I've been waiting to get to the end of the thread to say this. We have got to pull back a bit here. Truth is stranger than fiction, but we are down in some serious weeds. My own opinions, but here they are:
1. The tattoo is a peach. It is badly done, and we're looking at a design that is 20 years old with today's tattoo image realism in our minds. If you look closely, it appears that ink escaped the outline of the drip. So poorly done, and probably without letters. If there are letters, it is a bad cover-up job.
2. We are talking mid-90s here. Completely different time than now. In 1995, the band Presidents of the United States came out with a hugely popular song called Peaches. The Allman Bros had their Eat a Peach album back in the 70s. Steve Miller really liked someone's "peaches" in The Joker, which was still considered a "cool" even if "old" song. (I am 35, and graduated high school in 2000. So I lived this stuff and am telling it from that perspective.) The peach could have represented anything. It could have been something as simple as a design picked off the wall. It could have meant Georgia or a strip club or maybe even early forms of pimp branding. Maybe it seemed naughty to her. Who knows?
2b. The tattoo symbolism and looking things up in the Urban Dictionary is not going to be helpful here. That is still applying today's meanings to things that happened 20 years ago. Example: the word "viral." It used to be a bad thing. Now, some teenagers probably don't even know that it could be very, very bad. The Urban Dictionary, unless populated by people roughly age 30 and up, will not be taking into account the ideas, norms and culture of 20 years ago. Until the internet really exploded, it wasn't as easy or even as popular to find out the foreign meanings of certain images and symbolism unless you had expressly studied them. Real tattoo enthusiasts and experienced tattoo artists of that time may have known, but they were not that widespread unless you are talking the epicenters of culture on the coasts. A Connecticut tattoo studio (or parlor, as some people called them then) would not have likely been one of those places.
2c. Gink, I'm sorry, but I don't think your idea about the CF tattoo works here. My best friend is 36 with CF and she has always been very in to the latest ways to display and raise awareness about her disease. CF tattoos, especially the "breathe" and awareness ribbon types, are extremely new. Had there been a CF tattoo then, it most likely would have been a rose, for the Sixty Five Roses Club. For many years, the only awareness ribbon you ever saw was red (for AIDS) and then much later was pink for breast cancer. The ribbons didn't start taking off big time until the 2000s, after 9/11. I do not think this peach has anything to do with a disease or awareness of any similar thing.
3. Jewelry: Both Peaches and Baby Doe had gold jewelry. All of it looked very normal. I disagree with considering it "cheap" versus "inexpensive." Look at the bracelet clasps. They have an extra little clip that comes out and secures on a peg. All of my mother's tennis bracelets had that type of clasp. My tennis bracelet does. In my opinion, only jewelry with some sort of value has a clasp like that. Even if you look up a Monet-brand (a department store brand of costume jewelry) bracelet of similar vintage, it has a completely different clasp. It was not unusual for female Hispanic or African American children of that time to have pierced ears. Hoops were in then. Re: the necklace: Calling it a "chain" is not strange. Necklaces are classified according to the way the links are connected, like a box chain, etc. "Chain" in this instance should not call to mind the heavy gold ropes that rappers of the time were wearing.
4. Just in case anyone is still confused:
Peaches is Baby Doe's mother. They were probably killed at or around the same time and dumped at or around the same time, but in separate locations. Peaches's torso was found almost immediately. In April 2011, the skeletal remains of Baby Doe and other (then unidentified) skeletal remains were found near one another some distance from where Peaches's torso had been dumped. DNA tests eventually linked the unidentified skeletal remains to Peaches. More DNA tests revealed that Peaches is Baby Doe's mother.
This part is my opinion too: It is probably safe to assume that Baby Doe is Peaches's one and only child. The C-section scar was likely from Baby Doe's birth and Peaches did not have any other children. If her genitalia was intact, police would have been able to determine if she had had another birth (at least vaginally) before, thus lessening the chance that Peaches had another child out there.
That's it. My two cents, which as you can see by my post count, I'm pretty stingy with.