CA CA - Healdsburg, WhtFem 961UFCA, 29-39, in Foss Creek, Jan'83

[MadMcGoo]

3 Missing Person Exclusions
MP2496 - Andrea Coyle 1978 Blair, PA
MP14899 - Marjorie Linehan 1982 Sacramento, CA
MP26896 - Phyllis Brewer 1981 Mahoning, OH

 

[djanga]

3 Missing Person Exclusions
MP2496 - Andrea Coyle 1978 Blair, PA
MP14899 - Marjorie Linehan 1982 Sacramento, CA
MP26896 - Phyllis Brewer 1981 Mahoning, OH

Thanks! So Andrea Coyle was ruled out, but Linda Riffin was not. However, Linda had no known connection to Pennsylvania.

 

[Schmurm]

The estimated height of the victim is 5' 5". She wore size 42 underwear. Can we tell the weight range of a women based on size 42?

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I found this case because it's mentioned on the DNA Doe Project thread, so hopefully she will be getting her name back.

DNA Doe Project - General Discussion

 

[Melt71]

Yes hopefully! Though she only came onto their stats a few weeks ago (my post of Aug 24 below).

Now a DDP case. In Namus as UP11808.
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
961UFCA

 

[EverlastingLight]

Has anyone read which of her legs was shorter than the other? Doe Network lists “one of her legs” as shorter than the other but doesn’t specify which

 

[Schmurm]

Thanks! So Andrea Coyle was ruled out, but Linda Riffin was not. However, Linda had no known connection to Pennsylvania.

According a 2017 Santa Fe newspaper article, when Ann Linda Riffin left home, her family thought she was going to Pennsylvania. Maybe she stay in PA for a while then moved on to New Mexico.

 

[djanga]

According a 2017 Santa Fe newspaper article, when Ann Linda Riffin left home, her family thought she was going to Pennsylvania. Maybe she stay in PA for a while then moved on to New Mexico.

Seems to be a good match, the date when this Jane Doe was found is close to Ann Linda's disappearance, also they have similar glasses. And the charley projects says that Ann Linda had shorter hair than is shown in the pictures.

 

[Melt71]

Now a DDP case. In Namus as UP11808.
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
961UFCA

At the lab for sequencing. Moving slowly but surely through the system.

 

[dk2020]

I know I am late to the thread here, but shouldn't there be some DNA progress by now.
Anyone know why Cheryl Carter doesn't have a missing person profile in NAMUS?

 

[dk2020]

I know I am late to the thread here, but shouldn't there be some DNA progress by now.
Anyone know why Cheryl Carter doesn't have a missing person profile in NAMUS?

From Another thread - she was added last week

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Still in NamUs:
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Moving case up. Will she be identified in 2022?

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Now on the DDP spreadsheet with a top match of 63.8 cM.

 

[heartanium]

Exclusion list as of beginning of 2023

 

[heartanium]

Ann Riffin - MP658 added

 

[heartanium]

Tried to find more newspaper articles on this Doe but didn't find any additional information.

"Gardener finds headless body" The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), Jan 25, 1983, pg 32

"Missing Mother? Healdsburg body probably female," The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), Jan 26, 1983, pg 12

"No ID established for female body," The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), Feb 2, 1983, pg 10

The third article talks about how Cheryl Linn Carter was ruled out initially by dentals.

 

[Schmurm]

According a 2017 Santa Fe newspaper article, when Ann Linda Riffin left home, her family thought she was going to Pennsylvania. Maybe she stay in PA for a while then moved on to New Mexico.

Ann Linda Riffin has been ruled out on Namus.

 

[SDMABEL]

I wonder if Theresa Louise Rains might be the doe ?

747DFCA - Theresa Louise Rains

Brown lace up boots, nose looks fairly similar, glasses dont match though and nothing to note about a limp ?

Her DNA isn't on file .

 

[summergirl1]

She has a resemblance to Cheryl Carter, but obviously isn't her. I wonder if their deaths are connected somehow, though? This Jane Doe certainly seems to have had ties to Philadelphia, based on the food stamps.