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Re: GALLOWAY JANE DOE: WF, 12-18, found in woods near Jim Leeds
Road, NJ - 6 December 1971
By: Akoya Date: May 20, 2020, 11:22 am
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Atlantic County Jane Doe
On December 6, 1971, the skeleton of a white female was found in
the woods by hunters in Galloway, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
The victim was between twelve and eighteen and may have been
strangled. Although she has a wide age range, she was most
likely under fourteen. She had straight, auburn hair that was
about shoulder length and she wore a unique bracelet with
eyelets that had a watch fastened onto it, which had not
originally come with the bracelet. The victim did not have any
signs of dental work, but her teeth were very healthy, although
one of her molars was damaged. Another distinguishing feature
was that she had an extra vertebrae in her back. Her hair may
have actually been a wig, which had evidence of artificial
coloration and had various shades of color. With the body, a
blue shirt, white, blue and orange striped pants, brown sandals
along with white underclothing were found. She also had a motel
key that was found in her pocket, which belonged to an
establishment nearby. She was between five feet one to five feet
four inches tall at a weight between 105 and 130 pounds.
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Re: GALLOWAY JANE DOE: WF, 12-18, found in woods near Jim Leeds
Road, NJ - 6 December 1971
By: Akoya Date: May 20, 2020, 11:26 am
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Investigators are using modern forensics to solve 1971 Galloway
Township murder mystery
Jul 30, 2009
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP - After nearly 38 years, retired police
investigator Edward Hepburn is still haunted by the sight of
teenage girl's decomposed body and the lingering questions about
who she was and how she died.
"I (contacted) every single newspaper I could find," Hepburn
said Wednesday. "We got hundreds of tips and eliminated a lot of
them, but never came up with a suspect or identified her. ... I
never would have thought there were that many young girls
missing in the country in 1971, not in my wildest dreams."
Hepburn handled the investigation into remains found Dec. 6,
1971, by a trio of hunters in a wooded area off the Garden State
Parkway and Jimmie Leeds Road in Galloway Township. Hepburn was
a detective lieutenant when he left the Galloway Police
Department for the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office seven
years later.
The 76-year-old retiree and three current Galloway officers met
Wednesday with reporters in an effort to revive the case upon
getting new, more accurate estimations of what the girl might
have looked like.
"Because of the length of time the case has been dormant and
(the fact that) the unidentified victim could be from anywhere,
we decided the best thing to do would be to hold a press
conference," Chief Patrick Moran said.
Detective Donna Buccafurni has spent the past four months on the
case, one of several unsolved investigations she intends to
re-examine. Long interested in cold cases, she said she started
with this one because it involved a child.
"Our goal ... is to get this digital reconstruction as much
exposure as possible in hopes that someone can identify her,"
Buccafurni said.
Buccafurni contacted forensic anthropologists and artists from
the Smithsonian Institution and National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children for help redeveloping a digital composite of
the girl that is more accurate than the clay busts and sketches
used previously.
Sgt. Christopher Doyle said Wednesday he took a look at the case
in 2002 and mainly pursued leads linked to potential suspects.
He also could not find the remains needed for DNA samples that
could be checked against databases established since the girl's
death. During those decades, forensic imaging also had advanced,
but the skeleton was needed to take advantage of that, too.
Buccafurni discovered the remains had been stored in a
climate-controlled repository vault at the Smithsonian in
Washington, D.C.
Hepburn, who now lives in the Cologne section of the township,
had sent the bones there after recalling a magazine article
about the FBI using anthropologists to help reconstruct victims'
likenesses from their remains.
The skeleton is complete, except for the hyoid bone. That led
some investigators to believe the girl had been choked to death
because strangulation often breaks that bone, Hepburn said.
But the cause of death has never been conclusively determined.
"I've worked homicides, but this one, we had nothing," Hepburn
said. We don't even have her identified. It might be the only
case in Galloway that has no ID on a body."
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Re: GALLOWAY JANE DOE: WF, 12-18, found in woods near Jim Leeds
Road, NJ - 6 December 1971
By: Akoya Date: May 20, 2020, 11:27 am
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Re: GALLOWAY JANE DOE: WF, 12-18, found in woods near Jim Leeds
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Re: GALLOWAY JANE DOE: WF, 12-18, found in woods near Jim Leeds
Road, NJ - 6 December 1971
By: Akoya Date: May 20, 2020, 11:29 am
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The Press of Atlantic City
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RSS Can forensic advances ID victim after 38 years in Galloway
Twp. cold case?
By EMILY PREVITI Staff Writer, 609-272-7221
Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Galloway Township Police are asking for help on a cold case
after advances in DNA technology helped them develop composite
images of a girl whose badly decomposed body was found in a
wooded area off the Garden State Parkway in 1971.
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP - New technology and a police detective's
passion have revived the search for answers in a 38-year-old
unsolved homicide.
Three hunters discovered a decomposing body in the woods east of
the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township on Dec. 6, 1971.
Through the following years, police canvassed local motels and
chased tips in and out of the state.
Forensic work determined she was a petite teenage girl with
light brown hair and perfect teeth. But how she died and who may
have caused her death remained unknown.
Detective Donna Buccafurni has been chipping away at the case
during rare moments of downtime during the past four months,
taking advantage of modern forensics tools.
"The detectives at the time did a lot of work," she said Tuesday
as she flipped through the hundreds of plastic sleeves in a red
binder.
Investigation reports written on a manual typewriter give way to
hundreds of letters, many with photos, locks of hair and dental
records attached, from families wondering whether the body
belonged to their missing daughter.
Investigators reached out to media all over the country. It is
likely the girl did not live nearby, because her description did
not match that of any of the local missing persons, Buccafurni
said.
Her body might have been dumped by someone driving along the
Garden State Parkway, who was long gone by the time the body was
found, an estimated six or more months after she was believed to
have died, according to Lt. Shawn Mildren of the Galloway
police.
Black and white photos of the scene 37 years ago show remains
barely discernible from the leaves. The skull sits eight feet
away from the rest. Animals likely moved it, Buccafurni said.
After an autopsy, which determined the girl might have been
strangled, police took the remains to the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, D.C., where an anthropologist studied
them to help a composite artist come up with a sketch.
Despite their efforts and national media attention, the case was
still unsolved in 2002 when another detective re-examined the
case, hoping advances in DNA and forensic imaging could revive
the investigation.
Nothing came of that attempt because the officer could not
locate the girl's remains, figuring they were destroyed by a
fire at the police station during the 1980s.
When Buccafurni picked up the file four months ago, she called
the Smithsonian. The remains were still there.
Buccafurni enlisted the aid of a forensic anthropologist from
the Smithsonian and a forensic artist from the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children. They returned a more
comprehensive description of the victim.
Buccafurni plans to have the remains sent to the New Jersey
State Police Crime Lab, where technicians will check a DNA
sample against a database in hopes that her parents submitted
samples of their DNA.
"If not, at least she's in there, if anything else ever comes
up," Buccafurni said.
Buccafurni's work has already closed another cold case.
One woman wrote repeatedly over the years, so Buccafurni
contacted police in Dayton, Ohio, to tell them the body might be
the woman's 16-year-old daughter, who had run away. They found
out the pair had reunited more than a decade ago and moved to
Virginia, so Dayton police could close that case, Buccafurni
said.
Buccafurni, whose father, John Higbee, served 27 years on the
Galloway force, has long held a particular curiosity about
unsolved cases. In addition to this case, she wants to probe
unsolved homicides dating back as far as the 1950s.
"I have four others, but I focused on this one mainly because I
am a mother," said Buccafurni, who has a 2-year-old daughter and
7-month-old son. "As a police officer, of course I'll continue
to investigate, but there's some poor family out there. Just to
bring them closure would be nice."
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Re: GALLOWAY JANE DOE: WF, 12-18, found in woods near Jim Leeds
Road, NJ - 6 December 1971
By: Akoya Date: May 20, 2020, 11:32 am
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OFFICIALS NEED HELP IN CRACKING COLD CASE
Phaedra Laird ( plaird@nbc40.net ) - 7/29/09 10:08 pm
Last Updated - 7/30/09 05:28 pm
GALLOWAY TWP.--Police in Galloway Township need your help in
cracking a nearly 40 year-old cold case. Officials say the first
step in figuring out how the teenage girl died, is figuring out
who she is.
"This image is a digital reconstruction of what she may've
looked like in life." She was a petite teen with perfect teeth,
according to investigators, but just about everything else about
Jane Doe remains a mystery, even almost 40 years after her
death. "Detective invested many man hours attempting to identify
this young girl and what may have happened to her," said
Detective Donna Buccafurni, with the Galloway Township Police
Department.
But, 37 years after her decomposing body was stumbled upon by
hunters in a wooded area just off the Parkway, investigators are
still stumped. "It was never determined exactly, the cause of
death due to her advanced state of decomposition. However, every
single bone in her body was located, other than the hyoid bone,
which in the neck," explained Buccafurni, "so there was a theory
that she was possibly strangled."
It was a case that left Buccafurni wanting to know more. She
opened the case back up, hoping modern technology might heat up
this cold case. "Ever since I've been a police officer, I've
always been interested in unsolved cases," she said during a
news conference this afternoon, "when I came across this case,
it just...it really touched me."
When the case first began nearly 40 years ago, investigators
reached out across the country in the hopes of identifying the
body. After receiving hundreds of letters from families across
the nation who were looking for their missing teen, police were
still unable to make a positive i.d.. "Ah, it was frustrating,"
said Edward Hepburn, a retired Lieutenant with the department,
who started the case in 1971, "I'm so happy that someone opened
it again, because someone needs some closure with their
daughter. I mean, I did everything I could."
And authorities say they'll continue to work in an effort to
finally put the case, and the teen to rest.
Anyone who may have any information or believe they may know the
identity of the teen, who was believed to be between the ages of
14-18 years old at the time of her death, is asked to contact
the Galloway Township Police Department at
(609)652-3705, extension 323.
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Re: GALLOWAY JANE DOE: WF, 12-18, found in woods near Jim Leeds
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By: Akoya Date: May 20, 2020, 11:33 am
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DNA
Complete and entered below
Type mtDNA nucDNA Y-STR
Location Other
Describe location NJSP Office of Forensic Sciences
Reference # A09-00012
Lab ORI
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Re: GALLOWAY JANE DOE: WF, 12-18, found in woods near Jim Leeds
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By: Akoya Date: May 20, 2020, 11:34 am
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Re: GALLOWAY JANE DOE: WF, 12-18, found in woods near Jim Leeds
Road, NJ - 6 December 1971
By: Akoya Date: May 20, 2020, 11:34 am
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Exit #41, Galloway, just south of the location where she was
found. Her remains were located in the woods on the east side of
the Parkway which are northbound lanes.
www.pressofatlanticcity.com
The Garden State Parkway is close to completing the rebuilding
of the Exit 41 interchange at Jimmie Leeds Road in Galloway .
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Re: GALLOWAY JANE DOE: WF, 12-18, found in woods near Jim Leeds
Road, NJ - 6 December 1971
By: Akoya Date: May 20, 2020, 11:40 am
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