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BERKS COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, found in Windsor Township, PA
- 4 June 1992
By: Akoya Date: May 31, 2020, 3:28 pm
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While plowing his field a farmer unearthed remains of a
skeletonized body that had been buried in a shallow grave. It
was determined the body had been there for at least one year. An
exact cause of death was unable to be determined. Numerous bones
of the lower extremity and neck were never recovered.
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Re: BERKS COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, found in Windsor Township
, PA - 4 June 1992
By: Akoya Date: May 31, 2020, 3:31 pm
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Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency Berks Cnty Coroners Ofc
Phone 610-478-3280
Case Manager
Name Joel Bonilla
Phone 610.478.3280
Exclusions
The following people have been ruled out as being this decedent:
First Name Last Name Year of Birth State LKA
Deborah Arvanites 1962 Pennsylvania
Brenda Condon 1962 Pennsylvania
Kathern Fetzer 1965 Ohio
Katherine Heckel 1951 Pennsylvania
Katherine Heckel 1951 Pennsylvania
Elaine Johnson 1949 Ohio
Hazel Klug 1962 Virginia
Gloria Korzon 1943 Pennsylvania
Tracy Kroh 1972 Pennsylvania
Ella Beth Lodermeier 1948 South Dakota
Anne Manchester 1954 Delaware
Barbara Miller 1959 Pennsylvania
Patricia Schmidt 1964 Virginia
Mary Smith* 1948 Pennsylvania
Karen Spencer 1972 Ohio
Charlene Villinger 1958 Virginia
Rose West 1944 Kentucky
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Re: BERKS COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, found in Windsor Township
, PA - 4 June 1992
By: Akoya Date: May 31, 2020, 3:33 pm
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ME/C Case Number: 92-0604
Berks County, Pennsylvania
25 to 40 year old White Female
Case Report - NamUs UP # 1012
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number 92-0604
Date found June 04, 1992 00:00
Date created April 22, 2008 14:28
Date last modified October 12, 2015 13:17
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed April 23, 2008 05:08
Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency Berks Cnty Coroners Ofc
Phone 610-478-3280
Case Manager
Name Joel Bonilla
Phone 610.478.3280
Demographics
Estimated age Adult - Pre 40
Minimum age 25 years
Maximum age 40 years
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) , Cannot Estimate
Height (inches) 63, Estimated
Body Parts Inventory
One or more limbs not recovered
One or both hands not recovered
Body conditions
Not recognizable - Partial skeletal parts only
Probable year of death 0 to 1992
Estimated postmortem interval 1 Years
Circumstances
Location Found
GPS coordinates
Address 1 Carl Christman Farm; Christman Road
Address 2 (Windsor Twp.)
City Virginville
State Pennsylvania
Zip code
County Berks
Circumstances
While plowing his field a farmer unearthed remains of a
skeletonized body that had been buried in a shallow grave. It
was determined the body had been there for at least one year. An
exact cause of death was unable to be determined. Numerous bones
of lower extremity and neck were never recovered.
Physical
Hair color Brown
Head hair
Light brown approximately 3 onches in length.
Skeletal findings
Skull-no fractures, Mandible-no fractures, Clavicles-140-142mm
in length & no injury, Scapulae-no fractures, Radii-221 mm
length no fractures, Ulnae-250mm each no fractures,
Humeri-humeral head posterier comminuted fracture 4cm in length,
Pelvis-sciatic n
Fingerprints
Status: Fingerprint information is currently not available
Clothing and Accessories
No clothing or accessories
Clothing and accessories are described below
Clothing on body
Dark blue or black thin long-sleeved front button sweater
w/large white buttons labeled "Benetton" size X-Large. Light
colored pullover long-sleeved shirt made of lightweight material
having 5 buttons down the front and a small collar, pleats in
front up
Clothing with body
Footwear
Jewelry
Digital sport type wrist watch with a small face, plastic band
that is orange, pink & yellow. Gray metal ring w/out stones.
Cylindrical metallic structure 4.5" length & 3/32 of an inch in
diameter. Small object appearing to be a dolphin.
Dental
Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered
DNA
Status: Sample submitted - Tests complete
Images
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Re: BERKS COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, found in Windsor Township
, PA - 4 June 1992
By: Akoya Date: May 31, 2020, 3:35 pm
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The Doe Network:
Case File 179UFPA
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Unidentified White Female
Located on June 3, 1992 in Lenhartsville, Berks County,
Pennsylvania.
June 1, 1991 and June 3, 1992, a least one year.
The cause of death has not been determined however, foul play is
suspected due to circumstances surrounding the recovery of the
body.
Partial Skeletal remains. Numerous bones of lower extremity and
neck were never recovered.
Vital Statistics
Estimated age: 25 - 45 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'0"-5'3"; 120 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Light brown hair, approximately
3 inches in length.
Clothing: Dark blue or black thin, long-sleeved, front button
sweater with large white buttons labeled "Benetton" size
X-Large. Light colored pullover long-sleeved shirt made of
lightweight material having 5 buttons down the front and a small
collar, pleats in front, with a white belt, pantyhose,
Jewelry: Digital sport type wrist watch with a small face,
plastic band that is orange, pink and yellow. Gray metal ring
without stones. Cylindrical metallic structure 4.5" length &
3/32 of an inch in diameter. Small object appearing to be a
dolphin.
Fingerprints: Not available.
Dentals: Available. She had severe periodontal disease.
DNA: Available.
Case History
The skeletal remains of this victim was discovered buried in a
shallow grave on June 3, 1992. The body was discovered in a
soybean field, by a farmer plowing his field, which is located
near Christman Road in Lenhartsville, Berks County Pennsylvania.
Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please
contact:
Berks County Coroner's Office
Joel Bonilla
610-478-3280
Email
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Pennsylvania State Police, Hamburg. PA
Cpl William Moyer
610-562-6885
Agency Case Number:
92-0604
NCIC Number:
U-574424162
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with
information regarding this case.
Source Information:
Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers
UDRS
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Re: BERKS COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, found in Windsor Township
, PA - 4 June 1992
By: Akoya Date: May 31, 2020, 3:36 pm
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Crime: Suspicious Death
Date of Release: January 29, 2001
Description from Forensic Estimates:
Female/White - 40-45 Years of Age
5' to 5'3" - 120 lbs.
Brown Hair
PENNSYLVANIA CRIME STOPPERS IS OFFERING A CASH REWARD OF UP TO
$2,000.00 THAT LEADS TO THE IDENTITY OF SKELETAL REMAINS, AND TO
THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE DEATH OF THE WOMAN.
The Pennsylvania State Police at Hamburg continue their attempt
to identify the skeletal remains of a White female who was
discovered buried in a shallow grave on June 3, 1992. The body
was discovered in a cornfield, which is located near Christman
Road in Lenhartsville, Berks County Pennsylvania. Investigators
believe that the body was buried between June 1, 1991 and June
3, 1992. The unidentified female was wearing an orange colored
plastic watch and plastic broach pin in the shape of a dolphin.
Investigators stated that the cause of death has not been
determined however, foul play is suspected due to circumstances
surrounding the recovery of the body. The forensic
reconstruction of the woman’s face was prepared based upon the
recovered skeletal remains.
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Re: BERKS COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, found in Windsor Township
, PA - 4 June 1992
By: Akoya Date: May 31, 2020, 3:38 pm
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Re: BERKS COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, found in Windsor Township
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By: Akoya Date: May 31, 2020, 3:39 pm
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Re: BERKS COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, found in Windsor Township
, PA - 4 June 1992
By: Akoya Date: May 31, 2020, 3:40 pm
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Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden | Dr. Neil A. Hoffman, a
semiretired pathologist, and deputy coroner Terri L. Straka in
the Reading Hospital morgue with a box of bones from an
unidentified woman, labeled Jane Doe, found in Windsor Township
in 1992.
Berks County investigators hope to attach names to bodies left
unclaimed
Monday April 14, 2014 12:01 AM
By Steven Henshaw
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They stumbled upon the remains in the morgue while looking for
the bones from another case: an unidentified skeleton found by a
farmer plowing a soybean field in Windsor Township, near
Lenhartsville, on June 3, 1992.
Those remains, believed to be that of a white female, 40 to 45
years old, have also never been identified. Although no cause of
death has been determined, she most likely was the victim of a
homicide, investigators have said.
"The reason we were looking for Jane Doe '92 was because
Ashtabula Police Department in Ohio contacted state police, and
state police contacted us," said Terri L. Straka, one of two
deputy coroners assigned to review unidentified body cases.
"They wanted to do a DNA match," she said. "They thought it was
a possibility (a missing woman from Ohio) was our Jane Doe from
'92. So that's what started the search."
Recent DNA analysis ruled out a link to the Ohio case, but it
took a lot of digging to even get to the point where a specimen
from the woman could be sent to a lab in Texas.
Unlike the 1997 John Doe, there was a file of the 1992 Jane Doe
at the coroner's office. But Straka could find no documentation
of what happened to the bones.
"I pulled the record ... and read the file," Straka said. "I
read it six times and I said, 'I'm not finding out where the
body is. There's no indication of a disposition. We have Jane
Doe who was found in the field, and we have no record of where
she went.'"
Straka emailed former Coroner William Fatora, who was in office
when both sets of remains were found five years apart, but he
had no recollection of where the remains ended up. Deputy
Coroner Joel Bonilla, who is assigned to work with Straka on the
Doe cases, contacted cemeteries to see if the remains were
stored in a vault, but no one had any clues.
A few weeks of searching for information led nowhere.
Other case leads to find
A conversation with the pathologist during an unrelated autopsy
last year provided the break they needed.
Straka asked Dr. Neil A. Hoffman if he had any idea what
happened to the woman. Hoffman had performed the autopsy on Jane
Doe in 1992.
Hoffman thought about it for a moment, then mentioned there was
an unmarked box in the upper drawer of one of the morgue
coolers.
They decided to have a look and found the cardboard box
containing a set of bones in brown paper bags labeled by black
marker according to body part. There was no indication anywhere
to whom those sets of remains belonged.
"We got kind of excited," Hoffman recalled. "I then went to my
file of 10,000 or so slides and sure enough, under the number
Terri (Straka) gave me I found the slides' from the woman's
case.
At the time of the discovery, other items buried in that drawer
caught Straka's attention: items marked "coroner" and "John
Doe."
"Following that autopsy ... I already knew I'm going to come
back later because there are things indicating 'coroner,' "
Straka said. "So Joel (Bonilla) and I come back on a separate
day to log and see what else we have and we end up finding
remains for a John Doe in 1997 for which we have no record at
all."
Hoffman said the coroner's office at the time probably asked for
the bones to be stored at the morgue while the investigation
continued. But years went by and the pathology department was
never given further instructions on what to do with them.
"We certainly do store things here," said Hoffman, who is
semiretired but still performs autopsies at Reading Hospital.
"This is one of the things we do for the county and have done
for many, many years."
Hess said it's unknown what happened to the record for the '97
John Doe.
Today, all unidentified remains in Pennsylvania are required to
be tested for DNA so the information can be uploaded into NamUS.
Since the database didn't exist until a few years ago, older
cases have languished.
Hess said the shoddy paperwork and labeling of evidence is
reflective of the overall mismanagement of the coroner's office
during that era. Fatora, the former coroner, and two of his
deputies went to prison for falsifying records to inflate the
number of bodies they transported in their personal vehicles in
a scheme to collect fees they did not earn. Bodies are no longer
transported in personal vehicles.
Straka had to reconstruct the John Doe '97 file for the
coroner's office and NamUS.
Luckily, she only had to visit the Robeson Police Department.
"I called Robeson Township and the secretary said Chief Phillips
had this file on his desk," Straka said. "I was so impressed
with that. I said we need to come down and see what you have
because we have nothing."
She sent a sample for DNA testing to the University of North
Texas Center for Human Identification on March 17. Even if no
match is found, she said, the unidentified man's DNA profile
will be available to police anywhere, as well as anyone looking
for a long-missing relative.
June 3, 1992: White female, 40-45 years old, 5 feet to 5 feet 3
inches, about 120 pounds, brown hair; skeletal remains found
buried in soybean field in Windsor Township near Lenhartsville;
cause of death undetermined but considered suspicious.
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Re: BERKS COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, found in Windsor Township
, PA - 4 June 1992
By: Akoya Date: May 31, 2020, 3:42 pm
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Re: BERKS COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 25-40, found in Windsor Township
, PA - 4 June 1992
By: Akoya Date: May 31, 2020, 3:43 pm
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Pennsylvania Missing Persons
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Unidentified White Female
Found June 4, 1992 in Lenhartsville, Berks County
Vital Statistics
Estimated Age: 25 to 40 years old
Estimated Height: 5'3"
Estimated Weight: 120 lbs, slim build, petite (based on how belt
was cinched and size of watchband).
Hair Color: Light Brown, about 3" long
Eye Color: unknown
Clothing: Dark blue or black think long-sleeved sweater with
large white buttons, labeled Benetton, size XL;
light colored pullover, long-sleeved shirt, made of lightweight
material with pleats up the front, 5 buttons up the front and a
small collar;
white vinyl belt.
Accessories: Digital sport type wrist watch with a small face
and an orange, pink and yellow wristband;
gray metal rings without stones;
small object, possibly a plastic broach/pin in the shape of a
dolphin;
cylindrical metallic structure 4.5" in length & 3/32" in
diameter.
State of Remains: partial skeletal. No previous fractures found
in the recovered remains.
Dentals: Available
Estimated Time of Death: a year prior to being found
Case Details
On Wednesday, June 3, 1992 the skeletal remains of this unknown
woman were found in a field on Christman's Farm in Windsor Twp,
about halfway between Virginville and Lenhartsville in Berks
County. The farmer, plowing a field, unearthed the remains from
a shallow grave, about 10 yards from Christman Road.
What the Locals Remember
In April 2005, thirteen years after "Jane Doe" was found, a good
friend of this site's owner went to the Lenhartsville area to
visit the site where her body was discovered. While there, she
was fortunate enough to meet those who had found the remains and
witnessed their removal. The recollections and photos gathered
during the visit are not to dispute or conflict with official
accounts but are being added here simply because even the
smallest detail may be the one that helps to give this woman
back her name and, finally, send her home.
The exact location is about 3.5 miles from the Lenhartsville
exit off of Route 78. It's only about 2 turns to get there. The
body was found approximately 50 feet from the road. There was a
spot to pull off and a clearing that lead to the field. The
field itself was shielded slighty with brush. It was a cornfield
that was being readied to plant soybeans.
The farmer stated that the body was not in the field when he
pulled the corn out. Pulling corn leaves gullies. That is where
the woman's body was, in a gully and partially covered. While
plowing the field, the farmer hit the body with his plow and the
head rolled towards the road. The head was skeletal but the body
was not completely skeletal, indicating that the body had been
buried deeper in the soil.
October would have been around the time the farmer pulled the
corn which would place the estimated time of death at around 8
months prior to her being found.
The woman would have been of childbearing age since remnants of
an IUD were found and it was a type given to women who had
already borne a child.
The word going around at the time was that the woman was in her
20s or 30s.
The hair on the scalp was very short and appeared more "dirty
blonde", possibly dyed, rather than brown.
The locals state wadding and shells were found at the scene and
the body appeared to have a hole in the back. Official reports
say cause of death is undetermined.
Locals say the cylindrical object might have been part of a
collapsible umbrella.
There are mushroom houses that employ immigrant workers about 2
miles uphill from where the body was found. There is also a
recreational lake, replete with summer homes and bungalows along
the lakefront. Both areas have been checked out by
investigators.
Photos and recollections courtesy of Anne Wagner, used with
permission.
Please click on the images for a larger view.
If you have any information about this case, please contact:
Pennsylvania State Police
Troop L - Hamburg
Tpr Robert Kluge
(484) 660-1011
Sources
Anne Wagner
Doe Network
NamUs
Pennsylvania State Police
The Reading Eagle
Morning Call
Express Times
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