NC NC - Fuquay Varina, WhtFem 35-45, 474UFNC, burned alive, may be Canadian, bifocals, Apr'68 (Myrtle Holcomb of Florida, born in 1919)

[summergirl1]

CRIME HUNTER: Canadian Jane Doe slain in 1968 remains a mystery | Toronto Sun
Robert Reagan was a local tobacco picker who had done the back-breaking work in Canada as well.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Cosmetics/Hygiene items to include:

• Skin Dew crème for dry skin, overnight medicated cream ($1.25)
• Silk Fashion liquid makeup ($1.75, introduced in 1967) - all manufactured by Helena Rubenstein, NY, NY;
• A glass top with "_ilk of _ntimate" - manufactured by Revlon, which is believed to be Silk of Intimate perfume.
• Some metal tubes or containers which could have been used for lipstick/eyeliner.
• Hair clips and a possible greenish-blue hair net.
• A wire frame for standing make-up mirror and some glass remnants of mirror

Sounds like this guy was a "migrant farm worker"

All of these cosmetics just don't seem to go with someone who would follow a migrant farm worker all the way from Canada!
And they think this because locals didn't recognize her??? She could have been from Raleigh??

Those are not "cheap cosmetics"
Sounds like she was someone who was with the "wrong guy" for whatever reason, but I don't think she met this guy in Canada!

Canadian eh??
Name Robert A Reagan
Sex Male
Age 74y
Death Date Apr 1992
Death Place Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina
Marital Status Widowed
Occupation Carpenter,Home Construct.
Race White
Ethnicity American
Birth Year 1917
Burial Place Fuquay Varina, N. C. (Died where he was born!!)
Cemetery Wake Chapel
Residence Place Apex, Wake, N. C.
Address: Ten Ten Road (Sounds like he didn't go very far at all!!)
Birth Date 1917
Birthplace Person Co., N. C.

(Removed a few details, such as street number and birthdate)

Robert Reagan has been mentioned previously.

 

[Friday Fan]

Robert Reagan has been mentioned previously.

Yes, he's the suspect, but there was a wild Canadian goose chase.


He may have spent some time in Canada, but he was born and died in North Carolina.

She was from Florida.

Sometimes there is a "foreign" link, but all too often, there are quick assumptions about foreign connections when something isn't solved. "Because this woman was a stranger....... it's possible that she came from Canada"

The Toronto Sun even called her "Canadian Jane Doe"

In this case, I don't think his time in Canada was a factor.

Because this woman was a stranger to neighbors, investigators think it is possible that the woman came down from Canada to meet with the suspect.

474UFNC

 

[summergirl1]

She came from Florida, not Canada..

Cold case closure: 1968 murder victim identified using hair sample, DNA technology

The Wake County Sheriff’s Office, in partnership with forensic genealogists and the SBI, used advanced DNA testing on a preserved hair sample to finally identify the victim of a 1968 homicide as Myrtle Holcomb.

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