Just some similarities I've noticed comparing the photos:
- Face shape, both girls have quite round/square-ish with a small chin
- Eye distance
- Mouth shape
Other than that, there aren't any other features I could guarantee were similar. I would've also pointed out the nose and hair, but I couldn't see the nose shape very well, and only the bangs are visible so the hair isn't also very clear.
On another note, looking at the other birthday picture, it looks like the girl is quite close to Marie age wise. Perhaps a year or two younger. If Marie was turning 6-7 years old, then the girl looks close to about that age-ish. Unlike MC who would've been a lot younger. Perhaps I'm just overthinking it. I would like to know anyone else's thoughts.
I think MC, if she is the girl in the photos, would have been four or five at the time. I am unsure whether Marie was big or small for her age, but from what it sounds like MC was on the bigger side for her estimated age. TBF this may rule out a few of the prospects in the target line for being a sibling of MC's mom just based on how small they looked for their age in photos I have been able to dig up.
I was investigating and I came across this woman, she asked me what is the possibility that she is the mother of Bear Brook Jane Doe.
Song Im Joseph – The Charley Project
Bear Brook Jane Doe
Andrea Stiers (one of Rasmussen's other daughters) believes that she once met the unidentified girl, "Stiers also believes that Jane Doe's mother was Asian; she remembers that Rasmussen showed her a map of Southeast Asia at that time".
While this could be possible, there is quite a bit of maternal DNA evidence that MC is linked to the Livings/Mitchell/Spiers families in South MS - and there have been confirmed matches up to about a third cousin I believe. Investigators have narrowed it down to what they believe to be a target line - and if that South Asia thing does happen to be true, it would be much more likely that MC's mom would be
biracial.
I do want to mention that
none of TPR's other kids have substantiated any of Andrea's claims regarding MC. While Song Im may be someone we should be looking into, there is no definitive proof that she (a) did not know who her bio father was and (b) is biracial.
We are not looking for someone who is 100% Korean here - there needs to be a DNA connection to the Livings/Mitchell/Spiers line in some way.
At this point in time, I have at least two lines related to that target line that are definitive rule-outs as relayed to me by investigators - and this is out of ten children of the identified target child of TJ Mitchell who ended up living to adulthood. I am about 80 to 90 percent certain we are looking at an NPE here, and a bit less certain but still pretty confident that that NPE will be military related.
TPR, before using an alias, was always around military bases and VA's.
I have two or three men related to the target line that I feel pretty confident may have fathered a child while in the military or on base, and most if not all of them are currently alive. Looking at the birth records for their recorded/listed children as well as marriages and residency records,
I am putting MC's mother's birth estimated at around 1953-1955, likely in either Texas, New Mexico or Arizona. I have pinpointed a couple military bases I feel may be of significance with the one giving off the biggest red flags being Ft. Huachuca, which unfortunately does not have the best public records.
I believe that MC's maternal grandmother has some sort of Asian or Native American ancestry, whereas we do know that there is Black lineage in the Livings/Mitchell/Spiers line in multiple places. HOWEVER, we do need to remember that John Spiers, TJ Mitchell and William Livings were VERY LIKELY all slave owners, and there is a distinct possibility that our target TJ Mitchell child could have fathered a child with a Black woman in between the time his first wife died in 1899 and his second marriage in 1903.
@Alleykins has done an incredible job with looking into census data and has identified this period as a strong possibility for an NPE given who was and was not married as well as physical locations of these individuals.
Based off what we do know about the closest match to MC, that individual's other parent has links to the Jarrell and Landrum families which have also intermarried into the Mitchell line numerous times. It may be worth our while to keep digging in that direction while we are also searching for military NPE's as the endogamy in this family is pretty widespread.
