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Re: PERRY COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 15-38, found near Newport, PA - 2
0 June 1979
By: Akoya Date: June 5, 2020, 3:15 pm
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Re: PERRY COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 15-38, found near Newport, PA - 2
0 June 1979
By: Akoya Date: June 5, 2020, 3:18 pm
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New lead on Jane Doe found in Pennsylvania
January 23, 2015 at 5:51am
An unidentified female was found off Route 22/322 in Perry
County, PA in June of 1979. She had been deceased for several
months up to one year. Female was in her late teens to mid
twenties, Caucasian, and had light brown to blonde hair.
Recently the Pennsylvania State Police requested assistance from
the Smithsonian to complete isotope analysis on bone and hair
samples from the female. Results indicate she spent a
significant amount of time in the Great Lakes region or southern
Canadian provinces during her adolescence. During the final
months of life she likely spent time in the Great Lakes region
or possibly the southwestern United States.
The female was found wearing several pieces of jewelry that
included three rings, a bracelet, pendant necklace and earrings.
Several of the pieces contained turquoise and black onyx.
Authorities believe some of the jewelry could be Native American
and may correlate with the isotope results suggesting the female
could have spent a few months before her death in the
southwestern United States.
Please share the post and help us identify this female. Contact
the Pennsylvania State Police Criminal Investigations
(717)783-5599 or NCMEC at 1-800-THE-LOST if you have any
information.
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Re: PERRY COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 15-38, found near Newport, PA - 2
0 June 1979
By: Akoya Date: June 5, 2020, 3:19 pm
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Midstate Mysteries: Smithsonian testing reveals new leads in ’79
cold case
In the summer of 1979, a young woman’s skeletal remains were
found along the side of the Juniata River near Newport.
Police hoped her clothing and unique turquoise jewelry would
help them to quickly identify her, but 36 years later they are
no closer to answers. They still don’t know who she was, where
she came from, or who left her on the side of the riverbank.
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But now, thanks to Dr. Christine France of the Smithsonian
Museum Conservation Institute in Suitland, Maryland, there are
new leads in this long-time cold case.
Dr. France tested a bone, tooth and hair samples from the girl
with the turquoise jewelry. She was looking at hydrogen and
oxygen isotopes, because those isotopes are unique to different
geographical regions.
“You are what you eat,” Dr. France said. “So anything you eat or
drink is going to have a distinct chemical signature and that
gets incorporated into your bones and your hair and your teeth
and your skin and every part of your body basically.” Different
parts of the body can tell scientists different things about the
person. For example, the teeth tells them where the person spent
their adolescence. The hair tells them where they were most
recently. And the bone gives them a snapshot of about the past
15 years.
In this case, Dr. France determined, based on her hair, the girl
may have visited the Southwest in the months prior to her death.
That matches a theory investigators had already formed, based on
her Indian-style jewelry. “That was very rewarding to see maybe
my data may actually confirm what they know and give them
impetus to look in that area a little more strongly,” Dr. France
said.
And what’s more; based on her teeth, Dr. France believes the
girl grew up in the Great Lakes region or possibly in southern
Canada. Based on that information, new fliers were sent to
Canadian authorities.
“We’ve had a tough time identifying her so there was always the
thought in the back of my mind that maybe she was a foreigner,”
said Trooper Donald Chewning, who is leading the suspicious
death investigation for the Pa. State Police. “We’ve had a
couple calls, however the two missing women from that time
period from Canada, I’ve already eliminated them, either by
dental or DNA.”
But Chewning said at this point he is grateful for any leads.
He’s also grateful to Dr. France for doing the tests at no cost
to the Pa. State Police.
“We just need one piece of the puzzle to find out who she is,”
Chewning said. “And we may never find out how she came to that
area, but at least we’ll know who she is.” Dr. France said it’s
rewarding, to take technology often used in archaeology and
paleontology, and apply it to modern forensics.
“I am a parent and when I think about missing children, that
hits home,” Dr. France said. “I definitely think about who these
people might have been and I would like to help them get home if
I can.” But for now, the girl with the turquoise jewelry remains
in the Perry County morgue; unidentified, unclaimed, but not
uncared for.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Perry
County Crimestoppers at 1-866-210-8477 or Trooper Donald
Chewning at 717-567-3110.
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Re: PERRY COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 15-38, found near Newport, PA - 2
0 June 1979
By: Akoya Date: June 5, 2020, 3:20 pm
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