Rhonda Labbé or Jennifer Barton?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2016/03...nd/ibIhDjKvv82G7uutFHnO4M/story.html#comments
New clues emerge in 40-year-old murder mystery.
Smith, Stark, and Walker are interesting ruleouts. They went missing before this girl was even born.
Wow; wonder what genius turned them in. lol There are a few weird ones
Thelma Cobb 1916 Indiana
Edna Kaminski 1921 New York
Olga Mauger 1913 Wyoming
This is a question for those of you with more experience in following these cases. Seems that over the past 2 days there's been an uptick in news articles on WJD. Coverage spans the globe, from US, UK to Australia. What do you think that means?
This is a question for those of you with more experience in following these cases. Seems that over the past 2 days there's been an uptick in news articles on WJD. Coverage spans the globe, from US, UK to Australia. What do you think that means?
From this interview (http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/03/26/new-evidence-could-bring-answers-in-40-year-old-cold-case/)
with CBS Baltimore, Det. Jacoby says:
"Detective Jacoby believes the pollen is connected to the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, allowing investigators to narrow down the search and question people who could have been in that area 40 years ago.
“We found the mountain hemlock and cedar plant, and it still has the tag on it from when it was planted in 1969,” Jacoby said."
Other news stories in past 48 hours:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/2...40-year-old-maryland-murder.html?intcmp=hpbt4
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...red-40-years-ago-finally-crack-cold-case.html
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/03/26/new-evidence-could-bring-answers-in-40-year-old-cold-case/
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/n...provide-missing-link-in-40yearold-cold-case-1
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...r/news-story/9ed8df621a920be9197ec7a1f8c805cc
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pollen-...n-1976-cold-case-murder-of-woodlawn-jane-doe/
Ok, I looked carefully from the beginning of the thread till now and I'm pretty sure this has not been mentioned. If it has, sorry!
I was re-reading the WCVB article from December 2015 with Boston Police Sgt. Detective Bill Doogan, who grew up in Jamaica Plain:
According to him, he "recalled the Arboretum, or the "Arbs," as a "place for young people to hang around, just lounge around, goof off."
Source: http://www.wcvb.com/news/boston-police-join-hunt-for-woodlawn-jane-does-id-killer/37040714
So on a lark I started to google map the Arboretum... and see what was around it:
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2 interesting places are across the street from the Arboretum:
1- Brigham & Women's Faulkner Hospital
2- The Italian Home for Children
Brigham & Women's Faulkner Hospital at 1153 Centre St. Before it integrated with Brigham & Women's it was just "Faulkner Hospital" which was a community hospital.
http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2008/06/13/hospital_quietly_becomes_major_medical_center/
Interesting tidbit:
I'm not sure it means anything, but May 22, 1976 was, "M-Day" when patients were moved from the "old" Faulkner hospital to the new one. I don't think it actually changed addresses, just that a better facility was probably built on property... but that's as far as I got in my research. According to the link below, the National Guard was "on hand to assist the carefully planned and smoothly orchestrated event."
Source: This is image # 4 of the flip thru gallery: http://proundesign.com/Faulkner-Hospital-History-Wall
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The Faulkner Hospital made me think of the 3 of the clues which suggest WJD or her killer had some connection to a medical/mental institution:
1. medical "grade" sheets (if I can call it that...)
source: (http://crimewatchdaily.com/2015/10/0...jane-doe-1976/)
2. chlorpromazine drug in her system
source: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...308-story.html
3. medical bandage: Her bindings, according to Doe Network, "Her hands were tied behind her back in perfect knots with some type of medical bandage"
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/279ufmd.html
The Italian Home for Children at 1125 Centre St is also across the street from the Arboretum and next door to the old Faulkner hospital.
It is described as:
"residential and day-time facility treats severely abused and neglected at-risk children aged 4 to 14. Children who cycle through foster homes, have survived abuse or attempted suicide—the IHC works with troubled kids to reintegrate them back into their communities, IHC Director of Events and Public Relations Julie Clerc told the Gazette last week."
source: http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2014/04/25/jp-kids-italian-home-helps-troubled-children/
History of Italian Home for Children: http://www.italianhome.org/?page_id=2191
"1968
Italian Home for Children separates from the Catholic Church.
Subsequently, children with behavioral and family problems, many of them victims of abuse or neglect, were also accepted. The professional services of a social worker, consulting psychologist and teachers were added to supplement the work of the Sisters and services to the children.
1974
In response to the changing political and social climate, the Home's name was changed. Keeping its ties to the Italian community, the agency became the Italian Home for Children. By the mid-1970's, the Home had become a residential treatment center providing clinical services for emotionally challenged children of all nationalities and races."
I can imagine it looking a little like an imposing institutional like place from the outside:
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source: http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2014/04/25/jp-kids-italian-home-helps-troubled-children/
So with this post I'm just throwing ideas out there...
We don't know anything about WJD. Could she have been one of the young people who hung out in the Arbs as the detective mentioned? Did she or her killer have any connection to the Italian Home for Children or Faulkner Hospital? If in 1976 Faulkner Hospital moved patients (I'm not suggesting she was a patient and was moved or "lost" in transport) what it makes me think about is the possibility of a location that might not have been very secure and drugs, bandages, sheets, etc could have been stolen...
Just the proximity of the Arbs to these two institutions makes it very interesting to me in the WJD case in light of the pollen analysis...
Ok, I looked carefully from the beginning of the thread till now and I'm pretty sure this has not been mentioned. If it has, sorry!
I was re-reading the WCVB article from December 2015 with Boston Police Sgt. Detective Bill Doogan, who grew up in Jamaica Plain:
According to him, he "recalled the Arboretum, or the "Arbs," as a "place for young people to hang around, just lounge around, goof off."
Source: http://www.wcvb.com/news/boston-police-join-hunt-for-woodlawn-jane-does-id-killer/37040714
So on a lark I started to google map the Arboretum... and see what was around it:
![]()
2 interesting places are across the street from the Arboretum:
1- Brigham & Women's Faulkner Hospital
2- The Italian Home for Children
Brigham & Women's Faulkner Hospital at 1153 Centre St. Before it integrated with Brigham & Women's it was just "Faulkner Hospital" which was a community hospital.
http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2008/06/13/hospital_quietly_becomes_major_medical_center/
Interesting tidbit:
I'm not sure it means anything, but May 22, 1976 was, "M-Day" when patients were moved from the "old" Faulkner hospital to the new one. I don't think it actually changed addresses, just that a better facility was probably built on property... but that's as far as I got in my research. According to the link below, the National Guard was "on hand to assist the carefully planned and smoothly orchestrated event."
Source: This is image # 4 of the flip thru gallery: http://proundesign.com/Faulkner-Hospital-History-Wall
![]()
The Faulkner Hospital made me think of the 3 of the clues which suggest WJD or her killer had some connection to a medical/mental institution:
1. medical "grade" sheets (if I can call it that...)
source: (http://crimewatchdaily.com/2015/10/0...jane-doe-1976/)
2. chlorpromazine drug in her system
source: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...308-story.html
3. medical bandage: Her bindings, according to Doe Network, "Her hands were tied behind her back in perfect knots with some type of medical bandage"
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/279ufmd.html
The Italian Home for Children at 1125 Centre St is also across the street from the Arboretum and next door to the old Faulkner hospital.
It is described as:
"residential and day-time facility treats severely abused and neglected at-risk children aged 4 to 14. Children who cycle through foster homes, have survived abuse or attempted suicidethe IHC works with troubled kids to reintegrate them back into their communities, IHC Director of Events and Public Relations Julie Clerc told the Gazette last week."
source: http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2014/04/25/jp-kids-italian-home-helps-troubled-children/
History of Italian Home for Children: http://www.italianhome.org/?page_id=2191
"1968
Italian Home for Children separates from the Catholic Church.
Subsequently, children with behavioral and family problems, many of them victims of abuse or neglect, were also accepted. The professional services of a social worker, consulting psychologist and teachers were added to supplement the work of the Sisters and services to the children.
1974
In response to the changing political and social climate, the Home's name was changed. Keeping its ties to the Italian community, the agency became the Italian Home for Children. By the mid-1970's, the Home had become a residential treatment center providing clinical services for emotionally challenged children of all nationalities and races."
I can imagine it looking a little like an imposing institutional like place from the outside:
![]()
source: http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2014/04/25/jp-kids-italian-home-helps-troubled-children/
So with this post I'm just throwing ideas out there...
We don't know anything about WJD. Could she have been one of the young people who hung out in the Arbs as the detective mentioned? Did she or her killer have any connection to the Italian Home for Children or Faulkner Hospital? If in 1976 Faulkner Hospital moved patients (I'm not suggesting she was a patient and was moved or "lost" in transport) what it makes me think about is the possibility of a location that might not have been very secure and drugs, bandages, sheets, etc could have been stolen...
Just the proximity of the Arbs to these two institutions makes it very interesting to me in the WJD case in light of the pollen analysis...
Okay, I just need to get this off my chest, because it's been bothering me ever since I noticed it a few months back. I imagine it's just coincidence; Baltimore and Boston were settled by people from the same part of England and many of the names overlap.
But.
The deceased woman was found on Dogwood Road near a cemetery in the Woodlawn area of Baltimore. And this location is next to a stream called, I kid you not, "Dead Run." https://goo.gl/maps/aP1bXqgd1kD2
In Boston, there's a cemetery a few blocks from the Arboretum. It has both Woodlawn Street and Dogwood Ave. nearby. Dogwood Ave. is actually in the cemetery. Woodlawn Street is in a neighborhood of what appears to be mostly triple-deckers and side-by-side duplexes.
This is the Googlemaps view of where Woodlawn Street makes a dead end (no kidding) at the rear fence of Forest Hills Cemetery. https://goo.gl/maps/QUPrDZ1Mh3m
As I said, it's probably just coincidence. But I do get a nasty feeling of a killer's sick sense of humor at play.
If she did live on Woodlawn Street, she would probably have gone to Roslindale High School, or one of the Catholic schools.
Very possible. I always wondered if she was a patient, things went wrong, they raped and murdered her. Possible one liked her, she wasn't returning his affection so he knocked her out and took it too far. I have to drive my daughter but check out what Carbuff said
Okay, I just need to get this off my chest, because it's been bothering me ever since I noticed it a few months back. I imagine it's just coincidence; Baltimore and Boston were settled by people from the same part of England and many of the names overlap.
But.
The deceased woman was found on Dogwood Road near a cemetery in the Woodlawn area of Baltimore. And this location is next to a stream called, I kid you not, "Dead Run." https://goo.gl/maps/aP1bXqgd1kD2
In Boston, there's a cemetery a few blocks from the Arboretum. It has both Woodlawn Street and Dogwood Ave. nearby. Dogwood Ave. is actually in the cemetery. Woodlawn Street is in a neighborhood of what appears to be mostly triple-deckers and side-by-side duplexes.
This is the Googlemaps view of where Woodlawn Street makes a dead end (no kidding) at the rear fence of Forest Hills Cemetery. https://goo.gl/maps/QUPrDZ1Mh3m
As I said, it's probably just coincidence. But I do get a nasty feeling of a killer's sick sense of humor at play.
If she did live on Woodlawn Street, she would probably have gone to Roslindale High School, or one of the Catholic schools.