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Not viewable for me due to location. Could you paraphrase/ summarize just a little from it?
Do they mention if she was formally reported missing or what they were told about her whereabouts, if she was last in foster care?
:OThat tricky Double-Post Gremlin got othram!!!
I would want to as well but we don’t know what his home life was like. I have a lot of family in the area she was found & my grandparents lived in pineville at one point. As much as I hate to say it but that side of my family is pretty worthless tbh & if their child saw her body idk that anything would have been said because the parents were spun out or drunk most of the time. The kids were taught to stay away from police or they’d go to jail or cause the parents to go to jail & they’d go to later homes and be abused or killed. If the parents were very abusivo the kid may have thought his dad, grandpa, uncle or loved one did it and kept quiet.Yes, if I understand correctly, the vehicle was heard at the time the screams were heard.
I can’t help but wonder what state her body was in when he saw her...apparently more than once? He had to have recognized it as a human, so I assume she wasn’t too badly decomposed, depending on how close he got. And there’s no way I believe he didn’t tell and/or show others what he’d discovered. Especially if his parents thought he was full of you-know-what. I’d want to prove to someone that I wasn’t. I can’t imagine stumbling upon something like this, most especially at such a young age.
Gosh, what that girl went through at the hands of someone who should have cherished her. Rest in paradise, Shawna.A DNA extraction taken from Grace Doe's skeletal remains provided a new start. Othram, an independent lab in Texas, utilized DNA processes and genealogy to try to figure out Grace Doe's identity. Othram then provided Hall with a list of 12 possible relatives of Doe. The first two names didn't have phone numbers, so he called the third, he said.
That was Pixler. He explained that investigators were working on identifying a person in a cold case. The person had had extensive dental work done. Pixler felt in her heart that it was her half-sister, Shawna Garber.
Pixler has been trying to find her half-sister for 28 years. Their mother was not a nice person, Pixler explained. Garber was burned and later, required extensive dental work.
"She was burned and had to redo all her teeth," she said.
Hall asked if Pixler would be willing to take a DNA test. She took the test, sent it to Hall, who then sent it on to Othram. When the results came back, Hall informed her of the match.
Investigators believe Grace Doe is Shawna Garber, her half-sister. The match was made in Garber's birthday month when she would have celebrated her 53rd birthday.
She was only 22 years old when she died. Many questions remain.
Pixler Is 'Tired, Overwhelmed' That Grace Doe Is The Half-Sister She Sought
Did you mean "Her mother was only 19"?Here's a narrative of Shawna's life that I've pieced together from all articles regarding her:
Shawna was born on March 1, 1968 in Kansas. Her mother was only 29 and she was likely born out of wedlock. She had two older half-siblings who also lived with her. Shawna's mother abused the three children and burned Shawna when she was young (this later led to her requiring dental reconstruction). The family was split around 1970 and Shawna was put into a different foster home than her siblings. The last time either of her siblings saw her was around 1971 when they had a third birthday party for Shawna at a social services office. She was later raised with a family and changed her surname to "Garber".
I'll update this as I find more information.
I’ve read her mother’s obituary and she was 29, I don’t know why I added the “only”.Did you mean "Her mother was only 19"?
It's complicated. Its unclear how long she was in foster care and its even less clear what happened after she left.So I wonder what happened to her foster family and why they never searched for her.
Yes, its very sad. Investigators are digging into this now, as they trace her whereabouts and try to figure out what happened. We are hopefully they will provide an update at some point.It's unclear how long she was in foster care? That's so sad. Was there no formal plan for her after she reached adulthood? Someone failed this young woman big-time and should answer for it. Just my opinion.