KY KY - Bowling Green, WhtFem UP114480, UnkAge, in ditch on Upper Dixie Hwy, multiple tattoos: butterfly, rose, cat, May'92

[Romulus]

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP114480
Female, White/Caucasian
Date Body Found: May 11, 1992
Location Found: Bowling Green, Kentucky
Estimated Age Range--

Details of Recovery​

Inventory of Remains--​

Condition of Remains: Recognizable face

Physical Description​

Hair ColorBrown
Head Hair Description: Wavy, up to 4" in length
Body Hair Description--
Facial Hair Description--
Left Eye Color: Hazel
Right Eye Color: Hazel
Eye Description--

---

Distinctive Physical Features​

Item
Description
Piercing
Two piercings in right ear

Piercing
Up to five pierced defects in left ear

Tattoo
Monochromatic tattoo of butterfly on upper inner quadrant of right breast

Tattoo
Tattoo of rose on right scapula

Tattoo
Tattoo of cat in right pubic region

Clothing and Accessories
Item
Description
Clothing
Pink tank top
On the Body

Clothing
Denim shorts
On the Body

Clothing
White socks
On the Body

Footwear
White shoes
On the Body

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Circumstances of Recovery: Found laying on back in ditch on Upper Dixie Hwy by farmers. Apparent trauma to neck

 

[MadMcGoo]

UP114480 Unidentified female 1992 KY (1)

Clipping found in The Park City Daily News published in Bowling Green, Kentucky on 5/12/1992. UP114480 Unidentified female 1992 KY (1)

www.newspapers.com

UP114480 Unidentified female 1992 KY (2)

Clipping found in The Park City Daily News published in Bowling Green, Kentucky on 5/12/1992. UP114480 Unidentified female 1992 KY (2)

www.newspapers.com

She was found in a ditch on Upper Dixie Highway about eight miles north of Bowling Green. Her throat was slashed, severing both main arteries, she suffered multiple stab wounds to the chest and she’d been dead about two or three days before being found.

She was described as a white female in her late 20s or early 30s, 5’5” tall and 120 pounds. She had strawberry blond or light brown hair and was wearing a short white tank top, stonewashed denim shorts, white socks and lavender and white high-top tennis shoes. In addition to the tattoos listed in her NamUs profile, she was wearing a gold rope chain and a smaller gold chain on her neck, a gold rope bracelet on her right wrist and a birthstone ring with pinkish stone on her right hand.

UP114480 Unidentified female 1992 KY

Clipping found in The Courier-Journal published in Louisville, Kentucky on 5/13/1992. UP114480 Unidentified female 1992 KY

www.newspapers.com

UP114480 Unidentified female 1992 KY (1)

Clipping found in The Park City Daily News published in Bowling Green, Kentucky on 5/29/1992. UP114480 Unidentified female 1992 KY (1)

www.newspapers.com

UP114480 Unidentified female 1992 KY (2)

Clipping found in The Park City Daily News published in Bowling Green, Kentucky on 5/29/1992. UP114480 Unidentified female 1992 KY (2)

www.newspapers.com

Bowling Green Police said that the manner in which she was dumped and her appearance were similar to a string of slayings that occurred across the US since 1983. Fliers with the woman’s picture were sent out across the state and her fingerprints entered into NCIC.

UP114480 Unidentified female 1992 KY

Clipping found in The Park City Daily News published in Bowling Green, Kentucky on 7/15/1992. UP114480 Unidentified female 1992 KY

www.newspapers.com

Dental records were available at one point.

 

[Beccalicious]

Bumping

 

[Romulus]

Female UID Tattoos

 

[HopeRains]

I wonder if they have resubmitted her prints into AFIS in recent years. Agencies are doing this more and more and I recall it has resulted in some identifications over the last 5 years or so.

 

[Romulus]

@Caring1 exclusions for this female UID?

 

[The4TierBridge]

@Caring1 exclusions for this female UID?

There are no exclusions visible in NamUs.

 

[Romulus]

There are no exclusions visible in NamUs.

Thanks @The4TierBridge !

 

[iulia]

Her NamUs page has been removed.

 

[The4TierBridge]

Her NamUs page has been removed.

Good to know. I was going to send the case contact an email soon because I'm 99% sure this was entered into NamUs by mistake and that the victim was identified as Carol Reynolds some time ago (unsure of when but before 2011 when she was included in the Kentucky Cold Case playing card deck).

"West said detectives have also gone out of state to interview people who may have information about the case, but have been unable to develop the conclusions needed to make an arrest. Carol Reynolds, a Nashville woman whose body was found May 11, 1992, in a ditch off Upper Dixie Highway in Warren County. Reynolds died from multiple stab wounds and was last seen the night before in Nashville. West said Reynolds’ body was unidentified for some time, but a later review of the case resulted in discovery of evidence that confirmed her identity. “Within the past year, I know that detectives have been to Nashville and done interviews with persons of interest in the case,” said West, adding that he considers persons of interest to be people who are not necessarily suspects, but have information perhaps not previously known to law enforcement.

From article published in 2011: Local authorities hope cards shed light on area cold cases - Bowling Green Daily News

Kentucky State Police: Unsolved Cases - Playing Cards

The official Web page for the Kentucky State Police Unsolved Cases - Playing Cards<.

web.archive.org