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

[LucyOso]

Maureen Baca- Reddish brown hair (originally listed as blonde), brown eyes. Height is in range. Listed last seen in 1982, but LE said this can't be verified. Reported missing in 1984. It sounds like a lot of details are missing or conflicting on her. She has scars but, if hair colour, date missing, and other things are up in the air, that could also be misreported? She is not a rule-out.

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/8460/578



Maureen Baca was 32 years old when she was last seen in Adelanto, California around August 21, 1982. She was not reported missing until 1984 (2 years later) and her date of last contact is based on the reporting person's recollection and cannot be verified. Her family reports that she was never heard from again.

Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Original description: 5'4" (family reports she was only 5'1"), 110 pounds, blonde hair (family reports she had reddish-brown hair), brown eyes. Baca has a ten-inch scar on her chest and an eight-inch scar on her right inner arm. She may use the last name Murfee.

SBCSD has been in contact with family and is in the process of obtaining reference DNA.

Dental chart and X-rays available at CA DOJ-MUPS.

 

[malaika]

Maureen Baca- Reddish brown hair (originally listed as blonde), brown eyes. Height is in range. Listed last seen in 1982, but LE said this can't be verified. Reported missing in 1984. It sounds like a lot of details are missing or conflicting on her. She has scars but, if hair colour, date missing, and other things are up in the air, that could also be misreported? She is not a rule-out.

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/8460/578

View attachment 124067

Maureen Baca was 32 years old when she was last seen in Adelanto, California around August 21, 1982. She was not reported missing until 1984 (2 years later) and her date of last contact is based on the reporting person's recollection and cannot be verified. Her family reports that she was never heard from again.

Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Original description: 5'4" (family reports she was only 5'1"), 110 pounds, blonde hair (family reports she had reddish-brown hair), brown eyes. Baca has a ten-inch scar on her chest and an eight-inch scar on her right inner arm. She may use the last name Murfee.

SBCSD has been in contact with family and is in the process of obtaining reference DNA.

Dental chart and X-rays available at CA DOJ-MUPS.

Technically , assuming all dates for both profiles are correct, Buckskin Girl died a year before Maureen went missing.
However, I find I don't completely trust information in older cases, so it wouldn't hurt to get her submitted. Even if it turns out the timelines are correct, it can put Maureen on the exclusion list [note, I have not checked to see if she is already listed there]

 

[LucyOso]

Technically , assuming all dates for both profiles are correct, Buckskin Girl died a year before Maureen went missing.
However, I find I don't completely trust information in older cases, so it wouldn't hurt to get her submitted. Even if it turns out the timelines are correct, it can put Maureen on the exclusion list [note, I have not checked to see if she is already listed there]

It clearly states in Namus "she was not reported missing until 1984 (2 years later) and her date of last contact is based on the reporting person's recollection and cannot be verified". That is why I wonder. Everything seems contradictory.

 

[shadowdancer]

Never mind, just checked ruleout list and my suggested match was on it.

 

[LucyOso]

Hogland-McCluskey ran away from home after being abused and was picked up and taken to Los Guilicos Juvenile Justice Center in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California.

She ran away from the juvenile facility in the summer of 1981 and has not been seen again.

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1247dfca.html

 

[dotr]

Hogland-McCluskey ran away from home after being abused and was picked up and taken to Los Guilicos Juvenile Justice Center in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California.

She ran away from the juvenile facility in the summer of 1981 and has not been seen again.

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1247dfca.html

Considering that Buckskin was described as large chested, this information about 12 year old Hogland-McClusky is interesting.
From the H-G's link.

wore about a B cup bra at the time of her disappearance

 

[LucyOso]

Considering that Buckskin was described as large chested, this information about 12 year old Hogland-McClusky is interesting.
From the H-G's link.

It seems like she was shuffled around a bit. Information might be based on when she was last seen at home or by family. It seems like information might be off depending on who reported it. Sadly, if she was fairly well developed, she would be targeted for abuse in some situations. She could have lied about her age and that could cause homicide if the perp freaked out. And cup size is a strange reference as it can vary depending on bra type, brand, or if proper measurements were even taken. It is just a very strange comment all together. It says to me she was well developed and most likely appeared older than her age.

 

[nerosleuth]

View attachment 125016


Hogland-McCluskey ran away from home after being abused and was picked up and taken to Los Guilicos Juvenile Justice Center in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California.

She ran away from the juvenile facility in the summer of 1981 and has not been seen again.

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1247dfca.html

Buckskin Girl was found deceased in April 1981.

Hogland-McCluskey cannot be Buckskin Girl if she ran away during the summer of 1981.

 

[aimster216]

It is unusual that she was strangled and dumped but not sexually assaulted.

 

[LucyOso]

Buckskin Girl was found deceased in April 1981.

Hogland-McCluskey cannot be Buckskin Girl if she ran away during the summer of 1981.

Yes, agreed its not spot on time wise. But the timelines might be a bit off with her. On Namus it says went missing in 1981. It also says, reported July 1, 1981. That could be a guess. It sounds like she was bounced around, a runaway, and had a very sad and scary life with limited adult support. When it's said July/August that means there isn't an exact date of disappearance and it is a vague timeline. A couple of weeks or months difference could be the best of someone's "recollection". I doubt records still exists. IMOO.

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/26883/3

 

[LucyOso]

It is unusual that she was strangled and dumped but not sexually assaulted.

I agree. That's why I was wondering if she was a well developed 12 year old who ended up over her head in a situation after initially claiming she was older, then stated her actual age in a panic situation. The whole scenario could have led someone to a shame and rage based situation where they needed to cover their involvement. IMOO.

 

[dotr]

re post, rbbm.
http://triblive.com/news/projects/ourstories/10570633-74/doe-jane-hickey

She was white, approximately 5 feet 6 inches tall and 125 pounds. She had reddish hair, freckles and a “ruddy” complexion, suggesting she enjoyed the outdoors. Her hair was braided into two pigtails.

Her clothes consisted of bellbottom jeans, a white bra, brown turtleneck sweater with orange crisscrosses, and a buckskin pullover jacket. Her shoes, socks and underwear were missing, as were any bags or forms of identification. Her pockets were empty.

She was well-groomed, “someone who cared for herself,” said Carol Schweitzer, a senior forensic case specialist for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Her eyebrows were neatly plucked, her clothes clean, her teeth perfectly aligned and brilliantly white.

But she also had several small scars on her body, including one on her left wrist that was over 2 inches long.

She had been strangled. The coroner also found blunt force trauma to her forehead and a lacerated liver, possibly the result of a blow. Authorities estimated her age at 18 to 24, though Miami County Sheriff's Detective Steve Hickey thinks she looks closer to 15.

Investigators suspect Jane Doe was killed elsewhere and dumped along Greenlee Road just west of Troy in Newton Township. They concluded this because her bare feet were clean, showing no indication of walking on dirt, and because Interstate 75 is just 5 miles away, making it a convenient and discreet drop-off spot.

And they are certain she was not from the area. Somebody would have known her.

“She's either from a different state or country, maybe Canada or Mexico,” Hickey says. “But was she a runaway? A juvenile? A hitchhiker? We don't know.”

 

[SpanishMossAntiques]

She definitely looks older than 15 in her autopsy photos.

 

[Vital Forces]

Dorothy Mildred Clitheroe

Matches: Would have been 22 in 1981 - the middle of BG's age range, exactly the same chin, similar taste in clothing, could have been wandering the country, eyes look similar, height and weight are plausible given 8 years to change

Problems: Nose isn't exact, eyebrows a little off, the "U" shaped scar mentioned is not mentioned on any of BG's pages, DC's ears are pierced and BG's are not - I don't know if it's possible for pierced ears to "heal" even given many years

She is not listed as ruled out on Buckskin Girl's NAMUS page.

DNA tests complete according to NAMUS. I don't know if they're in CODIS.

 

[CCJD]

Dorothy Mildred Clitheroe
DNA tests complete according to NAMUS. I don't know if they're in CODIS.

Dorothy's DNA is in CODIS. I have an email from April 2008 from PSP that says she was ruled out as Beth Doe via DNA.

 

[Alleykins]

I'm thinking just about any female MP in NamUs (and most likely DN as well) has already been considered, compared in some fashion, and ruled out. What we really should be looking for is someone either not reported or under reported (a case that didn't go anywhere, wasn't worked or lost steam), and not in any national MP database. Some of these investigators are pretty sharp and right on top of these cases. I'm thinking BG's is one of them.

 

[LucyOso]

How many women have been found dressed in country western clothing? I can think of BG and another. Just wondering if the perp is picking the clothes.

 

[carbuff]

I'm thinking just about any female MP in NamUs (and most likely DN as well) has already been considered, compared in some fashion, and ruled out. What we really should be looking for is someone either not reported or under reported (a case that didn't go anywhere, wasn't worked or lost steam), and not in any national MP database. Some of these investigators are pretty sharp and right on top of these cases. I'm thinking BG's is one of them.

Yes, they've been extremely diligent about following up. I know they checked Sharon Pretorius at least twice, ruling her out once on dentals and then after DNA was available, double-checking and ruling her out again. They don't appear to have taken anything for granted.

I agree about the kind of person we should be looking for. Also maybe a fugitive, or someone who disappeared from the foster care system.

 

[Alleykins]

Yes, they've been extremely diligent about following up. I know they checked Sharon Pretorius at least twice, ruling her out once on dentals and then after DNA was available, double-checking and ruling her out again. They don't appear to have taken anything for granted.

I agree about the kind of person we should be looking for. Also maybe a fugitive, or someone who disappeared from the foster care system.

Here's hoping the FBI fingerprint technology catches up to BG should she turn out to be a fugitive.
If she were an older child in the foster care system and either aged out or ran away, she may have never been reported. I'm thinking of what Patricia Taylor's sister has/is going through to find her. From what I gather, nothing was done to find her when she first went missing.

 

[carbuff]

Here's hoping the FBI fingerprint technology catches up to BG should she turn out to be a fugitive.
If she were an older child in the foster care system and either aged out or ran away, she may have never been reported. I'm thinking of what Patricia Taylor's sister has/is going through to find her. From what I gather, nothing was done to find her when she first went missing.

The 70's were the era of "throwaways," too--kids whose parents had rejected them for issues of politics, lifestyle, or most commonly sexual orientation. I know one person who says her family held a funeral for her and lists the day she came out to them as her date of death in the family Bible. She did okay but lots of others wound up on the mean streets...