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My first thought was "she's too young" but she's actually right in the age range. I keep thinking Mary Anderson was much older than she actually was.
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Shoshanna is Hebrew for "lily." Is there any hint of Jewish-ness in the case? Or complete avoidance?
(Yes, this name could have been selected by this woman in adulthood.)
Could relate to the no-jewelery pointed out by Glo.
Side by side of Mary and Shoshanna. The thing that jumps out at me is the lopsided mouth on both women. Two of Mary's three sketches show it. They're on opposite sides in the two photos but maybe one of them was flipped?
Mary weighs 170 lbs so it's not unreasonable to think she might have gained more weight. She had the money from the insurance fraud to live on.
I found this article about Shoshanna that makes it sound like the alias she used was LaToya Jackson. If so, she's a woman with a lot of gall: http://www.losanjealous.com/2005/09/28/on-the-lam-shoshana-shambi/
Wow! I hadn't noticed that both women have asymmetric mouths! I sort of thought if her weight was taken from her driver's license, Shoshana might have underestimated it on purpose (not that I would know about doing that sort of thing :blushing. Stress can also cause people to gain weight, too, and if she was hiding from authorities, that would definitely be stressful. From her photo, Shoshana Shambi looks like she is wearing obvious makeup. I know that Mary has Estee Lauder makeup with her and was wearing it when she died -- was it ever reported what products/shades she had?
So far, the only information about Shoshana Shambi I have been able to find is just what is on the LAPD site...that's something else if she was calling herself LaToya Jackson.
I was looking through the LAPD's Wanted Persons (http://www.lapdonline.org/all_most_wanted) thinking about a completely different UID and noticed a woman, named Shoshanna Shambi who committed insurance fraud in 1994. She is the same height as Mary Anderson and weighs less (but if her weight was taken from her driver's license, I could understand giving the DMV a lower estimate). Maybe it is just me, but when I look past the big hair, I can really see a resemblance between Shoshanna and Mary. I wish that they provided more information about the wanted person.
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Perhaps all her relatives are deceased and that's why no one is looking for her.the "I have no relatives" bit in her note in an obvious lie. Some woman had to have birthed her and, given her age, "Mary" likely had one or more siblings as well.
Perhaps all her relatives are deceased and that's why no one is looking for her.
That may be... or many will give up especially if there was turmoil in the relationship (already problems and estrangement), there's a host of reasons why someone wouldn't look for someone who has been missing for a long time.
Last week, before the holiday, I contacted the King County Medical Examiner and the Los Angeles Police Department about a possible match between Shoshana Shambi and Mary Anderson. I haven't heard back from either, though. While I know a lot of times makeup doesn't go on the way it looks, from the photo Shoshana looks like she might be wearing the Estee Lauder lipstick "Rich and Rosy" (one of the cosmetics "Mary" was found with).
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That night I faced my penultimate task: Spending the night at the Hotel Vintage Park, a luxury downtown hotel. At first it sounded like I was getting a little reward for making it all the way through the Christmas mind-(expletive) I'd been subjected to—until I heard the details of my assignment. I would be checking into room 214, a dismal room tucked away in a back corner of the building, where a mysterious woman calling herself Mary Anderson committed suicide by drinking cyanide in the fall of 1996.
"Why room 214?" the desk clerk asked when I checked in. "We get a lot of requests for it, which is strange because it's the worst room in the house."
"Sentimental reasons," I replied.
I wound my way to the back of the hotel until I came to room 214. The room was indeed cramped and dark. The window showcased a stunning view of a stone wall.
As I have mentioned before, Cyanide is easily obtained by anyone. Suicide web sites or "Hemlock Society" type publications give full instructions on how to get it and how to use it. That is interesting about Metamucil, it may have been part of the suicide plan. I suspect this was all figured out with great care taken to conceal her identity. Obviously, she wasn't from Seattle since no one id'ed her. It is a good bet she came from somewhere else expecting cold weather.
Nordstroms is nationwide but it is headquartered in Seattle. It is my understanding that it is particularly big in the North-East and the Pacific Coast and less so in the South. They are generally located in higher income areas and are considered oriented to higher income customers but not to the really rich.
The lack of jewelry may be explained by the fact that many people planning suicide make provisions for or otherwise give away all of their possessions of value. It is also possible they could be used for identification.
It appears that made an effort to conceal her identity and cover her tracts. She did not want to be identified and she did not want her friends and relatives to know what happened to her (and she did have them or she would not have had to go to that kind of effort).
Random thoughts from reading the WHOLE thread again from the beginning. Hoping one of them will move us in a promising direction:
A page or two back it talks about a golden or yellow ring around her iris. Where did we get that from? Was that speculation or is that real?
I ask because it could be a Keyser-Fleischer ring. It's one of the hallmarks for Wilson's disease. Wilson's disease is a rare genetic condition where the body can't process the normal amounts of copper in our diets, so it builds up and essentially poisons the body. One of the telltale signs are the cop perish yellow rings that often show up around the iris.
I'm not saying that Mary had Wilson's. I'm wondering if her copper IUD was long overdue to be removed. That might explain the wearing down of the serial number, and the copper starting to essentially decay and leech into her blood stream. I have found lots of articles on line where women talk about experiencing copper toxicity with IUDs but few actual medical articles. I found a NIH study from 1980 that said that there seemed to be no elevated copper levels in blood for women who used copper IUDs, but the study only went out two years, so who knows. But copper does affect the brain, and can cause depression, and other mental/emotional/neurological symptoms.
So can we confirm that iris ring?
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Also, I found this article, http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/holiday-in-hell/Content?oid=25739
which is a bit weird, lol, and 99% not relevant to our purposes. But this part is:
Perhaps Mary got this room because she booked at the last minute. Perhaps she did request this particular room. But I thought knowing it faced a stone wall may help us figure out roughly where the room might be, and also kill any theories we might have been entertaining that she wanted to look out on a view of something particular.
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Also, bankruptcies are heard at federal courthouses as well. Just a thought in case some kind of financial despondency drove her to this.
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Finally, there is a crazy cool looking building across the street from the hotel that intrigued me, and I found out it's the Seattle Public Library. It wasn't there when Mary was there, I think I read it was built in 2005 or something. But what was there before? Was it the library and they just totally redid it, or was it totally something else. I ask because if there was an "old" library there or nearby before the new one was built, could that be where Mary might have stopped to pick up the newspaper?
Just some thoughts. Great work everyone, let's keep it up!!