Investigators identify Livingston County "Jane Doe" 35 years later
Updated: 01/26/2015 10:35 AM
Created: 01/26/2015 6:56 AM
News10NBC has learned investigators have identified the young woman found dead in a Caledonia cornfield 35 years ago. Officials close to the investigation identify her as Tammy Jo Alexander of Florida.
http://www.whec.com/article/stories/s3687662.shtml?cat=565
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...oise-Necklace-Nov-79-*Tammy-Alexander*/page71
Tammy's missing thread :
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?257751-FL-Tammy-Alexander-14-16-Brooksville-1978-79
Tammy's thread is now located in the Cold Case Forum. Same link.
This is not breaking news but a follow-up to a previous case that Websleuths' members played a major role in solving. And Websleuths is in the news again this weekend and that is always breaking news.
"Of course they thought I was a lunatic and they blew me off for a month," she said. However, working with Dyson, she was eventually able to get a report generated about Alexander's disappearance. Police could find no such report from 1979.
The information was posted on NamUs, and, shortly thereafter, a California resident, Carl Koppelman, saw the report and considered Alexander a match with photos he'd seen of "Cali." Koppelman is a member of Websleuths.com, a network of online volunteer investigators who pore over reports of missing persons and dead bodies that are unidentified.
Koppelman contacted Nowell and others, then they reached out to the police. A DNA comparison with Dyson provided the proof that "Cali" was Tammy Jo.
June 10th is the unveiling of Tammy's new headstone at her burial site in Livingston County.
Video & much more at link.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com...exander-cali-jane-doe-laurel-nowell/28092759/