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CHESTER COUNTY JANE DOE: F, found in Valley Creek, PA - 11 July
1995
By: Akoya Date: June 3, 2020, 10:30 am
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She was located in Valley Creek on July 11, 1995, by a
fisherman. Her legs were severed and not with her body. She was
in a suitcase that was wrapped in a green trash bag. Her legs
were later discovered in Cores Creek State Park, Middletown
Twp., Bucks Co., PA, in January of 1996.
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Re: CHESTER COUNTY JANE DOE: F, found in Valley Creek, PA - 11 J
uly 1995
By: Akoya Date: June 3, 2020, 10:32 am
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NamUs UP # 13616
ME/C Case Number: J03-660370
Chester County, Pennsylvania
Age cannot be determined Female
Case Report - NamUs UP # 13616
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number J03-660370
Date found July 11, 1995 13:15
Date created March 04, 2015 14:55
Date last modified April 11, 2017 13:33
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed
Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency Chester Cnty Coroners Ofc
Phone 610-344-6165
Case Manager
Name Chadwick Roberts
Phone 717-299-7650
Demographics
Estimated age Cannot Determine
Minimum age 18 years
Maximum age 40 years
Race Unsure
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) 125, Estimated
Height (inches) 64, Estimated
Body Parts Inventory (Check all that apply)
All parts recovered
Body conditions
Not recognizable - Decomposing/putrefaction
Probable year of death 1995 to 1995
Circumstances
Location Found
GPS coordinates 40.004118 -75.664671
Address 1 42' East of Valley Creek Rd.
Address 2 .25m South of Boot Rd.
City
State Pennsylvania
Zip code
County Chester
Circumstances
Unidentified female was located in Valley Creek on 07/11/95. Her
legs were severed and not with body. She was in a suitcase which
was wrapped in a green trash bag. Legs were later discovered in
Cores Creek State Park, Middletown Twp., Bucks Co., PA January
1996.
Physical
Hair color Brown
Head hair
short length approx. 6" - 6 1/2 "
Body hair
normal
Facial hair
none
Left eye color Brown
Right eye color Brown
Eye description
No other distinctive body features
Fingerprints
Status: Fingerprint information is available elsewhere
Clothing on body
Blood-stained bra.
Clothing with body
Light blue long sleeve denim blouse w/ collar w/ white 3" band
across chest & back. The band had vertical blue stripes within.
Buttons were copper color and they were buttoned up.
Footwear
N/A
Jewelry
N/A
Eyewear
N/A
Other items found
with body
A white headband/hairband, blood-stained bed sheets (fitted and
regular), bed quilt. The body was in a zippered garment bag.
Dental
Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered
DNA
Status: Sample submitted - Tests complete
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Re: CHESTER COUNTY JANE DOE: F, found in Valley Creek, PA - 11 J
uly 1995
By: Akoya Date: June 3, 2020, 10:33 am
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(Frank Bender)
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Re: CHESTER COUNTY JANE DOE: F, found in Valley Creek, PA - 11 J
uly 1995
By: Akoya Date: June 3, 2020, 10:35 am
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Re: CHESTER COUNTY JANE DOE: F, found in Valley Creek, PA - 11 J
uly 1995
By: Akoya Date: June 3, 2020, 10:37 am
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Unidentified Wiki
Chester County Jane Doe
Chester County Jane Doe was a young woman found dismembered in
1995.
Chester County Jane Doe
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Sex Female
Race Unknown
Possibly White/Hispanic
Location East Caln Township, Pennsylvania
Found July 11, 1995
Unidentified for 21 years
Postmortem interval 3 - 7 days
Body condition Decomposed
Age approximation 17 - 40
Height approximation 4'11 - 5'3
Weight approximation 120 - 140 pounds
Cause of death Presumed homicide
This case contains graphic content that may not be suitable for
all readers.
Chester County Jane Doe was a young woman found dismembered in
1995.
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Re: CHESTER COUNTY JANE DOE: F, found in Valley Creek, PA - 11 J
uly 1995
By: Akoya Date: June 3, 2020, 10:39 am
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Date of Discovery: July 11, 1995
Location of Discovery: East Caln Township, Chester County,
Pennsylvania
Estimated Date of Death: 3-7 days prior
State of Remains: Not recognizable - Decomposing/putrefaction
Cause of Death: Homicide
Physical Description
Estimated Age: 17-40 years old
Race: White or Hispanic
Gender: Female
Height: 4'11" to 5'3"
Weight: 120-140 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Light complexion, pierced ears.
Identifiers
Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Available
DNA: Available
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: She was found with a light-blue denim shirt with a
collar, long sleeves, copper-colored buttons, and light-colored
bands across the chest and back, and a denim skirt.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: The body was placed in a suitcase
covered with a green trash bag. The large suitcase is maroon
leather grain vinyl with three buckles and a zipper. It has
small wheels at the bottom. Some clothing, bed sheets and a
quilt were found in the suitcase. The bed cover is this quilted
material with a white background and a modern, green, black and
light blue design. The suitcase and quilt she was found within
were sold at K-Mart stores.
Circumstances of Discovery
On July 11, 1995 the victim's nude torso was found in a maroon
suitcase covered with a green trash bag along the Brandywine
Creek, on Valley Creek Road, South of Boot Road in Downingtown,
PA. Near Downingtown and West Chester Pennsylvania.
The victim's legs had been removed from her pelvis. The torso
was wrapped in a sheet and then packaged in a plastic quilt bag.
The bag was then wrapped in a quilt and placed in a suitcase,
which in turn was bound with wire, taped, and placed in the
garbage bag.
The woman's fingerprints did not match with any records. On
January 29, 1996, partially skeleton legs were found wrapped in
trash bags in the Cores Creek State Park in Middletown Township,
Bucks County, PA near Bensalem, Pennsylvania. Also at the site
was a bag containing various items of ladies' formal, ladies'
casual and girls' casual clothing.
Due to decomposition, medical examiners were unable to
positively match the legs and torso with DNA evidence. However,
when doctors placed the right femur head into the acetabulum of
the torso, the leg fit perfectly into the hip.
Investigators are fairly certain she was killed elsewhere and
her remains dumped where they were found. The victim had had a
small bruise on her eye and two small bruises on her back,
indicating a possible fight but not a serious struggle. Yet,
there was no evidence of strangulation or rape. She had a
blood-alcohol level that indicated minimal alcoholic intake,
roughly one or two drinks. There was no evidence of drugs in her
system.
Police presume she did not come from the Philadelphia area. She
is possibly not from United States.
Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Pennsylvania State Police
Agency Contact Person: Trooper Henry Callithen
Agency Phone Number: 610-268-2022
Agency Fax Number: 610-268-3845
Agency E-Mail: pquigley(at)state.pa.us
Agency Case Number: J03-660370
NCIC Case Number: U853071055
NamUs Case Number: 13616
Information Source(s)
NamUs
Unidentified Wiki
NCMEC
Pennsylvania State Police
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Admin Notes
Added: 7/22/2000; Last Updated: 10/3/2016
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Re: CHESTER COUNTY JANE DOE: F, found in Valley Creek, PA - 11 J
uly 1995
By: Akoya Date: June 3, 2020, 10:42 am
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A Sad Ghost Story in Pennsylvania
I worked in the Coatesville Service Building in Chester County,
Pennsylvania. Usually I would arrive at work about 4:00 a.m. to
prep the schedules for the Work Week Managers and was generally
alone for a couple of hours. The strange events began one
morning as I was sitting at my computer, enclosed in a cubicle
with a wall that only went ½ way up way and I could see out into
the hall from where I sat.
For several mornings in a row I noticed the lights in the hall
would turn off and then on, in a series - one went out, then the
next, and so on. I thought nothing of it, other than the fact
that it seemed a bit strange that they would go out in a
pattern.
Then one morning I saw a lady, with her head down, walk from the
hallway into the doorway near my desk. Wet hair was hanging down
around her lowered face and she seemed very sad. She had on a
blue denim top with white stripes running across, and a gold
spot highlighted over her heart.
I thought she was just some person that had come into the
building off the street. She looked at me and I looked at her,
then she passed to the right of me down the other hallway. When
I jumped up to follow her, there was no one there. I checked the
halls, the bathrooms, and still, no sight of anyone. The next
morning she returned -- woeful, the same wet hair and blue denim
top, again stopping in front of me. Suddenly, I realized that
the woman standing before me was dead and I froze in my seat,
not daring to move. I never saw her below the waist, just from
the waist up. Then, the saddened woman again disappeared once
again down the hall.
I was growing a bit concerned when I saw her a third morning and
I told my friend Joie, who occupied the cubicle beside mine. We
checked to see if anyone had died in the building but no one
had. We then began checking around the neighborhood and found
that a young woman had been killed close by a few years earlier.
Searching the web for a news article, we found nothing from the
press; however, we did find a police report indicating that a
young woman had been found along the Brandywine Creek, near our
work place.
The woman had been dismembered and placed inside a suitcase. Her
legs were missing. They had a picture of her clothes and I was
shocked when I saw the lady's blouse - blue denim with white
stripes and copper colored buttons. Her body was unclaimed and
unidentified and later I saw the story featured on America's
Most Wanted.
I tried to find out if there were any other sightings of this
ghostly apparition, but I could not find any. In the course of
looking for other sightings I ran across a lady named Leslie
Rule who investigates these things. She said there was some
unfinished business that was keeping the girl on earth. I had
some Masses said for her, enrolled her for Perpetual Masses and
I named her Mary Angel. I have never seen her since!
Sincerely,
Katie Furman
June, 2004
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CHESTER COUNTY JANE DOE: F, found in Valley Creek, PA - 11 July
1995 FZvxPWr
On July 11, 1995, a fisherman found the dismembered body of
woman described to have been between the ages of 25 and 30
stuffed in a suitcase in a remote area of Chester County,
Pennsylvania, along the bank of the Brandywine Creek. Inside the
maroon suitcase, was a garment bag, which contained a trash bag
sealed with plastic packing tape. The trash bag contained the
woman’s head and torso but did not contain her legs. An
immediate alert went out in the area and 20 to 30 troopers were
assigned to search for the woman’s killer and her identity. But,
no one claimed to have known her.
Forensic experts described her to have been between 4-foot-11
and 5-foot-4 and weighing between 125 and 140 pounds. Believing
that she was most likely to have been of European/Caucasian or
Hispanic descent, she had fair skin, with short brown hair and
brown eyes.
At the time of her death she was wearing a light blue denim
shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and copper-colored
buttons. Discovered within three to seven days of her death, her
fingerprints did not yield a match, so she was obviously never
arrested in the United States.
A little more than six months later, in late January of 1996, a
hiker found two leg bones and another green plastic trash bag
containing items of clothing in a remote area of Bucks County, a
site roughly 50 miles away. Although mutilation and
decomposition made it impossible to get a conclusive DNA match,
other evidence convinced investigators that both sets of remains
were those of the same woman - and that her legs had been
amputated after death. This new development added new
information for the investigators, but they were still unable to
find her identity or her killer.
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In 1997, police commissioned Frank Bender, a top forensic
artist, to reconstruct a replica of the woman's head from the
facial bones found in the suitcase. The woman’s facial bust was
then broadcasted throughout the local and national media, but
still no avail.
Since the body was found in 1995, the details of the case have
been shown on America's Most Wanted through two broadcasts: one
in June of 2001 and one in March of 2002, dubbing the case the
"Pennsylvania Suitcase Jane Doe." Over the years, there have
been hundreds of tips - including the "vision" of a psychic on
The Montel Williams Show
All these years later, despite an intensive and continuing
investigation and the publicity, her identity and her killer
remain undiscovered.
If you have information about this case, please contact the
Pennsylvania State Police at 717-783-5524 or their website at
HTML http://www.psp.state.pa.us/
or
Call Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers Toll Free at 1-800-4PA-TIPS.
Callers could be eligible for cash rewards up to $ 1,000.00 and
you may remain anonymous. Website:
HTML http://www.pacrimestoppers.org/index.htm
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Re: CHESTER COUNTY JANE DOE: F, found in Valley Creek, PA - 11 J
uly 1995
By: Akoya Date: June 3, 2020, 10:44 am
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Pennsylvania Missing Persons
and Unidentified Victims
Unidentified White/Hispanic Female
Found July 11, 1995 in East Caln Twp, Chester County
Vital Statistics
Estimated Age: 25 to 35
Estimated Height: 4'11" to 5'3"
Estimated Weight: 125 lbs
Hair Color: Dark brown, worn short (6-6 1/2")
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Characteristic: pierced ears
DNA: Available
Fingerprints: Available in AFIS and Interpol
Dentals: Available in CODIS
Distinguishing Characteristics: pierced ears
Clothing: (found with body) A light blue, long-sleeved denim
shirt with collar, light colored bands across the chest and back
and copper colored buttons. A denim skirt.
Case Details
On Tuesday, July 11, 1995, a fisherman casting into the Valley
Creek, just outside of the Twin Tunnels in Downingtown, Chester
County discovered a green trash bag on the banks of the creek.
Inside the trash bag he found a maroon suitcase bound with wire
and tape. Inside the suitcase were bed sheets, a quilt, some
clothing and a quilt/garment bag. Enclosed in the bag were the
head and torso of a woman.
Pennsylvania State Police found that while there was clothing
inside of the suitcase, the woman was nude except for a
blood-stained bra. There was nothing to help identify her, no
purse, paperwork or license. She had no tattoos or distinctive
scars. Her face had decomposed to the point where her features
were unrecognizable.
Her legs were missing. Authorities searched the area but no
other body parts were found.
The suitcase was leather-grained vinyl with wheels on the
botton. The quilt was a modern pattern of green, black and light
blue. Both the quilt and suitcase were mass-produced and
possibly sold by KMart.
An autopsy revealed that the woman had likely been killed 3 to 7
days prior to being found. Cause of death was inconclusive.
There was no indication of strangulation or sexual assault. She
had a bruised right eye and two small bruises on her back,
possibly indicating her trying to flee her killer but no
indication of a fierce struggle. She had no drugs in her system
and her blood-alcohol level indicated a possible consumption of
one, maybe two drinks prior to her death.
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Top image: known as the Twin Tunnels, even though there are
three. Jane Doe was found outside of the middle one, the one
that Valley Creek runs through.
Bottom Image: Google Earth satellite view of where her remains
were found.
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The suitcase along with the quilt and shirt that were stuffed
inside with her head and torso.
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January 28, 1996 - just over six months later and roughly 50
miles away....
...leg bones and a foot were discovered in Core Creek Park in
Bucks County. They were found in a wooded area near the Duchess
Lane picnic area between Park Road and Bridgetown Pike. The
bones appeared to be from either a child or a small adult. The
Bucks Couny Coroner estimated that they belonged to someone who
had been deceased for about six months.
DNA testing was conducted to determine if the legs were those
belonging to the torso found in Valley Creek but the tests were
inconclusive, however, three forensic pathologists, after
extensive examination of the body parts, concluded that the body
parts came from the same person. Their conclusions were based on
similar cuts between the torso and the legs and that the right
leg fit perfectly into the torso. The legs were later cremated,
as was the normal routine at the time due to storage
limitations.
Found nearby was a green trash bag filled with clothing that may
have belonged to the victim. Among the clothes were:
a blue, black and pink sweater, size 10, Jet Set brand with
Mickey & Minnie Mouse on it;
a denim jacket with a red border at the bottom, Bonjour brand;
a small black jumper.
Found away from the trash bag was a white blouse with black and
gold buttons.
The sizes of the clothing were consistent with those found with
the torso.
Anecdotal Information
This unidentified woman was featured twice on America's Most
Wanted, who dubbed her "Suitcase Jane Doe" - not to be confused
with "Beth Doe" found in Carbon County in 1976. At this time,
there is nothing to indicate that the two cases are related.
In at least one publication, one of the legs was described as
being "skinned". This site's owner was told by an investigator
that the absence of skin/soft tissue was due to decomposition
and/or animal activity, not from being skinned.
The location of the torso has been publicized in various
publications over the years as being found in the Brandywine
River. She was actually found about 5 miles east of the
Brandywine in Valley Creek, just outside the tunnel.
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Re: CHESTER COUNTY JANE DOE: F, found in Valley Creek, PA - 11 J
uly 1995
By: Akoya Date: June 3, 2020, 10:45 am
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Re: CHESTER COUNTY JANE DOE: F, found in Valley Creek, PA - 11 J
uly 1995
By: Akoya Date: June 3, 2020, 10:45 am
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