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I have looked at this poor girl's face a lot, thinking how strange she looked. Then today it dawned on me. It wasn't diagnosed, but I believe this girl suffered from Acromegaly. http://endocrine.niddk.nih.gov/pubs/acro/acro.htm
Excerpt: "Gradually, bone changes alter the patient’s facial features: The brow and lower jaw protrude, the nasal bone enlarges, and the teeth space out."
Take a look at the photo of a woman suffering from Acromegaly and the drawing of Williamson Co. Jane Doe/Orange Socks. If you have the more graphic morgue photos the resemblance is striking, but it's all because of the disease. I am not a medical doctor so this is JMO.
Just now saw her PM pictures (I read through this whole thread before I made an account, so I didn't know there were PM thumbnails). Not as gory as I'd feared, but still upsetting! I feel so sad for her! Maybe a moderator should put a *GRAPHIC* warning in the title for those who might be even more upset by them than me?
Previous comments are 100% correct re: none of the reconstructions look much like her at all. However, I don't think this matters at all if she had acromegaly or another endocrine disorder(real possibilities IMO), because if she didn't look anything like that before, no family or friend would ever think that's really her.
Look at Pio Pico (last Mexican governor of what is now the state of California) for a great example of this. Seems he had acromegaly as a younger man, then spontaneously recovered, and you would NEVER think from the pictures that it's the same man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pío_Pico
People can look TOTALLY DIFFERENT from how they did before as a result of such medical problems, transformed in a relatively short period of time.
I agree with the commenter who said we should be focusing on missing girls with far more "delicate" features than many of the ones already submitted. Resemblances mean almost nothing if she had something like acromegaly, so she could be almost ANYONE within a certain age range and time frame. And I've always feared that this poor girl was never reported missing, but that's not a reason to give up on identifying her.
Here's my rendition of "Orange Socks".
Yesterday I went through every female through a decade of the Charley Project, and I have made a list of less than a dozen possibilities. I need to find further information on them to rule out every one I can based on known features, then maybe compare to post-mortems when I feel up to handling it. She should not look TOO different, probably same proportions, just less "coarse" in the past basically.
Then I will explain my best possible matches here, and hopefully end up with something to submit something to the investigators. Wish me luck!
OFFICIAL NAMUS RULE-OUTS:
Susan Cooke
Pinkie Davis-Herron
Nancy Jason
Martha Morrison
Sharon Pretorius
Kathleen Rodgers
Last edited by macrauchenia; Today at 02:44 AM. Reason: 1- I found the rule-out section on NamUs! D'oh! 2- I couldn't post the box so it'd show up so then I had to type the names.
Okay, I have narrowed it down to THREE!
(I ALMOST put Sheryl Ann Tillinghast as #4, but I decided she very likely was murdered soon after disappearing, as she left behind TWO paychecks; plus her front incisor teeth had a noticeable gap which Orange Socks does not have as far as I know.)
I have posted links to their Charley Project pages for picture reference (which probably means very little as I've explained in previous posts), and because the Charley Project typically has the most thorough background information.
#3 NANCY MARIE O'SULLIVAN
(disappeared at 15, would have been 19 in 1979)
( http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/o/osullivan_nancy.html )
Ten siblings. She had a history of running away. Disappeared from South Holland, Illinois on March 7th 1974, witnesses saw her hitching a ride with a blue Cadillac.
"She may have tried to go to Texas... "
(+) Brown hair.
(-) Blue eyes. But they sure look brown to me in her picture. Eye color descriptions have been wrong before.
(+) "No known distinctive body features" on NamUS
#2 HELEN MARIE GREEN
(disappeared at age 13 or 14, would have been 21 in 1979)
( http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/green_helen.html )
"Helen disappeared from Chicago, Illinois sometime in 1971 or 1972. She ran away with her brother, who was later located and placed in a youth camp. By the time he was found, he and his sister had separated. Helen has never been found. Few details are available in her case."
(+) Brown hair.
(+) Brown eyes.
(+) "No known distinctive body features" on NamUS
(?) Her only known photograph shows a girl who looks much younger than 13, so even less can be made of the resemblance. However, I do see one there. Her eyes are wide-set and their shape is similar.
(?) What looks like it could be a mole on Helen's right cheek is actually a smudge or some other thingy on the photograph or lens, I THINK.
#1 APRIL ROSE ZANE
(disappeared at age 17, would have been 19 in 1979)
( http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/z/zane_april.html )
Supposedly she was last seen in Frankfort, Illinois on April 18th 1977, but the Doe Network says "It is possible that she went missing the year prior in 1976. " It's unclear, maybe she first went missing in 1976 and then someone saw her a year later before she dropped out of sight again?
April had a history of running away and had had problems with the police for curfew violations at least.
I really think Orange Socks is an older April with an endocrine problem, the nose and wide-set eyes especially. Excess androgens cause noticeable eyebrow thickening and darkening, but overall their eyebrow shape and their glabellas are very similar.
(+) Reddish hair
(?) "Blue to gray/green" eyes (but eye color has been more off than this before, hazel eyes have been described as gray AND as green before)
(+) 5'8"!
(+) Scar on chin! (Not described in detail)
(?) Zane has freckles on her nose, and Orange Socks appears to have some freckles in the same area in her side-view post-mortem picture. It is common for freckles to fade as we age.
(-) Appendectomy scar, and scar on knee, which are not documented for Orange Socks. Could that just be oversights of the coroner, or whoever picked out what information to publicize?
Let me know what you think, and if I should submit any as possible matches! I really want to figure out who Orange Socks is, I want to find out that there's someone out there who cared about her.
I didn't know this about Helen's bike. Do you think someone hit her while riding it, killed her on accident and then panicked and hid her body?
Orange Socks has some very distinctive facial features IMO do not believe any of the (3) are her. As like Roselvr believe she is someone whom has not been listed ... in a few recent UID cases the MP's were not on the radar anywhere. Promoting persons whom have a missing loved one, family or friend to report LE is so very crucial.
My partner and I got Helen in NamUs and know her family. There is no way Helen is Orange Socks, she most likely is buried locally and has not been found. Her brother saw her bike crumpled in the back of a truck. He doesn't know if she was hit or just her bike. I'll see if we can get another photo. We tried, but they were in an attic in another state.
I don't think she's April either, April's DNA (Helen's too) would have hit in NamUs
As for Nancy, if you read her CP page they feel she met with local foul play.
Orange socks is not someone currently listed in NamUs with DNA
Orange Socks has some very distinctive facial features IMO do not believe any of the (3) are her. As like Roselvr believe she is someone whom has not been listed ... in a few recent UID cases the MP's were not on the radar anywhere. Promoting persons whom have a missing loved one, family or friend to report LE is so very crucial.
Pio Pico did not miraculously recover from his acromegaly, he just grew a beard that hid somewhat his enlarged mandible. Still, on his old age pics there are still visible acromegalic features. The skeletal changes caused by acromegaly can be reverted only by plastic surgery. They do not vanish on their own, that is impossible.
Would someone with a medical or nursing background be able to answer the following question: Acromegaly affects the pituitary gland, according to Wikipedia. Would someone in their late teens with acromegaly experience a second, large growth spurt in their height if that person had already gone through a "normal" height growth spurt in their early teens?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acromegaly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphyseal_plate
I went it nursing school for a year. In my limited knowledge I think once your growth plates close up that's it. No more growth.
I also believe she was a drifter, transient and occasional prostitute. There was 2 matchbooks and a key belonging to a motel in Henrietta, Oklahoma where she was found. That means she must have traveled from north and just recently arrived to the area. I wonder how the motel was followed up, did she register her name when staying? if she was a prostitute, did the police ever pick her up. If so she might be in the crime register. Maybe it could be an idea to check mugshots from the states north of Texas in the years before she was found for persons matching her.
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I also think that taking a DNA test could be useful. It could tell us about the water that she drank and which state(s) she lived her life in, which norrowes our search. It could also tell her race, and if she had any desease like some posters are debating. I always thought she looked like she was part native-american, possibly part african-american also, with the DNA test we'll know for sure. If she was raped, were there any DNA from the perpetrator? If I remember correctly DNA was found and it didn't match serial confessor Henry Lee Lucas.
Based on her quite unusual appearence I'm surprised nobody recognized her. She must have grown up, gone to school or worked at some point so someone must remember something.