CA CA - Placer Co., WhtFem UP17572, 18-27, found in the area of Colfax and Iowa Hill Road, Oct'80

[heartanium]

I think she could be NamUS MP11575. Blue Halter shirts, hair color. Facial structure. Do we know for sure how long the remains were there? View attachment 408665Nancy Perry Baird

If she was kidnapped by a trucker she could have ended up in this area of California, Highway 80 and Highway 50 is some of the routes you would take coming into California from the east.

 

[heartanium]

I think she could be NamUS MP11575. Blue Halter shirts, hair color. Facial structure. Do we know for sure how long the remains were there? View attachment 408665Nancy Perry Baird

Looks like the body was there for 4 or more months according to this article

3 November 1980, The Press-Tribune, pg 17

 

[heartanium]

California had a habit of cremating unidentified people after a certain length of time, so I think one can safely assume that's what happened here, unfortunately.

I think she may actually have been buried, Placer county didn't have a tendency to cremate remains. The other Jane Doe's I know of in the area were buried in unmarked graves near Auburn/Truckee area.

There was an article from 1980 on dental identification that goes a bit into the burial of unidentified remains in Placer County.

27 Match 1980, The Press Tribune, pg 12

Now if the county still has records of where she is buried is another question entirely..

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Looks like the body was there for 4 or more months according to this article

3 November 1980, The Press-Tribune, pg 17
View attachment 409105

Currently it is mentioned that the estimated date of death could have been one or more years before according to the doe network:

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[heartanium]

Some of these are reposts but this is what I can find:

31 October 1980, The Auburn Journal, pg 1, 8.

3 November 1980, The Press-Tribune, pg 17

4 November 1980, The Auburn Journal, pg 1

19 May 1981, The Sacramento Bee, pg 3

 

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

Jane Doe's NamUs was recently updated and there's one ruleout:

MP3881
Alma Root
01/01/1980
Placer
CA

 

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

More ruleouts! For some reason, Connie Minchaca is listed twice.

MP6408
Connie Minchaca
06/09/1978
Napa
CA

MP3881
Alma Root
01/01/1980
Placer
CA

 

[theshadow45]

Colfax Jane Doe has been unidentified for 43 years today.

 

[lightofmine99]

Bumping Colfax Jane Doe.

 

[HmmMysterious]

Christine Gregg sounds like a good candidate, though she only has DNA available and this JD doesn't. I really hope she wasn't cremated

 

[Fallon]

I saw where in the newspaper articles, a few of them say 4 or more months that the body was there. The one says something about it being there possibly for more than a year. Is this something that can be definite when it comes to skeletal remains? The only reason I ask is because I have an MP from 74 that I think looks like and fits the description of this Jane Doe. However, the timing would be way off and I don't think she would have been kept alive all those years. Thanks for anyone that might be able to point this out to me.

 

[theshadow45]

Colfax Jane Doe has been unidentified for 44 years today.