NV NV - Pershing Co, 'Valerie Doe' WhtFem 25-50, UP7635, in desert, May'91

[MadMcGoo]

I found this year book picture of Valerie Pryor on Ancestry.
Name: Valerie Pryor
Yearbook Date: 1985
School: David Douglas High School
School Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Grade Completed: Sophomore

The location, and timeline seem to match as she went missing February 2, 1989, and was 19 according to NAMUS. So possibly this yearbook picture was taken when she was fifteen?

This looks very promising (despite the ages)! Good resemblance and hard to look past the name. I’d submit this if you haven’t already.

Here’s her thread for reference.
OR - OR - Valerie Pryor, 32, Colton, 2 Feb 1989

 

[Alioops]

This looks very promising (despite the ages)! Good resemblance and hard to look past the name. I’d submit this if you haven’t already.

Here’s her thread for reference.
OR - OR - Valerie Pryor, 32, Colton, 2 Feb 1989

I just found this information on the Oregon State Police site, she wasn't reported missing for 13 years. When a report was actually filed she would have been 32.

Oregon State Police : Missing Persons : Missing Persons : State of Oregon

 

[Romulus]

 

[ChatteringBirds]

A few years ago someone on Mary Jane Milam's thread wondered if she could be a possibility for this UID.
OK - OK - Mary Jane Milam, Clinton, 41, January 22, 1991

 

[carbuff]

Timeline works. Circumstances seem to point to spousal murder, and if they were driving, he could have left the body anywhere.

Wonder why Alaska State Troopers are the investigating agency?

 

[imstilla.grandma]

387UFNV - Unidentified Female

Reconstructions of the victim by Barbara Martin-Bailey; victim's jewelry.

Date of Discovery: May 26, 1991
Location of Discovery: Black Rock Desert, Pershing County, Nevada
Estimated Date of Death: 1987-1991
State of Remains: Partial skeletal
Cause of Death: Homicide by gunshot

Physical Description
Estimated Age: 25-35 years old
Race: White
Sex: Female
Height: 5'1" to 5'3"
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown

Identifiers
Dentals: Available.
Fingerprints: Not available.
DNA: Available.

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: KIKKU brand denim jeans which was manufactured in England and which bore a waist size of 30 inches; a Stage brand black blouse which was manufactured in Turkey and which read "one size fits all"; a dark colored camisole slip.
Jewelry: Yellow-metal bracelet with the name "Valerie" was buried with the remains. Also found was a bracelet in the shape of a sea serpent and having an abalone inlay.
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Discovery
The victim, nicknamed "Valerie Doe," was located in Pershing County, Nevada on May 25, 1991 in a shallow grave by three travelers in the Black Rock Desert.

She had been shot one or more times in the head before she was buried.

Two anthropologists who examined the woman's remains came to different conclusions about her age. The first estimated she was 25 to 35 and the second concluded she was between her 40s and 50s.

Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Washoe County Regional Medical Examiner's Office
Agency Contact Person: Marika Morris
Agency Phone Number: 775-785-6114
Agency E-Mail: mmorriss(at)washoecounty.us
Agency Case Number: 0580-91

NCIC Case Number: U496954015
NamUs Case Number: 7635

Information Source(s)
NamUs
Washoe County Coroner (archived)
Nevada Department of Public Safety (archived)
387UFNV

 

[AguaFlorida2001]

Any updates? A ruleout list perhaps?
I'm having a hard time believing Valerie Pryor could NOT be this unidentified person. JMO MOO YMMV

 

[Myrrh]

Any updates? A ruleout list perhaps?
I'm having a hard time believing Valerie Pryor could NOT be this unidentified person. JMO MOO YMMV

Here's the current rule out list in NamUs

 

[Sugarvixtim]

Here's the current rule out list in NamUs
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This looks very promising (despite the ages)! Good resemblance and hard to look past the name. I’d submit this if you haven’t already.

Here’s her thread for reference.
OR - OR - Valerie Pryor, 32, Colton, 2 Feb 1989

I worked closely on this case for several years. A few items to pass along. The Department of Safety with the remains of Valerie Doe has lost them. UNR was willing to prepare the bones for DNA extraction at no cost to the police department. I reached out to the original forensic artist to create an updated sketch, and DPS refused to work with them. Unfortunately, until the remains are located, DNA cannot be extracted for DNA rule outs

 

[Sugarvixtim]

I worked closely on this case for several years. A few items to pass along. The Department of Safety with the remains of Valerie Doe has lost them. UNR was willing to prepare the bones for DNA extraction at no cost to the police department. I reached out to the original forensic artist to create an updated sketch, and DPS refused to work with them. Unfortunately, until the remains are located, DNA cannot be extracted for DNA rule outs

You could say I definitely was disliked by the agency for calling them out.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I worked closely on this case for several years. A few items to pass along. The Department of Safety with the remains of Valerie Doe has lost them. UNR was willing to prepare the bones for DNA extraction at no cost to the police department. I reached out to the original forensic artist to create an updated sketch, and DPS refused to work with them. Unfortunately, until the remains are located, DNA cannot be extracted for DNA rule outs

So they didn't get DNA when they ruled out Valerie Larkin? Do you know how they ruled her out?

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Does anyone have an opinion about this missing woman as a possibility?

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

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

www.namus.gov

Katharina K.
Date of Last Contact: July 16, 1985
Missing From: Las Vegas, Nevada
Missing Age: 27 Years
Height: 5' 0" - 5' 1" (60
-Blonde hair not a match, though.

( Jane Doe found in NV,
Estimated Date of Death: Between 1987 and 1991, Estimated age: 25 - 50 years old, Approximate Height and Weight: 5'1" - 5'3", Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair)

 

[EuropeanSearcher]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

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

www.namus.gov

Ever tested?

 

[summergirl1]

Probably nothing to do with this case, but the link has nothing there now. So was this woman found or identified?

Michelle Marie Garcia – The Charley Project

21 year old missing from Los Angeles since late 1986. Not many details. She may use the last name Viveros or the name Valerie Monge.

I was able to find through ancestry records that she had a sister named Valerie Ann Viveros who died in LA in 1979 at the age of 18. The bracelet/anklet could have been hers. She has 2 living siblings as far as I can tell. There’s one public family tree on ancestry whose owner’s last name is Monge. I’m going to assume that’s Michelle’s daughter, seeing as how the tree lists a living spouse and child. I’m still looking...
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[HopeRains]

I'm not finding any articles on this lady. I have seen/read a bit on the Black Rock Desert and can provide the following:

* articles of the time indicate the population in Gerlach was less then 500, with a visitor standing outside downtown and waiting to see how long it was before a car passed - 26 minutes (I think this may have been a high school basketball night )
* people primarily come to the area to visit/experience the desert, geysers, perhaps travel with the Sierra Club across pioneer "trails"
* big event of the time was high school basketball, a local restaurant with really good Italian food, the town's long journey to getting the hot springs opened back up, and hunting when season began
* there is no "easy way" to get there - Interstate 80 is closest and I guess side roads, then desert-riding vehicles
* the desert is managed by the Bureau of Land Management
* noting as indicated below, Gerlach is last gas stop
* there was railroad work going on in the area with workers coming from surrounding states
* there is mining in the area

 

[HopeRains]

 

[ReDReq]

I would like to know about the up-to-date info of whom has been so far ruled out.

Also what has crossed my mind is, what if no one has reported her missing?

 

[ReDReq]

Okay, decided to bring in of few alternatives - which I so far found, that could fit the criteria on how they look. First one is

Lora Leigh McIntyre

Missing Person / NamUs #MP26174

View NamUs missing person case MP26174 for Lora Leigh McIntire missing from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Date of last contact: Mar 08, 1990. NCMEC case number: --.

namus.nij.ojp.gov

I know she is a bit far away originally, but she could fit the criteria otherwise. Extremely due how she did vanish.

Next one on the list doesn't fit every criteria either, because of her height - and possibility of the UID would have brown hair. (Did they actually find her hair? and I don't think they necessarily tests to see her genomes...)

Tina Louise Layton

Tina Louise Layton – The Charley Project

It's not only her side profile that fits here, but also the vulnerability of working as working girl, as well as some knowledge of Nevada (Las Vegas), and she might have passed of the area or knew in the past.

Tina Darlene Walls

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-main.html?id=5227DFMS

I know her distance is bit far, but since her date of missing is unclear, who knows. I believe she has a thread? if someone, more quicker than I could kindly post it too. Pretty please?

All of these are by the observations, which I could make from the sketch vs people. And knowing that drawing noses are hard on skeletal remains. I am thinking of trying to perhaps clean up the sketch a bit, not much - since I can only see partially how she drew her originally over the skull.

 

[ReDReq]

Okay, I did some digging around with the dragon bracelet. It is like others mentioned, but finding it... it's about impossible, unless someone else possess similar. However I found something, and apologise for lack of links! But I am giving you the keywords with what others can look for around.

If you try to find abalone inlay dragon jewellery, vintage or current, you can get pretty much a lot of chinese made, often very intrigate designs bangles and so. Thus I decided to go further and decided to look for abalone inlay vintage jewellery, during 1940s to 1980s. This opened a new territory, and possible more plausible location, from where it might have come from.

So first of all, this type of jewellery has been popular and I guess still is? I might be a she, but my knowledge of what's popular is bit off. Also being European do not help that much either. Anyway, back to the subject at hand. I noticed an abundance of handmade jewellery on this section, and it lead me to Mexico. I admit, that I am not that acknowledged about how popular going to Mexico was around 1960 to 1989. But lots of style imitating the dragon bangle shown (often made of brass and silver.) can be found. So could it be plausible, that she visited in Mexico and bought the bangle - or someone else did buy it for her? or it was brought as a souvenir perhaps?

But this is thing, which I am aware of (plus after reading multiple missing persons pages), but it seems fantasy creatures (suchs as unicorns) seemed to be really popular among young adults in jewellery and otherwise. Also the "New Age" kind of life was really in. So could this explain at least plausible origin of one of her jewellery?

Any thoughts?