MA MA - Boston, Neponset Marsh, WhtFem UnkAge, UP16762, 3 rings incl/spoon, bracelets, Mar'82

[Alleykins]

The river is the marsh--it's a tidal estuary. Most of the bodies found in it are dropped off the bridge, but it sounds like she was buried. It's always been popular with organized crime groups. In 1982 and earlier, the Winter Hill gang (Whitey Bulger) disposed of many of their victims there, but she doesn't match any of the known victims.
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Thanks for the information.
What do you make of them being able to discern her eye color? What TOD do you think that might give her? I find it odd they can't establish her age but they are able to tell her eye color.

 

[carbuff]

Thanks for the information.
What do you make of them being able to discern her eye color? What TOD do you think that might give her? I find it odd they can't establish her age but they are able to tell her eye color.

It looks to me like the case was entered from an old and possibly incomplete medical examiner's report.

LE in Massachusetts at that time was both incompetent and corrupt. If her death was thought to be related to the Winter Hill gang, or other organized crime, evidence could have been suppressed or removed. Or it might have simply been lost after that many years.

If they were able to discern an eye color, it can't have been more than a day or so?

Addition: there's a note that some of the information came from an EMS report? So I'm thinking maybe all the crime connections are a red herring and she just drowned or something.

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[Alleykins]

It looks to me like the case was entered from an old and possibly incomplete medical examiner's report.

LE in Massachusetts at that time was both incompetent and corrupt. If her death was thought to be related to the Winter Hill gang, or other organized crime, evidence could have been suppressed or removed. Or it might have simply been lost after that many years.

If they were able to discern an eye color, it can't have been more than a day or so?

Addition: there's a note that some of the information came from an EMS report? So I'm thinking maybe all the crime connections are a red herring and she just drowned or something.

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So it's possible the EMS and other reports are just incomplete, it sounds like.

 

[carbuff]

There are two exclusions:

Margaret Chapin
Leadell Lincoln


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[carbuff]

There are two exclusions:

Margaret Chapin
Leadell Lincoln


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Updated link: Unidentified Person Case

No new ruleouts.

 

[carbuff]

No new exclusions. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Last winter there was some discussion about reviving some Massachusetts cold cases. This woman was one of the ones mentioned. But I don't think anything ever came of it. Nothing that made it into the media anyway.

 

[DS2021]

Rule outs as of April 21st 2022

Margaret Chapin
Leadell Lincoln
MP2779 Simone Ridinger 09/02/1977 Middlesex MA

 

[Alleykins]

Rule outs as of April 21st 2022

Margaret Chapin
Leadell Lincoln
MP2779 Simone Ridinger 09/02/1977 Middlesex MA

Glad to see Simone was ruled out. I had mentioned the possible match to the sheriff investigating her case, so it's good to see they pursued it, even if it turned out not to be her.