IL IL - LaSalle Co, WhtFem 35-50, UP11079, breast implants, tattoos, Sep'91

[JovanSrna]

Jane Doe at 30: Authorities think they’re close to ID’ing woman
They found two first cousins. She'll likely be identified next year but this case has some mystery in the family tree gaps and more testing needs to be done.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

LaSalle County Coroner -Jane Doe - Lasalle County Illinois

https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/pantagraph.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/20/a20c5156-1d6a-5b31-b93a-035cb496a142/61aacfa14028c.pdf.pdf

 

[snooptroop88]

The Illinois Valley area does draw many out-of-towners, and not just tourists. This may be someone who relocated to the area. There are a couple of clubs with exotic dancers in the area. However, I wouldn't be certain she was employed there or affiliated with them, although she may have been. She may have gotten a cheaper apartment somewhere in the area, the rents in the area are sometimes low. Whoever dumped her body is MOO a local, perhaps also someone who transplanted himself to the area from elsewhere. There is not much crime in the area, but when there is, it tends to be very unusual (and sometimes very grisly) in nature. Tammy Zywicki's car was abandoned near LaSalle back in 1992 before they ultimately found her body near Joplin MO. That was clearly a homicide which is to this day unsolved. Jelani Day was found floating in the Illinois River near Peru. The cause of death is officially drowning, but it's contested. I read the info about the cocaine with JD, but she was transported to the field where she was found, clearly. The person who did that did not want contact with LE. Why not? It's not illegal to call and report an overdose, or to report an overdose in progress, or to report an overdose after the fact. I am hopeful they will identify this poor woman and give LE more information to work with to see what exactly happened to her.

 

[WrinkleInCrime]

Lasalle County Jane Doe - identified as Paula Ann Lundgren.

"LaSALLE COUNTY (25News Now) - A body found on this day 33 years ago in a cornfield in LaSalle County has now been identified.

LaSalle County Coroner Richard Ploch identified the woman as Paula Ann Lundgren.

Lundgren was born in 1962, primarily lived in the Chicagoland area and was 29 at the time of her death discovery.

LaSalle County Sheriff Adam Diss is hopeful that with her identification, new leads can be developed to figure out how she came to be in the cornfield and who was responsible for placing her there.

According to a joint release from the coroner and sheriff, her case spanned the timeline of three sheriffs and four coroners.

On Sep. 13, 1991, a farmer found Lundgren’s body in a cornfield in Mission Township, near Norway, Illinois. She was found underneath a curtain with hooks and was clothed in a men’s style dress shirt with stripes and black spandex pants. There were no shoes or personal effects.

Her medical cause of death was determined to be probable cocaine intoxication, but her manner of death was undetermined.

Interred at Oakwood Memorial Park, her headstone reads, 'Somebody’s Daugther, Somebody’s Friend.'

She was exhumed from her grave in 2013 in order to obtain DNA and reexamine the case findings. New investigative techniques were used in hopes of identifying her.

Facial reconstruction modeling, age regression, radiocarbon dating and isotopic diet studies were conducted on her skeletal remains - techniques helpful in providing new information but leaving investigators still unable to identify her.

In 2019, a professor at Illinois Valley Community College offered to help work the case, using the new technique of investigative genetic genealogy.

Many new leads were developed and in July 2024, a possible living relative was identified and confirmed."

Body found 33 years ago in LaSalle County identified

According to a joint release from the coroner and sheriff, her case spanned the timeline of three sheriffs and four coroners.

www.25newsnow.com

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Looks like she was living in Aurora, Illinois. That's something like 40 mins NE of Norway.

 

[truenoblesavage]

Wow! So happy to see she got her name back.

 

[HmmMysterious]

Rest in peace Paula. The fact that her body contained 3x the lethal amount of cocaine is horrifying.

 

[SimsGuy67]

I believe this photo is of Paula. There's a pretty good resemblance to both of the recons.

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[MarziPanda]

Wow, those recons are good! They really captured her essence. RIP Paula. I wonder if the overdose was accidental (took it herself) or if she was poisoned.

 

[snooptroop88]

Happiness in that this poor woman now has her identity back.

Hopefully, they can find out who dumped her in a field like this. I wonder why she was in LaSalle County, how long, last known address, and so on. That info's going to be pretty hard to come by more than thirty years later, but it's a miracle they know who she is, so maybe there will be more on this yet.

 

[Chimera]

How sad to be discarded like that.
Almost like someone(s) thought they could be in trouble and threw her out in the elements ?

Rest in peace, Paula.