GloSeattle
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This is not going to be a help in this very strange case, but has anyone ever thought this woman might have been in the military at one time? Some ex-military are very neat, organized people.
I have a female cousin who actually processed out of the Army in Washington state. She was a Captain in the Army. She never wore any jewelry in uniform except a watch with a black band. She dresses in very simple clothing even now. (we are in our 60's) It seems that Mary Anderson was pretty much a no frills person and not terribly feminine. You cannot get much more plain than 2 piece velour outfits, IMO.
I would like to know if LE took pics of Mary's belongings. Did the makeup appear to be new? How much cologne/perfume was missing out of the bottle? Could she have gone to a department store and had her makeup done upon arriving in Seattle, and then bought the makeup used? Was her handbag new looking? Did the man's jacket/coat look worn?
Copper IUD's were around in the 70's. I had my son at Irwin Army hospital at Ft. Riley, Kansas. The doctor's there wanted to know if I was going to use birth control and would I want the IUD or the pill. Honestly! I felt like telling him it was none of his business! That was back when you were kept in the hospital for at least 2 days after giving birth. The doctor had told me the very day I was to be discharged that if I chose the IUD, it was easier to insert right after birth. I chose it and regretted it. I kept it for several years and wound up having to have a partial hysterectomy.
Anyway; I have read this entire thread and would really like to know who this woman was. I have looked through so many cases of the missing whose age and characteristics might match and found none. If the ME was willing to say Mary could have been anywhere from 33 to 45, then I am inclined to believe she must have at least been over 40. She could possibly have had a military career. Electronic fingerprinting (AFIS) had not come into being at that time. There was no database for military fingerprints at that time either, IIRC.
Of course the military would have her fingerprints on file as well as her blood type, but we have no name.
I'm just throwing things out there. Someone had to know her.
MOO
Great ideas! Yes, I was thinking LE, but military would fit right in as well with the meticulousness of her death. Those velour outfits bothered me as well, and I also wondered if they were just purchased, and if her purse was, her makeup, the toothpaste (how much was used and why no toothbrush?), if the jacket was new. The ME/Anthropologist believes she was in her 30's, her appearance looking older was as a result of cyanide and decomposition for 2 days before she was discovered. I know there are clues here, though... and you're right someone reading this may recognize her in the comments we make with our guesses... for instance, in the wah-me article by Matthews it said the sheets were stripped from the bed... that's a huge clue, why would she do that? This would be telling to a relative or someone close to her, maybe she did this because she was afraid she'd get sick (she would know that hotels will replace the mattress if someone dies on it) so she didn't want them to have to throw the sheets away too. She knew about hotel deaths...I'm convinced of that. October 9th is the anniversary of Leif Erickson discovering "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America... so maybe the leaf and this date are pointers? If she was in LE or in the military was she a chemist, or in forensics? Perhaps check and see if there's some pension checks which came back "address unknown" for a person her young age, although she might have not enlisted/joined LE until a later age making that not an issue. She wore black at her death, but leggings and a turtle neck top, much more fitting and fashionable in 1996, so the velour, and all the items almost seem like a further deception to me. Even having the bible on her, she may have been a staunch atheist, or even wiccan... if she didn't want to be known she would take every measure possible to hide who she was/is. I agree though, there is a "regimented" detail in which she kept herself from being discovered, and bad luck on id numbers, and id on her dentals as well. But then again, no one I believe thinks she's dead to this day! I think wherever she left from, she traveled and moved a lot, made no permanent friends, and those who were recent thought she was moving again to another area, perhaps country and may not be seen again. So, no one expected to see her. Or, she and her family were so permanently alienated, that they just wonder if she'll ever forgive them, or they haven't forgiven her? I agree, this case needs more information released on her so perhaps someone will recognize something in the room as "a way she used to do this" and say hey I think I know her. We are 5 days away now from her 18th year of being UID. I sure don't want her to stay Jane Doe :-(