There have been quite a few matches made in which the age was as much as 20 years off, and also significant discrepancies in other identifying data.
The problem that you run into (besides typos) is that identifying data tends to get repeated over and over, sometimes "corrected" and sometimes never. On the internet, any typo or miss statement lasts forever.
And you have to ask where did the information come from? With an unidentified body, medical examiners are usually pretty careful to measure and weigh them, but if there has been a lot of deterioration of the body - or if it is just skeletal remains or partial remains - then what you get is a wide ranging guess.
With regard to missing persons, again the weight, height, etc. is often just a guess made by someone who is reporting them missing and it could be way off - either accidentally or intentionally.
My point is that you have to consider listed factors as estimates rather than absolutes.
When comparing "Little Miss Panasoffkee" with Mary Margaret Cook, I considered the following similarities:
- The age is within a year
- Height is within about 3 inches
- Weight within about 20 pounds
- Hair color same
- White and American Indian race
- Two previous children born
- Time frame between Mary's disappearance and LMP's discovery is 3 months.
- Distance between disappearance and body discovery about 60 miles.
- Similar facial features
- The mention in both cases regarding green colored clothing.
- A "birthmark" on Mary's right ankle could be a scar from an operation as noted on LMP. (Often a form asks for "identifying marks, scars, etc." in one small block)
The dental information on Little Miss Panasoffkee would tend to rule out Mary Margaret Cook - assuming that she truly did have "excellent" teeth which required no dental work. However, consider the reliability of that information. Excellent teeth could mean that dental work had taken place. Or, it is possible that the person supplying the information about "excellent" teeth might have lied about it.
I have studied and written on both of these cases over the years in their separate threads. I do not know if they are connected, and don't know if LE has ever considered a possible match.
If DNA is available on LMP it could be compared with DNA from Mary's sons.