It was on October 18 of that year when human remains were located in Bayonne, New Jersey in a brush along Hook Road. A man named Leo Campbell was driving down the highway and spotted something on the road and called the authorities. Detective Bill Napier arrived at the scene and while he retired in 2011, he reflected on the case of Bayonne Jane Doe with the Houston Reporter in 2017 and spoke on how it not only affected him but the community.
“We spoke with Leo,” Napier said at the time. “There are no other witnesses. It’s not like it’s in the middle of a neighborhood where you would be knocking on everybody’s doors to find out what they saw or what they didn’t see. There’s nothing. There’s no point of reference. There’s not a lot to work with, with the
lack of witnesses and the lack of physical evidence.”
It was later determined that Bayonne Jane Doe was somewhere between 16 and 20 years old, but pinpointing where she was from proved to be difficult. That particular stretch of highway where she was located, Route 440, is a traffic hub with trucks, tractor-trailers, and travelers passing by from one town to the next. It’s described by the DNA Doe Project as being “isolated” and “heavily traveled by truck drivers,” so Bayonne Jane Doe could have been transported before or after her death.
Although a cause of death could not be determined, authorities are reportedly treating her case as
a homicide. When found, Bayonne Jane Doe had been deceased for approximately a few weeks.
The busy New Jersey road is traveled by truck drivers so Bayonne Jane Doe could be from anywhere. She may have been 16 to 20-years-old.
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