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SANTA FE JANE DOE: WF, 14-19, found near Santa Fe, NM - 2
December 1974
DIR By: Akoya
Date: November 24, 2018, 1:34 pm
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The victim was located just South of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The
body was found just off the U.S 285 highway by a Colorado couple
who stopped to pick Pinon nuts. No clothing was found with her
body. This case was classified as a Homicide. She was buried in
Glorieta several months after her body was found.
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Re: SANTA FE JANE DOE: WF, 14-19, found near Santa Fe, NM - 2
December 1974
DIR By: Akoya
Date: November 24, 2018, 1:35 pm
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The Doe Network:
Case File 407UFNM
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Reconstruction of Victim by Wesley Neville
Unidentified White Female
The victim was discovered on December 2, 1974 at U.S 285, South
of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Estimated Date of Death: November 29 to December 1, 1974
Cause of Death: Asphyxia due to strangulation
Vital Statistics
Estimated age: 14-19 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 62 inches; 110 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Light brown/ reddish-blonde
hair; blue-hazel eyes. Well-groomed and neat.
Dentals: Available
Clothing/Jewelry: No clothing. Plain gold, round wire earrings,
on the left ring (4th) finger was a yellow gold ring, with
silver color center designs.
Fingerprints: Available
DNA: Available
Case History
The victim was located just South of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The
body was found just off the U.S 285 highway by a Colorado couple
who stopped to pick Pinon nuts. No clothing was found with the
body. This case was classified a Homicide.
She was buried in Glorieta several months after her body was
found.
Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Santa Fe Police Department/Santa Fe County Sheriffs Office
505-955-5038
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.
Agency Case Number:
40A-2-1
Source Information:
Santa Fe County Sheriffs Office
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Re: SANTA FE JANE DOE: WF, 14-19, found near Santa Fe, NM - 2
December 1974
DIR By: Akoya
Date: November 24, 2018, 1:36 pm
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Police Aim to Solve '74 Death
October 8, 2005
The Albuquerque Journal
By Jeremy Pawloski Journal Staff Writer
Santa Fe Police Lt. Gary Johnson will not give up on one of the
city's oldest unsolved homicides a strangled "Jane Doe" who was
found in 1974 off U.S. 285 near Arroyo Hondo Road.
Johnson said he recently helped get an artist's rendering of the
unidentified young woman placed on www.doenetwork.org, a Web
site with the motto "There is no time limit to solving a
mystery" that tracks Jane Does from all over the world. The
artist's drawing was based on the autopsy photos of the teenage
girl taken after she was found in Santa Fe in 1974, Johnson
said.
The girl's nude body had not decomposed when she was found in
December of that year by a Colorado couple who had stopped by
the side of the road to pick pi?on nuts, Johnson said.
"I know that this young lady, she's somebody's daughter,"
Johnson said. "Hopefully, we can get her back home and figure
out what happened to her." Santa Fe's Jane Doe is estimated to
be in her middle to late teens. She is about 5-feet-2, 110
pounds, with light brown hair and blue/hazel eyes. She was the
victim of a sexual assault, according to Johnson.
In addition to getting Santa Fe's 1974 Jane Doe on the Web site,
Johnson said he also has been trying to match her with lists of
names from databases of missing children that date back to that
time. Johnson said that during his investigation, he has noticed
the names of missing women from Arizona and Washington whom he
is looking at in connection with Santa Fe's Jane Doe.
"Hopefully, by getting her identified, we can identify the
circumstances under which she disappeared," Johnson said. "Once
you find out who the person is, you can backtrack from that
point" and maybe find out who killed her. Johnson also is trying
to get a DNA sample found on the Jane Doe's body; possibly from
the perpetrator? analyzed and placed into a nationwide DNA
database.
Police don't know where Santa Fe's Jane Doe was killed; whether
it was in Santa Fe, another part of New Mexico or another state
altogether. Johnson said he hopes police can at least put a name
to the young woman so that her parents have the closure of
knowing what happened to her.
"We're still doing a lot of research on this case," Johnson
said. "It's a longshot, but you never know unless you try."
Johnson, 40, is a founding member of Santa Fe's "cold case
unit," which investigates all of the city's unsolved homicides,
no matter when they happened. In a prior interview, Johnson said
all of Santa Fe's cold cases are solvable "if we don't forget
about them."
Santa Fe's cold case unit has solved several old homicides in
recent years, thanks to the work of detectives and the help of
DNA technology, which makes it easier to provide links between
human evidence left at crime scenes and potential suspects.
Santa Fe's 1974 Jane Doe homicide has been featured on the
www.doenetwork.org Web site since Sept. 16. If anyone has any
information on the woman's identity, they can contact the Santa
Fe Police Department at 955-5038.
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Re: SANTA FE JANE DOE: WF, 14-19, found near Santa Fe, NM - 2
December 1974
DIR By: Akoya
Date: November 24, 2018, 1:36 pm
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N.M. Jane Doe 1974
Unidentified White Female
The victim was discovered on December 2, 1974 at U.S 285, South
of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Estimated Date of Death: November 29 to December 1, 1974
Cause of Death: Asphyxia due to strangulation
Estimated age: Middle to late teens
Approximate Height and Weight: 62 inches; 110 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Light brown hair; blue-hazel
eyes.
Dentals: Available
Clothing/Jewelry
No clothing. Yellow metal round wire earrings, on the left ring
(4th) finger was a yellow and white metal ring.
Fingerprints: Available
DNA: Available
Case History
The victim was located just South of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The
body was found just off the U.S 285 highway by a Colorado couple
who stopped to pick Pinon nuts. No clothing was found with the
body. This case was classified a Homicide.
have any information about this case please contact:
Santa Fe Police Department/Santa Fe County Sheriffs Office
505-955-5038
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.
Agency Case Number:
40A-2-1
NCIC Number:
Not Entered
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with
information regarding this case.
Source Information:
Santa Fe County Sheriffs Office
"THE DEAD CANNOT CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE IT IS A DUTY OF THE LIVING
TO DO SO FOR THEM" Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness
These are the rights listed in the Declaration of Independence
for each of us; EXCEPT IF YOU ARE MURDERED YOU NO LONGER HAVE
ANY RIGHTS. Someone took them and now THEIR RIGHTS ARE
PROTECTED. is a tradgedy that doesnt help the victims or their
families heal.
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Re: SANTA FE JANE DOE: WF, 14-19, found near Santa Fe, NM - 2
December 1974
DIR By: Akoya
Date: November 24, 2018, 1:37 pm
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May 30, 1976
A Publisher Extra Newspaper
The Santa Fe New Mexican from Santa Fe, New Mexico · Page 66
JANE DOE The area's most baffling murder puzzle Sheriff Paul
Baca studies the mass of evidence that has piled up in the
mysterious "Jane Doe Murder Case," where the body has never been
identified and no good leads established. The "Jane Doe Murder
Case" is still the most baffling in recent police history. It is
perhaps more puzzling because not a shred of evidence has led to
a slight break in the case since the sexually mutilated body was
found on December 2,1974. "It's the most frustrating single case
I've ever been involved with," says Sheriff Paul Baca, who has
been tracking the crime since he became sheriff in January of
1975. The most devastating single factor in the puzzle is the
anonymity of "Jane Doe." Since the brutal murder there have also
been no clues to her identity. "And we have tried everything;
tracked down every phone call and followed up every letter,"
says Sheriff Baca. He's faced the dead end that, in most cases,
provide at least a clue to a victim's identity. "Families have
come from all over the United States to look at photos and
evidence," said Baca, pulling out a file on the case that's now
more than two feet high. "They left us — all of them — with an
unidentified victim." Clues, likewise, have dwindled to nothing
in the search for a killer of the girl. But, small piece by
small piece, the sheriff and Santa Fe County Un- dersheriff Levi
Martinez have put together the "possibilities" that may tell the
sketchy story of Jane Doe and what happened to her. F'irst, Jane
Doe was about 15-years- old when she came through the Santa Fe
area a few days after Thanksgiving in 1974. The final report of
medical examiners in Albuquerque show that she was
"well-groomed, neat and had reddish-blonde hair." The medical
examiner has also concluded, in a final opinion, that Jane Doe
was brutally and sexually mutilated. In other words, says
Sheriff Baca, she was attacked "probably before she died and
probably by a very strong man. I say this because there were
signs of a struggle but not a severe struggle." Jane Doe was,
apparently, never fingerprinted anywhere in the United States or
Canada. "We plugged into the national fingerprint network for
several months," said the sheriff. "All computer and other
checks turned up nothing." This bears out the medical reports
that now pinpoint Jane Doe's age at about 15 "She may never have
had a driver's license from any state," says Baca. She may have
been hitching a ride through the Northern New Mexico area; she
may have been brought here by the killer. One thing is almost
certain; she probably never spent any time in the Santa Fe area.
"In the 17 months that we've been showing the Jane Doe
photographs to people in this area, we've hit literally all the
places frequented by young people in Santa Fe and surrounding
communities," said Martinez. "No single person — except for a
few on the outskirts of town — remembers seeing anyone of her
description in Santa Fe." Third, Jane Doe was probably not from
New Mexico or any of the surrounding states. "We have compared
notes with too many of the other surrounding agencies and
publicized the ease, locally, too well," said Baca. "If the girl
were from the nearby area, something would have turned up no
matter how vague." Fourth, the unkwown girl was probably not
killed by any of the well known sex killers who have been nabbed
since her death. "We have had several close possibilities," said
Baca. "At one time, we were fairly certain it involved the
Zodiac murders. Now 10 Sunday, May 30,1»7« everything points
against that. Then we felt it might involve an Albuquerque man
who was arrested with pictures of bound girls on his person. He
was taken in for another crime, but lie detector tests here
ruled that out." So Baca is left with a set of tire prints that
could not be moulded by crime labs and the good imprint of a
shoe found and photographed next to the body. Fifth, Jane Doe
was probably killed somewhere besides the discovery site. "She
was found in a knoll 80 yards from U.S. 185. Indentations on her
body and the report of the examiners now indicate she was killed
somewhere else — maybe in the car, "Baca said. Those are the
known facts about Jane Doe. But there are unknown but
speculative clues that lend traces of evidence to the case. A
waitress in a small cafe on the highway thinks she saw the girl
about two days before the body was discovered. She feels certain
from the pictures ... but... Was Jane Doe a hitchhiker? Did she
stop in the restaurant with a male companion? The waitress can't
remember. A used car salesman on St. Michael's Drive believes
Jane Doe came into the sales office about two days before the
murder to get a drink of water? He's pretty sure but... Did Jane
Doe walk into the used car office? Did she drive up with a
companion? Those are local clues. Then a young man was arrested
in Oregon for similar murders on old U.S. Highway 101 in the
wild Northwest. "We don't know if he's connected. But that's the
slim possibility we have now," said Sheriff Baca "The man has
admitted to a number of killings very much like this one. There
is the possibility he may have travelled all across the country
including to Northern New Mexico." "We will soon ask for money
to go out and question this man personally. How close a
connection will be made is still a major question." Another
speculation by all the investigators in the case is that Jane
Doe and her murderer came into the state from the north and
never entered Santa Fe. We don't really know about this, but the
clues show this " Baca said. Speculation is also that there was
only one killer involved. "There was only one type of shoe
marking at the scene. There were no matches, no cigarettes or
other indications around or near the body. There was evidence
that one person made a scant effort to cover the body with brush
and hoped for snow - which never came," Baca said. So,
investigators are left with the known and tragic facts. They
are: Jane Doe was found badly mutilated and naked with only
plain gold earrings and a gold finger band providing a link with
a past The jewelry was yellow gold with silver color center
designs on the ring and plain gold design on the earrings. The
girl's body was left in the open morgue from December 2 until
February - the longest in recent history. "We held the body
until a whole parade of possibilities came here to look at the
girl," Baca said. "They came from all across the country —
families missing a daughter, brothers missing a sister. But
nothing turned up." By PETER BROWN
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Re: SANTA FE JANE DOE: WF, 14-19, found near Santa Fe, NM - 2
December 1974
DIR By: Akoya
Date: November 24, 2018, 1:39 pm
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New details emerge in 40-year-old cold case
Published: December 3, 2014, 10:42 pm
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SANTA FE (KRQE) – It has been a mystery for 40 years, a teen
girl dumped on the side of the road and no one knew who she was.
Detectives were close to identifying her until they hit a new
road block. They cannot find her body.
On Dec. 2, 1974, a Colorado couple stopped off the side of
highway 285 just south of Arroyo Hondo Road in Santa Fe looking
for pine nuts.
Instead, they found something very disturbing.
A Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department report said they “came
across a figure, which appeared to them to be that of a
mannequin.” An officer confirmed it was the naked body of a
teenage girl.
An autopsy showed, she had been strangled, but no one knew who
she was, where she came from, let alone who killed her, until
about a year ago.
That is when the Doe Network, a volunteer organization that
helps solve cold cases, reached out to Santa Fe Police.
“They said, ‘This missing person really fits your Jane Doe.
Would you guys look into it?’” said Celina Espinoza with the
Santa Fe Police Department.
The tip linked them to a woman 1,500 miles away in Michigan, who
said her 19-year-old sister was going to her boyfriend’s house
in 1974 and she never saw her again.
The teen was found only with a ring and small gold wire
earrings, jewelry, police said, the sister in Michigan
recognized.
She also confirmed it looking at pictures, but detectives cannot
confirm it with DNA because they said she has gone missing
again.
“She was put in an indigent grave we believe in Glorieta, but
there was a fire and the Office of the Medical Investigator’s
warehouse and all the records burned in that fire,” Espinoza
said.
Police would not say who they think the woman is because it is
not confirmed through DNA.
At this point, they are relying on tips to find where the woman
was buried.
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Re: SANTA FE JANE DOE: WF, 14-19, found near Santa Fe, NM - 2
December 1974
DIR By: Akoya
Date: November 24, 2018, 1:40 pm
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The victim was discovered on December 2, 1974 at U.S 285, South
of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Estimated Date of Death: November 29 to December 1, 1974
Cause of Death: Asphyxia due to strangulation
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Re: SANTA FE JANE DOE: WF, 14-19, found near Santa Fe, NM - 2
December 1974
DIR By: Akoya
Date: November 24, 2018, 1:41 pm
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The victim was discovered on December 2, 1974 at U.S 285, South
of Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Re: SANTA FE JANE DOE: WF, 14-19, found near Santa Fe, NM - 2
December 1974
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Date: November 24, 2018, 1:42 pm
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Re: SANTA FE JANE DOE: WF, 14-19, found near Santa Fe, NM - 2
December 1974
DIR By: Akoya
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