Identified! IN - Angola, WhtFem, 180UFIN, 30-50, Pachuco Cross tattoo, Sept 1999 - Tina Cabanaw

[b741ma]

Have to add two more snippets relevant to her case and her life:
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The body was found near a fencerow that’s a part of the club off the main entrance, near a parking area where trash receptacles are kept. When found, Cabanaw was nude except for a bra she was wearing.


On duty late the Saturday afternoon of Sept. 6, 1999, was sheriff’s reserve officer Jeff Sine, who worked with the detective bureau. Headley came to the jail, he didn’t call, to report he had found a body while out inspecting his corn.

Sine asked Headley if he was certain it was a body and not, perhaps, a deer. Headley responded that deer aren’t known for wearing wristwatches. And the investigation began.
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Gallegos was 16 when her mom went missing. But this was not the first time.

When she was 14, Gallegos was staying with a neighbor one night and her mom didn’t return home. It was two days later that she would show up and would be found in her car, suffering from an overdose of drugs.

“One night, she just didn’t come home,” Gallegos said.

At that time, Gallegos was put into foster care and she finished out the school year. From there, she was moved to live with her father in Colorado.

“I don’t want to say anything bad about her. She was my mom. But she was having problems. She relapsed back into drugs,” Gallegos said. Also, her mother got in with the wrong crowd.
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I'm happy she was identified but I wanted to know why her identification took so long. According to the news story she was repored missing in the police precinct of her hometown Detroit but her case had not been uploaded to the national database. It really makes you wonder how many unidentified people have already been reported missing but nobody has made a connection yet because they're not uploaded to the national database. There needs to be a law or something to make sure that doesn't happen again.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Cabanaw’s death was being investigated as suspicious.

Body found in Indiana cornfield 20 years ago identified as missing Detroit mother

 

[Earth]

Since she had reddish hair, is it possible she could be linked to the Redhead Murders? Or, judging the geographical location, maybe Marcia King's murder?

 

[U2forever]

Great news. Her family can now lay her to rest.
My condolences, Jessica Gallegos.
Shalom Tina.

 

[carbuff]

Rest in peace, Ms. Cabanaw.

 

[Richard]

Tina L. Cabanaw went missing in 1999 from Michigan.

Forensic facial sketch of unidentified woman found in Indiana.

Although she has now been identified, Tina Cabanaw's murder remains an unsolved homicide case.

LINK:
Body of woman found in Steuben County in 1999 identified

 

[Richard]

Tina Cabanaw, Murdered September 1999