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Agreed. So is Colgate. You can buy knock off stuff much, much cheaper. But even a quarter counts. When you are broke, every penny makes a difference. Name brands are not consistent with a transient person.
I agree.
The white thing appears to be a bar of soap. This is a guess as I cannot see it well.
There is a brush in a wrapper at the very bottom. It looks as if it's new.
I thought perhaps something happened to the paste upon impact. Or that it was somehow effected in this manner. It looked like it may have exploded out the end but again hard to tell.
This all then led me to think of another scenario. What if she had escaped a bad relationship/a person/left their life and was setting up shop somewhere and needed the basics. Or she had just moved into the area for whatever reason? How often do you need ALL of the essentials while shopping unless moving? I never run out of all essentials and a few luxury but useful household items at the same time. What plausible scenarios would this happen? Moving was all that came to mind.
In the reconstruction picture it looks like she has brown eyes. In the Namus file it says her eyes are hazel. She couldn't have been too poor if she had full dentures because dentures and dental care aren't cheap and often aren't covered by insurance. It seems very sad to me that someone hasn't missed her and been looking for her. Someone in the area must have seen her in the days before she died. I wonder how well publicized the search for her identity was.
What is that little white rectangular thing next to the toothpaste in the photo?
That's odd. In the photo of her possessions there's a tube of toothpaste but no brush, and she has shampoo but no washcloth, towel or bar of soap. Could these personal care items might have been given out at a women's shelter?
It seems unlikely that a transient would spend money on fabric softener. The other items are all essentials, with the possible exception of the skin lotion.
Is anyone familiar with the area where she was found? Is it near any laundromats or motels that might have had laundry facilities? It seems odd that she didn't have any other clothes other than the ones she was wearing. I wonder if a motel manager found the clothes still in a washing machine or dryer but didn't know the woman's body was found nearby.