NV NV - Elko Co, WhtFem 17-25, UP8358, posed in cross position, scars, Jul'72

[Wild Rose]

I remember a long while back reading a paperback years ago about a victim tied to a tree and posed like a cross to embarrass her as she died. I will try to find the book and it's publishing date.

 

[Wild Rose]

Lisa Jackson wrote Left to Die 2008. very similar to this crime. horrible.

 

[Bit of hope]

One of the most widely publicized cold cases involved the 1993 slaying of “Shafter Jane Doe,” an unidentified female murder victim found off an Interstate 80 exit named after a ghost town in eastern Elko County.

A traveler found her naked body, posed like a cross, in the sagebrush on Nov. 16. She had been shot once in the back and once in the chest. Her age was estimated at 27.

Shafter Jane’s DNA is now being searched through a system that is much more accurate and extensive than it was when she was murdered a quarter-century ago.

One name that has come up in the past as a possible suspect is David Wayne Eaton, who was tied through DNA evidence to a 1988 cold case near Casper, Wyoming. Eaton was charged 10 years after the murder and convicted, but his death sentence was thrown out by a judge in 2014.

Three other Great Basin murder victims found in Elko County date back to the 1970s. Devil’s Gate Jane Doe was found in 1972 near Deeth, Starr Valley Jane Doe was found in 1972, and Thousand Springs Jane Doe in 1974.

Starr Valley Jane Doe’s naked body was found by a rancher in July 1972. She had been shot in the head and neck, and posed with her arms and legs extended. Her age was estimated at 20 to 25. Although one fingerprint was intact, she was never identified.

Kolsch said a witness reported seeing a Volkswagen leaving the area a few days prior. Bundy was living in Salt Lake City at the time and drove a Volkswagen. However, Czegledi said the car seen in Nevada had a Tennessee license plate, and he was not aware of any evidence connecting the death to Bundy.

Devil’s Gate Jane Doe’s body was found in a shallow grave north of Deeth in October of 1972. The white, possibly racially mixed adult was believed to be 15 to 18 years old.

Thousand Springs Jane Doe’s body was found two years later, in July 1974. The woman in her late teens to early 20s was spotted by tourists in a dry wash 33 miles north of Wells, where the California Trail runs into U.S. Highway 93.

Thank you @imstilla.grandma !

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping.

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping for Starr Valley Jane Doe.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Starr Valley Jane Doe was found on a dirt road in Elko County in July 1972. A rancher found her body already partially decomposed. There were barely any ...
Artist Lily Lee weaves memorials to women murdered in the ...

https://www.rgj.com › story › life › arts › 2021/04/14

I really just went down a rabbit hole.” The "Shroud of Starr Valley Jane Doe" by artist Lily Lee will be one. Lee was by then an arts professor ...

 

[theshadow45]

Starr Valley Jane Doe has been unidentified for 49 years today.

 

[Family_trees]

Is it possible the killer saw the victim as scum such as a prostitute or hitch hiker and killed them because they werent worthy to be Christians? Perhaps posed as to repent?

 

[Bit of hope]

Is it possible the killer saw the victim as scum such as a prostitute or hitch hiker and killed them because they werent worthy to be Christians? Perhaps posed as to repent?

In one of the news outlets upthread there was stated she was found in a spread eagle position. Nobody? knows what was the real position she was found in, if you ask me. A spread eagle position I associate more with wanting to cause a shock effect, uncovering her genitals (sorry for being graphic)

 

[Family_trees]

In one of the news outlets upthread there was stated she was found in a spread eagle position. Nobody? knows what was the real position she was found in, if you ask me. A spread eagle position I associate more with wanting to cause a shock effect, uncovering her genitals (sorry for being graphic)

You would think if she was posed like that it would be for humiliation. A cross-like pose seems more like a statement than a humiliation.

 

[Bit of hope]

You would think if she was posed like that it would be for humiliation. A cross-like pose seems more like a statement than a humiliation.

Yes, maybe. That was what I was saying. Depending on how the position was she was found in, you can give different explanations. There is conflicting information about the position she was found in. Unless we can trace this back to a killer who has this modus operandi (on off two....posing victims in a cross like position or with spread legs and arms, or a third possibility; not even posed) it will not lead to her identification.

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

MO - MO - Christene Nickle Seal, 22, Verona, 19 June 1972

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Starr Valley Jane Doe

DISCOVERY:
On July 14, 1972, a rancher in rural Elko County, Nevada found the nude and decomposed body of an unidentified female who had been posed in a cross-like manner. The location is 35 miles east of the city of Elko.

The area is approximately a half mile west of Starr Valley Road and eight miles south of I-80. It’s located in the desert, just off Dennis Flats Road, which travels between Starr Valley and Halleck. In crime scene photos, Lamoille can be seen to the south, while part of 71 Ranch can be seen to the east.

Given the remote location, someone not familiar with the area would have had to drive a considerable distance in order to arrive there.

AUTOPSY:
Upon Jane Doe’s remains being brought to the coroner’s office for examination, it was determined she’d died months prior, the result of a homicide. She’d been shot with a .22 caliber handgun in the neck and left cheek.

DETAILS:
The deceased is described as a white female between the ages of 17 and 25. She stood at 5’2″ and weighed between 105 and 115 pounds. Her hair has been described as either reddish-blonde or sandy blonde in colour and shoulder length, and her pubic hair was reddish-blonde. Given the level of decomposition, her eye colour could not be determined. She had two scars: one on the outside of her right knee and an appendectomy scar on the lower right quadrant.

According to reports, a dark blue Volkswagen Beetle with Tennessee plates was seen in the area where Jane Doe on July 7 or 8, 1972. It’s believed to have been reported stolen, but was never recovered.

Investigators are looking into the theory the case is related to others across Nevada. On November 16, 1993, the nude body of a female was found in a sage bush at the Shafter Exit of I-80, posed in a cross-like manner. Her face had been severely beaten and she’d been shot in the chest with a small caliber handgun. She was found 50 miles from where Starr Valley Jane Doe’s remains had been located. Despite the crimes having occurred 21 years apart, similarities were found between them. Both women were likely in the 20s, with light brown or dark blonde hair. They’d both been shot with a small caliber handgun, posed nude, and their bodies dumped near I-80.

The main investigator on the case, along with others from law enforcement agencies across Nevada, came together in 2009 to discuss the possible connection. However, the results of this meeting have not been publicly released.

There is also speculation that both cases are related to the Great Basin murders, which took place between 1983 and 1996 in Wyoming and surrounding states. Dale Wayne Eaton has been named a suspect in the cases and is known to have past ties to Nevada – most specifically, Elko.

Two other cases are believed to be connected: the Devils Gate Jane Doe and the Thousand Springs Jane Doe. The former was found in a shallow ditch in Elko, Nevada on October 2, 1972 by a hunter. She was a white, Hispanic or mixed race individual likely between the ages of 15 and 18. She had strawberry blonde hair with curls at the end, and had likely died between four to 12 weeks prior. The latter was found by tourists in a dry wash in Elko, Nevada, on July 16, 1974 – approximately 33 miles north of Wells, where the California Trail runs into US Highway 93. She had auburn/red hair and was likely between 16 and 25 years of age. She’d died by strangulation and her body had been burned beyond recognition.

Starr Valley Jane Doe’s case is the oldest currently being handled by the Elko County Sheriff’s Office. According to police, they’d obtained suspect information based on other missing people investigations, but “nobody was able to follow up on it”.

RULE OUTS:
1) Nadine Claire Timms, who went missing from Lockport, Illinois on November 16, 1965.

CASE CONTACT INFORMATION:
Jane Doe’s dentals are available for comparison, as is one fingerprint.

Those with information regarding the identity of Jane Doe are asked to contact the Elko County Sheriff’s Office at 775-738-3421. Tips can also be called into the Elko County Coroner’s Office at either 775-738-8936 or 775-777-2505.

Image Credit: The Doe Network

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Starr Valley Jane Doe

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Dec 2020 article:

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Starr Valley Jane Doe’s naked body was found by a rancher in July 1972. She had been shot in the head and neck, and posed with her arms and legs extended. Her age was estimated at 20 to 25. Although one fingerprint was intact, she was never identified.

Kolsch said a witness reported seeing a Volkswagen leaving the area a few days prior. Bundy was living in Salt Lake City at the time and drove a Volkswagen. However, Czegledi said the car seen in Nevada had a Tennessee license plate, and he was not aware of any evidence connecting the death to Bundy.

Devil’s Gate Jane Doe’s body was found in a shallow grave north of Deeth in October of 1972. The white, possibly racially mixed adult was believed to be 15 to 18 years old.

Other than the murders being within three months of each other, Czegledi said there was no evidence connecting them.

Thousand Springs Jane Doe’s body was found two years later, in July 1974. The woman in her late teens to early 20s was spotted by tourists in a dry wash 33 miles north of Wells, where the California Trail runs into U.S. Highway 93.

The killer had attempted to burn the body.

Cold cases are not a high priority for law enforcement, especially ones that happened decades ago.

“What you want to try to do is keep coming back at it,” Czegledi said, hoping that someone with knowledge of the crime will come forward.

“Allegiances change,” he said.

Advances in technology such as DNA identification also help, he said. “That’s why we’re not allowed to throw anything away on a homicide case. You just don’t know what’s down the road.”

Cold cases may be left to retired detectives or media such as “Cold Justice” to explore.

“Our detectives follow up on leads that come in, but on the older cases, they are few and far between,” said Lt. Mike Palhegyi of the Elko Police Department.
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“What you want to try to do is keep coming back at it,” Czegledi said, hoping that someone with knowledge of the crime will come

The work can be more frustrating when neither the victim nor killer has been identified.
Cold case murders: Clues still sought from slayings that date as far back as 1970s

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Lee’s work memorializes the unidentified human remains through devotional craft. The weavings serve as “burial shrouds” for the women who were murdered and ruthlessly tossed into the desert. The museum has placed a donation box next to the exhibit. Roovaart said the money will be used to further the investigation into these homicides, most of which are unsolved.

Quinney’s photographs document the woven shrouds at the sites where each victim was discovered. In the photos, the shrouds were positioned like bodies.

Descriptive tags next to each installation in the collection reference the deceased women for whom the shrouds were made. “Shafter Jane,” “Thousand Springs Jane Doe,” Devil’s Gate Jane Doe” and Starr Valley Jane Doe were all found in Elko County at different times.

“People [visitors] say that it [the exhibit] is really moving and sad,” Roovaart said. “Anything negative just comes from the fact that it makes you uncomfortable, but that is just part of the exhibit. You shouldn’t feel good when you are looking at that.”

“In this body of work I am hand weaving burial shrouds to commemorate the victims of the Great Basin Murders,” wrote Lee on her website. “Using Fiberworks, a weaving software program, I develop original weave patterns using data from each case including height, weight and age estimates as well as the date and GPS coordinates of when and where the victim was located. The density of the weaving communicates the postmortem interval.”

Lee has created another collection of work, “Canal Cases,” which deals with unidentified human remains found in Dade County, Fla.
WATCH NOW: Museum hosts exhibit related to Elko County murders

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Preface with apologies. I took a break with my mama for awhile and am trying to get back into this forum. I forget how many different Jane does are in this state and county. Idk I hope this is right thread…

Starr Valley Jane Doe
DISCOVERY:
On July 14, 1972, a rancher in rural Elko County, Nevada found the nude and decomposed body of an unidentified female who had been posed in a cross-like manner. The location is 35 miles east of the city of Elko.

The area is approximately a half mile west of Starr Valley Road and eight miles south of I-80. It’s located in the desert, just off Dennis Flats Road, which travels between Starr Valley and Halleck. In crime scene photos, Lamoille can be seen to the south, while part of 71 Ranch can be seen to the east.

Given the remote location, someone not familiar with the area would have had to drive a considerable distance in order to arrive there.

AUTOPSY:
Upon Jane Doe’s remains being brought to the coroner’s office for examination, it was determined she’d died months prior, the result of a homicide. She’d been shot with a .22 caliber handgun in the neck and left cheek.

DETAILS:
The deceased is described as a white female between the ages of 17 and 25. She stood at 5’2″ and weighed between 105 and 115 pounds. Her hair has been described as either reddish-blonde or sandy blonde in colour and shoulder length, and her pubic hair was reddish-blonde. Given the level of decomposition, her eye colour could not be determined. She had two scars: one on the outside of her right knee and an appendectomy scar on the lower right quadrant.

According to reports, a dark blue Volkswagen Beetle with Tennessee plates was seen in the area where Jane Doe on July 7 or 8, 1972. It’s believed to have been reported stolen, but was never recovered.

Investigators are looking into the theory the case is related to others across Nevada. On November 16, 1993, the nude body of a female was found in a sage bush at the Shafter Exit of I-80, posed in a cross-like manner. Her face had been severely beaten and she’d been shot in the chest with a small caliber handgun. She was found 50 miles from where Starr Valley Jane Doe’s remains had been located. Despite the crimes having occurred 21 years apart, similarities were found between them. Both women were likely in the 20s, with light brown or dark blonde hair. They’d both been shot with a small caliber handgun, posed nude, and their bodies dumped near I-80.

The main investigator on the case, along with others from law enforcement agencies across Nevada, came together in 2009 to discuss the possible connection. However, the results of this meeting have not been publicly released.

There is also speculation that both cases are related to the Great Basin murders, which took place between 1983 and 1996 in Wyoming and surrounding states. Dale Wayne Eaton has been named a suspect in the cases and is known to have past ties to Nevada – most specifically, Elko.

Two other cases are believed to be connected: the Devils Gate Jane Doe and the Thousand Springs Jane Doe. The former was found in a shallow ditch in Elko, Nevada on October 2, 1972 by a hunter. She was a white, Hispanic or mixed race individual likely between the ages of 15 and 18. She had strawberry blonde hair with curls at the end, and had likely died between four to 12 weeks prior. The latter was found by tourists in a dry wash in Elko, Nevada, on July 16, 1974 – approximately 33 miles north of Wells, where the California Trail runs into US Highway 93. She had auburn/red hair and was likely between 16 and 25 years of age. She’d died by strangulation and her body had been burned beyond recognition.

Starr Valley Jane Doe’s case is the oldest currently being handled by the Elko County Sheriff’s Office. According to police, they’d obtained suspect information based on other missing people investigations, but “nobody was able to follow up on it”.

RULE OUTS:
1) Nadine Claire Timms, who went missing from Lockport, Illinois on November 16, 1965.

CASE CONTACT INFORMATION:
Jane Doe’s dentals are available for comparison, as is one fingerprint.

Those with information regarding the identity of Jane Doe are asked to contact the Elko County Sheriff’s Office at 775-738-3421. Tips can also be called into the Elko County Coroner’s Office at either 775-738-8936 or 775-777-2505.

Image Credit: The Doe Network

» Source Information «

Starr Valley Jane Doe

 

[John/Jane Doe]

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[imstilla.grandma]

The victim's nude body was found by a Starr Valley Rancher. The victim had been shot in the upper body with a small caliber handgun. She had a scar over her right knee, and an appendectomy scar. Dental charts available at the National Crime Information Center. On July 7th or 8th witnesses reported seeing a dark blue Volkswagon automobile with Tennessee plates in the general area

https://dps.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dpsnvgov/content/Citizen/NVRCFemaleUnidentifiedDeadUnsolvedHomicides.pdf