NY NY - Dewatering of the American Falls project, John Doe & Jane Doe found, 11 June 1969

[Startover]

When the Falls were turned off remains of two does found 1969

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[Coffee56]

According to Sergeant Dominic Conti of the Niagara Frontier State Parks Police, the man was seen diving into the water of the American channel on Wednesday June 11that about 1:50 p.m. Three visitors at first thought the man was a worker on the dewatering project The man was 20-25 years old with brown hair. He was wearing a green plaid shirt and green pants. The man had walked along the shore until he reached the brink and jumped in.

Police officers: Sergeant Conti, Patrolmen Ronald Tobin, James McNeil and James Gizzarelli, while searching for the man, discovered the badly decomposed body of a woman jammed head first amongst the rocks about half way up talus bank. The woman was clad in a red and white horizontally striped jersey or dress.

During a subsequent post mortem examination, the woman was found to be wearing a narrow gold wedding band with the inscription “forget me not” on the inside. The dewatering project allowed the recovery of the bodies from the talus. This normally would never have been possible. By the of the dewatering of the American Falls, the woman ironically became part of this history and would be remembered forever.

Niagara Falls - Dewatered American Falls (1969)

 

[Startover]

Prehaps the style and colors of Jane Doe clothing Could point to the period of time she was Missing or prehaps where she came from...any possibilites?

 

[devertere]

if she was wearing something resembling a jersey, it sounds like 60's... or at least i think so, based on my understanding of the word (i'm not a native speaker)

 

[MadMcGoo]

First off let me preface this by saying I do NOT know what this style clothing could be. I’m only drawing a conclusion based on what I found on Google. This was a few decades before my time, so jersey means something quite different to me.

The way it’s described, “jersey or dress”, almost makes them seem somewhat interchangeable. Like if we were to see “jacket or coat”. Know what I mean?

The best I could come up with was something like this...

ETA: These styles came up when I searched 1960s fashion, FWIW

 

[killarney rose]

I think at that time that jersey referred to a type of fabric(synthetic) rather than a style of dress.

 

[Melt71]

I can't see any indication these two individuals were ever identified. They are not in Namus that I can see.

 

[Rikissa]

I think at that time that jersey referred to a type of fabric(synthetic) rather than a style of dress.

Clothes in synthetic jersey knit fabric was high fashion in the 1960s, and if the woman had gone missing in the mid-to-late 1960s, then it's possible that the dress might have been quite short. Isn't 'jersey' used for a kind of jumper/top? Maybe the dress was similar to these Mary Quant dresses.

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Check the photo of Mary Quant and the models in this article, one of the models are wearing a brown-and-black horizontally striped dress/jersey.