Identified! OH - Troy, Miami Co., 'Buckskin Girl' WhtFem 133UFOH, 15-25, Apr'81 - Marcia King

[Owutatangledweb]

I just happen to come across this photo that is in a series of photos belonging to the photographer David Graham

the girl in the photo reminded me of Buckskin Girl I thought I would share..

the caption is.. Jeannine and the Lewis's Pocatello ID 1981
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/artists/david-graham?view=slider#12

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wow!!!

 

[FigTree]

hec60504 - I love that photo - its a great representation of the time s and the styles.
Thanks for the upload.
Owutatangledweb - yes, that broad forehead and chiselled nose - certainly there's a distinction between the two.
Nice find,

 

[KaylaraOwl]

That really, really looks like her. Maybe you can contact David Graham and ask about the picture?

 

[dotr]

This may have been brought up before, but this home for "troubled " girls had a few escapees. This UID female is suspected to have come from there.
What caught my attention is how she was dressed and that a name was written on her shoes as required by the institution.Could that be why Buckskin was not wearing footwear, because they would identify her?
speculation, imo.

Lengthy series of articles.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/02/detectives_turn_to_new_bethany.html
February 09, 2015

Detectives turn to New Bethany Home for Girls in search of leads in woman's 1981 death

Her stab-pocked body was found in the woods off a public logging trail in north Louisiana on Jan. 28, 1981. She was in her late teens or early 20s and had been dead for four to six weeks, a coroner determined. There were scribbles on her sneakers, including a name written on the inside: "D. Davies." It looked like she had removed the braces from her teeth.

In 34 years, no one has identified the body of the 5-foot-6 blonde found off Louisiana Highway 157. But now Bossier Parish law enforcement officials are investigating a potential link between the woman they now call "Bossier Doe" and a notorious girls home 40 miles away.

Open from 1971 to 2001, New Bethany marketed itself as a boarding school for troubled girls. Youth came from across the country, some court-ordered, others by request of parents or guardians. Bienville Parish law enforcement and nearby residents became accustomed to encountering runaways from the strict, Independent Fundamentalist Baptist home, located behind barbed wire fences in a rural area off of Louisiana Highway 9.

To date, law enforcement has found no indication anyone by this young woman's description was ever reported missing. It's well-established that many of the girls of New Bethany were often disconnected from their families -- either by force of the school's rules, by circumstance that led them there, or both

Some additional details about the victim: She was found fully clothed, wearing a belt with a large buffalo nickel buckle, which was looped through size 32-30 Levi blue jeans. She also wore a long-sleeved white shirt with buttons, a tan cardigan sweater and men's white briefs. Her fingernails were painted with polish, but she had no other distinguishing accessories.

"No jewelry, no ID, nothing," Mack said

rbbm.

 

[FigTree]

This may have been brought up before, but this home for "troubled " girls had a few escapees. This UID female is suspected to have come from there.
What caught my attention is how she was dressed and that a name was written on her shoes as required by the institution.Could that be why Buckskin was not wearing footwear, because they would identify her?
speculation, imo. .

Hi dotr-
that's a really good point about the shoes.
Whats also interesting is the men's jeans and men's white briefs -
It would not surprise me at all that the Bethany Home has no records of her - purposefully. Nor that they would have owned up to the girl being from there if her records had been falsified.
There was so much of this going on in so many Childrens care establishments

After reading some of the articles related to the case you quoted has me enraged.
No charges and the guy walked away from it all with the help of the law.
Utterly contemptible.

 

[WyomingSkyAngel]

She could have just been pushed around and roughed up a lot and finally strangled to cause her death. The skin on the face and head is very delicate and as with skin over bony parts, will split easily. What looks like a pattern of an instrument hitting a head may not be so. Her lacerated liver could also be caused by being shoved hard against something. It reminded me of some years ago Eric Davis of the Cincinnat Reds ran hard into centerfield wall and lacerated his liver. Played a few games before it was discovered. Her clothing looks very clean for having such injuries and being roughed up. Wonder if she was dressed after being killed possibly even in someone else's clothing, then dumped. I wonder if it looked like she was placed carefully face down or just hastily dumped. I lean towards her being in an activity requiring fitness like the barrel racing for example, or somehow being involved in running drugs. She could have been a girlfriend of a distributor, etc. The Dallas Ft. Worth area has been and is a hub for many big drug operations. For her to be travelling back and forth there apparently from the northeast area of the country within a year also raises that question in my mind. It doesn't matter her occupation other than to discover who she is. The brutality committed against her and discarding of her lifeless body is horrendous no matter! It sure would be nice to see her file and autopsy notes. If LE is losing funding for cold cases it would seem sharing with public would bring more leads and possibly solving this. As they say, somebody knows something.

Thank you for sharing this. I hesitated to mention this because it sounds terrible but if she was involved with bikers & drug running her death is not shocking to me. Women are (usually) treated quite badly in biker culture.....& heavy drug abuse is common enough among bikers. Young girlfriend + hotheaded coked up biker + argument on the road= DV murder by beating. I heard of as bad or worse from my native neck of the woods.

I now feel like the best shot to find her ID is to exhume her for DNA & find relatives. It's not too late to find people who will remember her.

 

[LucyOso]

Thank you for sharing this. I hesitated to mention this because it sounds terrible but if she was involved with bikers & drug running her death is not shocking to me. Women are (usually) treated quite badly in biker culture.....& heavy drug abuse is common enough among bikers. Young girlfriend + hotheaded coked up biker + argument on the road= DV murder by beating. I heard of as bad or worse from my native neck of the woods.

I now feel like the best shot to find her ID is to exhume her for DNA & find relatives. It's not too late to find people who will remember her.

BBM. I agree with this. Woman were and are objects in many ways in the culture. Even something like an accidental injury, could result in a "mercy" type killing that led to body dumping. Avoiding authorities at all costs. I met someone who picked up a gal hitchhiking on his motorcycle in the 1980s. They got in an accident and she was pretty bad off with a head injury. He righted his bike and drove off. He justified he did all he could by calling the cops anonymously from a payphone once way down the road...I don't get that mentality at all. And it didn't seem to bother him that he never found out what happened to her, if she survived, who she was, etc. She was an inconvenient object once the cops might get involved. I doubt BG fell off a bike getting a head injury, but it would be interesting to know if the head wound was fatal in itself or survivable. But, yes, that sort of thing happens...getting dumped by the side of the road. There can be a lot of domestic violence. Thats for sure. That's why, when I posted earlier on a woman who didn't match eye colour and height, we could be looking at a similar story.

 

[LucyOso]

I just happen to come across this photo that is in a series of photos belonging to the photographer David Graham

the girl in the photo reminded me of Buckskin Girl I thought I would share..

the caption is.. Jeannine and the Lewis's Pocatello ID 1981
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/artists/david-graham?view=slider#12

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I wonder where he took those. She might have a regional phenotypical look that we can narrow down...

 

[AggieLou]

Thank you for sharing this. I hesitated to mention this because it sounds terrible but if she was involved with bikers & drug running her death is not shocking to me. Women are (usually) treated quite badly in biker culture.....& heavy drug abuse is common enough among bikers. Young girlfriend + hotheaded coked up biker + argument on the road= DV murder by beating. I heard of as bad or worse from my native neck of the woods.

I now feel like the best shot to find her ID is to exhume her for DNA & find relatives. It's not too late to find people who will remember her.

I had the thought they need to exhume her too. I thought at one point an article in the media said they may but I don't know how accurate that was. I haven't heard locally anything further. I also read in media they took samples from inside jacket but have not heard further on that either. With nothing concrete to go on at least something like where she is from originally, it is really tough going. If she was in some type of care system it will be even harder to figure out. But her apparent good care during her life and good personal hygiene and grooming don't seem to fit. But there are always exceptions.

 

[Treelights]

I wonder where he took those. She might have a regional phenotypical look that we can narrow down...

Pocatello, Idaho?

IMOO.

 

[Alleykins]

I don't think they exhumed BG to do the isotopes, because they used hair and nail samples, not bone and teeth. I'm thinking those were evidence samples they used because they had them on hand. I wish they had exhumed her for the bone/teeth because that would have gone further back in time to where she was born and raised, where the hair/nail results only paint a more recent picture of her whereabouts.

 

[Dr.Strangelove]

I wonder where he took those. She might have a regional phenotypical look that we can narrow down...

According to this article it is Iowa. But ir seems from what i gathered if the woman in the photo is Jeanine, Jeanine is his wife.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles...ntsocial&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

 

[Treelights]

According to this article it is Iowa. But ir seems from what i gathered if the woman in the photo is Jeanine, Jeanine is his wife.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles...ntsocial&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Do you mean Idaho??

 

[Dr.Strangelove]

Do you mean Idaho??

Yes sorry

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[madamx]

yes Treelights your right the photo is captioned Idaho and the caption also reads Jeanine and the Lewis's . I am assuming Jeanine would be the girl and the The Lewis's is the older couple. Captions usually are from left to right.

Do you mean Idaho??

 

[madamx]

wow.. this is the first time I am reading about this..

This may have been brought up before, but this home for "troubled " girls had a few escapees. This UID female is suspected to have come from there.
What caught my attention is how she was dressed and that a name was written on her shoes as required by the institution.Could that be why Buckskin was not wearing footwear, because they would identify her?
speculation, imo.

Lengthy series of articles.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/02/detectives_turn_to_new_bethany.html
February 09, 2015






rbbm.

 

[folieadeuxnola]

wow.. this is the first time I am reading about this..

That UID has been identified, she was from Michigan and was not associated with the home. However there could be homes that followed the name on the shoe process it is a thought thou.

Carol Cole

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/03/34-year-old_cold_case_victim_i.html




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[Dr.Strangelove]

I did some looking into and it appears Jeanine passed away a few years ago so it isn't her. But the resemblance is uncanny

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[Finders]

The biker theory leaves me wondering why she didn't have shoes on. In April in Ohio, I think one would only take shoes off indoors. Either inside a building (house/hotel/motel) or a truck cab.

 

[Irish_Eyes]

The biker theory leaves me wondering why she didn't have shoes on. In April in Ohio, I think one would only take shoes off indoors. Either inside a building (house/hotel/motel) or a truck cab.

I'm fairly certain that police believe she was dumped there but not killed there due to lividity and what not. I had thought biker possibly at first too. But I just can't imagine transporting a body by motorcycle.