DNA Doe Project - General Discussion #3

[iamshadow21]

New effort from Newark Police Department to identify Mowry Wetlands Jane Doe:

Unsolved Jane Doe murder case reopened using rootless hair DNA

Old evidence and new technology is providing clues to help crack a decades-old cold case where both the killer and the victim have never been identified. In 1985, a woman, now called Jane Doe, was found shot and killed in the remote wetlands area off Mowry Avenue in Newark. To this day, no one...

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Her thread:

CA - CA - Newark "Mowry Ave Jane Doe" WhtFem UP53306 <40, Oct 85

I couldn't see an existing thread for this new DNA Doe Project case "Mowry Ave Jane Doe" UP53306 currently 'at lab for extraction' www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/53306?nav Female, White / Caucasian Date Body Found October 24, 1985 Location Found Newark, California Case Numbers ME/C...

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[djanga]

Not sure if it is oficial, but Apache Junction Jane Doe Namus is down, waiting for an announcement

 

[John/Jane Doe]

https://www.facebook.com/100068121797204/posts/641548838125837

 

[John/Jane Doe]

https://www.facebook.com/100068121797204/posts/640483944898993

 

[John/Jane Doe]

https://www.facebook.com/100068121797204/posts/639415578339163

 

[djanga]

According to her twittee, team lead Cairenn Binder left the DDP her team solved 27 cases, only around 10 of them were announced publicly

 

[djanga]

Also Suzanne Jane Doe 1994 is still listed as a pending case, her case has been already solved, maybe somebody from the team reads the thread. Also the dashboard table: a couple of active cases were announced to be solved

 

[djanga]

Doe Network now lists Apache Junction Jane Doe as identified. I am wondering if there will be an announcement, also for LaVergne Jane Doe 2007

 

[doggybag2355]

Doe Network now lists Apache Junction Jane Doe as identified. I am wondering if there will be an announcement, also for LaVergne Jane Doe 2007

They seem to do that sometimes once just the NamUs is removed

 

[djanga]

Updating the list of Does whose Namus profiles were removed, the first one Mercer Island John Doe’s Namus was removed more then a year ago, the last one a few months only.

1. Mercer Island John Doe 2018 (WA)

Mercer Island John Doe 2018 | DNA Doe Project

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2.Peter Kalama Ln Jane Doe 2013 (WA)
Peter Kalama Ln Jane Doe 2013 - DNA Doe Project

Peter Kalama Ln Jane Doe 2013 | DNA Doe Project

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3. Travis County John Doe 2021 (TX)

Travis County John Doe 2021 | DNA Doe Project

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4. Suzanne Jane Doe 1994 (FL). She is a victim of serial killer Keith Jesperson, otherwise known as the Happy Face Killer

Suzanne Jane Doe 1994 | DNA Doe Project

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5. Motorcycle Mountain John Doe 2001 (CA)

Motorcycle Mountain John Doe 2001 | DNA Doe Project

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6. LaVergne Jane Doe 2007 (TN)

LaVergne Jane Doe 2007 | DNA Doe Project

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Updated list of cases where Namus was removed:
The first one Mercer Island John Doe’s Namus was removed more then a year ago and Apache Juncion Jane Doe less then 2 weeks ago.

1. Mercer Island John Doe 2018 (WA)

Mercer Island John Doe 2018 | DNA Doe Project

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2.Peter Kalama Ln Jane Doe 2013 (WA)

Peter Kalama Ln Jane Doe 2013 | DNA Doe Project

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3. Travis County John Doe 2021 (TX)

Travis County John Doe 2021 | DNA Doe Project

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4. Motorcycle Mountain John Doe 2001 (CA)

Motorcycle Mountain John Doe 2001 | DNA Doe Project

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5. LaVergne Jane Doe 2007 (TN)

LaVergne Jane Doe 2007 | DNA Doe Project

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6. Apache Junction Jane Doe (AZ)

Apache Junction Jane Doe | DNA Doe Project

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[djanga]

Bones 20 Gary Ridgway victim was moved to Past cases, it means another agency will take the case

 

[djanga]

Dashboard table updated (last times updated in September), 3 new cases solved by DDP, 7 new cases added

 

[doggybag2355]

I'm not seeing the new cases in the list.

 

[djanga]

I'm not seeing the new cases in the list.

They have not added them yet, they just updated the number of total cases they are working on, last time it was 215 and now there are 222.

 

[JovanSrna]

Apache Junction Jane Doe | DNA Doe Project

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Apache Junction Jane Doe was Melody Harrison.

 

[djanga]

“It would take five years and countless hours of dedicated research by more than a dozen volunteer investigative genetic genealogists to find the critical breakthrough in this case.”

Wow, 5 years, a lot of effort, bravo, who worked pn the case.

 

[doggybag2355]

I think that's one of their oldest cases solved. They really need to share more on Kings County Jane Doe so they can solve their other oldest one.

 

[Puzzleworth]

What a twisting, turning road the story of her identification took, with her paternal grandparents being a German woman and an American GI, their sons being adopted to the US, finding her cousin, her half-aunt, and then someone that seemed like her father, only to find out he was her full uncle and had a brother he never knew, whose own bio-daughter died in the outskirts of Phoenix...just so much complication. Rest easy, Melody.

 

[djanga]

Lincoln County Rail Car John Doe 1961 Nebraska and Lincoln Highlands John Doe 2023 Kansas moved to Active research on the DDP website

Lincoln County Rail Car John Doe 1961 | DNA Doe Project

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Lincoln Highlands John Doe 2023 | DNA Doe Project

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[djanga]

Smith County Jane Doe TX has also moved to the Active research stage.

Smith County Jane Doe 1985 - DNA Doe Project

Description On October 1, 1985 a highway mowing crew discovered human skeletal remains in a brush-covered gully on the south side of I-20 east of the Highway 69 N exit in Smith County, Texas. Clothes wadded in a pile next to the body included a yellow pullover shirt with the logo “Top Rail...

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