Identified! AZ - Apache Junction, HispFem UP6349, 16-18, desert near Hwy60, Phnx Trnsit Sys token, ring, Aug'92 - Melody Harrison

[formerlyme]

hoping she is given back her name soon.

 

[Mina280909]

Doe Network lists her as identified

 

[AguaFlorida2001]

Will a name be released?
Happy she's identified, and at the end of the day that's all that really matters.. but a part of me is so curious about who she was after all this time.

 

[LizzieParker]

Will a name be released?
Happy she's identified, and at the end of the day that's all that really matters.. but a part of me is so curious about who she was after all this time.

There hasn’t been any official confirmation of her identification yet, let alone a statement on whether or not her name will be released. I’m wondering if the Doe Network marked her case as identified due to her NamUs page having been removed, because neither the AJPD nor the DNA Doe Project have confirmed anything yet. Which isn’t unusual at all, I know that they don’t always announce a resolution immediately after an identification for various reasons. But even if her name is withheld, I’m sure they’ll at least confirm that she has been identified when they are able to do so.

 

[HmmMysterious]

Rest in peace Melody Harrison

Apache Junction Jane Doe - DNA Doe Project

 

[Friday Fan]

Rest in peace Melody Harrison

Apache Junction Jane Doe - DNA Doe Project

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She's beautiful! Totally different than I pictured! Wow!

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Rest in peace Melody Harrison

Apache Junction Jane Doe - DNA Doe Project

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The decades-long mystery surrounding the Apache Junction Jane Doe case has finally been resolved with the positive identification of the previously unnamed victim. After relentless efforts by Apache Junction Crime Scene Investigator Stephanie Bourgeois and innovative investigative genetic genealogy techniques deployed by the DNA Doe Project, the once unidentified woman has been identified as Melody Harrison, reported missing from Phoenix, Arizona.

 

[Friday Fan]

The decades-long mystery surrounding the Apache Junction Jane Doe case has finally been resolved with the positive identification of the previously unnamed victim. After relentless efforts by Apache Junction Crime Scene Investigator Stephanie Bourgeois and innovative investigative genetic genealogy techniques deployed by the DNA Doe Project, the once unidentified woman has been identified as Melody Harrison, reported missing from Phoenix, Arizona.

Was there a cause of death? I kept looking after her NAMUS was pulled and couldn't find one.

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Was there a cause of death? I kept looking after her NAMUS was pulled and couldn't find one.

Not that has been publicly released.

 

[djanga]

She was found in a desert area south of US Highway 60 and west of Idaho Road in Apache Junction, Pinal County, Arizona. i dont think she got there by her own, it looks like somebody brought her there.

 

[djanga]

New artilcle:

Remains of ‘Apache Junction Jane Doe’ identified, group announces

Officials with DNA Doe Project say they have identified a woman whose remains were found in a rural part of the far East Valley in the early 1990s.

www.fox10phoenix.com

The body was discovered in August 1992. An autopsy at the time failed to determine the cause of death, but investigators believe the body was in the area for nearly five weeks before the discovery was made.

 

[Susikatze]

Beautiful Melody, beautiful name and girl. She does look like her recon but more AA than Hispanic, even though she was multiracial (Hispanic, German, AA).
So happy she got her name back and her loved ones get closure.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

https://www.facebook.com/100068121797204/posts/654032820210772

 

[Laughing]

Was Ms. Harrison ever reported missing?

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Was Ms. Harrison ever reported missing?

jmho ymmv lrr

Yes, it is implied that she was reported missing from Phoenix. I'm not sure how the connection wasn't made sooner.

 

[summergirl1]

It is interesting that she was actually reported missing. I suppose the report got misplaced or something over the years. It's not the first case where the person was reported missing and the dots should have been connected sooner.

 

[Susikatze]

It is interesting that she was actually reported missing. I suppose the report got misplaced or something over the years. It's not the first case where the person was reported missing and the dots should have been connected sooner.

Happened all the time before social media and centralized databases. Even happens today on occasion

 

[faithx]

Three Decades Later: Jane Doe Finally Identified in Apache Junction Cold Case Breakthrough

Over thirty years of mystery have shrouded the identity of the Apache Junction Jane Doe case. The unidentified female has been identified as 15-year-old Melody Harrison, who was reported missing from Phoenix, Arizona, in June of 1992.

www.apachejunctionaz.gov

"Melody’s family filed the initial missing person report through the Phoenix Police Department in June 1992. However, due to individuals coming forth to the family saying they had seen Melody in multiple locations, the family believed she started a new life and did not want to go home. She was removed from the missing person’s database in August 1996. Her family thought she was still alive."

 

[formerlyme]

So very sad 15 and just figured she started a life on her own.

 

[formerlyme]

It is interesting that she was actually reported missing. I suppose the report got misplaced or something over the years. It's not the first case where the person was reported missing and the dots should have been connected sooner.she was taken off the missing persons list in 1996