Carl posted on FB a few hours ago. It contains a new reconstruction of VCJD.
Log In or Sign Up to View (ETA: link isn’t working for some reason
)
As a member of the DNA Doe Project team working on the 1980 Westlake Village Jane Doe (AKA Ventura County Jane Doe), I recently received additional images of her which were taken at the crime scene, and at the morgue prior to embalming. These images give a much better sense of her look than the two postmortem images that are publicly available online. These images show her hair longer than was apparent in those public images.
Though we have made significant progress in some areas (which we detailed in a recent informational release), we still do not know her identity.
My last image of her was done in 2017, so I decided to do a major revision, based on the new images I had available. Note that the blouse shown here (and in my prior version) is based only on a written description ("white blouse"), and is not intended to replicate her actual blouse.
1980 - Westlake Village, California.
On July 18, 1980, a Westlake High School employee found the body of a Hispanic woman in the parking lot of the school. She had been stabbed to death about 12 hours before.
She was estimated to have been about five months pregnant, and she had an episiotomy scar, indicating that this was not her first pregnancy.
The woman was approximately 19-25 years old, 5'2-5'3" tall, and weighed about 110-120 lbs. Her black hair had grown out for several months with lighter color-treated and permed hair at the tips. Her eyebrows had been shaved, and penciled back in in a very exaggerated slope. Her natural eyebrows had just begun to grow back in below the penciled eyebrows. She had brown eyes.
She was wearing a white blouse, a black bra, red slacks, and black platform shoes.
In 2015, a DNA hit in the CODIS National crime database linked the murder of this woman and another female homicide victim to Wilson Claude Chouest, who was already serving a life sentence for kidnapping, robbery, and rape. The second victim, found in Kern County, California three days prior, was recently identified as Shirley Ann Soosay of Alberta, Canada..
Recent genealogical analysis indicates that she has ancestors who lived in a community called La Blanca (in a town now known as General Panfilo Natera), in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. She also appears to have ancestors from Northeastern Mexico/Southern Texas, Northern New Mexico/Southern Colorado, Indigenous California, and Guatemala.
The father of her unborn child is believed to have been from Choluteca Honduras, and very likely had a biological parent with the surname Baca.
41 years after her death, this woman remains UNIDENTIFIED.
