Today while reading a case of a woman missing from the 1970's who was a "chronic runaway" (note: I dislike this term), it had me thinking about this case and how perhaps SG JD left home significantly before 1987, was reported missing eventually, but there is no DNA from family on file. And we just have to search far back. Perhaps?
I thought I found a possibility the other day, but then saw the woman went missing at the end of June in 1987. SG Jane Doe was definitely deceased on the 1st, right?
Well, that's possible. This is a long-shot--all of them are by now--but not in rule-outs. She's
Patricia Lynn Taylor.
- Missing Since08/31/1981
- Missing From Owasso, Oklahoma
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Sex Female
- Race White
- Date of Birth 11/23/1965 (55)
- Age 15 years old
- Height and Weight 5'4 - 5'8, 110 - 120 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Red hair, hazel eyes. Patricia has a freckled complexion and she wears eyeglasses or contact lenses. Her nicknames are Patsi and Patty. She has a tattoo of the letter S on her right arm.
Patricia was born in California. Some time later, due to problems at home, she went to live with relatives in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Six months later, she was taken to Oklahoma and placed in the care of Oklahoma's Department of Human Services (DHS).
Initially she stayed at the Oklahoma Baptist Home for Children's Owasso campus. She was transferred to the Tulsa Girls Group Home in July 1981. Patricia was last seen on August 31, 1981. Authorities classified her as a runaway.
Patricia left behind a large family, including at least five half-siblings. The Oklahoma DHS closed her case when she turned eighteen, but in 2015, after over 30 years without hearing from Patricia, her family asked the police to open a missing persons case for her.
Her disappearance remains unsolved and the circumstances of her case are unclear.
So, she would have been about at the lower estimate here age-wise. Her hair is listed as red-auburn at
NamUs, and eyes variously hazel or green. Her face doesn't have the shape of the recreations of Shotgun Jane Doe, but those seem a little off to me. Anyway, worth a think, maybe.
BTW, there is a photo of her with another girl at NAMUS.
Note says they don't know where the photo taken (appears to be in front of a public school building), and they don't know Patsi's age at the time. It doesn't say that they don't know who Lisa Workman is, though.
Looks as though it could be Webster Junior High in El Reno, OK.
Patricia has a thread
here. On page 5 there is a link to a Facebook page set up by her sister.