Thinking about these two like I do everyday, I remembered somebody posting a news story some time ago about some local psychics who visited the grave sites of our does. I was looking for this again after reading through all the old posts but I could not find it and at the risk of going through all the pages again, I am going to repost the link below after I finally found it via internet searches. It's interesting if only for a close up of 3 of the crime scene photos, one that I have not seen anywhere else.
http://archive.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=94014 There are some pictures of the deceased, nothing overly graphic but just a warning, you can listen to the story just fine if the pictures will bother you.
I don't believe in ghosts or psychics personally but I wouldn't be opposed if I ever got down to visit the graves to talk to them and just let them know people care about them. Also reading about some other does that were given names after decades makes me hopeful that someday we get a resolution to this case, I know it will remain with me as it has since I heard about this case earlier this year.
Also I was reading about other Doe cases and this one about Mississippi County Does seemed really interesting to me, man and woman left on the side of the highway, miles apart though but people saw them together. Also the man was killed in a similar way to our Does. Very sad but felt similar to put it out there if anybody wanted to look into it. Not sure if there is a page on Websleuths about them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_County_Does
Finally somebody recently has done a very good job updating their wikipedia page for the Sumter County Does. When I first looked, it was void of pictures (note there is a crime scene photo and a morgue picture of each) and only a small paragraph or two, now it has lots more information and is a good introduction for anybody interested in the case, including many links to old newspaper articles and other things, some links already gave me trouble though. So thanks to whoever maintains that page, it all seemed very accurate and well written.
Just a little story, I was always interested in identifying Does but lacked the time with my job, when I lost it (my job not my mind
) earlier in the year I began looking into some. On wikipedia I came across this case, felt it interesting but there was not much info so I moved on. It stayed on my mind though and I had trouble locating the story so I could do another search (and discover this site!) and remembered the name being distinctive and the only thing I remembered was something to the effect of a young couple being let out of a van and executed, it just painted a tragic image in my mind. When I found Sumter County Does, I had a goofy moment where I read the articles wondering what Sumter County Did, reading it as perhaps one of them wore a shirt saying Sumter County Does...Great Things or something, the Does not as missing people but as does as in "Does he know the way". I read the articles wondering what Sumter County Does had to do with them until I realized, does as in John and Jane Doe. Strange story but I've come a long way since then!
With the case of Hannah Graham already on it's 14th Thread in little over a week and bringing in new members and guests, I hope some stick around and hopefully can contribute to the conversation on these Does and any others. I debated making a comment on that forum because of the popularity asking for people new to the site to please look around this site but didn't want to risk getting into trouble.