Last night I was trying to find a match for the Jane Doe who was hit by a car near a rest area in Hancock County, Mississippi, and I came across missing person Jerri Denise Cox. She doesn't match the Mississippi case, but she might be a match for the UID in this thread. Since I opened it just last week, the unicorn tattoo was fresh in my memory and caught my eye right away.
Jerri Denise Cox, a 39 yo WF disappeared from Orange County, TX in December, 1997. She was reported missing in February, 1998.
DOB: 12/10/1957
Height and Weight: 5'1 and 95 lbs
Hair color: Brown Eye color: Blue
She wears eyeglasses and dentures, and both ears are pierced.
She also has tattoos, a unicorn on her upper left chest, and a lightning bolt on her upper right arm.
This is all the information I've found on her so far.
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1840dftx.html
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/mpch/mpdetails.asp?id=%27M10/11/20014:36:00PM%27
Age and weight are a match, but the height is off 4-6 inches. Jane Doe 822UFTX is listed as 4'7" in NamUs and 4'5"-4'10" in the Doe Network.
Jane Doe's body was badly burned, so eye and hair color could not be determined.
Jane Doe had a tattoo of a unicorn on her upper left chest.
Cox has a unicorn tattoo on her left shoulder. Depending on the size of the unicorn and how high it was placed, upper left chest and left shoulder could have the same meaning to the person who submitted Cox's description to LE when she went missing.
Jane Doe had other tattoos on her left inner leg or ankle. Cox did not at the time she went missing. The traffic accident in which Jane Doe died occurred almost two years later. So if it was Cox, she could have obtained them in the interim.
Cox has a tattoo of a lightning bolt on her right arm. No tattoos are listed for Jane Doe on the right side of her body, only the left. I think that's a little unusual, but I could be wrong. Is it common to have multiple tattoos that are uniltateral? I wonder if the right side of her body was more badly charred than the left so that tattoos she might've had were destroyed and/or indiscernable.
Orange County is approximately 110 miles from the site of the accident in Houston's South Loop.
With so little known about either, I'm left with a lot of "maybe's
and "could have's". I do think there are enough similarities to at least consider Cox as a match. What do the rest of you think?