Irish_Eyes
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Oops. Actually that's not Owego, NY. Grrr....sorry
There might another way in which they might be able to identify her. but first I need to know a couple of things about the case. One did they ever compare fingerprints to determine if they match this Jane Doe's? Two the woman who thinks this might a woman name Rosie ever found out where she live and how she got to work? Did she walk, live near by or had a car or took the bus? and why no house keys ? Do anybody have any information on these questions? Plus this same woman can she ever recall anybody else who work at this bar or diner where she say she knew or met Rosie
Also, the person who thought they knew her as "Rosie" said she left a husband and a 2 year old son behind. Per the post above from Ambercat the ME said she did not have any signs of a previous pregnancy.
This makes me question:
1) wether the person really knew her or was it a mistaken identity?
2) If "Rosie" lied about having a son maybe she lied about where she was from and what her real name was
In an old Los Angeles Times article, dated April 16, 1972, entitled "John Doe: He Can Leave a Path That's Hard to Follow" primarily about an UID found on New Years Day 1972 in Anaheim https://identifyus.org/en/cases/7647, there is some information about this UID from Huntington Beach as well.
Paraphrasing because I can't copy and paste from their format -- About a year after the unidentified woman was found, she was tentatively identified by a former friend (who had been out of state when the woman was found) as Teresa Marie Tibbett, 29, of Long Beach, also known as Mattie Meeker, who had disappeared "some time ago." Although the friend's description of the woman and a piece of jewelry she had been wearing were "fairly close" to the unidentified victim, detectives at the time refused to formally identify her because of "the lack of additional identification."
http://search.proquest.com/docview/157005486/13EB84B18C836885D6C/2?accountid=46298 I was able to log in with my library card from the Long Beach Public Library and wasted a lot of time looking at old LA Times articles.
I wonder if Teresa Tibbett aka Mattie Meeker was ever located? I tried to search for other articles about her in the LA Times, but this was the only one that showed up.
Trying to narrow down even more closely where she was found, an article in the LA Times (April 15, 1968) had some additional information, describing her as lying face down in a drainage ditch separating two plowed fields "about 150 yards south of Yorktown Ave...." The article also seems to suggest that a dirt road might have run parallel to the ditch, saying "Tire tracks indicated a car had driven down the dirt road slightly past the location of the body and turned around to return to the street."
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That would potentially put the location of the crime scene between two fields on the southeast portion of the Yorktown / Newland intersection, just west of the William T. Newland Elementary School, the school from which the three boys who found her were most likely walking home. The ditch / road might potentially be seen in this 1972 aerial view photo (also indicated with red line).
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