Distinguishing Marks/Features: Well healed fracture of right clavicle (collar bone) with resultant deformation. Bony lesion on the left fist rib.
I just wanted to comment on this detail since it stood out me. I’m not sure it will help in the search for her identity, but it will at least give way to additional options/theories.
If, god forbid, I were to be found as a Jane Doe, I may have a similar description on my profile. I was born with bilateral
cervical ribs. They’re extra ribs located near the clavicle, above the normal 1st rib. Long story short, I ended up suffering from
thoracic outlet syndrome caused by the extra ribs. I required surgery to remove one of the ribs, which led to them having to take a portion of my normal first rib also.
Both the cervical ribs themselves and TOS are rare and it was nearly impossible for me to find a surgeon who’d even heard of such things. And I figure the most he’d ever done was read about it in a text book years ago because he only made my problems worse and caused unnecessary fractures and abnormalities to my clavicle and first rib. Not to mention a number of other complications.
If these things are almost unheard of today, I’m sure they were even less so back in 1978. Point being, there’s a slim chance that what is described with this UID is a result of something other than your typical trauma (domestic abuse, car accident, etc.). My case is not common or typical, but X-rays of my torso would yield similar, if not exact, results to this UID’s. Just food for thought.
ETA: Other than complaining about pain a lot, no one would be aware that I had either. I would have likely remained asymptomatic had I not aggregated the TOS with strenuous activity. Someone reporting me missing, even now, might not think to mention any of it.