If it's still an open case maybe Carson City PD?I think this is Mary Lee Smith The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
I've contacted the Namus contact person what else can I do? What do you all think?
I wish @Rgonzalez reads this! She was identified, you made an impressive job trying to identify Joyce and you were really close! It was her in the end and they found her husband who buried her and confirmed all the story your colleagues told you in the hospitalSo, while at work in Carson city at the old hospital, couple days ago I was giving report to my coworker and I told her that one of our patients might be missing a family member of a woman who's been reported as missing in Nevada...And she randomly replied to me...."did I ever tell you I took care of this lady at ormsby 4-6 years ago and after she was discharged her husband was admitted. He confessed to me that his wife died and he took her up on that hill next to the cemetary on long st and Winnie ln and buried her in a sleeping bag!" I told her omg you may be one of the few if any persons that can identify her because she was found last year and she is still unidentified. I asked her if she remembered her name or even her husband's name and she didn't at that second but she says between her and her mom she believes they will remember her name. She thought that the only reason she was not identified was because her husband can not be located to release her name! I said are u kidding me they have no clue who she could be. I begged her to find out and immediately call the sheriff's office to provide the name of Carson citys only Jane doe. She said that Jane doe and her husband were in fact homeless and they were living out of a van and she drew a pic looked like an old 1968-1970's volkwagon van that would park around town like on deer run rd to name one place of frequency, but she has not seen the van lately. She describes it by saying, " you know it was a blue van with a white top and a white back and front bumper" as if I and everyone must have seen it around. So, I emailed Det Acosta and he replied the next day with one sentence. "I found the person you were talking about and they were living in Dayton." Still don't know what he meant. I have not heard anything since. There's no way this can't lead to her identification.
this sounds like what rgonzalez was saying!!She has been identified as Joyce Rogers
On March 17, 2015, partially decomposed human remains were found in a shallow grave on Lone Mountain in Carson City. Initial investigation showed they belonged to a woman about 40 to 70 years of age. The Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office was not able to determine a cause of death.
Investigators partnered with the DNA DOE Project to develop a DNA profile from the remains and looked at genetic genealogy. The remains were identified as Joyce Rogers. Her husband, Edward Barton, a transient living in Fallon, told investigators he buried her on Lone Mountain after she died from an illness. The case has been submitted to the Carson City District Attorney’s Office for review.
Carson City sheriff uses DNA to identify two bodies
The newly identified people are Joyce A. Rogers, who was homeless and about 72 years old when she died, and Ronald V. Hendricks, who was 39 when he disappeared from San Francisco in December 1992.www.kolotv.com
I agree! I am shocked as well that it turned out to be the case! I hope rgonzalez will see itthis sounds like what rgonzalez was saying!!
So that lead was likely correct. I am glad she got her name back. Shame she was not idd earlier but good things sometimes take time.So, while at work in Carson city at the old hospital, couple days ago I was giving report to my coworker and I told her that one of our patients might be missing a family member of a woman who's been reported as missing in Nevada...And she randomly replied to me...."did I ever tell you I took care of this lady at ormsby 4-6 years ago and after she was discharged her husband was admitted. He confessed to me that his wife died and he took her up on that hill next to the cemetary on long st and Winnie ln and buried her in a sleeping bag!" I told her omg you may be one of the few if any persons that can identify her because she was found last year and she is still unidentified. I asked her if she remembered her name or even her husband's name and she didn't at that second but she says between her and her mom she believes they will remember her name. She thought that the only reason she was not identified was because her husband can not be located to release her name! I said are u kidding me they have no clue who she could be. I begged her to find out and immediately call the sheriff's office to provide the name of Carson citys only Jane doe. She said that Jane doe and her husband were in fact homeless and they were living out of a van and she drew a pic looked like an old 1968-1970's volkwagon van that would park around town like on deer run rd to name one place of frequency, but she has not seen the van lately. She describes it by saying, " you know it was a blue van with a white top and a white back and front bumper" as if I and everyone must have seen it around. So, I emailed Det Acosta and he replied the next day with one sentence. "I found the person you were talking about and they were living in Dayton." Still don't know what he meant. I have not heard anything since. There's no way this can't lead to her identification.