CA CA - Tujunga, Hisp/AsianFem 440UFCA, 14-24, wig & St Christopher medallion, Aug'94

[Sleuth91]

Do you have this missing girl on your radar too? Marjorie Alice Knox – The Charley Project

• Missing Since 02/14/1987 (would have been approx. 21)
• Missing From Chaparral, New Mexico
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Race Asian, Biracial, White
• Date of Birth 01/17/1973 (47)
• Age 14 years old
• Height and Weight 5'2 - 5'3, 115 pounds
• She is of Thai decent.

Yes. She's on my spreadsheet!

 

[Bit of hope]

Yes. She's on my spreadsheet!

Any updates?

 

[Sleuth91]

Any updates?

Yes. Monique "Pebbles" Santiago was ruled out as being this Jane Doe by a Forensic Odontologist at the New York State Police Department. I am in the process of trying to get Monique listed as a rule out on Jane Doe's exclusions list in NamUs.

Also, that was me that added you on FB yesterday.

 

[Bit of hope]

Yes. Monique "Pebbles" Santiago was ruled out as being this Jane Doe by a Forensic Odontologist at the New York State Police Department. I am in the process of trying to get Monique listed as a rule out on Jane Doe's exclusions list in NamUs.

Also, that was me that added you on FB yesterday.

Good to know Monique Santiago is ruled out and good work.

 

[YaYa_521]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

-- Lenay Aguina CA
-- Angela Chan CA
MP5668 Melissa Espinoza 12/02/1993 Sacramento CA
MP1475 Donnis Redman 03/01/1958 Los Angeles CA
-- Rene Roof CA
MP300 Michelle Valadez 05/30/1994 San Bernardino CA
-- Joyce Walcott CA

 

[Bit of hope]

I came across this girl, biracial (Hispanic/white) missing with her parents when she was 8 yrs, from Los Angeles, in 1982. She would have been 21 when this Jane Doe was found. There is only one picture of her, her facial appearance is hard to see and she was a small child at the time, so hard to compare with the recon. What is your opinion on this?

Barbara Aurora Burhans Barbara Aurora Burhans – The Charley Project

 

[Sleuth91]

I came across this girl, biracial (Hispanic/white) missing with her parents when she was 8 yrs, from Los Angeles, in 1982. She would have been 21 when this Jane Doe was found. There is only one picture of her, her facial appearance is hard to see and she was a small child at the time, so hard to compare with the recon. What is your opinion on this?

Barbara Aurora Burhans Barbara Aurora Burhans – The Charley Project

She's already on my spreadsheet but I did not know that she was Biracial. Good find! NamUs just lists her as White/Caucasian.

 

[Sleuth91]

Some higher quality photos of the earlier sketches of Jane Doe. I used an app to make them higher quality.

 

[kms2089]

Hi my family is trying to find a famele member that became missing during 1994 and the description of the partially burn girl is really close to my cousin is there any other pics that you can provide?
My cousin was from a town in Guerrero Mexico, she was about 15-19 when she left my aunt's house since then we haven't heard from her

 

[Sleuth91]

Hi my family is trying to find a famele member that became missing during 1994 and the description of the partially burn girl is really close to my cousin

Could you tell us about your cousin?

 

[Sleuth91]

Could you tell us about your cousin?[/QUOTE

Hi my family is trying to find a famele member that became missing during 1994 and the description of the partially burn girl is really close to my cousin is there any other pics that you can provide?
My cousin was from a town in Guerrero Mexico, she was about 15-19 when she left my aunt's house since then we haven't heard from her

Are you related to Yani? She and I have been talking for a few days over Facebook Messenger. She thinks this girl may be her sister.

 

[kms2089]

Her name was Edit Silva Gonzalez, she lived on Fresno at the time with her aunt, her mom still lives in Mexico, her dad passed away when she was little, we don't certainly know what clothes she had when missing cuz she left from the house at night, at the time she try to leave the house couple of times with who apparently was her boyfriend, dont know if we can find a report cut a one pint my uncle and my dad call the police and they founded her in a unknown house

 

[kms2089]

Are you related to Yani? She and I have been talking for a few days over Facebook Messenger. She thinks this girl may be her sister.

Yes she is my cousin, ok I'm sorry I'm glad she is in contact

 

[Bit of hope]

Hi my family is trying to find a famele member that became missing during 1994 and the description of the partially burn girl is really close to my cousin is there any other pics that you can provide?
My cousin was from a town in Guerrero Mexico, she was about 15-19 when she left my aunt's house since then we haven't heard from her

Welcome kms2089. I feel sorry for you and your family having to endure all of this. From experience I know California will not show post mortem pictures of deceased in public. That is to say if there are such pictures. We only know the reconstructions. I strongly advise you to contact the medical examiner in this case.

 

[Sleuth91]

I have some good news about this case. While talking to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's office last week, I found out that they found our Jane Doe's jaw bones in a storage closet.

Someone at the Coroner's office was organizing a storage closet and found the jaw bones. They also found the remains of more than 50 other unidentified decedents found from 1966-2001. All of these remains (including our Jane Doe's jaw bones) have been sent to the California DOJ for DNA extraction. The person I talked to said they prioritized shipping on our Jane Doe's jaw bones (probably because I've been emailing back and forth with them almost weekly since March) but said to keep in mind that the process can take more than two years because the California DOJ is severely understaffed.

 

[Sleuth91]

To say that I'm excited about them finding Jane Doe's jaw bones is an understatement.

Over the past two months, I've posted this Jane Doe in more than 100 missing persons groups on Facebook. These groups are based in Mexico, United States, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, and specified regions in these countries. I had someone translate the post to Spanish for me so I could post it to the groups based in Spanish-speaking countries.

When I say I posted it in more than 100 groups, I don't mean that I just posted it 100 times. After all those posts, I found the post that was most successful and shared it once more to all of the missing person's groups. A few weeks ago, a family member of a missing person kept seeing my posts and after doing some research, they strongly believe our Jane Doe might be their loved one. I've been helping the family as needed with contacting agencies, etc, But it is going to be a long process before we find out if their missing loved ones and this Jane Doe are one in the same because of the amount of time it will take to extract DNA from Jane Doe's jaw bones.

EDIT: I'll post updates about Jane Doe's jaw bones as appropriate but will not be posting about the missing person because of confidentiality.

 

[Bit of hope]

Thank you for the update @WebSleuth91. Good work! Good to know they found jawbones. This will make it much more likely they can subtract DNA. I hope it's going to work. At least there is something left of her to work with. I hope sincerely they can. Makes you wonder about the accuracy of the reconstruction, but they made one, which is great! I wonder though how they came from A. (the story, her being murdered and burned, the stats etc. to B. (the found jawbones) What happened in between?

I hope the family, you are in contact with, will find out in the future if Jane Doe is their loved one. In the mean time we have to wait.....

 

[Nauticalguy]

Does anyone know if Blanca Elisa Roberson was ever eliminated as possibly being Tujunga Jane Doe? The last relevant post said that someone was check with the Aransas Pass PD for dental verification. Please advise.

 

[Bit of hope]

Does anyone know if Blanca Elisa Roberson was ever eliminated as possibly being Tujunga Jane Doe? The last relevant post said that someone was check with the Aransas Pass PD for dental verification. Please advise.

Hi and welcome @Nauticalguy Maybe @WebSleuth91 knows more?

 

[Sleuth91]

Does anyone know if Blanca Elisa Roberson was ever eliminated as possibly being Tujunga Jane Doe? The last relevant post said that someone was check with the Aransas Pass PD for dental verification. Please advise.

@Nauticalguy I contacted Aransas PD several months ago and I left a message with the Chief asking if Elisa's dental records were available for comparison to this Jane Doe's but I never heard back from him. I have been busy helping another family who thinks this may be their missing loved one, so I have not reached out to Aransas PD again. I will reach out to Aransas PD again tomorrow. Did you know Elisa? The reason I ask is because I noticed that you also visited Elisa's Websleuths thread.