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Re: JONESTOWN JANE DOE: WF, 12-20, found in wooded area of Leba
non County, PA - October 1973
By: Akoya Date: June 4, 2020, 11:57 am
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homicide victim found alive and well
POSTED 12:02 PM, OCTOBER 15, 2015, BY JEREMY TANNER,
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Pennsylvania State Police created this bust in an effort to
identify a 1973 Jane Doe after finding out the woman they
believed to be the victim is actually alive. (FOX43)
This is an archived article and the information in the article
may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to
see when it was last updated.
UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. – A young runaway who police believed was
the victim of a homicide four decades ago has been found alive
42 years later, and now state police are asking for help in
identifying Jane Doe.
For years, police suspected the case was a homicide, and
believed that the unidentified victim was likely Betsy Langjahr,
a teen who ran away from a nearby group home.
On Friday, Pennsylvania State Police held a news conference in
hopes of finding a break in the 1973 case. After receiving
multiple tips, police announced Tuesday that they had found
Betsy Langjahr — very much alive, according to the Lebanon Daily
News. Police wouldn’t say where she lives now.
The case began on October 10, 1973 when a game warden found a
female’s nude, decomposing body in a wooded area underneath a
tarp off Moonshine Road at the intersection of Ridge Road and
Tomstown Road in Union Township.
The woman, who appeared to be 16 and 20 years old, died between
one and three weeks before the grisly discovery, according to
police.
Trooper Nathan Trate, who took over the case in 1995, suspected
that Jane Doe might have been one of four teens who ran away
from a Jonestown home for troubled youths, Talbot Hall. The
building now houses the Jonestown American Legion after Talbot
Hall was closed in 1980.
Trate said he was able to immediately rule out three of the
teens, but could never confirm that the body didn’t belong to
Langjahr — until now.
Trate, a father of three, told the paper he thinks about the
victim everyday.
Trate is asking anyone with information to call (717) 865-3647
or email ntrate@pa.gov
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Re: JONESTOWN JANE DOE: WF, 12-20, found in wooded area of Leba
non County, PA - October 1973
By: Akoya Date: June 4, 2020, 11:58 am
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Pennsylvania State Police exhume body of "Jane Doe"
John Latimer, johnlatimer@ldnews.com 5:43 p.m. EDT May 31, 2016
Found in 1973 the young woman's identity and circumstances of
death are unknown
Pennsylvania State Police investigators on Tuesday exhumed the
remains of a unknown woman found dead 43 years ago near Fort
Indiantown Gap.
The exhumation took place at Mount Lebanon Cemetery on Maple
Street in Lebanon, in a remote corner of the graveyard
overlooking Stoever’s Dam Park.
Known simply as Jane Doe, the woman’s body was found by two
deputy game wardens on Oct. 10, 1973, buried under plastic tarps
and brush in a wooded area off Route 443, also known as
Moonshine Road, near Ridge and Tomston roads in Union Township.
The men were drawn to the area by the strong stench of the badly
decomposed body, which was completely naked with no jewelry or
other identifying markers, according to Daily News reports at
the time she was found.
All that is known about her is that she was white, about 16 to
18 years old, between 5-feet 6-inches and 5-feet 8-inches tall,
with brown or blonde hair. She had been in the woods an
estimated one to three weeks.
LEBANON DAILY NEWS
PA State Police release new information on naked woman found
dead in Lebanon County in 1973
For the past couple of years, Corporal Nathan Trate has been
investigating the cold case which is classified as a "suspicious
death."
Working under bright sunshine for several hours with a forensic
anthropologist, Trate and other investigators carefully removed
the woman's bones and skull from the coffin, gave them to
representatives of Rohland's Funeral Home for safekeeping
overnight and then filled in the grave.
Trate said he was holding out hope that some other evidence
might be found with the body but was disappointed.
"We thought there might have been some sort of piece of evidence
that got overlooked and was buried with it, but we didn't find
it. It was a theory that I had but it didn't pan out," he said.
The remains removed from the grave will be taken to Lehigh
Valley Hospital on Wednesday where they will be examined and
then selected bones will be forwarded to the University of North
Texas for Isotope testing, which may provide clues to where she
was born, said Trate.
“We have a DNA profile of her but the Isotope testing will help
us try to narrow down the region she could possibly be from,” he
said. “We can’t dismiss these things. If there’s an idea and we
have the technology we are going to try it.”
Pennsylvania State Police Cpl. Nathan Trate (center)Buy Photo
Pennsylvania State Police Cpl. Nathan Trate (center) looks for
evidence in the grave where investigators exhumed the body of a
Jane Doe in hopes of solving a cold case from 1973 at Mt.
Lebanon Cemetery on Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Investigators are
hoping to identify a woman who was found dead in the woods along
Moonshine Road in Union Township on Oct. 10, 1973 and was buried
in the Lebanon cemetery. (Photo: Jeremy Long, Lebanon Daily
News)
Finding out where the woman is from will add another valuable
piece to the puzzle, Trate said.
“She could be foreign. Somebody presented that a couple of
months back. If we find that out, that would help us,” he said.
“If, on the other hand, the test comes back and she is from this
area, then we will start a theory about that. Like maybe it’s a
family member that didn’t report it because they hurt her.”
The missing woman has received a good deal of publicity in the
past year in the hopes that it may generate information to solve
the case.
In October, a news conference was held to unveil a forensic bust
of the woman that was made from drawings done at the time of the
initial investigation.
Then in February, a three-dimensional facial reconstruction was
done by a forensic artist from the National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children.
The organization also was instrumental in organizing Tuesday’s
exhumation, which was done with a court order after the state
police received approval from Lebanon County District Attorney
David Arnold and Coroner Dr. Jeffrey Yocum. The organization
paid for the exhumation and arranged for the assistance of
forensic anthropologist Frederick Snow, said Trate.
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“We are definitely fortunate the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children have been nothing but fantastic with us,” he
said. “They are paying for this, so this is not out of the tax
payers’ money, other than the troopers investigating. But again,
this is what we are supposed to do. This is what we get paid to
do.”
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While the publicity has generated tips, it has not helped crack
the case. It has, however, produced positive results by
eliminating some possible subjects and in a couple of cases
reuniting the relatives of missing individuals with their
families, Trate said.
Trate started working on the case while a trooper at the
Lickdale station, but was recently promoted and transferred to
the Harrisburg station where he is a patrol supervisor. He has
received permission to continue investigating the mysterious
Jane Doe, he said.
Employees of Rohland Funeral Home remove the remains
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Re: JONESTOWN JANE DOE: WF, 12-20, found in wooded area of Leba
non County, PA - October 1973
By: Akoya Date: June 4, 2020, 11:59 am
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State police are exhuming the remains of a body in a Lebanon
County cemetery connected to the unsolved 1973 Jonestown Jane
Doe case in Lebanon County.
Trooper David Beohm said Troop L's major case team is at Mount
Lebanon Cemetery for the exhumation in the case known as
Jonestown Jane Doe.
In February, state police released a new 3D skull facial
reconstruction in the case of the woman's remains that were
found by game protectors Oct. 10, 1973 at Route 443 and Tomstown
Road in Union Township.
"I think about her everyday," investigator says of unidentified
female "I think about her everyday," investigator says of
unidentified female
In 1973, a forensic anthropologist sketched what the female may
look like, and police unveiled a 3-D bust in October 2015 to
create a fuller possible picture of the victim.
Police described the victim as a white female, approximately 16
to 20 years old, between 5-feet-6-inches and 5-feet-8-inches
tall and with blonde or light brown hair. The body lay in the
woods for one to two weeks before the discovery.
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Unidentified White Female
Found October 10, 1973 in Fort Indiantown Gap Military
Reservation, Lebanon County.
Vital Statistics
Estimated Age: 16-20 years old
Estimated Height & Weight: 5'6"-5'8" with a thin build.
Hair Color: Light Brown or Blonde
Eye Color: Unknown
Dentals: Available, Extensive dental work.
Fingerprints: Available
DNA: Not Available
State of Remains: Decomposed from the waist up.
Estimated Time of Death: September 1973
Other: no clothing, jewelry or other personal effects.
Distinguishing Characteristics: thin nose with the bridge swayed
slightly left with tip to the right. High forehead and a strong,
tilted chin.
No previous fractures.
Case Details
On October 10, 1973 at about 6:30pm, the badly decomposed
remains of a young woman were found about 200 yards off of Route
443 near Green Point. The area she was found in is part of the
Fort Indiantown Gap Military Reservation land. She was found by
two Deputy Game Protectors.
There had been no attempt to bury the body. She was covered by
tree branches, brush and a 48"x32.5" piece of plastic. On the
plastic was a white seal which read, "National Sanitation
Foundation, Testing Laboratory, Number 8505".
Despite contacting dentists, families of missing girls and other
police departments, the girl's identity remains unknown.
so some 42 1/2 years ago, this teen girl was murdered, her body
left in some foresty park. apparently despite her young age no
one reported her missing. and both the murderer and her identity
remains unknown. i think the first lead would be her family,
maybe father or brother, killed her and ofc had no reason to
report her missing. or she is a tourist or immigrant.
if she was 16 in 1973 then she was probably born 1957. so
there's some hope, esp if she's from the area she was found in.
there's are fairly large community of sleuthers who work on UID
unidentified decendents and they propose this missing person
Sandra Lee Hopler Profiles the disappearance of Sandra Lee
Hopler, missing since September 29, 1973 from La Plume,
Pennsylvania.
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Re: JONESTOWN JANE DOE: WF, 12-20, found in wooded area of Leba
non County, PA - October 1973
By: Akoya Date: June 4, 2020, 12:00 pm
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The intersection in Lebanon County where the body of a woman was
found in 1973, Oct. 09, 2015. James Robinson, PennLive.com
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readingeagle.com
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Re: JONESTOWN JANE DOE: WF, 12-20, found in wooded area of Leba
non County, PA - October 1973
By: Akoya Date: June 4, 2020, 12:01 pm
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From : Lebanon Daily News Saturday, February 9, 1974
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Re: JONESTOWN JANE DOE: WF, 12-20, found in wooded area of Leba
non County, PA - October 1973
By: Akoya Date: June 4, 2020, 12:02 pm
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Re: JONESTOWN JANE DOE: WF, 12-20, found in wooded area of Leba
non County, PA - October 1973
By: Akoya Date: June 4, 2020, 12:03 pm
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Jonestown, Pennsylvania
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Re: JONESTOWN JANE DOE: WF, 12-20, found in wooded area of Leba
non County, PA - October 1973
By: Akoya Date: June 4, 2020, 12:05 pm
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Police exhume remains
abc27.com
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Re: JONESTOWN JANE DOE: WF, 12-20, found in wooded area of Leba
non County, PA - October 1973
By: Akoya Date: June 4, 2020, 12:07 pm
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Re: JONESTOWN JANE DOE: WF, 12-20, found in wooded area of Leba
non County, PA - October 1973
By: Akoya Date: June 4, 2020, 12:08 pm
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NamUs UP # 12689
ME/C Case Number: L02-12591
Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
12 to 19 year old White Female
Case Report - NamUs UP # 12689
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number L02-12591
Date found October 10, 1973 00:00
Date created July 01, 2014 13:25
Date last modified December 31, 2015 06:52
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed July 01, 2014 00:00
Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency Lebanon Cnty Coroners Ofc
Phone 717-272-4421
Case Manager
Name Carol Schweitzer
Phone 703-837-6342
Demographics
Estimated age Late Teen/Young Adult
Minimum age 12 years
Maximum age 19 years
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) , Cannot Estimate
Height (inches) 67, Estimated
Body Parts Inventory (Check all that apply)
All parts recovered
Head not recovered
Torso not recovered
One or more limbs not recovered
One or both hands not recovered
Body conditions
Not recognizable - Decomposing/putrefaction
Probable year of death 1973 to 1973
Estimated postmortem interval 1 Weeks
Circumstances
Location Found
GPS coordinates
Address 1
Address 2
City Jonestown
State Pennsylvania
Zip code 17038
County Lebanon
Circumstances
An unidentified female was found in a rural area of Union
Township in Lebanon County, PA on October 10, 1973. She was
found several feet off a dirt road in between Tomstown Road and
Moonshine Road (Rt. 443) which locals call the Five Point area.
The female had been deceased several weeks.
Physical
Hair color Blond/Strawberry
Head hair
long, very light brown, reddish hair
Body hair
Facial hair
Left eye color Unknown or Missing
Right eye color Unknown or Missing
Eye description
No other distinctive body features
Distinctive features as described below
Amputations
Deformities
Scars and marks
Tattoos
Piercings
Artificial body parts
and aids
Finger and toe nails
Other distinctive
physical characteristics
Medical
Medical implants
Foreign objects
Skeletal findings
Organ absent
Prior surgery
Other medical
information
Fingerprints
Status: Fingerprint information is currently not available
Clothing and Accessories
No clothing or accessories
Clothing and accessories are described below
Clothing on body
No clothing or jewelry found with body.
Clothing with body
Footwear
Jewelry
Eyewear
Other items found
with body
Dental
Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered
DNA
Status: Sample submitted - Tests complete
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