Identified! OH - Troy, Miami Co., 'Buckskin Girl' WhtFem 133UFOH, 15-25, Apr'81 - Marcia King #2

[Richard]

Although "Buckskin Girl" has been positively identified as Marcia King, her murder remains an unsolved open case. Here is a photo of Marcia wearing the same buckskin jacket she was wearing when she died:

Marcia Lenore King Sossoman​

BIRTH 9 Jun 1959 Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA
DEATH 22 Apr 1981 (aged 21) Troy, Miami County, Ohio, USA
BURIAL Riverside Cemetery Troy, Miami County, Ohio, USA

LINK:

Marcia Lenore King Sossoman (1959-1981) - Find a...

A Jane Doe, nicknamed Buckskin Girl, later identified as Marcia Lenore Sossoman King. April 10, 2018 -- Troy, OH Today we announce that Marcia L King of Arkansas has been identified as the Miami County Jane Doe who became known as the Buckskin Girl. She was twenty-one years of age at the time...

www.findagrave.com

 

[Richard]

Bumping this thread up to remember Marcia...

 

[silvernblack]

So... I went to look at her family tree in family search dot org. Seems like they go out of their way in these reports to avoid mentioning her real mother's name. Has anybody found it?

 

[Alleykins]

So... I went to look at her family tree in family search dot org. Seems like they go out of their way in these reports to avoid mentioning her real mother's name. Has anybody found it?

I apologize, but I'm not sure what you mean by real mother. Do you mean her mother, not her stepmother? If you mean her bio mom, last I knew, unless something happened recently, she's still alive, so I don't believe she'd be on any trees yet.
Not sure what you mean by reports, though, sorry.

 

[dotr]

Lengthy article.rbbm

A mystery writer planned to retire. Now she’s leading a team of genetic detectives – and giving murder victims back their names

Working from her California bungalow, Margaret Press, 77, leads a pioneering team of volunteers in the field of genetic genealogy. Thus far, they’ve identified the remains of more than 100 Jane and John Does

www.theguardian.com

Joy Lanzendorfer Jul 2024

''For 37 years, the young woman remained nameless. She was known only as “Buckskin girl” for the leather poncho she wore when she was found, strangled, in an Ohio ditch in 1981.
That was until almost four decades later, when two women in California took up her case. In 2018, Margaret Press, a retired linguist, author and computer programmer, and Colleen Fitzpatrick, a nuclear physicist and forensic genealogist, ran DNA evidence from the crime scene through an ancestry database, looking for the victim’s closest relatives.
Four hours later, they had a match.''

''But almost as soon as the identity is revealed and humanity is restored, there comes a poignant realization.
“It’s the moment when they get lifted up off the page and they’re a walking, talking person – except, suddenly, they’re not,” Press says.
“We see them for an instant, and then they’re dead.”