With respect to international candidates, potential matches for Jane/John Doe's, I have often pondered the proper etiquette to use with respect to making a report. Police in countries outside the U.S. will usually tell you to make your initial report through your local police. Though I have sensed, a reluctance on part of some American based missing person networks, a reluctance to consider missing candidates outside the US, as I am aware that ratios generally place missing people within a few hundred miles of the recovery of a Doe. While the ratio is generally accurate in most cases , it should (in my opinion) never be an absolute, particularly in older cold cases. I have tried to fine tune my searches to include the history of the era a person became missing in, as well as the history of other missing people in that search area, during that specific era or time frame. For example, if our Olive Branch Jane Doe, is indeed Kay Docherty (Australia), it would make sense that one of the factors which could have played into her being here, was the love affair America was having with all things Australian during that era. Olivia Newton John, Crocodile Dundee, to name a few, brought certain attention to Australia. It would not surprise me that criminal elements would also seek to take advantage of that, but given the photo of our Olive Branch Doe, and the reconstructed faces of two Jane Does on the coast, all of which strongly resemble three Australian women missing since 1978/79, it just seems more than circumstance, maybe one resemblance, perhaps two, but three? Given we do have Kay, Toni, and Darlene among us, had this been a new missing person case, I would probably not have made it public, save to the authorities alone, but I suppose in the end, if it turns out not to be them, at least we get face recognition, but if it is, we take them home. I am sure if we had three daughters of Mississippi in some foreign land, which had been missing for a long time, we would expect no less than to have them back among us....
