Identified! Oh - Cincinnati, Whtfem Up7146, 40-65, In Woods Off I-75, Jan'09-deborah Morgan

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Does anyone have any thoughts on Ericka Thomas and Faith VanNortick (I suggested them upthread)? Both had dentures and seem like plausible matches to me.
 
Ericka Thomas (https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/9631) looks very possible. Circumstances would work: she apparently wrecked her car in Austintown, OH, which is 3.5 hours by main highway from where The Traveler (nickname in one of the articles) was found: https://goo.gl/maps/4DMH6. It's possible she was injured in the accident and became confused while hitchhiking for help and wound up beside the highway in Cincinnati when her ride let her out.

I usually figure +/- two inches on height, so that's only slightly out of range. Facially similar. Age is in line.

My only reservation is that it says she has DNA available. Since The Traveler also has DNA, this is likely a ruleout by default.
 

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Erika Thomas has been ruled out. Cynthia Allegro isn't on the list, but she has DNA in the system so is probably a ruleout.

The following people have been ruled out as being this decedent:

First Name Last Name Year of Birth State LKA

Patricia Adkins 1972 Ohio
Tonia Aldrich 1959 Ohio
Cynthia Anderson 1961 Ohio
Sharon Apgar 1966 Ohio
Kimberly Belcher 1955 Mississippi
Kimberly Belcher 1955 Michigan
Brenda Borowski 1960 Ohio
Tammie Briley 1963 Michigan
Christine Brock 1971 Ohio
Susan Cappel 1962 Ohio
Cynthia Carmack 1971 Ohio
Mary Cox 1949 Tennessee
Clarissa Culberson 1974 Ohio
Patricia Dixon 1966 Tennessee
Delores Donoghue 1953 Ohio
Shaylene Farrell 1976 Ohio
Barbara Frame 1946 Ohio
Aferdita Gjergjaj 1970 Michigan
Nancy Green 1956 West Virginia
Tracy Hill 1976 Ohio
Angela Holsinger 1967 Ohio
Patricia Hubbard 1954 Kentucky
Mary Klen 1959 Indiana
Sandra Krawczyk 1956 Michigan
Regina Lett Burchfield Johnson 1953 Tennessee
Michelle Lokker 1973 Michigan
Annabelle Ludwig 1941 Ohio
Krista Lueth 1974 Michigan
Suzanne Lyall 1978 New York
Sheila Main 1969 Ohio
Candelaria Moreno 1968 Indiana
Cecelia Najeway 1963 Ohio
Madalene Neace 1955 Ohio
Judith ODonnell 1961 New York
Renee Pastore 1970 Florida
Parley Pate 1959 North Carolina
Cheryl Payne 1971 Tennessee
Olive Petty 1950 Kentucky
CHARLOTTEAL POLLIS 1965 Ohio
Cynthia Robison 1969 California
Elizabeth Rogers 1931 North Carolina
Susan Smith 1965 Ohio
Karen Spencer 1972 Ohio
Laurie Steiner 1952 Missouri
Lisa Szasz 1962 Ohio
Erika Thomas 1953 Ohio
Claudia Tinsley 1972 Ohio
Iwuna Tipton 1941 Ohio
Juliet Turner 1962 Michigan
Shelly Turner 1968 Ohio
Margaret Warrington 1962 Kentucky
Cynthia Wilkins 1953 Illinois
 
Identified - Deborah Morgan

A cold case is solved nine years after remains were found in a field off of Sharon Road in 2009. A woman's bones, rings and a pair of Sketchers were the only clues for investigators.
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Last year, when an investigator with Ohio's Bureau of Criminal Investigations started looking at missing women cases, she found a report from 2005 filed by a New York family. It included a photograph of 62-year-old Deborah Morgan, who had a broken left ankle.

"The investigator from BCI saw this artist’s rendering and compared to the photograph provided by the family in the missing person report and thought the two faces looked very similar and she pursued that,” said Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco.

DNA from the bones matched DNA from Deborah's mother in a nursing home. "There is still missing information," said Dr. Sammarco. "We don't know how died or the manner in which she died but at least they're not looking for her to come home anymore."

Deborah Morgan will now be buried back home in Ticonderoga, New York.

Remains found in 2009 belong to NY woman

Now, I am not sure about the article but I think they are talking about Deborah Morgan who was 49 when reported missing from Middletown, Ohio in 2005. She would have been 62 this year. Nowhere in her profile is mentioned New York but she could have been from there originally.

Article also make it sounds like they made connection with out of state case while Jane Doe and missing person were both in Ohio (if it is the same Deborah and I believe it might be.)

Deborah Morgan profile: Deborah Morgan – The Charley Project
(no idea how to compare her photo to sketch in new WS yet).
 
7213CD9B-3319-4EEA-BB22-3ED08381FC50.jpeg I guess I see the resemblance in the eyebrows and forehead.
 

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