NY NY - Jacqueline Lerman, 24, Rockaway Beach, 25 March 1979

[MadMcGoo]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) MP78433

Jacqueline Lerman


Date of Last Contact: March 25, 1979
Missing From: Rockaway Beach, Queens County, New York
Missing Age: 24 Years
Nickname/Alias: Jacqueline Sklaroff
Race / Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Sex: Female
Height: 5' 3" (63 Inches)
Weight: 125 - 130 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Scar/mark: Scar on middle finger

Circumstances of Disappearance: Jacqueline Lerman was last seen leaving her parents home in Rockaway Beach, NY at 4am on March 25, 1979. There were subsequent reports of her being sighted in New Jersey.

 

[StarrChance]

Severely depressed, so hard for the family

 

[madamx]

Omg I had never heard of this case! Wow.. thank you for making this thread. How sad.

 

[madamx]

UNIDENTIFIED
Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP8374Female, White / Caucasian
Date Body FoundMarch 20, 1980
Location FoundFishkill, New York

Case Information


Case Numbers
NCMEC Number--
ME/C Case NumberKWAP 80-266
Demographics
SexFemale
Race / EthnicityWhite / Caucasian

Estimated Age GroupAdult - Pre 30
Estimated Age Range (Years)20-30
Estimated Year of Death3-1980
Estimated PMI2 Days

Height 5’4"(64 inches) , Estimated
Weight 135lbs, Estimated

Circumstances


TypeUnidentified Deceased
Date Body FoundMarch 20, 1980
NamUs Case CreatedJanuary 12, 2011
ME/C QA ReviewedJanuary 14, 2011


Location Found Map
LocationFishkill, New York 12524
CountyDutchess County
GPS Coordinates (Not Mapped)--

Circumstances of Recovery

03/20/80 the headless, handless, nude body of a white female was discovered in a travel trunk near a dumpster at the Hudson View Apartments in Fishkill NY. The trunk had been left at that location between 12 noon and 10:00pm on 03/18/80. The female is in her approx mid twenties, 5'6", weighing approx 135 lbs, dark brown hair, foot size aprox 41/2 to 5, bra size 34C.
Details of Recovery


Inventory of RemainsHead not recovered One or more limbs not recovered One or both hands not recovered
Condition of RemainsNot recognizable - Partial remains with soft tissues
Physical Description
Hair ColorBrown
Head Hair DescriptionDark Brown
Body Hair Description--
Facial Hair Description--
Left Eye Color--
Right Eye Color--
Eye Description--
Distinctive Physical Features
Item
Description
Amputation
The head and hands were amputated and not recovered with the body.


Clothing and Accessories
Item
Description
Accessories
Body discovered inside a travel trunk described as follows: Green with black trim and blue lining. 21"wide, 37"long, and 14"deep with brass fittings. various stickers on the outside indicate the trunk travelled from NYC to France in 1958 and returned to NYC in 1960. Original ownership has been verified as June Leaf.
Near the Body

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[MadMcGoo]

@madamx I think you know best about these NY cases. I have a hard time with them. Texas is my jam LOL. If you feel strongly about any one of them, let me know! I’ll submit for sure.

 

[madamx]

@madamx I think you know best about these NY cases. I have a hard time with them. Texas is my jam LOL. If you feel strongly about any one of them, let me know! I’ll submit for sure.

awwww thank you sooo much!!! Yeah you know I don’t submit. I have a hard time with them when they are 1980s 1970s and earlier because they are not in namus.. so if they died in the city I have to look at the Hart Island files.. it’s a pain in the *advertiser censored*!

I found the fish kill woman in the trunk ( the trunk has the NYC connection but I don’t know) that trunk that belonged to June Leaf has always fascinated me .... but iam still looking for more..

I feel so bad for this Jaqueline lady.. her photos are terrible and there is such little info on her..

Oooh good to know you are the Texas connection!!!

 

[MadMcGoo]

awwww thank you sooo much!!! Yeah you know I don’t submit. I have a hard time with them when they are 1980s 1970s and earlier because they are not in namus.. so if they died in the city I have to look at the Hart Island files.. it’s a pain in the *advertiser censored*!

I found the fish kill woman in the trunk ( the trunk has the NYC connection but I don’t know) that trunk that belonged to June Leaf has always fascinated me .... but iam still looking for more..

I feel so bad for this Jaqueline lady.. her photos are terrible and there is such little info on her..

Oooh good to know you are the Texas connection!!!

Yeah! I got you... just let me know.

 

[madamx]

Philip Lerman
And yet, as days turned into weeks and months, I would listen to the families and to the cops and FBI agents on this case, and hundreds of others, and I would marvel at their determination and their belief that we would, in fact, solve this one. Or this one. Or this one.


And I wondered: How did they all manage, in the midst of such sorrow, to keep hope alive?

It was a question I have pondered all my life.

I was about the age Berry is now when my stepsister, Jackie, disappeared. She suffered from schizophrenia and one night ran out of our house in Rockaway, New York, in a mania-induced rage. She was last seen headed to Manhattan on the A train, wearing no coat in the middle of winter, probably without a dime in her pocket.

My family was not one of those brave, strong families I would meet years later; Jackie’s disappearance tore our family apart. Her mother was driven to madness by the not-knowing, my father driven to depression and attempted suicide by a life that had become a lonely prison, caged in by his wife’s grief. They became, thoroughly and utterly, hopeless.

Lessons from 'America's Most Wanted': Never give up - CNN


I came across this from her stepbrother. we get a little more information. She seemed to be going to Manhattan.

 

[madamx]

The A train is probably the longest ride. Starts at Rockaway goes through Queens Brooklyn and Manhattan ends at Inwood . She could of gotten off anywhere ugh

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[madamx]

I have been trying to find out how the weather was. And pretty much like all March weather in NYC it was all over the place..


New York Weather Highlights of 1979


MARCH

6 - An all-day rain dumped 2.63", a record for the date. Temperatures were well above average, with a high/low of 56°/49°, fifteen degrees above average.

11 - A rainy morning (0.75" fell) preceded passage of a cold front that dropped the temperature from 49° in the early AM to 25° by midnight - the coldest reading in nearly three weeks.

15 - One day after the high temperature reached 64° at noon, today's afternoon temperatures were only in the upper 20s.

16 - The morning low of 20° (fifteen degrees below average) was the coldest reading since Feb. 19, when it was 17°.

30 - Today's high of 76°, twenty degrees above average, was the first 70-degree reading of the year.

 

[annpats]

Interesting she was found almost exactly a year to the day she went missing.
Missing: 25th March 1979.
Found: 20th March 1980.

Obviously she hadn't been in the travel trunk by the dumpster all this time, so I wonder what she had been up to?

Homeless and wandering?
Abducted and held hostage?
Both?
.....and to be decapitated too. Just awful and so sickening.

 

[madamx]

Interesting she was found almost exactly a year to the day she went missing.
Missing: 25th March 1979.
Found: 20th March 1980.

Obviously she hadn't been in the travel trunk by the dumpster all this time, so I wonder what she had been up to?

Homeless and wandering?
Abducted and held hostage?
Both?
.....and to be decapitated too. Just awful and so sickening.

Yeah I was wondering if it’s her what was she doing the whole time. But yes the Dates are interesting, I thought so too.

 

[madamx]

Here is some photos of what NYC was like in 1979

New York City 1979 – Ephemeral New York



Look Back At 1979 NYC Through This Tourist's Old Photos

 

[annpats]

I do love those photos @madamx. Thank you for sharing them.

I love that kind of scuzzy feel NYC had back then (like in the film Desperately Seeking Susan from 1986). It was still a bit that way into the early 90s I believe.
One of my childhood dreams was to be a 'Guardian angel' in NYC, complete with white T shirt and red berét hat. We used to see them on the TV over here in the UK.

 

[MadMcGoo]

This has been submitted to Doe Network.

 

[madamx]

This has been submitted to Doe Network.

You Are The Best xxxxxxx The Best!!!

 

[madamx]

I do love those photos @madamx. Thank you for sharing them.

I love that kind of scuzzy feel NYC had back then (like in the film Desperately Seeking Susan from 1986). It was still a bit that way into the early 90s I believe.
One of my childhood dreams was to be a 'Guardian angel' in NYC, complete with white T shirt and red berét hat. We used to see them on the TV over here in the UK.

Yes until the early to mid 1990s it still had that feel!! Omg the Guardian Angel yes I remember seeing them when I was in HS taking the train to school!! I always wanted to see Lisa in person but never did. I always thought she was the coolest!!!!

 

[MadMcGoo]

Jaqueline has been ruled out as being this Doe: NY - NY - Dutchess Co, WhtFem UP8374, 20-30, dismembered nude body in travel trunk, Mar'80

 

[victoriarobinson642]

One would think that her brother would have DNA in the system - maybe an automatic rule out?

 

[MadMcGoo]

One would think that her brother would have DNA in the system - maybe an automatic rule out?

I wish they'd tell us.