Identified! OH - Toledo, WhtFem 16-21, 335UFOH, burned, 5 pearl studs per ear, Jun'87 - Tammy Lowe

[othram]

We are really grateful to The Porchlight Project for funding our work in this case. Without their support, the case would have not been solved.

 

[Alleykins]

We are really grateful to The Porchlight Project for funding our work in this case. Without their support, the case would have not been solved.

Thank you for all you do, @othram

 

[MrsWatson]

Burned body found in 1987 in Ohio identified as missing Wayne County teen

The burned remains of a woman found in Toledo in 1987 have been identified as a missing woman from Taylor.

www.clickondetroit.com

 

[Bounceycat]

Glad Tammy got her name back. Do we know if anyone ever reported her missing? 18 is heartbreakingly young.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[beubeubeu]

Anyone saw anything what could be considered as the source of this?

"Lowe was last seen in the first week of June 1987 by her younger sister in Detroit, Michigan. Lowe's sister stated that she and Lowe were at a local drug dealer's house and she managed to escape, but Lowe was still there and forcibly being administered drugs by at least one person. Despite the suspicious circumstances of her disappearance and being reported missing twice by her grandmother, the police never formally recorded Lowe as a missing person. At the time, Lowe's sister lived with their grandmother and younger brother in Taylor, Michigan, where Lowe herself would sometimes reside."

It's from her unidentified wiki page.
I guess it was impossible to test and tell how badly was she SA'd before or while she was being murdered. Just my opinion that she was and that was the reason why they went so far with concealing her identity.

 

[Danglingcarkeys]

Anyone saw anything what could be considered as the source of this?


It's from her unidentified wiki page.
I guess it was impossible to test and tell how badly was she SA'd before or while she was being murdered. Just my opinion that she was and that was the reason why they went so far with concealing her identity.

Someone in the edit history of her page claims (emphasis on claims) he is her nephew, so it could be from him. The edit history is a bit confusing tho, he may've not been the one to add that section. Inline citations are rarely used on the wiki as there's more emphasis on linking approved sources.

Edit: Forgot to mention, most sections are made up of information from multiple articles making it difficult to inline cite unless you were the one who added the info.

 

[The4TierBridge]

Someone in the edit history of her page claims (emphasis on claims) he is her nephew, so it could be from him. The edit history is a bit confusing tho, he may've not been the one to add that section. Inline citations are rarely used on the wiki as there's more emphasis on linking approved sources.

That user has uploaded a bunch of scanned photos of her that weren’t available before so I’m inclined to believe him.

 

[beubeubeu]

Thanks, I thought I my be missing some parts of linked articles cause of paywall or some kind of error.

Not sure if I can discuss it as a source here but I sure don't believe drug addicts or some random people witnessing overdose would go farther than:
a) running away,
b) dumping a body relatively close to where accident happened,
c) attempting to hide a body few miles away.

Nobody is putting a plastic bag over somebody's head and trying to burn the body if what they're hiding isn't much worse than what it looks like. In my opinion.
Overdose is already the best way of hiding a murder so they had to hide much more than murder. Again, in my opinion.