IL IL - Calmuet City, Blk Fem 15-25 UP17038 found at jogging path in Wentworth Woods April 1981

[cory6010]

Hi everyone, I know it's been a while but updates have been slow to come by. I've been looking at local news articles but I can't find any mention of this case after 1981 so far. Somebody named Erika Marie who runs the site "Our Black Girls" did an article about this Doe a few months ago if anyone is interested: Calumet City Jane Doe Was Strangled & Left In The Woods In 1981 (warning for postmortem photo)

 

[cory6010]

Despite no new information about the Jane Doe case, I did come across a potential match that looks promising. This is Sheila Cooks:
Sheila Cooks

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Cooks, circa 1979

• Missing Since 05/17/1979
• Missing From Austin, Texas
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race Black
• Date of Birth 08/14/1960 (60)
• Age 18 years old
• Height and Weight 5'3, 95 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description A white shirt and blue jeans.
• Distinguishing Characteristics African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Cooks's ears are pierced.

Cooks suddenly vanished from Austin, Texas in 1979. Although her height does not quite match this Jane Doe, she is the closest facial match I have seen so far. I submitted her as a potential match to NamUs a few weeks ago but have heard nothing since (I also submitted Beverly Ann Bealer to the Doe Network as a match, but I don't know if they ever contacted anyone else about that). There still have not been any rule-outs on her.

 

[coffeeandacig]

Great job @cory6010! Thank you for the updates!

I don't know if this will be helpful, but, her short hair really stands out to me. I don't recall really short hair being in fashion in 1981. The 1970's were full of natural big hair, and then with the 1980's came the straight/relaxed hair in bobs.
So, I'm wondering why the short hair? Institutional? Or did she always wear wigs?

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Made a very quick reconstruction of Calumet City Jane Doe.

 

[PayrollNerd]

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Made a very quick reconstruction of Calumet City Jane Doe.

Nice work! I love it when new pictures are made.

 

[cory6010again]

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Made a very quick reconstruction of Calumet City Jane Doe.

Thank you @victoriarobinson642 for the great reconstruction!

 

[cory6010again]

Hello everyone. I've been looking around but have not found any more news articles about this case yet. I'm hoping to do a FOIA request for her files and see if maybe there's some more useful information that hadn't been released to the public already.

In the meantime, there is a missing person I think might be worth submitting as a match. It's a long shot, but some new photos of her were released recently that made me wonder if they could be the same person. She was abducted from her home in the middle of the night and I wonder if she could have been taken out of state. She might have been trafficked or ended up by herself at some point and didn't have a way to get home. I don't want to speculate too much, but I thought she would at least be worth ruling out as a match to miss Cal.

Name: Beverly Ann Ward
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: July 4, 1978
Location Last Seen: Junction City, Geary County, Kansas

Physical Description
Date of Birth: April 17, 1965
Age: 13 years old
Race: Black
Gender: Female
Height: 4'8" - 5'0"
Weight: 54 - 60 lbs
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Born with an extra bone (partial finger) on her little finger; moles on face and mark on chest

Identifiers
Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Not Available

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Green nightgown; blue underwear
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items:

Circumstances of Disappearance
Beverly disappeared sometime between 3 and 5 a.m. from her home in the 200 block of West 11th Street. Her bedroom window screen had been cut through and was found 10 feet away from the house on the ground. All of her personal items were left behind including $12 she had been saving for summer camp.

Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Junction City Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Lt. Cory Odell
Agency Phone Number: 785-762-5912
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 7810233

NCIC Case Number: M067103311
NamUs Case Number: 26421
NCMEC Case Number: 1231717

 

[bombardier]

Hello everyone. I've been looking around but have not found any more news articles about this case yet. I'm hoping to do a FOIA request for her files and see if maybe there's some more useful information that hadn't been released to the public already.

In the meantime, there is a missing person I think might be worth submitting as a match. It's a long shot, but some new photos of her were released recently that made me wonder if they could be the same person. She was abducted from her home in the middle of the night and I wonder if she could have been taken out of state. She might have been trafficked or ended up by herself at some point and didn't have a way to get home. I don't want to speculate too much, but I thought she would at least be worth ruling out as a match to miss Cal.

Name: Beverly Ann Ward
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: July 4, 1978
Location Last Seen: Junction City, Geary County, Kansas

Physical Description
Date of Birth: April 17, 1965
Age: 13 years old
Race: Black
Gender: Female
Height: 4'8" - 5'0"
Weight: 54 - 60 lbs
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Born with an extra bone (partial finger) on her little finger; moles on face and mark on chest

Identifiers
Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Not Available

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Green nightgown; blue underwear
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items:

Circumstances of Disappearance
Beverly disappeared sometime between 3 and 5 a.m. from her home in the 200 block of West 11th Street. Her bedroom window screen had been cut through and was found 10 feet away from the house on the ground. All of her personal items were left behind including $12 she had been saving for summer camp.

Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Junction City Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Lt. Cory Odell
Agency Phone Number: 785-762-5912
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 7810233

NCIC Case Number: M067103311
NamUs Case Number: 26421
NCMEC Case Number: 1231717

I do think facially that she's a good contender, but her supernumerary digit is giving me pause...If she still had it at 13 years old, it must not have been easy to remove (the description makes me believe it contains bones and isn't just a nubbin). It would have had to be done surgically. If she was being trafficked, would they have taken the chance by seeking out surgical treatment?

For those confused about the description, I believe this is similar to what Beverly has. You rarely see kids with supernumerary digits anymore because it's usually removed in infancy, but the removal is complicated based on what structures are actually included in the extra finger.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

• Unidentified Female
• Gender: Female
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• Age: 30
• April 21, 1981
• ISP Case: 81F1588
• NIC: U260022183
• Case No: UP3153
• Vicap: 09AMG00001

• Female/White, 5’5”, weight estimated at 110, (could be much different), around 30 years old, though she could be several years older or younger, eye color unknown, hair color unknown, has a healed broken nose.
• This person was found in a ditch, I-80 near Rt. 30 New Lenox Il. along the east bound lanes. She had been intentionally placed there.
• No fingerprints available, dental records updated and available.
• mtDNA and STR’s profiled at University of North Texas and entered into NDIS.
• Stable Isotope Analysis indicates she likely grew up in the Midwest but later lived in the northeast USA or Canada along the Pacific territories.
• Missing Person

 

[Moonwalker9]

Bump. A new much better photo was added to ner namus file