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EAST HAVEN JANE DOE: WF, 18-28, found in New Haven County, CT -
16 August 1975
By: Akoya Date: March 11, 2020, 1:30 pm
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Jane Doe was found behind former Bradlee's shopping center on
Frontage road in East Haven (currently Carmax). The victim's
unclothed body was found wrapped in a tarp in a drainage ditch.
She was bound with antennae wire at her neck, waist and knees.
Paint drops on the tarp have led investigators to believe that
her killer may have had a connection with the paint trade. She
had died approximately four to five days before.
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Re: EAST HAVEN JANE DOE: WF, 18-28, found in New Haven County,
CT - 16 August 1975
By: Akoya Date: March 11, 2020, 1:32 pm
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Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number NH-75-887
Date found August 16, 1975 10:50
Date created November 27, 2012 13:10
Date last modified November 17, 2016 15:40
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed
Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency State of CT Chf Med Examiners Ofc
Phone 860-679-3980
Case Manager
Name Michelle Clark
Phone 860-573-8583
Exclusions
The following people have been ruled out as being this decedent:
First Name Last Name Year of Birth State LKA
Denise Sheehy 1954 New York
Denise Sheehy 1954 New York
Deborah Spickler 1955 Connecticut
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Re: EAST HAVEN JANE DOE: WF, 18-28, found in New Haven County,
CT - 16 August 1975
By: Akoya Date: March 11, 2020, 1:34 pm
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NamUs UP # 10796
ME/C Case Number: NH-75-887
New Haven County, Connecticut
18 to 28 year old White Female
Case Report - NamUs UP # 10796
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number NH-75-887
Date found August 16, 1975 10:50
Date created November 27, 2012 13:10
Date last modified November 17, 2016 15:40
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed
Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency State of CT Chf Med Examiners Ofc
Phone 860-679-3980
Case Manager
Name Michelle Clark
Phone 860-573-8583
Demographics
Estimated age Adult - Pre 30
Minimum age 18 years
Maximum age 28 years
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) 125, Estimated
Height (inches) 66, Estimated
Body Parts Inventory (Check all that apply)
All parts recovered
Probable year of death 1975 to 1975
Estimated postmortem interval 4 Days
Circumstances
Location Found
GPS coordinates
Address 1 Former Bradlee's Shopping Center, Now Carmax
Address 2 Frontage Road
City East Haven
State Connecticut
Zip code
County New Haven
Circumstances
She was found behind former Bradlee's shopping center on
Frontage road in East Haven (currently Carmax)
She was wrapped in a paint tarpulin with white paint on it and
was bound with an electrical cord.
Physical
Hair color Brown
Left eye color Brown
Right eye color Brown
Eye description
No other distinctive body features
Fingerprints
Status: Fingerprint information is available and entered
Jewelry
Silver metal circlet earrings
Dental
Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered
DNA
Status: Sample submitted - Tests complete
Images
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Re: EAST HAVEN JANE DOE: WF, 18-28, found in New Haven County,
CT - 16 August 1975
By: Akoya Date: March 11, 2020, 1:36 pm
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Unidentified Wiki
New Haven County Jane Doe (1975)
New Haven County Jane Doe was a young woman murdered in
Connecticut in 1975.
The victim's unclothed body was found wrapped in a tarp in a
drainage ditch. She was bound with antennae wire at the neck,
waist and knees. Paint drops on the tarp have led investigators
to believe that her killer may have had a connection with the
paint trade.
The woman had died approximately four to five days before.
The victim had hazel eyes.
She had brown hair.
She may have had a mole under her chin.
She may have had a rhinoplasty on her nose.
She likely had braces at one time.
New Haven County Jane Doe
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Sex Female
Race White
Location East Haven, Connecticut
Found August 16, 1975
Unidentified for 41 years
Postmortem interval Days
Body condition Recognizable face
Age approximation 18-28
Height approximation 5'5 - 5'6
Weight approximation 125 pounds
Cause of death Asphyxiation (homicide)
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Re: EAST HAVEN JANE DOE: WF, 18-28, found in New Haven County,
CT - 16 August 1975
By: Akoya Date: March 11, 2020, 1:42 pm
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Jane Hamden Doe
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Hamden is where you can find me these days. I have a temporary
resting spot there. It might become my final resting spot if no
one ever figures out my real identity so that my family can be
contacted and I can go home one last time.
If you haven’t guessed, Hamden is a cemetery. This is where I
am, HamdenState Street Cemetery, Hamden, Connecticut. Do you
wonder where I’m from? So does Law Enforcement. They have been
trying to figure out that mystery for well over thirty years
now.
On August 16, 1975, I was found floating in a drainage ditch
behind an old Bradlees Department Store in East Haven,
Connecticut. Some trucker happened upon me there on that
frontage road and called the authorities. I was murdered. I was
murdered somewhere else and dumped off back there. Just dumped
there! There is a lot of speculation about where I came from and
how I got there. The reality is that I was bound, gagged,
killed, and dumped.
I won’t accept that no one misses me. I don’t care if you can’t
find a missing persons report. I know one is out there
somewhere, or someone tried to report me missing but the
authorities didn’t take the report. In the 1970s, very few law
enforcement agencies took missing persons cases seriously. I
hope that’s changed in year you are reading this. I believe my
family does and is missing me. I believe someone is looking for
me. We just have to find them.
Unfortunately there is not a lot of information to help. The
basics:
Date found: August 16, 1975
Poss Date of Death: days earlier
White Female
Age: 20 something
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 125 lbs.
Hair: Brown, parted in the center
Eye: Brown/ Hazel
I had some dental work done. I also might have had a nose job,
which might make it harder for my family to find me. Unless of
course, they know about the cosmetic work I had done.
You know I might not have been from the United States at all.
Maybe I was a mail order bride.Maybe I was visiting for school
or family reasons. There are many maybes and we can speculate
all night long but that won’t help me now. It’s been well over
thirty years. It’s time something is done to find my family.
If you know this woman, please call:
East Haven Police Department
203-468-3827
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Re: EAST HAVEN JANE DOE: WF, 18-28, found in New Haven County,
CT - 16 August 1975
By: Akoya Date: March 11, 2020, 1:44 pm
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HTML http://www.nhregister.com/article/NH/20120204/NEWS/302049947
Missing in Connecticut: Giving a name to the 'missing missing,'
databases and DNA may help identify unnamed remains (video)
Dr. Henry Lee: Chief Emeritus of the Connecticut State Police,
Founder and Chair Professor of the Forensic Science Program at
the University of New Haven 1/19/12. Photo by Peter Hvizdak /
New Haven Register January 19, 2012 ph2442 Connecticut
By Michelle Tuccitto Sullo, Investigations Editor
POSTED: 02/04/12
The region's nameless dead have been found floating in the
Connecticut River, hidden in ditches and dumped in forests and
near highways. Around the state, human remains have been found
by street sweepers, hunters, hikers and passers-by and unearthed
by construction crews.
Police have worked for years trying to figure out who they are
-- a young woman found murdered in East Haven still remains
nameless after 37 years.
East Haven police Detective Sgt. Bruce Scobie said police would
like to solve the mystery, know her name and capture her killer.
Scobie, a father himself, thinks about Jane Doe's parents and
relatives.
"You wonder if this person had family somewhere at one time,"
Scobie said. "Are they out there wondering? Did they pass on,
never knowing what happened to her? It is hard to believe no one
ever missed her. There must be someone out there with a story of
a friend or cousin who disappeared. Someday, I'd like to hear
that a name has been put to her."
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National
Crime Information Center, the country's number of unidentified
deceased was at 7,551 as of Jan. 1. However, it isn't mandatory
for law enforcement to enter all cases into this database,
according to a center spokeswoman.
FACEBOOK PAGE: Missing in CT
RELATED: Investigators hope circulating photos will help
identify unknown remains
U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5, who has proposed the federal "Help
Find the Missing Act," or "Billy's Law," in honor of missing
Waterbury man William Smolinski Jr., estimates there are 40,000
sets of unidentified remains nationwide. Murphy's proposal seeks
to create an organized system to match remains to missing
people, and an incentive grants program for law enforcement and
medical examiners to report information to NCIC, the U.S.
Department of Justice's National Missing and Unidentified
Persons System, or NamUs, and the National DNA Index System.
"Unless you put information about unidentified remains on NamUs,
you are cutting out the most important investigators, the loved
ones of the missing," Murphy said, as NamUs is open to the
public. "The Internet is perfectly positioned to solve these
cases, yet we aren't using it to its capacity."
On Friday, NamUs, which launched in 2007, listed 41 cases of
unidentified remains found in Connecticut, going back to 1972.
It listed 8,165 open unidentified remains cases for the country.
While various databases can help match the missing to the
unidentified, investigators frequently aren't using all
available databases. Older cases predate DNA extraction
technology. In many area cases, the unidentified bodies were
buried, so investigators don't have DNA to add to databases
unless they exhume the bodies.
Of the 41 cases of unidentified remains listed on NamUs for
Connecticut, only three show DNA samples have been submitted,
with no DNA samples taken even for many cases in years when the
technology was available, the site shows.
Under state law effective in October 2011, in cases involving
remains where homicide is suspected, the office of the chief
state medical examiner has to obtain tissue samples, bone and
hair for DNA typing, and these samples must go to the Division
of Scientific Services within the Department of Public Safety.
While several cases of unidentified remains from years ago have
been added to NamUs in recent months, the NamUs list isn't
complete. State Victim Advocate Michelle Cruz said plans are
under way for statewide training for law enforcement on how to
use NamUs.
East Haven's Jane Doe, for example, isn't on there yet, though
police say they are considering including her.
A truck driver found her body Aug. 16, 1975, in a drainage ditch
behind a department store on Frontage Road. The white woman was
found wrapped in a canvas tarp with black wire around her neck,
waist and knees. Her cause of death was asphyxiation by
suffocation, according to police.
Police have circulated an artist's rendering of the brunette,
who is believed to have been 18 to 28 years old. They have
featured her case on The Doe Network. This has led to occasional
leads, but none have led to Doe's identity.
Scobie said police are discussing exhuming her body from a
Hamden cemetery to try to get DNA from her remains.
Police have Jane Doe's dental records, but she was found in an
era that pre-dates the widespread use of DNA testing, Scobie
said.
Scobie said having her DNA may not lead to any matches, because
there may not be DNA available from women who went missing back
then for comparison.
"Exhuming her body is something that has been discussed," Scobie
said. "If the laboratory said there would be viable DNA, we
would probably do it."
Also, while an artist did a rendering of Doe years ago, Scobie
said computer technology has advanced so much that using her
skull today could result in a more accurate image of what she
looked like.
Henry C. Lee, forensics expert, professor and founder of the
University of New Haven Forensic Research Training Center, said
technology has changed tremendously in the years since the
discovery of East Haven's Jane Doe. According to Lee, in older
cases of unidentified remains, DNA samples weren't taken, but
with today's technology, DNA can be extracted from hair and
bone.
Lee also cautioned that getting DNA from the remains won't
necessarily solve the East Haven mystery.
"It is so many years ago, it would be hard to track down family
to get the known DNA (for comparison)," Lee said. "If we don't
know where the victim came from, we don't have known DNA to
compare with, and that becomes shooting in the dark, and makes
the case very difficult."
Scobie said he doesn't believe Jane Doe was from the area, as he
believes someone would have reported her missing, and she would
have been recognized back then from publicity about the case. It
is possible her parents are dead, he said.
"The theory is she was killed elsewhere and then brought to that
location," Scobie said. "I personally don't think the crime
occurred very far away. She was pretty well bound, tied and
gagged. Someone took their time with her. I think it was a
premeditated killing."
Doe possibly had a small mole on her chin, and she had pierced
ears and wore small gold circular earrings, according to Scobie.
"There was an item used to gag her which leads me to believe the
homicide was committed locally," he said.
Police don't want to be specific about the item used to gag the
victim, because if police ever get a confession, only the killer
could identify it, Scobie said.
Police believe she had been there up to five days before her
discovery.
"Whoever put her there, did not want her found," Scobie said.
"There are a lot of theories. I'm not sure a person who was just
traveling through would take the time to conceal a body like
that."
Over the years, leads about her possible identity have come
through the Doe Network, but they have all been ruled out
through dental or medical comparisons, according to Scobie.
According to Scobie, police have a suspect in Jane Doe's death,
Glen Askeborn, who served prison time for a similar slaying in
Maine. Askeborn, who dressed in women's clothes, used the name
Samantha Glenner also, according to police.
According to the Maine Department of Corrections, Askeborn was
released from prison in September 2009.
"The body in that (Maine) case was concealed and disposed of in
a similar manner, and we went to interview (Askeborn) in a Maine
prison," Scobie said. "He denied any knowledge of it. He lived
in East Haven at the time of this (Jane Doe) incident, and there
were a lot of similarities. Personally, I do think he was
involved, but we have no direct evidence."
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Re: EAST HAVEN JANE DOE: WF, 18-28, found in New Haven County,
CT - 16 August 1975
By: Akoya Date: March 11, 2020, 1:45 pm
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Re: EAST HAVEN JANE DOE: WF, 18-28, found in New Haven County,
CT - 16 August 1975
By: Akoya Date: March 11, 2020, 1:52 pm
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Cold cases frustrate cops and families, but scientific advances
may help
October 10, 2004
By: By Marissa Yaremich , Register Staff
New Haven Register
Editor’s note: This is the final installment in a series of
stories on unsolved deaths. These cold cases remain under
investigation, waiting for a clue that could unlock the past and
ease families’ grief.
She left this world in a pauper’s casket with no name and an
unmarked grave — far less, some say, than she deserved.
While nearby family plots radiate with colorful blossoms and
telltale tombstones, her barren plot rests in the shadows of
Hamden’s State Street Cemetery alongside a rusty chain-link
fence and a clump of crabgrass.
"I get calls all the time for (unidentified) people who died in
the 1970s to put in a stone for them," said the cemetery’s
caretaker, Randy Guevin. But no one, he said, ever calls to
identify this woman, known to East Haven police as Jane Doe.
The woman’s strangled body was found by a truck driver on a
rainy Aug. 16, 1975, floating in a drainage ditch behind the
former Bradlees department store on Frontage Road. She was
wrapped in a canvas tarpaulin and she was gagged and bound by
black antenna wire around her neck, waist and knees. With little
evidence to go on except her physical features and the facts of
her discovery, authorities have spent the past three decades
baffled by the mystery woman.
"Obviously, nobody ever missed her because they never took the
time to report her missing," Police Sgt. Robert Flodquist said.
Regardless, police said they are determined to put a name, aside
from Jane Doe, at the top of the slim manila envelope containing
her entire case history in hopes of piecing together her story
and nabbing her killer.
"It’s a very difficult case," Flodquist said. "In most
homicides, you know the victim and are (only) searching for the
murderer." At the time of her death, however, police were unable
immediately to pinpoint her identity because of the nonexistence
of DNA testing and any fingerprint records belonging to her. The
white, 20-something’s dental chart, which showed probable
orthodontic care, also proved fruitless, since it did not match
any of those contained in the dozens of missing person reports
that poured in from police departments nationwide. The
possibility that she had plastic surgery on her nose may also
have thrown off anyone who knew her natural facial features. The
absence of a driver’s license solidified her anonymity. As a
result, police have spent the last 29 years "working backward"
in an attempt to determine Jane Doe’s personality, hometown and
acquaintances.
Her murderer left police with slim evidence at the scene. Police
believe she was killed somewhere else and dumped on Frontage
Road. No fingerprints. No footprints. Not even a single eyelash
was left behind. Only dried white paint spots on the tarpaulin,
Flodquist noted, might indicate the murderer had connections
with the painting trade.
Police still ponder varied versions of how the 125-pound woman’s
5-foot 6-inch body wound up in a 2-foot-deep open culvert. "The
odds are against us, but we have a lot of confidence and … hope
we’ll be able to solve it," Flodquist said. Some police
officers, including Flodquist, have speculated that the
hazel-eyed brunette was a transient and possibly dumped in the
shopping plaza by someone in a vehicle that could quickly flee
on nearby Interstate 95. Other police sources said her bundled
body may have been "stuffed inside a 30-inch drain pipe upstream
of the drainage ditch," which heavy rains later washed down the
small river. Still others wondered if she fell victim to a
gangland killing.
Just two weeks before her body was found, authorities discovered
a convicted bookkeeper floating in the Quinnipiac River, wrapped
in a sleeping bag tied with chains and ropes. Despite all the
possibilities, no leads ever verified the hypotheses. Only her
cause of death remains certain. As indicated in an autopsy
report, Jane Doe died of asphyxiation by suffocation at least
five days before the truck driver’s chance encounter. Mostly,
police have been at the mercy of others to provide any new
leads, which Flodquist said have been sporadic at best.
According to Inspector Guy Nappi, who has been with the
department for 37 years, the department’s most promising lead
regarding the suspect’s potential identity surfaced a couple of
years ago. A serial killer in a Maine jail who was known for
killing women and roaming Vermont, Connecticut and New Hampshire
sparked local authorities’ attention. "He alluded to being in
the Greater New Haven area (around the time of Doe’s death), and
he mentioned something about being in a shopping area," said
Nappi. But police eventually considered it a dead end because he
never admitted to murdering or harming anyone at that time. His
conversation also "wasn’t too lucid," Nappi noted.
A sketch of the woman was submitted in the 1990s to The Doe
Network Web site (www.doenetwork.org).
The site assists law enforcement in North America, Australia and
Europe to solve cold cases by featuring photos and information
regarding unidentified and missing persons. In late July, one
Web surfer who viewed the local composite rejuvenated police
hope, said Flodquist.
The unidentified tipster told police the woman resembled a Bell
telephone co-worker of hers in the 1970s and provided an
undisclosed name. However, police were unable to locate the
named person’s family and have since lost hope it will result in
some answers. Until they find otherwise, Guevin said Jane Doe
will always have a home at the Hamden cemetery where her remains
are cared for.
If anyone has information about this case, contact the East
Haven detective division at 468-3827. All tips can remain
anonymous.
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Re: EAST HAVEN JANE DOE: WF, 18-28, found in New Haven County,
CT - 16 August 1975
By: Akoya Date: March 11, 2020, 1:53 pm
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Re: EAST HAVEN JANE DOE: WF, 18-28, found in New Haven County,
CT - 16 August 1975
By: Akoya Date: March 11, 2020, 1:55 pm
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Jane Doe
[​IMG]
Birth: unknown
Death: Aug. 16, 1975
East Haven
New Haven County
Connecticut, USA
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Murder Victim
The woman's strangled body was found by a truck driver on a
rainy Aug. 16, 1975, floating in a drainage ditch behind the
former Bradlees department store on Frontage Road. She was
wrapped in a canvas tarpaulin and she was gagged and bound by
black antenna wire around her neck, waist and knees.The
possibility that she had plastic surgery on her nose may also
have thrown off anyone who knew her natural facial features. The
absence of a driver's license solidified her anonymity. Police
still ponder varied versions of how the 125-pound woman's 5-foot
6-inch body wound up in a 2-foot-deep open culvertJane Doe died
of asphyxiation by suffocation at least five days before the
truck driver's chance encounter.
Her unmarked plot is located on the south side, east of the
south gate.
Burial:
State Street Cemetery
Hamden
New Haven County
Connecticut, USA
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