NY NY - Kings Co, Female, 20-50, UP6816, Partial remains found in a suitcase by two men fishing in the Gowanus Bay, Brooklyn, 10 Jul '97

[Truly_Mysterious]

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP6816​

Female, Hispanic / Latino

Unidentified

Case Information​
Date Body Found	Location Found	Est. Age Range
July 10, 1997	Brooklyn, New York	20 - 50 Years
Case Number​
NCMEC Number	ME/C Case Number
-	K97-03199
Demographics​
Estimated Age Group	Estimated Age Range (Years)	Estimated Year of Death
Adult - Pre 50 Years	20 - 50	1997-
Possible First Name	Possible Middle Name	Possible Last Name
--	--	--
Nickname/Alias	Sex	Estimated PMI
--	Female	--
Height	Weight	Race / Ethnicity
5'-3" - (63 - inches) Estimated	-- - lbs Cannot Estimate	Hispanic / Latino
Circumstances​
Type	Date Body Found	NamUs Case Created
Unidentified Deceased	July 10, 1997	March 25, 2010
ME/C QA Reviewed
March 26, 2010
Location Found(Map)
Location	County
Brooklyn, New York	Kings County
GPS Coordinates (Not Mapped)	Found on Tribal Land
40.664404, -73.996916	No
Circumstances of Recovery
Unknown female found in a suitcase by two men fishing at above location.
Details of Recovery​
Inventory of Remains	Condition of Remains
--	Not recognizable - Partial remains with soft tissues
Physical Description​
Hair Color	Head Hair Description	Body Hair Description
Brown	straight brown hair, 2.5"	--
Facial Hair Description
--
Left Eye Color	Right Eye Color	Eye Description
Brown	Brown	--
Distinctive Physical Features​
Item	Description
Finger and toe nails	painted pink with silver tips
Other distinctive physical characteristic	yellow metal open faced crown on an upper central incisor
Piercing	right ear pierced twice
Clothing and Accessories​
Item	Description
Jewelry	15" necklace: double strand of white cloth with clasp, joining a metal enamel pendant of a red star with a black heart and white stripes	On the Body
Additional Case Details​
No Information Entered
Images and Documents​
Jewelry​
Uploaded: Oct 26, 2010

Contacts​

Investigating Agencies​

No Information Entered

Case Contributors​

Angela Soler​

Relationship to Case Relationship Description
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New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner​

Address County
Department of Forensic Biology New York County
421 East 26th Street
New York, New York 10016
County
New York County
Main Phone General Email Website URL
(212) 447-2030 -- --

Angela Soler​

Relationship to Case Relationship Description
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Office of Chief Medical Examiner New York City​

Address
520 First Avenue
--
New York, New York 10016

Main Phone General Email Website URL
(212) 447-2030 -- --

Contact NamUs​

The Regional Program Specialist contact for this case is Brian Nisbet

Phone: (518) 713-8438

Email: bnisbet@rti.org

 

[Truly_Mysterious]

1665UFNY - Unidentified Female​

Date of Discovery: July 10, 1997
Location of Discovery: Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Estimated Date of Death: 1997
State of Remains: Not recognizable - Partial remains with soft tissues.
Cause of Death: Unknown

Physical Description​

Estimated Age: 20-50 years old
Race: Hispanic
Gender: Female
Height: 5'3" Estimated
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Brown, straight, 2.5" in length
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Finger and toenails painted pink with silver tips; right ear pierced twice

Identifiers​

Dentals: Available, yellow metal open faced crown on an upper central incisor
Fingerprints: Unavailable
DNA: Unknown

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Necklace, double strand of white cloth, 15" in length, with clasps at the ends, red metal enamel pendant with a black heart and white stripes
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Discovery​

The desecedent's partial remains were found in a suitcase by two men fishing at 20th Street and 3rd Avenue. Her torso was not recovered. Former Doe Case Number 1608UMNY.

Investigating Agency(s)​

Agency Name: Office of Chief Medical Examiner New York City
Agency Contact Person: Angela Soler, Forensic Anthropologist
Agency Phone Number: 212-447-2030
Agency E-Mail: asoler(at)ocme.nyc.gov
Agency Case Number: K97-03199


NCIC Case Number: Unknown
NamUs Case Number: 6816

Information Source(s)​

NamUs

 

[Truly_Mysterious]

Newspaper Clipping​

Daily News​

New York • Fri, Jul 11, 1997 Page 37

OCR Text​

Body parts found in Brooklyn bay
By JOHN MARZULLI - Daily News Staff Writer
Brooklyn fishermen hooked a suitcase containing body parts yesterday in the Gowanus Bay, police said.
The gruesome remains -- a balding head, two arms and two legs -- were found in two black garbage bags stuffed inside the suitcase.
Police said two men fishing off a pier at the Bush Terminal near 20th St and First Ave. spotted the suitcase floating in the water around noon. One angler hooked the suitcase with his pole and pulled it ashore. After opening one garbage bag, one fisherman called cops.
The bags were taken to the morgue at Kings County Hospital.

 

[Truly_Mysterious]

This unidentified person is also known as Kings_County_Jane_Doe_(July_1997)

 

[Truly_Mysterious]

The following 2 Wordpress pages also reference this doe

LISK ’97

On July 3, Jennifer Nicole Gaine was found murdered inside a Times Square motel room. She was strangled, wrapped in a bed sheet and her hands and feet were bound with a pillowcase covering her head. The police claim Gaine was a sex worker.
Less than a week later on July 9, the dismembered remains of a male and female were found in garbage bags by a clean up crew at the Borinquen Plaza apartments in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Four garbage bags containing the torsos, heads, arms and legs of a Jane and John Doe were found against a parking lot wall. The victims were estimated to have been dead for 6 to 12 hours.
One day later on July 10, fishermen in the Gowanus Bay in Brooklyn fished up a suitcase containing dismembered body parts. A head, two arms and two legs were found in garbage bags inside the suitcase. Original news report describe the head as belonging to that of a male. NamUS now lists the sex of the victim as female and describes the victims nails as having pink nail polish with silver tips.
That’s quite a number of dismembered body parts in a very short time period. When Valerie Mack’s torso was discovered in Manorville in 2000, the remains of an unidentified male, strangled and in his underwear was discovered only four days later and a few miles west. After Jessica Taylor’s torso was found in Manorville in July 2003, the body of male homicide victim was recovered in November. He has been identified but the Suffolk County Police Department refuses to release his name to the public. His estimated postmortem interval of three to four months puts his time of death around late July when Jessica Taylor was murdered. These circumstances suggest that the Long Island Serial Killer may have killed and dumped the male victims at the same times as Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack. Were the male and female Manorville victims killed together like the dismembered Jane and John Doe in Brooklyn? Was LISK on killing spree over the course of one month in mid-June through mid-July in 1997?
June 13 1997 Nancy Flores Murder Highbridge Park, NYC

Brooklyn Butcher

July 10 1997 Dismembered Female NamUS #UP6816 Brooklyn, NY

 

[Truly_Mysterious]

Originally her partial remains were misclassified as an Asian Male (see below)
TheDoeNetwork 1608UMNY: -

The Doe Network:​

Case File 1608UMNY

Necklace

Unidentified Asian Male

• The victim was discovered on July 10, 1997 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
• Partial remains with soft tissues; missing torso

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Vital Statistics

• Estimated age: 30-50 years old
• Approximate Height and Weight: 5'3"
• Distinguishing Characteristics: Straight brown hair, 2.5" (around ears and back of head), severe male pattern balding. Brown eyes. Right ear pierced twice.
• Jewelry: 15" necklace: double strand of white cloth with clasp, joining a metal enamel pendant of a red star with a black heart and white stripes.
• Dentals: Available
• Fingerprints: Not available.

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Case History
The victim was located in a suitcase by two men fishing at 20th street and 3rd Avenue.

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Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
New York County Medical Examiner's Office
212-447-2770
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

Agency Case Number:
K97-03199

Source Information:
Namus

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Return to the Unidentified Victims' Index

Then in 2022 they were reclassified as an Hispanic / Latino Female (see below):-
TheDoeNetwork 1665UFNY:-

1665UFNY - Unidentified Female​

Date of Discovery: July 10, 1997
Location of Discovery: Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Estimated Date of Death: 1997
State of Remains: Not recognizable - Partial remains with soft tissues.
Cause of Death: Unknown

Physical Description​

Estimated Age: 20-50 years old
Race: Hispanic
Gender: Female
Height: 5'3" Estimated
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Brown, straight, 2.5" in length
Eye Color: BrownDistinguishing Marks/Features: Finger and toenails painted pink with silver tips; right ear pierced twice

and
Namus UP6816:-

Unidentified

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP6816


Female, Hispanic / Latino

Date Body Found July 10, 1997

Location Found Brooklyn, New York

Estimated Age Range 20-50 Years

 

[Sablini]

Could it be this woman?

Evelyn Henriquez
29 years old
5'6
Went missing in 1993
Brown Hair and Brown Eyes
Hispanic Origin
Was last seen in the borough of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, due to last sighting, may have worked in prostitution due to the circumstances of her last known location
Had right ear pierced twice and was wearing a necklace just like the jane doe

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[Truly_Mysterious]

Could it be this woman?

Evelyn Henriquez
29 years old
5'6
Went missing in 1993
Brown Hair and Brown Eyes
Hispanic Origin
Was last seen in the borough of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, due to last sighting, may have worked in prostitution due to the circumstances of her last known location
Had right ear pierced twice and was wearing a necklace just like the jane doe

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Maybe, it's in the right area. There is a 4 year gap though, but it's possible she may have just gone by an alias and kept a low profile for 4 years prior.

Is there a photo of Evelyn Henriquez's necklace anywhere or an example. Does anyone know what a "NYTP MINI SHIELD" is or looks like?

The necklace found with Jane Doe UP6816 is described as having "a metal enamel pendant of a red star with a black heart and white stripes" (see below)

 

[Truly_Mysterious]

The suitcase with her partial remains in, was discovered floating in Gowanus Bay by 2 men fishing on July 10 1997.


Coordinates 40.662482,-74.0149856

 

[Truly_Mysterious]

What about this missing person?


Catherine Chiang


Missing 1 month prior on June 06, 1997 and was last seen locally in Middletown, Bronx, New York (15 miles away from Gowanus Bay).
She is Asian, which was written on the original unidentified person report before it was changed to Hispanic/Latino recently.
She has brown eyes and what looks like short dark hair.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

The remains of UP6816 were found floating in suitcase a Gowanus Bay on July 10,1997, but who knows how long the suitcase was submerged in the water for. Maybe for many weeks.
Also the suitcase may have been dumped in different local bay or river, and carried there by the sea tides or river currents over many weeks.

 

[madamx]

Bumping

 

[Caring1]

NamUs updated today. No exclusions listed.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[Aurora90]

Maybe, it's in the right area. There is a 4 year gap though, but it's possible she may have just gone by an alias and kept a low profile for 4 years prior.

Is there a photo of Evelyn Henriquez's necklace anywhere or an example. Does anyone know what a "NYTP MINI SHIELD" is or looks like?

The necklace found with Jane Doe UP6816 is described as having "a metal enamel pendant of a red star with a black heart and white stripes" (see below)
View attachment 437799

Does anyone know what kind of cop her husband was?

I think NYTP stands for New York City Transit Police. According to NAMUS it states: “YELLOW METAL NECKLACE WITH NYTP MINI SHIELD NUMBER 5074”

Surely that’s traceable.



I found a link for this hat on eBay for a pre-owned hat likely being sold by someone who previously worked there.

New York City Transit Police Reunion Cap (NYTP) | eBay

Preowned NYTP cap is in excellent condition. Blue, with Adjustable Velcro strap. Thanks for looking.

www.ebay.com

 

[Aurora90]

I think it’s more likely referring to The New York State Police Troopers. In fact, family of law enforcement also able to purchase a shield according to their website.

New York State Police Family Courtesy Shield

This quality gold plated NYS Trooper family shield is engravable with your favorite trooper's shield number. The shield size is approximately 1.5″ x 1.5″ If the shield requires an engraved shield number, please note that only law enforcement personnel can order personalized shields and therefore we request proof of identity by way of a photo or scan of a shield or id card.

 

[Aurora90]

I’m very curious to know if this lead was followed up on.

Surely this must give you some idea as to who this Jane doe might be….

 

[Aurora90]

Oops my mistake. That was what Evelyn was wearing not what was found on the Jane doe. Got it.