On 3/10/2014 the FBI released ViCAP alerts on this victim (Bitter Creek Betty) and another unidentified woman found in Sheridan County, Wyoming in 1992 (390UFWY) (NamUs.)
DNA evidence has linked the two cases.
ViCAP for 213UFWY/Bitter Creek Betty.
ViCAP for 390UFWY/Sheridan Jane Doe.
The new bulletins don't contain much new information aside from the confirmation that the cases are related, but here's the little bits I noticed (I may have missed stuff, sleep-deprived)
- The tattoo shop that Bitter Creek Betty likely received her rose tat at is/was near the "Triple T Truck Stop" in Tuscon.
- The Sheridan/I90 Jane Doe is believed to have died in early February 1992 (around the same time Bitter Creek Betty was killed) and her hair was "brown (sun-bleached)". A picture of the shirt she was found wearing is on the ViCAP bulletin. She was found in a ditch on the southbound/west side of I90 5 miles south of the Montana/Wyoming border.
I'm going to post this update on the thread of both victims, to ensure that anyone interested in either case will see the updated information. I hope that's okay.
its crazy to me that an offender would kill two women around the same time and be sloppy enough to leave DNA, and then stop. Could he be dead or in prison?
In 1992, there wasn't as much awareness of DNA. I bet as they continue to test old rape kits that were never processed, they'll find more matches to this guy, whoever he is. But you have a good point.
Andrea Jerri White possibly?
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3068dfca.html
Detectives visited the artist, who proved instrumental. He remembered the woman, he said, and described her as a “leaper” — one who travels throughout the country hitching rides from various truckers. She was reasonably intelligent, Hispanic, and spoke without an accent. He was even able to describe the clothing she was wearing that day in June 1991: A brown peasant dress with yellow flowers.
I apologize if this has already been discussed, but has Michelle Marie Garcia been looked at as a possible match?
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/garcia_michelle.html
Namus page with more info:
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/32602/0/
Her circumstances don't fit with the tattoo shop lead in Arizona. Height is also off, but I've seen it be off by more in certain Id'ed cases, and I do see a resemblance.
I agree with you, Rats. There's no excuse not to have a some sort of depiction whenever possible. I've stumbled across a few in NamUs where there is no picture but it lists a recognizable face, and I'm like, where's the picture or reconstruction? Then there are skeletal remains with several artists' rendering of what s/he may have looked like. Leaves me scratching my head.NamUs case files that don't have any pics confused. It's one thing if it was skeletal fragments, or if there was no way to do a recon and there were no items found with them, but some of them have no excuse.