Identified! CA - Redondo Beach, BlkFem UP3342, 20-40, at construction site, Aug'01 - Catherine Parker-Johnson

[John/Jane Doe]

Redondo Beach Jane Doe 2001 - DNA Doe Project Cases

Follow this California case of a body found in 2001 at a construction site in Redondo Beach. We will make changes to the status here.

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[victoriarobinson642]

Super high newest match for Redondo Jane Doe

 

[victoriarobinson642]

DNAPainter suggests these possible relations for 487.4 cM

 

[MarziPanda]

Unless there's endogamy/NPEs it should be an easy ID with a match that high! Perhaps the lesser relatives led them to the right family and this new match is someone they've specifically asked to test.

 

[iulia]

Redondo Beach Jane Doe's NamUs page has been removed.

 

[DSCrime]

Redondo Beach Jane Doe's NamUs page has been removed.

Very good news! Thank you @iulia for all the work you do updating threads

 

[djanga]

It is the 8th DDP case was removed recently, unfortunately the announcements are not coming fast…

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Redondo Beach Jane Doe's NamUs page has been removed.

Fantastic news!

 

[ntt1]

The NAMUS page still seems to be up?

 

[walt91]

Yeah, it's back up on my end too (and says it was updated today)

 

[iulia]

Sorry guys, the solved cases went back down too. I didn't know the case is marked as solved while it is being updated. Hopefully she is close to being identified.

 

[djanga]

Sorry guys, the solved cases went back down too. I didn't know the case is marked as solved while it is being updated. Hopefully she is close to being identified.

But do we know what was updated? I dont see anything new

 

[Liz90278]

They identified her!!
Catherine Parker-Johnson

More than 20 years later, authorities identify human remains found in Redondo Beach

Police have identified a woman whose remains were discovered in Redondo Beach in 2001. On Aug. 29, 2001, the human remains were discovered during a construction project at 1624 Wollacot St. After a…

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[Liz90278]

Great news!!

More than 20 years later, authorities identify human remains found in Redondo Beach

Police have identified a woman whose remains were discovered in Redondo Beach in 2001. On Aug. 29, 2001, the human remains were discovered during a construction project at 1624 Wollacot St. After a…

ktla.com

 

[HmmMysterious]

They identified her!!
Catherine Parker-Johnson

More than 20 years later, authorities identify human remains found in Redondo Beach

Police have identified a woman whose remains were discovered in Redondo Beach in 2001. On Aug. 29, 2001, the human remains were discovered during a construction project at 1624 Wollacot St. After a…

ktla.com

Rest in peace Catherine. She was last heard from on August 31, 1981 in Lennox, California.

 

[HmmMysterious]

A press conference will be held on Monday June 26 to discuss more about her case.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Using genetic genealogy, investigators determined that the remains found Aug. 29, 2001, during construction at on the 1600 block of Wollacott Street were those of Catherine Parker-Johnson, Redondo Beach Police Department Lt. Jeff Mendence said Friday in a press release.

The remains were provisionally identified in March of this year, after a preliminary DNA comparison with two women who were later identified as the victim’s daughter and sister, Mendence said.

Based on law enforcement and database searches, investigators determined that Parker-Johnson had not been reported missing and that she last had contact with her family in May of 1981. The last record of any contact with her was Aug. 31, 1981, in Lennox.

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[CarlK90245]

Here is a much sharper photo of Catherine.

The news agencies last week were given a copy of her photo that had been only partially enhanced.

 

[DS2021]

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[CarlK90245]

I attended the presser this morning, and this is the graphic illustration of the key lines that led DDP researchers to Catherine's identity. The key ancestor was Catherine's 2nd Great Grandfather - Christopher Columbus Withers (1853-1925) from Holly Springs Mississippi. (upper-right corner of the illustration) The green squares represent persons who had profiles in GEDMatch or FTDNA, and who came up on her list of biological relatives.

It was explained in the presser that once we established CC Withers as a direct ancestor, we were able to locate a man from Gilroy CA and request that he take a DNA test. That test revealed that he was about a half-first cousin or a first cousin once removed from our Jane Doe. We were then able to identify all of his aunts and uncles on that side of his family. Investigators located several living persons from that family and learned from one of them that Catherine had not been heard from since the late 70s or early 80s.