DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
The Lost and the Found
HTML https://theunidentified.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
DIR Return to: Illinois
*****************************************************
#Post#: 2906--------------------------------------------------
ST. CLAIR COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 20-40, Found in Mascoutah, IL - J
an 30, 2002 - Possible Maury Travis
By: Scorpio Date: February 20, 2020, 12:01 am
---------------------------------------------------------
[img]
HTML https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/winonadailynews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/4/37/437c7fbb-195a-50f3-899c-24842545d32a/5de970cd7b201.image.jpg?resize=110%2C147[/img]
HTML https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/11788
Illinois Department of Transportation employees were working
along I64 at mile post 22. They discovered human remains on the
side of the highway. The skeleton was partially dressed in a
black velour sleeveless "catsuit" garment with full legs.
#Post#: 2907--------------------------------------------------
Re: ST. CLAIR COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 20-40, Found in Mascoutah, IL
- Jan 30, 2002 - Possible Maury Tra
By: Scorpio Date: February 20, 2020, 12:04 am
---------------------------------------------------------
[img]
HTML https://www.namus.gov/api/CaseSets/NamUs/UnidentifiedPersons/Cases/11788/Images/38255/Original[/img]
Victim's ring
HTML http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/images/327UFIL2.jpg
Victim's 'Jason Matthews' brand jumpsuit.
#Post#: 2908--------------------------------------------------
Re: ST. CLAIR COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 20-40, Found in Mascoutah, IL
- Jan 30, 2002 - Possible Maury Tra
By: Scorpio Date: February 20, 2020, 12:05 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/327ufil.html
HTML http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/images/327UFIL.jpg<br
/>
HTML http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/images/327UFIL1.jpg<br
/>
HTML http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/images/327UFIL2.jpg<br
/>
HTML http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/images/327UFIL5.jpg
Sketches of Victim; victim's jumpsuit and rings
Unidentified Female
Date of Discovery: January 30, 2002
Location of Discovery: Mascoutah, Illinois
Estimated Date of Death: Estimated to have occurred several
months before discovery
State of Remains: Skeletal Remains
Cause of Death: Not stated
Physical Description
** Listed information is approximate
Estimated Age: 20 - 30 years old
Race: Black
Gender: Female
Height: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Dentals: Not available
Fingerprints: Not available
DNA: Available
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: She was wearing a black colored sleeveless one-piece
Jason Matthews brand jumpsuit.
Jewelry: She wore two rings on her left hand. one 14 carat small
gold band (size 7 1/4) and one costume style ring (size 6 ½)
with a light blue colored tear shaped stone.
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Case History
On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at approximately 4:30 p.m., the
Illinois State Police responded to a complaint concerning the
discovery of skeletal remains near mile marker 22 on Interstate
64. The complaint originated from workers of the Illinois
Department of Transportation who were working in the vicinity
and discovered the remains. The skeletal remains were situated
off the roadway on the east side of the Silver Creek overpass in
rural Mascoutah, Illinois.
The autopsy could not determine the cause of the death and it is
believed that the victim has been deceased for several months.
She is thought be a victim of serial-killer Maury Troy Travis,
who is also a suspect in the homicides of two other unidentified
victims; 334UFIL and 302UFIL. Police believe the three were
raped, tortured and killed by Travis, with some of the slayings
videotaped. But Travis never identified the three women, and he
hanged himself in a St. Louis jail cell three days after he was
charged with three other killings.
Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Illinois State Police
Agency Contact Person: Sergeant Kurt Sachtleben
Agency Phone Number: 618-346-3788 or 618-346-3781
NamUs Case Number: UP #11788
#Post#: 2909--------------------------------------------------
Re: ST. CLAIR COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 20-40, Found in Mascoutah, IL
- Jan 30, 2002 - Possible Maury Tra
By: Scorpio Date: February 20, 2020, 12:07 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://mja--inc--investigations.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=178692534
Jane Doe Found Outside Of Mascoutah Illinois--2002.
Jane Doe : Estimated Age : 20 - 30 years old...Estimated Date of
Death : Estimated to have occurred several months before
discovery.
HTML https://mja--inc--investigations.webs.com/photos/undefined/CC--23.jpg
#Post#: 2910--------------------------------------------------
Re: ST. CLAIR COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 20-40, Found in Mascoutah, IL
- Jan 30, 2002 - Possible Maury Tra
By: Scorpio Date: February 20, 2020, 12:07 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://mja--inc--investigations.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=178692536
Workers of the Illinois Department of Transportation who were
working in the vicinity discovered the remains...
HTML https://mja--inc--investigations.webs.com/photos/undefined/CC-25.jpg
#Post#: 2911--------------------------------------------------
Re: ST. CLAIR COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 20-40, Found in Mascoutah, IL
- Jan 30, 2002 - Possible Maury Tra
By: Scorpio Date: February 20, 2020, 12:07 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://mja--inc--investigations.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=178692537
Jane Doe : Unidentified Black Female
The State Road workers discovered the Remaons near mile marker
22 on Interstate 64... The Jane Doe is thought be a victim of
serial-killer Maury Troy Travis..
HTML https://mja--inc--investigations.webs.com/photos/undefined/CC--26.jpg
#Post#: 2912--------------------------------------------------
Re: ST. CLAIR COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 20-40, Found in Mascoutah, IL
- Jan 30, 2002 - Possible Maury Tra
By: Scorpio Date: February 20, 2020, 12:09 am
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/travis-maury.htm
Maury Troy TRAVIS
HTML https://i.imgur.com/dvzC8qZ.jpg
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Rape
Number of victims: 12 - 17
Date of murders: 2001 - 2002
Date of arrest:June 7, 2002
Date of birth: October 25, 1965
Victims profile: Women (prostitutes)
Method of murder: Ligature strangulation
Location: Ferguson, Missouri, USA
Status: Committed suicide by hanging himself in a St. Louis
county jail on June 10, 2002
Maury Troy Travis (October 25, 1965 – June 10, 2002) was an
American serial killer who committed suicide in a St. Louis
county jail, after being arrested for murder. Travis murdered at
least 12 prostitutes, and claimed to have killed 17, all in
separate incidents between 2000 and 2002 in his home in
Ferguson, Missouri.
He was caught when he anonymously mailed a map to the body of
one his victims to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which was later
found to have come from Expedia.com and linked to his computer.
Serial Killer Caught By His Own Internet Footprint
By Peter Shinkle - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 17. 2002
When the FBI and police tracked down suspected serial killer
Maury Troy Travis, they didn't need bloodhounds, lab tests,
fingerprints or other standard tools of criminal investigations.
Instead, agents simply tapped into the wealth of information
that Microsoft Corp. and other Internet companies keep on people
who visit their Web sites and use their services.
The stunning breakthrough in what had seemed a difficult case
underscored why such information is a valuable resource for
police -- and sometimes a concern for civil libertarians.
Travis' arrest June 7 was set in motion two weeks earlier,
when a Post-Dispatch reporter received an anonymous letter
praising a story profiling a slain prostitute. Accompanying the
letter was a map of part of West Alton, marked with an "X" to
show where a body could be found.
After finding a skeleton there, authorities focused on the
map, which appeared to have a come from an Internet service.
Detectives found an apparent match on Expedia.com, according to
affidavit by FBI agent Melanie Jimenez.
On May 30, Expedia told Jimenez that Microsoft, based in
Redmond, Wash., provides the information for its map site.
So the FBI, using a subpoena, requested records of any maps
of West Alton made between May 18, the date of the newspaper
story that spurred the letter, and May 21, the postmark on the
envelope. It took four days to get an answer.
On June 3, Microsoft reported back that only one computer had
done it. The company said that on May 20, the computer had
"zoomed in on the map of the West Alton, Missouri, area
approximately 10 times in a chronological order to end with an
exact match of the map" sent to the Post-Dispatch, Jimenez said
in the affidavit.
But Microsoft could provide no name. Just an address that is
meaningless to most people: It was the Internet Protocol address
of 65.227.106.78.
To translate the IP number, the FBI turned to WorldCom Inc.,
which provides local telephone numbers to connect Internet
services to their dial-up customers. WorldCom assigns a
temporary IP address to each customer for each Internet session.
The question wasn't just who used 65.227.106.78, but who used it
at the time in question.
The next day, on June 4, WorldCom's Internet division, UUnet,
identified the user the evening of May 20 as MSN/maurytravis,
Jimenez said. The MSN stands for Microsoft Network.
The FBI went back to Microsoft Network later the same day to
identify the customer. It was Maury Troy Travis of Ferguson.
That was the groundwork for surveillance and, on June 7, an
arrest and search warrant that authorities said helped solidify
the case with DNA and tire tread evidence linking Travis, a
36-year-old waiter, to some of the killings. He was charged with
two counts of kidnapping in federal court documents that also
linked him to seven murders overall. Police think he may have
killed 10 or more.
On June 17, without ever admitting guilt, Travis hanged
himself in jail.
Tracks left on the Web
It appeared that Travis had been unaware of the ease with
which Internet use can be traced. In fact, it is that lack of
awareness - coupled with the easy use of technology by law
enforcement and the sheer abundance of information on the Web -
that troubles civil libertarians.
"Many users are not aware of the tracks that are left behind
when they surf the Web and visit various sites," said David
Sobel, general counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information
Center in Washington.
"Most users have an illusion of anonymity when they use the
Internet, which a case like this demonstrates is not
well-founded because there is quite a bit of traceability on the
Internet," he said. Sobel said that is why he supports
strengthening the protections already in federal law.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 requires
federal law enforcement agencies to take various steps to obtain
information from Internet companies. The law requires
prosecutors to issue a subpoena or obtain a court order or a
search warrant from a judge for certain types of information.
It also allows prosecutors to accept information given
voluntarily by an Internet company.
Even the Department of Justice described the law as
"unusually complicated" in a manual for prosecutors published
last year. "Navigating through ECPA requires agents and
prosecutors to apply the various classifications devised by
ECPA's drafters to the facts of each case before they can figure
out the proper procedure for obtaining the information sought,"
the manual says.
The law left unclear whether a simple subpoena could obtain
an IP address or if a prosecutor needed an order signed by a
judge, said Cindy Cohn, attorney for the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. It is a civil liberties group based in San
Francisco.
Cohn said the lack of clarity meant prosecutors did need a
judge's order. But Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo
said the agency believed only a subpoena was necessary.
The debate was resolved after the Sept. 11 attacks, when
President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act, giving the
Justice Department new powers to fight terrorism. It provides
prosecutors clear authority to obtain temporarily assigned IP
addresses and other information from Internet companies through
use of a subpoena.
"No check and balance"
In the Travis case, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in
Illinois have not revealed how they obtained the information
from Microsoft and WorldCom - whether by subpoena, search
warrant or neither.
But Microsoft said Thursday that federal prosecutors had
issued a subpoena.
Sobel said that given the strong link between the map sent to
the Post-Dispatch and the crimes, there is little doubt that
prosecutors were right to pursue the information and could
easily have obtained a search warrant.
Even so, he said, permitting prosecutors to obtain such
information through use of a subpoena - a unilateral step that
does not require the oversight of a judge - is not sufficient
protection for the public.
"There's no check and balance," he complained. "If law
enforcement says, 'We want this information, and all we need is
a subpoena,' there are not many (Internet service providers)
that are going to say, 'No, you need a warrant.' There's a high
level of cooperation."
Corallo, the Justice Department spokesman, declined to comment
on whether a subpoena sufficiently protects privacy. "The
Patriot Act was passed by bipartisan majorities of the House and
Senate and it is now the law of the land," he said.
#Post#: 2913--------------------------------------------------
Re: ST. CLAIR COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 20-40, Found in Mascoutah, IL
- Jan 30, 2002 - Possible Maury Tra
By: Scorpio Date: February 20, 2020, 12:09 am
---------------------------------------------------------
CBS News
The St. Louis home where suspected serial killer Maury Troy
Travis lived until 2002
HTML https://i.imgur.com/YN91JTh.jpg
#Post#: 2914--------------------------------------------------
Re: ST. CLAIR COUNTY JANE DOE: BF, 20-40, Found in Mascoutah, IL
- Jan 30, 2002 - Possible Maury Tra
By: Scorpio Date: February 20, 2020, 12:09 am
---------------------------------------------------------
[img]
HTML https://i2.wp.com/www.learning-history.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Travis-2.jpg?resize=850%2C601&ssl=1[/img]
*****************************************************