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Re: DONA ANA COUNTY JANE DOE (1985): WF, 16-20, found near Dona
Ana, NM - 10 March 1985
By: Akoya Date: February 15, 2020, 5:13 pm
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Dona Ana County Investigators Hope Sketch Helps Identify Victim
By Ashley Meeks / Las Cruces Sun-News
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2011 at 10:00am
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LAS CRUCES — A new composite sketch of an unidentified girl
whose remains were found in the desert north of Las Cruces
nearly 27 years ago has renewed hope among investigators that
the victim may finally be identified, according to the Dona Ana
County Sheriff’s Office.
Rabbit hunters stumbled upon the shallow grave of human remains
on March 10, 1985, at a location off Interstate 25 near Upham.
Through autopsy, the New Mexico Office of the Medical Examiner
determined the body was that of a white female, between 16 and
19 years old, with a slight build and blonde or light brown
hair, who had likely been buried three to six months prior to
being discovered.
In recent years, several local cold cases have been solved:
Ronald Ralph King was sentenced this year to 12 years in prison
for killing 24-year-old Heather Lynn Eiche in 2001. King
admitted to the killing in 2009. And in 2007, after DNA from a
burglary matched him to the crime, Gabriel Avila was sentenced
to 69 years in prison for the 2003 killing of New Mexico State
University student Katie Sepich, who had been raped, strangled
and partially burned near the old city dump.
In the “Jane Doe” case, a clay reconstruction was initially
created using the skeletal remains of her face, including a
lower human jaw bone. Images of that reconstruction were made
public, but did not result in any solid leads. But recently, an
in-house sketch artist at the Office of the Medical Examiner
created a newer, hand-drawn image of the girl, and while it’s
not an exact likeness, Cold Case Investigator Ben Venable says
it’s a significant step forward.
“There are several possibilities that could explain why we
haven’t been able to match this girl with other missing people
matching her description,” Venable said. “But this person was
someone’s child, and somewhere, a family deserves to have
closure.”
The case is one of several dozen murders, suspicious deaths and
missing persons cases — including the still-unsolved 1896
disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain — that the sheriff’s
Cold Case Unit is currently working to solve.
Authorities have not released how the teen was killed or what
condition her body is in because the case is still open, but
Venable, who has been close to the missing teen’s case since
1987, says based on the clothes she was wearing, she was likely
not a transient.
“We have compared all reported missing persons of similar
description, but would like to encourage anyone with knowledge
of a missing person matching this description to contact us,”
Venable said. “There is always the possibility that a missing
person has not been reported up until now.”
Anyone who might recognize the person in the sketch or has
information on where her family may be located is asked to call
the Dona Ana County sheriff’s Cold Case Unit at 575-525-1911.
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Re: DONA ANA COUNTY JANE DOE (1985): WF, 16-20, found near Dona
Ana, NM - 10 March 1985
By: Akoya Date: February 15, 2020, 5:14 pm
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Re: DONA ANA COUNTY JANE DOE (1985): WF, 16-20, found near Dona
Ana, NM - 10 March 1985
By: Scorpio Date: December 12, 2022, 5:36 pm
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Dona Ana County Jane Doe (1985) has been identified as
16-year-old Dorothy Harrison of Wichita, Kansas.
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Re: DONA ANA COUNTY JANE DOE (1985): WF, 16-20, found near Dona
Ana, NM - 10 March 1985
By: Scorpio Date: December 12, 2022, 5:37 pm
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Remains found 37 years ago in New Mexico identified as missing
Wichita teen
By KWCH Staff
Published: Aug. 10, 2022 at 7:23 AM AEST
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A sheriff’s office in New Mexico on
Tuesday, Aug. 9, identified remains found 37 years ago as those
of a 16-year-old reported missing from Wichita. A news release
from the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office identified the teen as
Dorothy Harrison, last heard from in late August or early
September 1984.
The Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office said Harrison was last seen
about 5 p.m. July 25,1984 when she left her home in Wichita. She
got into a car with two unknown girls and her family reported
her missing at that time, the sheriff’s office said.
“Dorothy would frequently leave and be gone weeks on end during
the summer. Law enforcement would always locate her and bring
her home, but she would inevitably leave again, always staying
in Kansas,” the news release from the sheriff’s office said.
“Approximately a week and a half after Dorothy ran away her
family received a phone call from her saying she was in Los
Angeles. During this time, we know that the 1984 Summer Olympic
Games (XXIII) were happening between July 6 – August 12, 1984. A
few weeks later her family received another phone call from
Dorothy saying that she was in El Paso, Texas and that she was
on her way home. That was the last time the family heard from
her.”
Fast forward nearly four decades. A breakthrough in the case
came in March 2021 when the case of “Jane Doe” was assigned to a
detective “with the hope that new technology and investigative
tools could lead to the answers that had long eluded this case.”
In collaboration with the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office and
the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, DNA was
extracted from the left femur bone of “Jane Doe.”
“The process as successful and DNA results were then submitted
to Innovative Forensics Investigations to build out a
genealogical family tree. The collaborative work led to answers
and after more than three decades Jane Doe was identified as
16-year-old, Dorothy Harrison,” the sheriff’s office said.
A timeline laid out in the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office news
release said Harrison left home about 5 p.m. on July 25, 1984.
About a week later, “sometime in the beginning of August 1984,
she called her family to say she was in Los Angeles. Weeks
later, in late August or early September, Harrison called home
to say she was in El Paso, Texas and was on her way home to
Wichita.
“No one hears form Dorothy after this last phone call,” the
sheriff’s office reported “Dorothy was likely killed between
September 10, 1984, and January 10, 1985.”
On March 10, 1985, hunters in Doña Ana County, about 50 miles
north of El Paso, reported finding possible human remains,
ultimately confirmed to be Harrison, decades later.
“Dorothy was approximately 5′1 in height and weighed 95
pounds. She had light brown hair, green eyes and a medium
complexion. Her nostrils aren’t even and were considered
lopsided. She had a small scar on the bow of her mouth. She
often wore heavy eye makeup,” the sheriff’s office said. “When
she was last seen she was getting into a vehicle that was
described as a big, tan, long car. Dorothy was picked up by two
unknown females, described as white female and a black female,
both older.”
Anyone with information about Harrison or anyone who believes
they encountered her between July 25, 1984, and the time of her
death, ruled a homicide, should call the Doña Ana County
Sheriff’s Office at 575-525-1911.
The sheriff’s office also released the following statement on
behalf of Harrison’s family:
“Dorothy was a typical teenager; she was only 16 years old when
this horrific crime happened to her. Like most teens she was
sometimes unhappy at home and easily influenced. She left home
with some people she thought were her friends and we never saw
her again. The news of her death is devastating and even though
this crime happened over 30 years ago, to our family, it is new
and incredibly difficult information to process. We have so many
unanswered questions and are hopeful that the continued
investigation will be able to provide some of those answers. We
ask that you give us this time to grieve and request any
questions or information about Dorothy’s murder be sent to Doña
Ana County Sheriff Kim Stewart.”
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