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New Gravestone Revealed for Angel of The Meadow Jane Doe, unknown woman found in January 2010 in Manchester, UK and first flowers laid on her grave
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Manchester, #UK - Thanks to Al Ka, founder of our Unidentified and Missing People site and donation by David from Othram Labs (forensic and genetic genealogy crime lab), new headstone have been made and first flowers laid on until now unmarked grave of still unknown woman found murdered and discarted in city centre of Manchester in 2010.
Case details: On 25 January 2010 at the site of a former disused carpark in Miller Street, Manchester city centre area called Angel Meadows, construction workers stumbled upon skeletal remains of woman wrapped in the carpet.
Parts of the site had been unchanged since the 1960s, including the wooden fence panels which surrounded one of the car park’s buildings. In the gap between the fence and the wall, half a century’s worth of dirt, debris and litter had accumulated. Nobody ever paid much attention to this spot behind the building; less so the dirty old carpet which had been dumped in that narrow alcove.
Studies revealed that Jane Doe was a Caucasian female aged between 16 and 30. She was estimated to be between 5ft 1in and 5ft 7in tall (155cm - 170cm) and was a modern day size 12. She had a number of fillings in her teeth and had a missing first upper right pre-molar, meaning it would have been visible when she smiled broadly.
Post mortem revealed that she had been badly beaten, with fractures to her jaw, neck and collarbone. She had been stripped at the waist, leading police to suspect she had been sexually assaulted. Case is classified as homicide.
Specialists believe the woman was born between 1950 and 1954, and that she was most likely killed between 1975 and 1988, according to forensic tests.
She was discovered with a distinctively patterned green pinafore style dress with large buttons, wearing a blue bra, and a blue 'skinny-rib' jumper. A black high-heeled shoe was found nearby. Tights were also found near the body, along with an empty handbag. The victim was wearing only her upper clothing.
Pinafore style dress has distinctive pattern featuring a man and a woman with the words 'Madam' and 'Monsieur'. Police now know that numerous prints of this type were manufactured and worn between 1973 and 1976.
A white plastic Guinness measuring chart, thought to be used in pubs, was also uncovered along with a long off-cut of an orange carpet. Plastic chart is dating back to the late 1960s.
The victim had been wrapped in carpet before being dumped, and three different colours of carpet were found at the site: orange, blue and dark blue. The blue carpet appeared to have been cut to fit a Ford Cortina, with a hole for the gearstick.
In 2011 a team led by Dr Caroline Wilkinson, from Dundee University's forensic and medical art department, used
state-of the art facial mapping techniques to reconstruct the woman's features.
In 2012 Jane Doe's DNA was obtained and over 400 missing people have been ruled out to be her, including Isabella Skelton (missing 1969), Helen McCourt (missing 1988), Zoe Simpson (missing 1996) and Helen Sage (missing 1997). To this day there have not been any match and she remains to be nameless Jane Doe - Angel of the Meadow.
DNA tests have also shown that there was no match to two convicted killers, Peter Tobin and Ronald Castree.
In March 2015 she was finally laid to rest in unmarked grave in Southern Cemetery of Manchester in a state-paid service. Burial was attended only by two people, her Greater Manchester Police detectives.
In 2021 new gravestone have been made and laid on her grave in her memory.
"This lady might have been put out of somebody's mind temporarily but she will never be forgotten. "There will be a family member out there somewhere who knows who she is and who can unlock that key and identify her and perhaps that will lead to the murderer.
"We are determined to get a just outcome for the victim, and for any family member out there we will never give up hope."
Anyone with information about the case can contact the GMP cold case review unit on 0161 856 5978 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Angel of the Meadow - Wikipedia
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