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Who is Jane Doe? Bossier Investigators release new photo in cold case
Posted: Jan 28, 2009 9:38 PM
Updated: Feb 04, 2009 5:39 PM
BOSSIER PARISH, LA*(KSLA) -*Bossier Sheriff Larry Deen's investigators and Bossier Parish Coroner Dr. John Chandler want to know, "Who is Jane Doe'?"* They are hoping a new facial reconstruction can help them answer that question.
"We're asking for your help and hopefully seeing this picture will jog somebody's memory and be able to find this young lady's name, notify her family give them closure and finally put her to rest," Dr. Chandler said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon. **
The mystery dates back to a cool January day in 1981 when her partially decomposed body was found by a man walking down an old logging road off of Louisiana Highway 157 in northeast Bossier Parish.* Bossier Sheriff's investigators know that she was young, white and blonde.* She had been stabbed in the chest several times.* A kitchen knife, believed to be the murder weapon, was found plunged into the ground near her body. At the time, the then Bossier Parish Coroner estimated the woman had been dead about four to six weeks when her body was found.* Her age was thought to be in the late teens to early 20s and her height was believed to be 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 6 inches tall.* She weighed 130-140 pounds.
"What you would think would've happened after her body was discovered is that somebody would come forward and say, She's a missing person, she belongs to oiur family,' but that did not happen," Baswell says.* "Pretty unusual.* This whole case is unusual. You're looking at 30 years where someone has not been identified. You would think someone would have missed her, and would have been looking for her, but that has not been the case. And Baswell says investigators have exhausted every avenue, from dental records to sending thumbprints to the FBI.* Nothing panned out. **
Now, thanks to the work of forensic anthropologist Mary Manhein of the L.S.U. F.A.C.E.S. (Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services) Laboratory in Baton Rouge, Deen and his investigators have something new to work with.* Manhein and her associates have put together a new facial reconstruction of the victim. Manhein credits the artistry of Eileen Barrow, who works with Manhein at the F.A.C.E.S. Lab.* "It really takes an artist, because she's working with a two-dimensional image, because they were working with a picture of a skull, which had tissue depth markers."* The actual skull is no longer available to work from. They used Photoshop to combining Barrow's artistry with Manhein's anthropology expertise to come up with the new image. *
Until now the only reconstruction available was a photo of a clay likeness based on the victim's skull.* That image was released in 1984, three years after the murder.* Forensic technology has come a long way since then. *"We have a better understanding of it today," says Manhein.* But, she warns, "The purpose is not for it to look just like someone but to grab someone's attention." *It will be the unique articles of clothing found at the crime scene and on Jane Doe' that Manhein and investigators believe will provide the final positive identification. *
They have many details about her clothing, including her designer tennis shoes with friends' names signed on them. The most distinguishing items she wore were an unusual belt buckle in the shape of a buffalo nickel and a pair of Evonne Goolagong-brand tennis shoes.* On the sides of the shoes were written the names "Michael Brisco, David; Resha and D. Davies."
She was dressed in a beige, long-sleeved, button-up, hooded sweater; white athletic socks with blue and yellow stripes; blue jeans; men's white briefs; a white bra; and a woman's-style, button-up white shirt with small stripes of pink, blue and yellow.
When the body was found in 1981, the Bossier Sheriff's Office immediately began investigating the homicide and in 1984 questioned serial killer Henry Lee Lucas about the crime.* He was brought to the site where the body was found and told investigators he recognized the area.* He subsequently admitted he killed "Jane Doe," was arrested and eventually indicted by a grand jury.* Lucas died in prison before he could return to Bossier Parish to stand trial on a murder charge.* He never revealed any clues as to who she was or where he might have picked her up. "Henry Lee Lucas' M.O' [modus operandi, Latin for "method of operation"] was just to pick women up as he moved across the country. I'm not sure he even knew where he picked her up. *I doubt that he even knew her name. That was the way he operated," says Baswell.
If "Jane Doe" is identified, the Bossier Sheriff's Office and the Bossier Parish Coroner hope to bring closure to the victim's loved ones.**"The relatives of this young lady could be anywhere from Florida to California. We just don't know.* But we're hoping with your help in publicizing this photograph this reconstruction that *somebody will see the face, it will ring a bell and they will call us up and say I know exactly who that is. When we find out who this is, then we would be able hopefully to go to the family and say, this is your loved one and give them closure."
Baswell says they're hoping the media can help get the image out across the country.* Anyone with information concerning the identity of "Jane Doe" is encouraged to call the Bossier Sheriff's Office at 318-965-2203 and ask for a detective.
