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Cold case update? New technology could help crack unidentified body found off Pine Island
July 4, 2019
New technology could help investigators identify a woman whose body was found off Pine Island nearly 25 years ago.
The woman, believed to be in her mid-40s, has remained unidentified since being pulled from the water near York Island, just south of St. James City.
No clues were found on the body, the closest identifying object was a red smock labeled Charleston SC V.A.Hospital.
The Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers, part of the Lee County Sheriff's Office, said in a press release issued Thursday that "there were no matches with any Charleston area hospital nor any VA medical facilities.
While there is a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Charleston, Virginia, its name was changed to the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in 1991, four years before the body was found.
Investigators believe the woman was in her late 30s or early 40s, about 5-foot two-inches in height, had sustained fractures and surgeries in an ankle and her skull.
Using high-technology equipment, forensic anthropologists have created an electronic rendering of what the woman may have looked like when she went into the water. That image has been distributed by the Crimestoppers operation to the public for possible tips.
"Jane Doe," as the woman is referenced by the sheriff's office, was found days after a hurricane passed through the Gulf of Mexico.
The woman's body was pulled from the water off Pine Island on Oct. 7, 1995, three days after Hurricane Opal, a category 4 storm, made landfall in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Read More: Cold case update? New technology could help crack unidentified body found off Pine Island
July 4, 2019
New technology could help investigators identify a woman whose body was found off Pine Island nearly 25 years ago.
The woman, believed to be in her mid-40s, has remained unidentified since being pulled from the water near York Island, just south of St. James City.
No clues were found on the body, the closest identifying object was a red smock labeled Charleston SC V.A.Hospital.
The Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers, part of the Lee County Sheriff's Office, said in a press release issued Thursday that "there were no matches with any Charleston area hospital nor any VA medical facilities.
While there is a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Charleston, Virginia, its name was changed to the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in 1991, four years before the body was found.
Investigators believe the woman was in her late 30s or early 40s, about 5-foot two-inches in height, had sustained fractures and surgeries in an ankle and her skull.
Using high-technology equipment, forensic anthropologists have created an electronic rendering of what the woman may have looked like when she went into the water. That image has been distributed by the Crimestoppers operation to the public for possible tips.
"Jane Doe," as the woman is referenced by the sheriff's office, was found days after a hurricane passed through the Gulf of Mexico.
The woman's body was pulled from the water off Pine Island on Oct. 7, 1995, three days after Hurricane Opal, a category 4 storm, made landfall in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Read More: Cold case update? New technology could help crack unidentified body found off Pine Island