DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
The Lost and the Found
HTML https://theunidentified.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
DIR Return to: Washington
*****************************************************
#Post#: 3253--------------------------------------------------
Re: UNION GAP JANE DOE: NF, 30-40, found in Yakima County, WA -
16 February 1988
By: Akoya Date: March 6, 2020, 1:58 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
YAKIMA, Wash. -- She left her home sometime in 1987 and never
returned. She was petite — around 5 feet tall — and likely wore
a long-sleeved blouse, lavender pants and brown bowling shoes
when she disappeared.
A horseback rider found that clothing and her skeletal remains
on Feb. 16, 1988. She lay close to a dirt road running parallel
to the Yakima River near the Parker Dam and the unincorporated
community of Parker.
No one in the years since has identified this 30- to 40-year-old
Native woman who law enforcement believe was murdered. Someone
has been and likely still is looking for her, hoping for justice
and resolution.
Much has changed in the decades since Yakima County Sheriff’s
Office detectives took her skull to the department of
anthropology at Central Washington University in Ellensburg,
where faculty and students recreated her face with clay. It was
the first time the sheriff’s office used such a visual device to
further a criminal investigation, noted a story in the Yakima
Herald-Republic on Dec. 20, 1988.
Now, with renewed attention in Washington on missing Native
women as a result of state legislation passed this year, her
story — and those of the many other Native women and girls who
went missing, were murdered or died mysteriously on or near the
Yakama Reservation — are getting another look by those seeking
solutions to this national and international epidemic of
violence.
House Bill 2951 requires the Washington State Patrol to work
with the Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs, federally
recognized tribes, tribal and other law enforcement and tribal
leaders to determine how to increase reporting and investigation
of missing Native American women.
As part of that, public meetings hosted by the State Patrol and
Indian Affairs office are taking place around Washington. One is
set for 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 29 in the event center of Legends
Casino, 580 Fort Road, Toppenish.
Capt. Dave Johnson of the Toppenish Police Department, who
retired from the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office in December 2015
and joined the Toppenish department about a year ago, worked the
case of the woman whose remains were found in 1988. He had the
skull taken to Central, where Catherine Sands oversaw the
reconstruction, he said.
Central experts, with the help of the King County Medical
Examiner’s Office, were able to determine that the victim
appeared to be Native, the December 1988 YHR story said. It
noted that authorities said the victim’s high cheekbones were
consistent with the bone structure of a Native woman, but they
also said they didn’t believe she was a citizen of the Yakama
Nation.
During the press conference, sheriff’s detectives said they
believed she died two to 10 months before her body was found on
Feb. 16, 1988 — and that she was murdered.
An autopsy by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office failed
to determine the cause of her death. Because of the location of
the remains, detectives investigated the case as a homicide.
There are still no leads in the case as far as Johnson knows, he
said. It remains open with the sheriff’s office, case number
88-1113.
HTML https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/c...cle_d445e120-d5b5-11e8-bb69-afb18e067b29.html
#Post#: 3254--------------------------------------------------
Re: UNION GAP JANE DOE: NF, 30-40, found in Yakima County, WA -
16 February 1988
By: Akoya Date: March 6, 2020, 2:00 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Lower Valley human remains discovered in 1988 to be exhumed for
DNA
HTML https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/l...cle_95cf3f9a-00f8-11e9-a888-3311744297ba.html
Tammy Ayer
5 hrs ago
She has rested without a name in a Yakima Valley grave for
years, the details of her death unknown, her killer
unidentified.
Much about this young woman and her life is a mystery. Ever
since a horseback rider discovered her skeletal remains and
clothing on Feb. 16, 1988, near the Parker Dam and the
unincorporated community of Parker, authorities have sought the
person they believe murdered her. At the same time, someone has
been missing this 30- to 40-year-old woman, believed to be
Native, who could be a mother, a sister, a cousin, an auntie, a
friend.
For now, she is still known as Jane Doe. But in another effort
to identify her, authorities will exhume her remains to extract
DNA for comparison to possible relatives. A date has not been
set.
HTML https://i.imgur.com/C6REyFp.jpg
*****************************************************
DIR Next Page