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I can't find any female UID's listed in NamUs or DoeNet for Frio County
Thanks, I think I added the post to the wrong UID, following all the posts on Lupita...
This one was so obvious that I had to call TXDPS to make sure that they had looked at her. Her height is within an inch of the low end of the UID's height range. She went missing in April 1990, seven months before the UID was found. Both she and the UID were from San Antonio TX, and her surname is "Cantu" to match the inscription on the UID's shorts.
Lupita Cantu
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/cantu_lupita.html
I spoke with analyst Melanie Schramm. She first looked in the UID's casefile and didn't see any mention of Lupita Cantu, but then she looked in Lupita's MP casefile and saw a notation that local LE looked into Lupita already and ruled her out. There was no indication of the basis for the rule-out.
BTW, TXDPS lists Lupita Cantu's DOB as February 9, 1949. DoeNet lists her DOB as February 9, 1942, and Charley doesn't list her DOB.
I am confused on this case..... Cantu was reported missing on April 26, 1990 at the age of 41. She was buried that same year as a Jane Doe in Frio County. DNA has apparently confirmed the ID.
"Cantu had been married for 20 years when she disappeared. She is survived by four children. The family has yet to comment."
http://www.kens5.com/news/After-two-decades-missing-SA-woman-found-in-Jane-Doe-grave-117398768.html
Can someone clarify the differences in the UID and Cantu???
---The mysterious disappearance of Lupita Cantu was supposed to be over with a long-suspected tragedy confirmed, her body recovered at long last.
Instead, the uncertainty has only deepened. Cantu's remains have been identified. But in an irony decades in the making, she still can't be found.
[Authorities] can't locate the pauper's grave in the Pearsall cemetery where the then-unidentified woman was supposed to be buried or even confirm that she was interred.
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Using technology not in use in 1990, [the Texas] Rangers had matched a DNA sample from Guzman with a single strand of hair from the body found dumped on a rural Frio County road about a month after Cantu disappeared.