SC SC - Fort Motte, Congaree River, Calhoun County Jane Doe 1971, WhtFem 17-35, UP61811, Oct'71

[taramarie]

Wow, I'm so impressed with the sleuthing WS users do on the cases they follow! I've been meaning to come back to this conversation to update her mitochondrial DNA discovery and got busy.

Thank you, @victoriarobinson642 for noticing that change in NamUs. It had only been up a few days when you saw it and posted it here! Yes, this young lady has now been correctly identified as having African American maternal roots. In several extraction attempts we have only been able to get enough usable DNA to identify her mtDNA haplogroup.

Please cross everything you've got for her. We've been working on extracting her DNA for several months and had to get out the big guns after several failures. Unfortunately, her head, hands and feet were removed for dental studies and fingerprinting and were most likely lost in a flood at the university used by the county in the 1970s. Without teeth or petrous bones, we are highly limited in available DNA-rich samples.

But we're not giving up on her yet! Think positive!

Any updates?

 

[Kamiko123132]

Any updates?

Not really this death is very much to me unslovedable due to little info mostly DNA can hopefully indenify the woman

 

[iulia]

Her NamUs page has been removed.

 

[cheemsg]

Her NamUs page has been removed.

Back up?
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[cheemsg]

Her NamUs page has been removed.

Goose Creek Jane Doe from 1977 NamUs has been removed though

 

[iulia]

Back up?
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Oof, my bad, I copied the wrong UP number. The Doe from SC that was removed is UP70316.

Thank you for catching my mistake, sorry about that.

SC - SC - Goose Creek, BlkUncFem 20-75, UP70316, likely walked w/stoop, poor dental care, poss from Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica or Bahamas, Oct' 77

www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/70316 Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP70316 Unsure, Multiple Date Body Found October 6, 1977 Location Found Goose Creek, South Carolina Associated Case Case Numbers NCIC Number -- ViCAP Number -- NCMEC Number -- ME/C Case Number FA77-676 Demographics Sex...

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[morgantaylor]

I've been wracking my brain on this one. What if Jane Doe was younger than the estimated 17 years of age? Phyllis Gilliam was 11 when she went missing, just up the Congaree river in Columbia, SC on August 16, 1971. Could she have been abducted near her Grandma's apartment and then dumped into the river?