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BERRIEN COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 65-75, found along Krueger Road in
garbage bags - 23 August 1992
By: Akoya Date: July 11, 2020, 9:30 am
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The victim was found on August 23, 1992 in a plastic bag, left
along Krueger Road, Berrien City, MI.
Her body was found wrapped in a sheet, towel and two garbage
bags, and bound with twine. The victim's body was nude, and the
hands and dentures were missing.
Investigators think she may have lived at a care facility in
either northern Illinois or Indiana.
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Re: BERRIEN COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 65-75, found along Krueger Road
in garbage bags - 23 August 1992
By: Akoya Date: July 11, 2020, 9:31 am
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HTML https://identifyus.org/en/cases/8224
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number 54-1780-92
Date found August 23, 1992 10:40
Date created December 08, 2010 09:41
Date last modified November 02, 2015 11:52
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed December 23, 2010 19:00
Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Name Robert Clark
Agency Berrien Cnty Med Examiners Ofc
Phone (269) 983-8313, (269
Case Manager
Name Sarah Krebs
Phone 313-215-0675
Exclusions
The following people have been ruled out as being this decedent:
First Name Last Name Year of Birth State LKA
Elizabeth Rogers 1931 North Carolina
Victoria Salisz 1918 Michigan
Nadine Timm 1935 Illinois
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Re: BERRIEN COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 65-75, found along Krueger Road
in garbage bags - 23 August 1992
By: Akoya Date: July 11, 2020, 9:32 am
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NamUs UP # 8224
ME/C Case Number: 54-1780-92
Berrien County, Michigan
65 to 75 year old White Female
Case Report - NamUs UP # 8224
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number 54-1780-92
Date found August 23, 1992 10:40
Date created December 08, 2010 09:41
Date last modified November 02, 2015 11:52
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed December 23, 2010 19:00
Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Name Robert Clark
Agency Berrien Cnty Med Examiners Ofc
Phone (269) 983-8313, (269
Case Manager
Name Sarah Krebs
Phone 313-215-0675
Demographics
Estimated age Adult - Pre 80
Minimum age 65 years
Maximum age 75 years
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) 105, Estimated
Height (inches) 63, Estimated
Body Parts Inventory (Check all that apply)
One or both hands not recovered
Body conditions
Not recognizable - Decomposing/putrefaction
Probable year of death 1992 to 1992
Estimated postmortem interval 4 Days
Circumstances
Location Found
GPS coordinates
Address 1 Red Arrow Highway
Address 2
City New Buffalo
State Michigan
Zip code
County Berrien
Circumstances
In August 1992, the skeletonized remains of an elderly woman
were found near Red Arrow Highway in New Buffalo, MI.
Physical
Hair color White
Left eye color Brown
Right eye color Brown
Eye description
No other distinctive body features
Fingerprints
Status: Fingerprint information is currently not available
Clothing and Accessories
No clothing or accessories
Clothing on body
Found nude
Dental
Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered
DNA
Status: Sample submitted - Tests complete
Images
Facial/case ID
Public viewable
Facial Reconstruction done by MSP forensic artist Amy Michaud
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Re: BERRIEN COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 65-75, found along Krueger Road
in garbage bags - 23 August 1992
By: Akoya Date: July 11, 2020, 9:32 am
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HTML http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/129ufmi.html
The Doe Network:
Case File 129UFMI
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Reconstruction of Victim
Unidentified White Female
Located on August 23, 1992 near Red Arrow Highway in New Buffalo
Township, Berrien County, Michigan
Cause of death was homicide.
Police believe that she was killed 4 - 7 days before she was
found and had been at the location for about 48 hours.
Vital Statistics
Estimated age: 65-75 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'2"; 102 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: White hair; brown eyes. She had
an appendectomy scar. Also had a broken spine which was not the
cause of death.
Dentals: No teeth. Dentures were missing.
Clothing: No clothing located.
Case History
The victim was found on August 23, 1992 in a plastic bag, left
along Krueger Road, Berrien City, MI.
Her body was found wrapped in a sheet, towel and two garbage
bags, and bound with twine. The victim's body was nude, and the
hands and dentures were missing.
Investigators think she may have lived at a care facility in
either northern Illinois or Indiana.
Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please
contact:
The Michigan State Police
Bridgman Post
616-465-6525
OR
Berrien County Medical Examiners Office
269-983-8495
Agency Case Number: 54-1780-92
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with
information regarding this case.
Source Information: Michigan State Police
NamUs
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Re: BERRIEN COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 65-75, found along Krueger Road
in garbage bags - 23 August 1992
By: Akoya Date: July 11, 2020, 9:33 am
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HTML http://www.harborcountry-news.com/f...cle_fb07b6ba-b71b-50cf-a9df-125187ff85a8.html
20 years later, she’s still a mystery
Police seeking identity of woman whose handless, toothless body
was found in New Buffalo Township
By Julie Swidwa
For the News
Sep 5, 2012
Facial reconstruction of a Jane Doe was completed by a Michigan
State Police forensic artist using the victim's skull in 1992
NILES — The identity of a woman’s body found in 1992 remains
unknown after 20 years, and the Michigan State Police Niles Post
is again asking the public for help in identifying her.
Trooper Jeffery Oudman said the woman died of natural causes.
But someone had cut off her hands, removed her teeth, tied her
up in garbage bags and dumped her body. Detectives theorize that
someone close to the woman wanted to hide her death to continue
collecting money or benefits, Oudman said. He said fingerprints
and teeth, in this case dentures, are tools police use to
identify a person.
“Without those, it makes an ID of a body almost impossible,” he
said.
The body was found on Aug. 23, 1992, by a person walking along
Krueger Road east of Red Arrow Highway in New Buffalo Township.
A medical examiner determined the victim had been dead for four
to seven days before being dumped along the road, about 24 hours
before being found. The body was wrapped in a sheet, towel and
garbage bags and then bound with twine.
Oudman said that when a body is found, the case is treated as a
homicide until proven otherwise.
“As additional information surfaced, it was determined that it
was not a homicide and that she died due to an illness,” he
said.
Oudman said an autopsy done in 1992 indicated that the woman had
been in poor health, and said she probably had a caretaker.
The victim was a white female with white hair and brown eyes who
was between 65 and 75 years old at her death. She was about 5
feet 2, weighed 103 pounds and wore dentures. Anyone with infor
mation is asked to contact the MSP Niles Post at (269) 683-4411.
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Re: BERRIEN COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 65-75, found along Krueger Road
in garbage bags - 23 August 1992
By: Akoya Date: July 11, 2020, 9:34 am
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...r_victims_in_Michigan#Berrien_County_Jane_Doe
Berrien County Jane Doe
The remains of a woman were found on August 23, 1992 in New
Buffalo, Berrien County, Michigan. The victim was nude and
between the ages of 65 and 75 when she was murdered. The victim
was wrapped in a bed sheet, two garbage bags and a towel and
left alongside a highway. Her hands were severed to prevent
identification through fingerprint examination. The victim was
also missing her dentures, as she had no teeth. The body was at
the scene for approximately two days, but she was killed four to
seven days before. The woman may have been from a nursing home
in Illinois or Indiana. She was believed to have been five feet
two inches tall at a weight of around 102 pounds.
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Re: BERRIEN COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 65-75, found along Krueger Road
in garbage bags - 23 August 1992
By: Akoya Date: July 11, 2020, 9:37 am
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Michigan-near Red Arrow Highway in New Buffalo
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Jane Doe #2 – Unidentified white female
Victim: White female
Age: 65 – 75
Height: 5′ 2″
Weight: 102
Hair: White
In August 1992, the skeletonized remains of an elderly woman
were found near Red Arrow Highway in New Buffalo, MI. The badly
decomposed body was found wrapped in a sheet and towel and two
garbage bags and bound with twine. The victim’s body was nude,
and the hands and dentures were missing. Police believe that the
woman was killed four to seven days before she was found.
If you have any information about this case, or if the above
photos remind you of someone you have not seen in a while,
please contact the Michigan State Police – Bridgman Post, (269)
469 – 1111.
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Re: BERRIEN COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 65-75, found along Krueger Road
in garbage bags - 23 August 1992
By: Akoya Date: July 11, 2020, 9:38 am
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HTML http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/31/michigan-police-still-seek-id-on-woman-killed-20-years-ago/
CHICAGO (CBS) — Michigan State Police are still trying to
identify a woman who was murdered and left on the side of a road
20 years ago this month.
It’s a case that has been handed from detective to detective for
two decades and officers won’t stop trying to solve it, WBBM
Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports.
The victim was found in New Buffalo Township. She was found
wrapped in a sheet, towel and garbage bags and bound with twine.
It’s believed she was between 65 and 75 years old and may have
lived in a care facility in northern Illinois or Indiana.
Her body was found on Aug. 23, 1992 by a pedestrian walking
along Krueger Road east of Red Arrow highway.
A medical examiner determined the victim was deceased for four
to seven days before being dumped along the road, approximately
24 hours prior to discovery, police said.
The victim was white and had brown eyes. She was approximately
5’2” tall, weighed 103 pounds and wore dentures. Her hands and
dentures were missing when she was found, police said.
Right now, she is buried in an unmarked grave as a Jane Doe.
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Re: BERRIEN COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 65-75, found along Krueger Road
in garbage bags - 23 August 1992
By: Akoya Date: July 11, 2020, 9:39 am
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MSP: After 20 Years, Body Found in New Buffalo Still
Unidentified
By Kelli Stopczynski (kstopczynski@wsbt.com)
WSBT TV Reporter
WSBT TV
6:37 p.m. EDT, August 31, 2012
At first, Mark Henshaw didn't believe his mother-in-law when she
told him she saw a body on the side of the road near her home in
rural New Buffalo Township. But the more he thought about it,
the more he thought it might be a good idea to at least drive by
and check it out.
"I rolled down my window enough to get a smell of decay and the
flies were terrible," he recalled. "I drove past what was
definitely a body wrapped in trash bags and twine. And the only
reason I knew for sure was there was some hair poking through
where the plastic bags had broken.
It was August 23, 1992.
A stack of 35 millimeter crime scene photos, a three-ring binder
and several thick folders with reports, leads, tips and
information now sits on Michigan State Police Investigator
Jeffery Oudman's desk at the Niles post.
The photographs show black trash bags wrapped in twine just a
few feet off Krueger Road, east of Red Arrow Highway.
The woman's body was wrapped in a white sheet and towels before
she was put in the bag, Oudman said. Her hands and dentures had
been removed because whoever put her there likely didn't want
her to be identified, he added.
"Now, of course, we have DNA, but back then, basically that's
all we had, was fingerprints and dental records. And because
neither was available from this body it made the investigation
all that much harder," Oudman said.
One theory, he added, was that someone may have been trying to
collect her Social Security benefits or possibly take advantage
of what she left behind. Investigators also believe the woman
may have lived in a care facility such as a nursing home in
northern Illinois or Indiana due to an illness, and the type of
white sheet that was found wrapped around her body.
A medical examiner determined the woman inside the bag died four
to seven days before being dumped. That examiner also ruled the
woman died of natural causes, but police didn't rule out foul
play because of the condition of her body when she was found.
The tips and leads into identifying her dried up years ago.
Nobody came forward to claim her as a missing friend or
relative. Police were at a dead end.
But recently, police released photographs of a facial
reconstruction an MSP forensic artist put together of that "Jane
Doe," using her skull and clay. Police describe the woman as a
white female with white hair and brown eyes who was between 65-
and 75-years-old at her death. She was approximately 5'2" tall,
weighed 103 pounds and wore dentures. The hope is that someone
will recognize her and come forward.
"We will not close this case until we find the identity of this
person," Oudman said.
As for Henshaw, the chilling discovery he made on a warm summer
day 20 years ago is something that will stay with him forever.
"It feels just like a few days ago because it's pretty clear [in
my memory]. You don't forget something like that," he said.
If you have any information about the woman or the circumstances
surrounding her death, call Detective Sergeant Douglas Kill or
Tpr. Investigator Jeff Oudman at the Niles Post at (269)
683-4411.
HTML http://www.wsbt.com/news/wsbt-new-buffalo-...0,6298091.story
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Re: BERRIEN COUNTY JANE DOE: WF, 65-75, found along Krueger Road
in garbage bags - 23 August 1992
By: Akoya Date: July 11, 2020, 9:40 am
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HTML http://articles.orlandosentinel.com
...e-doe-20120831_1_trash-bags-plastic-bags-body
Police trying to identify woman dumped in rural Berrien County
20 years ago
6:37 p.m. EST, August 31, 2012|
By Kelli Stopczynski (kstopczynski@wsbt.com)
, WSBT TV Reporter
At first, Mark Henshaw didn’t believe his mother-in-law when she
told him she saw a body on the side of the road near her home in
rural New Buffalo Township. But the more he thought about it,
the more he thought it might be a good idea to at least drive by
and check it out.
“I rolled down my window enough to get a smell of decay and the
flies were terrible,” he recalled. “I drove past what was
definitely a body wrapped in trash bags and twine. And the only
reason I knew for sure was there was some hair poking through
where the plastic bags had broken.
It was August 23, 1992.
A stack of 35 millimeter crime scene photos, a three-ring binder
and several thick folders with reports, leads, tips and
information now sits on Michigan State Police Investigator
Jeffery Oudman’s desk at the Niles post.
The photographs show black trash bags wrapped in twine just a
few feet off Krueger Road, east of Red Arrow Highway.
The woman’s body was wrapped in a white sheet and towels before
she was put in the bag, Oudman said. Her hands and dentures had
been removed because whoever put her there likely didn’t want
her to be identified, he added.
“Now, of course, we have DNA, but back then, basically that's
all we had, was fingerprints and dental records. And because
neither was available from this body it made the investigation
all that much harder,” Oudman said.
One theory, he added, was that someone may have been trying to
collect her Social Security benefits or possibly take advantage
of what she left behind. Investigators also believe the woman
may have lived in a care facility such as a nursing home in
northern Illinois or Indiana due to an illness, and the type of
white sheet that was found wrapped around her body.
A medical examiner determined the woman inside the bag died four
to seven days before being dumped. That examiner also ruled the
woman died of natural causes, but police didn’t rule out foul
play because of the condition of her body when she was found.
The tips and leads into identifying her dried up years ago.
Nobody came forward to claim her as a missing friend or
relative. Police were at a dead end.
But recently, police released photographs of a facial
reconstruction an MSP forensic artist put together of that “Jane
Doe,” using her skull and clay. Police describe the woman as a
white female with white hair and brown eyes who was between 65-
and 75-years-old at her death. She was approximately 5’2” tall,
weighed 103 pounds and wore dentures. The hope is that someone
will recognize her and come forward.
“We will not close this case until we find the identity of this
person,” Oudman said.
As for Henshaw, the chilling discovery he made on a warm summer
day 20 years ago is something that will stay with him forever.
“It feels just like a few days ago because it's pretty clear [in
my memory]. You don't forget something like that,” he said.
If you have any information about the woman or the circumstances
surrounding her death, call Detective Sergeant Douglas Kill or
Tpr. Investigator Jeff Oudman at the Niles Post at (269)
683-4411.
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