Identified! OH - Columbus, WhtFem, 16-25, 'Mary Rose Doe', Jul'83 - Sharon Bowen

[Roselvr]

I see a resemblance, especially the nose and the mouth.. the eyes look different but we know how some reconstructions can be.. You should turn it in Carl, maybe she was decomposed to the point where the tattoo wasn't noticable.

I agree; it should be turned in

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[CarlK90245]

and when looking at the reconstruction, remember that it was based on a body that had been in the water for about a week. There had to have been very significant bloating and bulging of the eyes. And it is very difficult for a forensic artist to estimate how much bloat to remove to get to what the person looked like in life.

All along, I've thought that the eyes in the recon look too big in proportion to the rest of her face, and I suspected that Mary Rose Doe's face probably wasn't so pudgy. So if you take the recon using basically the same facial structure, make her face less pudgy, and her eyes a little smaller, she looks very much like Kimberly Blackburn.

I made those modifications to the recon without changing the basic shape of her face, just to see what she would look like. I also pulled the part of her hair over to her left like Kimberly did. (of course, if MRD was in the water for a week, we wouldn't know where she parted her hair).

 

[Irish_Eyes]

I know it makes a lot less since for a host of reasons but when I see Kimberly's face I immediately think of the Lake Pontchartrain Jane Doe.

This is a good likeness too though, and Indianapolis to Columbus is very logical.

 

[CarlK90245]

I just received a call from Cathy Justice of the Columbus OH Homicide Cold Case unit regarding my possible match of Kimberly Blackburn to Mary Rose Doe.

She said that Mary Rose Doe has recently been ID'd and they are now trying to locate the woman's next of Kin, but she said that Mary Rose Doe is not Kimberly Blackburn.

She says that the person was not local, and was not listed in NamUs. But they will do a press release as soon as they locate NOK.

 

[Irish_Eyes]

I just received a call from Cathy Justice of the Columbus OH Homicide Cold Case unit regarding my possible match of Kimberly Blackburn to Mary Rose Doe.

She said that Mary Rose Doe has recently been ID'd and they are now trying to locate the woman's next of Kin, but she said that Mary Rose Doe is not Kimberly Blackburn.

She says that the person was not local, and was not listed in NamUs. But they will do a press release as soon as they locate NOK.

Wow. Quite amazing. I'm so glad she has been identified! Her case has stayed with me for all this time.

 

[mikkismom]

Sharon Rae Bowen

Woman Found Strangled Near Hoover Dam In 1983 Identified

http://www.nbc4i.com/story/24409739/woman-found-strangled-near-hoover-dam-in-1983-identified

 

[vermontaigne]

The woman was found on July 2, 1983, but it was not known who she was until December 2013. She had only been referred to as 'Jane Doe' or 'Mary Rose Doe.'

Columbus Police say last month they determined that the victim was Sharon Rae Bowen. Bowen was 28 when she was killed, according to police.

Bowen had been missing from Salt Lake City, Utah. Her partially decomposed body was discovered on the north side of Hoover Dam by fishermen.

Authorities say Bowen was finally identified by a "tin print" card that had her fingerprints on it. The card was discovered on microfilm.

Police are currently working with detectives from Utah to locate family members of Bowen.

http://www.nbc4i.com/story/24409739/woman-found-strangled-near-hoover-dam-in-1983-identified

Have no idea what this means.

 

[grateful1]

So from Utah to Ohio? I am interested to hear more details as to how she got to Columbus

 

[vermontaigne]

Can't paste in the side-by-side sketch with the photos (at least one of which was probably taken from here, Utah State U's 1969 yearbook, p.91) yet (they're at that first link in this thread), but her reconstructive sketch shows that extremely long distance from the bottom of the nose to the upper lip that I find so unlikely in the Fond du Lac Jane Doe sketch, which is why I'm so much more partial to Carl's reconstruction.

 

[KateB]

http://wcmh.images.worldnow.com/images/24409739_BG1.jpg

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums... 002/e56f3631-56b3-49de-9611-b81ea25a0f20.jpg

http://www.nbc4i.com/story/24409739/woman-found-strangled-near-hoover-dam-in-1983-identified

RIP Sharon.

 

[deca]

Not only far from home...but outside the city as well. Even now Hoover Reservoir isn't surrounded by homes or anything.
Rest in Peace.

 

[Irish_Eyes]

http://www.nbc4i.com/story/24409739/woman-found-strangled-near-hoover-dam-in-1983-identified

Have no idea what this means.

Wonder if that's a typo and should have been "ten print"

 

[vermontaigne]

Ohio detectives contacted Salt Lake City detectives a week ago and asked about a missing person report, according to Salt Lake City Police detective Veronica Montoya.

The Ohio police recently received a hit on one of their data bases of a partial fingerprint that lead them to believe their unidentified body was missing person, Sharon Rae Bowen.

A record keeper in the Salt Lake City Police Department searched the files of Sharon Rae Bowen and sent the Ohio police a fingerprint card. The fingerprints matched and Ohio police confirmed that their unidentified person was Bowen.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=28304534

That's some pretty good sleuthing. Kudos to the detectives. I'm sure Columbus keeps them busy.

Lots more here: http://m.sltrib.com/sltrib/mobile3/57379484-219/bowen-bateman-police-justice.html.csp

 

[Irish_Eyes]

Here is a video story from WSYX with some local reaction:

http://abc6onyourside.com/shared/ne...eak-cold-case-murder-28543.shtml#.UtHsdiiyPzI

 

[vermontaigne]

Some aspects of this case remind me of Paula Beverly Davis.

 

[Roselvr]

Decent article here; clarifying decent; it gives more insight although I believe some "facts" are wrong according to the comments. Either the divorce was her parents or her own which should read 10 months ago; not years. Edit- if you watch the video; she was 28. I wonder if they will try to figure out who killed her

Body of SLC woman missing since 1982 identified in Ohio

Ohio detectives contacted Salt Lake City detectives a week ago and asked about a missing person report, according to Salt Lake City Police detective Veronica Montoya. The Ohio police recently received a hit on one of their data bases of a partial fingerprint that lead them to believe their unidentified body was missing person, Sharon Rae Bowen....

Bowen was reported missing by her family in December 1982. Almost seven months later, two fishermen found her unidentified body near the Hoover Dam reservoir in Blendon Township, Ohio in 1983. It appeared that she had been strangled to death.

"I kept thinking she's out there somewhere and I tried and I wanted to find her," said Bowen's sister, Marsha Bateman.

Bateman said the last time she had seen her sister was when Bowen was 25 years old living with their parents. Bateman believes Bowen was still emotionally recovering from a divorce that happened about 10 years prior. Bateman said one day, Bowen just left.

"She had gone to California to stay with our older brother, and stayed with him for a couple weeks," Bateman said. "And he wanted to bring her home to Utah and she wouldn't come. And so she says, 'I just want you to take me up to the highway' and so he did and gave her $50 and that was the last time he saw her."

Bowen's family wasn't sure where she had traveled to until police officers called them to inform them that Bowen had been stabbed in the abdomen in Texas.

Bateman said their family asked Bowen if would come home and she refused. They never heard from her again.

 

[vermontaigne]

Decent article here; clarifying decent; it gives more insight although I believe some "facts" are wrong according to the comments. Either the divorce was her parents or her own which should read 10 months ago; not years. Edit- if you watch the video; she was 28. I wonder if they will try to figure out who killed her.

Yeah, the divorce was her own, according to the second of the two links I posted upthread. She lost custody of her son. That was a little unusual then, and suggests that she might already been alcoholic. She went to her parents' to try to get herself together, did a stint in rehab (which her siblings seem not to have known about; maybe her parents didn't, either). She left the rehab facility, saying that she was going to the mall to shop, didn't come back. She went to visit a brother in California for a bit. He offered to buy her a ticket home, but she insisted he drop her where she could hitchhike. The last her parents hear from her, she's put in contact with them from a hospital in TX, where she's been treated for a stab wound to the abdomen. Her parents offer to fly her home, and she refuses. That's the last time they hear from her.

These were obviously parents and siblings who cared a lot for her, and would have helped her any way they could. It seems, if what was also reported upthread about toxicology discovering that she'd had a blood alcohol of .32 when murdered is true, that she was ashamed about her alcoholism, felt unworthy of help, and wanted to 'spare' them the trouble of dealing with her issues. Which, naturally, caused them enormous heartache, instead.

 

[Redwood146]

Sadly alcoholism makes many good people make bad choices. I hope you have found peace Sharon.

 

[Richard]

Sharon Orton Bowen

LINK:
Sharon Orton (Bowen) (Deceased), Clearfield, UT Utah

 

[30Anne]

Thank you for the link Richard . She certainly had striking eyes