
ever be seeing this, but the facts are that you have to do what
you have to do to survive. And, if this poor young lady was
having to do those things, that’s how she was able to get by.”
If that’s the case, it makes the investigation harder, Williams
said, because men she may have interacted with will likely never
come forward. The investigation, many years ago, led deputies to
a taxi cab driver sitting in the Guilford County jail charged in
a similar case and suspected in another.
“He would pick up these rides and then, obviously, kill them.
They were able to validate these suspicions through his logs in
the cab – the mileage, the meter.” Both of those cases occurred
relatively nearby and just months after the discovery of the
mystery woman in Orange County.
“He said, ‘No. I have nothing to say.’ At some point, he was
able to get word to the investigators here in Orange County that
he did want to speak with them. And, apparently, when they were
en route, they got a call that he had took his own life.” The
woman’s body was cremated and scattered at sea, as was standard
practice in the state at the time.
Through the years, various renderings were created as to what
the woman might have looked like, including a composite sketch
that Williams said makes the victim look too old. A clay model
also falls short of helping give an accurate idea of what she
might have looked like, Williams believes.
“I can’t go around showing this to people. Their brain won’t
accept it. They need something that looks like a photograph.”
Now Williams has hope through new technology.
He just received two photo-like images that experts created
using photos of the skull and X-rays. “Unbeknownst to me, that
was more important than the physical skull,” Williams said. “The
forensic imaging division that I spoke with thought that that
was just above and beyond because normally all they have is a
skull. They don’t have the luxury of having all these other
elements.”
Williams also hopes his fresh perspective, and those of others,
will turn up something. “My biggest surprise was at the time, it
was only a male perspective. There was no female perspective on
what happened to this young lady,” he said.
“Why was she wearing this type of clothing? Why would she wear
this dainty little ring on her finger? Why was her hair colored
this certain way? What was the mindset of a female? That was one
of my light bulb moments. Never asked a female.”
Asked if the case will ever be solved, Williams discusses his
goal from the moment he received the case.
“I haven’t concentrated on who took her life. I’ve only
concentrated on how we can identify this poor young lady.
Somebody, somebody has to know who this young lady is. I would
really, really love to put a name with this female and bring
some closure for someone.”
North Carolina has 120 unidentified person cases dating back to
the 1970s. Since this case, the state has changed practices and
now keeps the cremated remains of unidentified people, and in
some cases, skeletons.
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Re: HILLSBOROUGH JANE DOE: WF, 14-25, wearing pink sweatshirt w
ith bunnies in NC - 19 Sept 1990
By: Scorpio Date: February 12, 2020, 10:41 pm
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Replica of Jane Doe's pink sweatshirt showing two bunnies on
bicycles and one on a unicycle.
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Re: HILLSBOROUGH JANE DOE: WF, 14-25, wearing pink sweatshirt w
ith bunnies in NC - 19 Sept 1990
By: Scorpio Date: February 12, 2020, 10:43 pm
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Date of Discovery: September 19, 1990
Location of Discovery: Hillsborough, Orange County, North
Carolina
Estimated Date of Death: 3 to 6 days prior
State of Remains: Decomposed
Cause of Death: Homicide by strangulation
Physical Description
Estimated Age: 14-25 years old
Race: White
Sex: Female
Height: 5'3" to 5'5"
Weight: 105 to 115 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown to strawberry blond (dyed), layer cut to about
shoulder length and appeared to be frosted.
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: 3 inch scar on her lower right
abdomen from an appendectomy. No signs of childbirth or previous
breaks or fractures. Negative toxicology results.
Identifiers
Dentals: Available. Wisdom teeth unerupted; teeth #s 3, 14, 19,
had amalgam restorations; teeth #23-26 tilted to the lingual,
and tooth #28 was in a lingual crossbite. Caries on 2, 15, 18.
Fingerprints: Not available.
DNA: Available.
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Pink Sportswear sweatshirt with three bunnies on the
front (2 bunnies on bicycles, one on a unicycle); size 34 (A, B,
C cup) bra, brand name of "Warner"; pair white anklet socks,
very clean on the bottom; shoe size approximately 6-6 1/2.
Jewelry: Thin yellow metal ring on left ring finger and a thin
twisted metal bracelet on left wrist.
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Circumstances of Discovery
The victim was located by a cleanup crew along Interstate 40
approximately 15 feet down an embankment, east of the New Hope
Church Road exit.
She may have been last seen alive walking along I-85 near N.C.
62 near the Ramada Inn, as a woman matching her description was
observed. She may have also been seen at a truck stop in
Alamance County.
The fact that the victim's socks were noted to be very clean and
the absence of footwear indicates her killer may have taken her
shoes as a souvenir.
The unique design on the woman's shirt could not be identified
by national investigation services such as the FBI and NCIS.
Despite intensive investigation and follow-up on hundreds of
leads, her identity as well as that of her killer remains a
mystery.
However, police noted a possible link between this case and
other murders committed by a taxi driver. The man was arrested
in Guilford County and was suspected to have murdered women in a
similar way, merely months after this victim was killed. The man
later committed suicide after declining an interview with Orange
County officers.
The victim's remains were later cremated and buried at sea.
Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Agency Contact Person: Clyde Gibbs
Agency Phone Number: 919-743-9000 or 800-672-7024
Agency E-Mail: clyde.gibbs(at)dhhs.nc.gov
Agency Case Number: 90-814
Agency Name: Orange County Sheriff's Department
Agency Contact Person: Capt. Tim Horne
Agency Phone Number: 919-245-2900
Agency E-Mail: websheriff(at)orangecountync.gov
Agency Case Number: 90-12532
NCIC Case Number: U950019761
NamUs Case Number: 2224
NCMEC Case Number: 1106716
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Re: HILLSBOROUGH JANE DOE: WF, 14-25, wearing pink sweatshirt w
ith bunnies in NC - 19 Sept 1990
By: Scorpio Date: February 12, 2020, 10:45 pm
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Victim's Jewelry
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Thin yellow ring with no stone on her left hang finger
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A necklace the victim was wearing
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