Identified! AL - Mobile Co, UnsFem UP17326, 22-35, remains near a cornfield, edentulous, Nov'76 - Mary Ann Perez

[Romulus]

NamUs UP 17326

https://www.identifyus.org/en/cases/17326

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Unidentified Body/Remains (Unsure Female)

Found November 28, 1976 in Mobile County, AL
Body Condition: Not recognizable - partial skeletal parts only
Probable year of death: 1974 to 1976
Estimated postmortem interval: Months


Vital Statistics
Estimated age: 22-35 (Adult - Pre 40)
Approximate Height: 62 estimate
Approximate Weight: cannot estimate
Hair Color: brown hair recovered
Eye Color: Unknown
Scars and marks: healed injury to left forehead; antemortem loss of multiple teeth and use of partial dental plate; possible previous pregnancy

Clothing & Accessories
Clothing: blouse - short sleeve, brown; tan pants with blue/green belt; underwear; bra;
Jewerly: earrings
Footwear: shoe (6.5M)
Accessories: nothing

Identifiers
Fingerprints: Fingerprint information is not available
Dentals: Dental information / charting is available
DNA: Sample available - Not yet submitted

Case History: Skeletal remains found near a cornfield in a sparsely populated area.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Scars and marks: healed injury to left forehead; antemortem loss of multiple teeth and use of partial dental plate; possible previous pregnancy

If this UID is indeed female, extensive loss of teeth might be due to pregnancy. The diversion of calcium from the mother's bones and teeth to the foetus's used to cause massive damage to the mother's teeth a few generations ago.

By the sounds of it there were some of her own teeth remaining so isotope analysis would be possible. Also DNA analysis would settle the male/female issue once and for all.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Incidentally, if she does indeed have at least some of her own teeth I wouldn't describe her as edentulous. To me that means effectively all teeth are missing.

 

[4SAM]

I think that is the saddest reconstruction I have seen on here

 

[creepedout]

I think that is the saddest reconstruction I have seen on here

Well, I don't think it's as bad as this one from an Oklahoma case:

https://cdn2.newsok.biz/cache/r960-9c4cec08cae8b963d994521f5b53cc3a.jpg

 

[MaryG12]

Well, I don't think it's as bad as this one from an Oklahoma case:

https://cdn2.newsok.biz/cache/r960-9c4cec08cae8b963d994521f5b53cc3a.jpg

I am sorry I clicked, I am going to have nightmares now

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[Murkywaters]

http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orle...cle_31c70bd8-e801-11e7-9b42-1b5418eeae96.html

Retired New Orleans Police Department homicide detective Robert Lambert said Saturday that he has been notified that a cold-case investigator in Mobile County, Alabama, recently concluded that hunters passing a cornfield in November 1976 found skeletal remains matching the description of Mary Ann Perez.

The Mobile investigator, J.T. Thornton, believes the remains that were found likely belonged to Perez based on their physical characteristics, as well as jewelry and clothes still on the corpse, Lambert said.

I think this is the Jane Doe that authorities believe is Mary Ann Perez.


According to news reports, Mary Ann Perez was wearing a brown slip over blouse and cream coloured pants when she missing.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Does anyone else think that the reconstruction, especially the short "Orphan Annie" hairstyle and the high-necked lace-up detail on the blouse, suggests a woman from a religiously conservative background? It certainly doesn't make me think of the care-free early to mid 1970s.

Were there any Amish-type sects or cults in that area at that time?

 

[LR1]

She is still listed in namus but testing is underway and she has at least tentatively been identified as Mary Ann Perez.

http://www.wkrg.com/news/mobile-county/investigators-solve-cold-case-after-41-years/1159718139

 

[Gardener1850]

Husband-wife serial killers may be link between two 40-year-old mysteries, police say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.19d4cfd85391​

 

[folieadeuxnola]

‘Miracle’ links cold case to husband-wife serial killers

https://nypost.com/2018/05/07/miracl...erial-killers/

2 Cold Cases More than 40 Years Old Believed to Be Linked to Married Serial Killers: Police

https://www.insideedition.com/2-cold...s-police-43074

 

[folieadeuxnola]

Serial-killer couple confessed to killing missing N.O. woman. After 42 years, her remains might have been found

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/05/mary_ann_perez_remains_oklahom.html

Authorities in Alabama were stumped by skeletal remains they could not identify.

In New Orleans, just two hours west down Interstate 10, law enforcement had an unsolved missing person's case.

Although only 120 or so miles separated the two investigations, it would take more than 40 years for the right links fall into place, likely looping together the bones in Alabama and vanished New Orleans housewife Mary Ann Perez.

 

[folieadeuxnola]

Remains of 1976 New Orleans murder victim Mary Ann Perez have been recovered, DNA test shows

The results of a DNA test have confirmed that skeletal remains recovered in rural Alabama in late 1976 belonged to a St. Bernard Parish woman who had been missing since she was murdered earlier that year, authorities said Tuesday.

 

[carbuff]

Does anyone else think that the reconstruction, especially the short "Orphan Annie" hairstyle and the high-necked lace-up detail on the blouse, suggests a woman from a religiously conservative background? It certainly doesn't make me think of the care-free early to mid 1970s.

Were there any Amish-type sects or cults in that area at that time?

In case it comes up in other cases -- the free spirit hippie look wasn't the only one around in the 70s. Short hair was also in style. Her haircut might have looked something like this when it was fresh: 1976

 

[Al Ka]

Rest in Peace Mary Ann Perez

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Authorities at a Texas lab said earlier this week that they have identified human remains found in Alabama in 1976 as the body of Mary Ann Perez, who went missing from New Orleans earlier that year
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What happened to Mary Ann Perez?

New Orleans law enforcement said Perez, a wife and mother of three, went missing on March 26, 1976, after visiting a bar with friends, WKRG News 5 in Mobile, Ala., reported. Her purse was found weighed down with a brick in Lake Pontchartrain, about 10 miles away, according to true-crime TV show “Unsolved Mysteries.”

Eight months later, hunters found human bones in a cornfield near an Alabama town just over the Mississippi state line, the Washington Post reported. Unaware of the New Orleans disappearance, investigators sent the remains to an Oklahoma lab, WKRG reported.

None of the law enforcement agencies at the time linked the remains with Perez’s disappearance.

40 years after Kansas serial killer admitted to slaying woman, a body is identified

 

[Shin Masamura]

I am sorry I clicked, I am going to have nightmares now

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[namstache]

The case has now been officially removed from NAMUS.

 

[dotr]

Feb 8 2019 rbbm.
British TV show focuses on locally solved "cold case"
"MOBILE, Ala (WKRG) --An international documentary crew is telling the story of a solved missing person and murder cold case here on the Gulf Coast.

The 1976 murder of Mary Ann Perez will be featured on the show "Evidence of Evil" on the CBS Reality network available on Sky in the United Kingdom and several European countries.

"The show revolves almost exclusively around crimes that have been solved through modern forensic techniques," said the show's producer David Harvey.

Harvey was recently in Mobile interviewing Detective J.T. Thornton of the Mobile County Sheriff's Office whose work put to bed the 41-year-old Perez case.

"I think the real hook on this particular case was the fact that it had gone so quiet for so long," Harvey said."
"I think that's the great thing about the case, it shows with modern techniques, no case need go unsolved, particularly if there are samples, bones, traces left behind, and that's a really exciting development in modern crime fighting," Harvey said

"The episode is expected to air in the United Kingdom later this year and then will be sold to a U.S. cable network which will air it in 2020. News 5 anchor and reporter Peter Albrecht was also interviewed for the show."

 

[carbuff]

Rest in peace, Ms. Perez.