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http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/hardman/226/
More information about Avis
More information about Avis
http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/hardman/226/
More information about Avis
What little we see of Donnis's teeth resemble the teeth in the skull, but she doesn't have dental records available to make a real comparison.The UID's Namus listing includes a very clear picture of her skull and teeth. The shovel-shaped incisors are quite prominent. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
That post is from 1999. I found a post from 2015 that appears to be on behalf of another relative: http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/hardman/480/
http://www.voy.com/48081/4/949.html (another post from the same man)
The person who compiled this list apparently checked SSDI before including Avis. Blog post from 2014: https://whereaboutsstillunknown.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/the-missing-missing-part-i/
If somebody knows how to do it properly, it would probably be a good idea to contact this relative to help him get Avis into Namus, and get DNA samples. That would be important whether she's alive or not.
If he is Avis' son, and she went missing when she was 16, that would mean she had her son at 16 or younger. I know having children very young was common then, so it's not strange, but can you tell if someone's had kids from looking at their bones?
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-08-22/news/8901060670_1_skeleton-anthropologists-skullForensic specialists can tell if a woman gave birth by the presence of a series of shotgun pellet-sized pockmarks along the inside of the pelvic bone caused by the tearing of ligaments during childbirth. The bone impressions are a permanent record of the trauma, but they do not reveal how many children were borne.
I'm a firm believer in this Jane Doe being Donnis Redman along with several others in this thread. She easily could have dyed her hair (there's one site that mentions the brown is artificial and original color is suspected to be red, Donnis had strawberry hair apparently). Donnis also had wavy hair. She had run off (potentially) with her older boyfriend, and it's very possible she had physically matured to the fit a 34C.
I wish there was more we could do. Is there more we can do?
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