NV NV, Las Vegas - Linda Sue Anderson, 38, #UP14396, found half buried in dirt w. homemade quilt, murder occurred mid to late '91, *DNA Identified 2024*

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Las Vegas Cold Case Solved After 30 Years: "Jane Tropicana Doe" Identified as Linda Sue Anderson - Nevada Globe

Las Vegas, NV - A cold case homicide investigation spanning more than three decades has finally yielded a breakthrough. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police

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'Seeking the Public’s Help: Anyone with information about Linda Sue Anderson or the events leading to her death is urged to contact the LVMPD Homicide Section at (702) 828-3521. Alternatively, anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at (702) 385-5555.'

After 31 years, Jane Tropicana Doe is Identified

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department & the FBI Partner with Othram to Identify 1993 Homicide Victim

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''Summary​

In April 1993, while conducting field research in the Las Vegas, Nevada desert area of Tropicana Avenue and Durango Drive, a biologist discovered a grave covered with a handmade quilt and several large rocks. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) Homicide Section responded to the scene and led the investigation. The Clark County Coroner’s office conducted an autopsy and determined that the remains were that of a female. The woman’s death was ruled as a homicide. It was estimated that her death occurred mid to late 1991.

Despite the investigative efforts of law enforcement, the woman could not be identified and she became known as “Jane Tropicana Doe”. The case remained unsolved and was assigned to the LVMPD Homicide Cold Case Section. Details of the case were entered into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) as UP14396.

In February 2023, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department once again teamed with Othram to determine if advanced DNA testing could help to identify Jane Tropicana Doe. Forensic evidence was submitted to Othram in The Woodlands, Texas. Othram scientists successfully developed a comprehensive DNA profile for the woman using Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing®. After successfully completing the process, the DNA profile was delivered to the FBI's forensic genetic genealogy team and the FBI team performed the necessary work to generate new investigative leads in the case''.

''Using familial reference DNA samples, investigators were able to identify the murdered woman as 38-year-old Linda Sue Anderson aka Linda Sue Andrews of Henderson, Nevada. Cold Case Investigators learned that family members last spoke to Linda Sue by phone in June of 1991. She was never heard from again.''

 

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"Jan 19, 2024
According to police, the victim was identified as 38-year-old Linda Sue Anderson and investigators believe she was killed in 1991. Jaewon Jung reports'

 

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Last year, Texas-based Othram Labs, which works with Metro to identify victims in similar cold case homicides, informed police about the match, Miller said. In addition to Othram, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) and the FBI aided in the identification. Anderson’s brother’s DNA matched with the then-unidentified homicide victim.

“31 years later, we have her identified, we now know what happened to her as far as where she went,” Miller told the 8 News Now Investigators last month. “She did not abandon her children.”

Collition said she was told her mother was living a double life and having an affair.

“Everyone was just shocked,” she said. “They were like, ‘I don’t understand why she would leave her children. Linda wouldn’t do that.’ And then we’re just like, ‘Well she did, she left us.’”

Collition said she hoped one day her mother would contact her. She never expected that call from Metro police.

“To know that she had been murdered, and we’re wondering if she suffered? And we’re wondering what she’s thinking. And who did this to her?” Collition said. “We do want to find answers.”

In December, with the help of Othram, Metro identified Gwenn Marie Story, 19, of Colerain Township, Ohio, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported. Story was murdered near the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue on Aug. 14, 1979, police said. A man discovered her remains on the site of the demolished El Rancho hotel, though the nearby intersection gave her the moniker “Sahara Sue Doe.”

Both cases remained unsolved as of Thursday with the hopes their identification would lead to more information about who killed them.

'She did not abandon her children,' Daughter learns mother is unidentified Las Vegas murder victim 30 years later

A daughter who thought her mother abandoned her more than three decades ago was shocked when police called with the news.

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Collition said she was told her mother was living a double life and having an affair.

Ah, the classic excuse. "Cheating @#¢*§ left me for another man!!!!"