It is still an open issue. Detective Bean did follow up on the tip, but was unable to locate any living persons knowledgable about the persons in question.
In addition, there is another tip we are also following up on, pertaining to a girl from Aransas Pass. I can't name her here on Websleuths, since she is not officially associated with this case, so I will refer to her by her initials NV. As usual, I offer no opinion on the credibility of this tip.
The tip came in to the
Who Was Walker County Jane Doe? facebook page from a former resident of Aransas Pass, who was an alum from the Aransas Pass HS Class of 83 (whom I will call "*advertiser censored*"). The tip was in reference to a girl whose initials are NV (V standing for a Hispanic surname).
*advertiser censored* says NV was a girl who lived in the Aransas Pass area some time in the late 70's. NV spent one entire summer (the year is uncertain) living at the *advertiser censored*'s home, even though NV's own home was only a block away. NV's home was near the corner of 9th and Wilson, in one of the three houses to the northeast of that intersection . *advertiser censored* doesn't remember exactly how old NV was, but she was a year or two older than *advertiser censored*.
NV might have been living with relatives who weren't her parents, but she wasn't sure. *advertiser censored*'s mother is now deceased, and her father doesn't remember much about NV's family. But it was very clear that NV had very poor family connections. Nobody can recall any time during the summer that NV was living at *advertiser censored*'s home, that any of NV's family came by to check on her.
After that summer, *advertiser censored* doesn't know where NV went, but NV did not attend Aransas Pass High School, and *advertiser censored* doesn't know where NV attended elementary school or middle school.
According to *advertiser censored*, NV had very large pretty eyes, full-lips, and sandy colored "tangled" hair. She often wore poorly fitting clothes that were probably hand-me-downs. NV didn't at all look Hispanic (as her surname might suggest), and she very much resembled the drawings of WCJD (especially this one, except *advertiser censored* says NV never styled her hair that nicely).
*advertiser censored* is sure that NV was not "Kathy" (from the motel pic).
There are several persons born in Texas with the same name as NV, including one who was born in 1967 in San Patricio County (where Aransas Pass is located). If this person is the same NV, she would not be WCJD, because she was married in 1982. But since *advertiser censored* was born in 1967, and NV was a year or two older than *advertiser censored*, I am a little doubtful that this person is the same NV.
There was a family with the same surname who lived on 10th street on the north side of Aransas Pass, but one woman from that family showed up on the WWWCJD page and said that no one from her family knows NV.