My money is on this being Therese Balsano. Everything fits, except that she wasn't noted as being pregnant.
When did they submit her DNA?
My money is on this being Therese Balsano. Everything fits, except that she wasn't noted as being pregnant.
If it is Therese would it make sense that she possibly went up there for some spiritual reason? It's mentioned in her circumstances that she left to join this "church of new endeavors" I tried to find info. On this church in Clarkdale but couldn't find much.
Is the Church of the Full Endeavor the same thing as the Church of the New Endeavor (the latter is what's listed in Therese's Namus profile)?
She's in Namus now: https://identifyus.org/en/cases/10766
The only ruleout is Lisa Zochowski.
I googled Sycamore Canyon swimming and found this article with some pictures: http://www.sedonaverdevalley.org/clarkdale/thesycamorecanyon.html
I found these photos on Flickr. Not sure why they're not displaying but if you click on the title, it will take you to the photo. This is Blue Hole:
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This is what the terrain looks like:
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Porchlight has some details: http://z10.invisionfree.com/usedtobedoe/index.php?showtopic=7034
Article from the local paper about how she was found, etc. http://campverdebugleonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&articleID=22471
Bringing this down from earlier in the thread.
Here's another good picture that shows the canyon walls with the knife-edged ridges rising up from the water. I've never seen information about exactly where she was found in the canyon, but up there somewhere. Photo from http://www.swimmingholes.org/az.html
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Not one hundred percent, no. The New Church of the Full Endeavor is headquartered in Wisconsin Dells, but it no longer lists a branch in Arizona. I thought Therese had a Wisconsin connection but it's not listed on her Namus or NAMPN (http://www.nampn.org/cases/balsano_therese.html). I had some other information about the church but the links have all decayed.
I also don't see her Doenet or Charley pages and I thought she had both? (eta: No, apparently I'm mistaken.)
So I imagine that Jane Doe was going to swim in that murky water?
Amazing - Theresa was first suggested on this thread in April/2013 - did anyone submit her? I think there was some discussion somewhere upthread about how the databases would have automatically returned a match if it was Theresa but it seems that's not how it works afterall...?