NY NY - Bronx, Harlem River, Broadway Bridge @ W 225th St, BlkFem 13-20, UP6857, clothes, Apr'96

[Moonwalker9]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Circumstances
TypeUnidentified Deceased
Date FoundApril 8, 1996
NamUs Case CreatedApril 2, 2010
ME/C QA ReviewedApril 3, 2010
Location Found Map
Street AddressHarlem River West 225th St and Broadway BridgeBronx, New York
CountyBronx County
GPS Coordinates40.874065, -73.910651
Circumstances of RecoveryUnknown black female found by a constructions worker floating in Harlem River under the Broadway Bridge at West 225th St. NYPD Harbor Police brought her to Columbia University Boat Launch, where she was pronounced.
Details of Recovery


Inventory of RemainsAll parts recovered
Condition of RemainsNot recognizable - Decomposing/putrefaction
Physical Description
Hair ColorBrown
Head Hair Descriptiondark brown, curly, 6"
Body Hair Description--
Facial Hair Description--
Left Eye ColorBrown
Right Eye ColorBrown
Eye Description--
Distinctive Physical Features
No Known Information



Clothing and Accessories
Item
Description
Clothing
long sleeved hooded sweatshirt, multicolored long sleeve shirt, beige bra, denim blue jeans, jockey underwear
On the Body

Footwear
two pairs white socks, black shoes
On the Body

Jewelry
ring on right ring finger
On the Body

 

[Melt71]

I can't believe someone isn't missing this teenager. Nobody on Black and Missing that seems to suit, no ruleouts in Namus. How disheartening. The sooner NY picks up the pace with genetic genealogy, the better.

 

[cheemsg]

The ring on her ring finger is strange. Married, promise ring, dead mother's ring? The tomboyish clothes don't really strike me as a young bride or the kind of girl who'd wear a promise ring. I know this is just speculation, but could it be mom recently died, she kept her mother's ring, went into foster care, and absconded? NY doesn't keep good records of foster care and probably will have burned any records that were still on paper.

I'll probably be doing a newspaper deep dive on this.

 

[victoriarobinson642]

New NCMEC recons

 

[Beccalicious]

Bumping

 

[Caring1]

Bump

 

[Susikatze]

The ring on her ring finger is strange. Married, promise ring, dead mother's ring? The tomboyish clothes don't really strike me as a young bride or the kind of girl who'd wear a promise ring. I know this is just speculation, but could it be mom recently died, she kept her mother's ring, went into foster care, and absconded? NY doesn't keep good records of foster care and probably will have burned any records that were still on paper.

I'll probably be doing a newspaper deep dive on this.

It is a generic Christian ring, one can buy those everywhere. Her clothes do not strike me as specifically tomboy, they're fairly standard for a teen in this decade. The grunge style was very popular, I think most of my classmates wore similar stuff.

 

[Hochman]

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