I am assuming not-there seems to be some kind of backstory with Joann Perez...we have a bad last seen date etc...no prints, no dentals and they are using mito DNA for ID...makes ya wonder who the suspect might be??
Hi all! :clap:
So great to see all of the concerned members helping on this one. THANK YOU! She has certainly weighed on our minds as well... I can PROMISE you we have been working to get her Id'd since the DAY she was discovered. I can't even tell you how much work has been done, by many, many agencies. And it came down to, a few days after she finally had a MP profile and a photo posted on the wonderful TXDPS site, ta-daaaaH!! Someone picked up on the undeniable likeness. Perez Cisneros' profile wasn't posted until a year and a half after this DOE was discovered. So it wasn't that you guys missed her on the sites...
This happens OFTEN with missing adults - many times they don't get reported. We think, "How could that be? Didn't anyone notice?" But, don't you guys have friends that you haven't been in touch with for a few months for whatever reason, but they didn't go to the police about you!
I know it's not that simple, of course, but that is also sometimes how the "dates last seen" get estimated and can be incorrect when comparing to the dates a body was found.
In Joann's case, as an adult, she was sometimes estranged from many of her family and friends, including her little kids. They very well may not have known she was "missing" as opposed to "just" being away again.
Comparing Waller Co. DOE and Joann wasn't as simple as just going to her regular dentist and picking up her records or asking her parents about her knee surgery. (The pin was not able to be traced.)
This was truly sad and soooo unnecessary. Let's hope the results prove what we almost already know, and thus will shift the focus toward the horrible murder and those responsible.
Thank you again for all who care,
sloane