HmmMysterious
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No it's just a photo of Reba from the 80'sAny graphic images at link before I click?
No it's just a photo of Reba from the 80'sAny graphic images at link before I click?
Just relooking at the family tree I found, it’s interesting that her father died in 1976, the same year she went into the Catholic home. All siblings are now deceased.Just to add few extras from article which are relevant:
Since at least 1976, the woman who calls herself Seven has lived without a formal identity.
She says she's 71 years old and a lifelong Cubs fan. She has fleeting childhood memories of visiting the Indiana Dunes but can recall little else and suffers from dementia. Her fingerprints are deformed and unreadable, according to Chicago police, who issued a found person report in 2003. Nobody has come for her.
Very interesting excerpt. I can't believe Reba was a U.S veteran.By Sophia Tareen, January 2, 2024
A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe | CityNews Toronto
''Now police specializing in missing people and cold cases have discovered Seven’s identity in one of the most unusual investigations the Cook County sheriff’s office has pursued and one that could change state law. Using post-mortem fingerprints, investigators identified Seven as 75-year-old Reba C. Bailey, an Illinois veteran missing since the 1970s.''
''The case could also change Illinois law.
The sheriff’s office wants to amend the state’s Missing Persons Identification Act to require postmortem fingerprints be checked against all available state and federal databases. The idea is a fuller search at the time of death could help identify people sooner''.
I do wonder if my partner's fingerprints would be readable, either digitally or with traditional inking. Her skin is very elastic and smooth because of a connective tissue disorder, and she has trouble even making out her ridge detail looking at them in good light. She also has creases through them where her pads flex and fold more than most people's.I'm a bit confused as to how Reba was identified with fingerprints but the fingerprints have been described this whole time as 'unreadable' due to deformity. They must have taken prints before Reba died or at the time of death for them to have been used now, so it's not like better technology meant they could get better prints. The article says the prints were run at the time against police database with no match. It was only when the case was passed on that the prints were compared to wider databases, leading to the match on the military database. Sounds like the whole unreadable prints thing was misinformation, maybe a communication error somewhere. 'Prints got no hits' turning into 'prints weren't useful' turning into 'prints were unreadable'. Maybe some of Reba's prints were unreadable (my elderly granddad's finger pads got weirdly smooth as he got older) but others were readable enough.
I think this is also the first time we've heard that this person referred to themselves as a man. Maybe the memory loss in some way came from the trauma of identity crisis/not being accepted etc. Not many trans men around in the 70s so they might not have understood the way they felt and it led to mental health issues. RIP Seven/Reba.
I do wonder if my partner's fingerprints would be readable, either digitally or with traditional inking. Her skin is very elastic and smooth because of a connective tissue disorder, and she has trouble even making out her ridge detail looking at them in good light. She also has creases through them where her pads flex and fold more than most people's.
Maybe Reba had a condition that affected the texture of the skin, and so the fingerprints, making it impossible to get a clear print with older techniques.
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