Identified! OR - Albany, LIVING woman found disoriented, May'12 - Marcia Rackley

[Salem]

What does he mean that something on the website should have been fixed months ago?

The email address provided by their website doesn't work. I had to search for email addy's to send the report in. He thought it had been fixed

Salem

 

[Salem]

I wish they'd post a photo of her while she is awake! Anyway, you guys are awesome. Keep up the great sleuthing!

Here is the contact info, ScorpiosDaughter: [email protected]
This is the webmaster who will forward your email to the appropriate person (in this case, I guess the sheriff, Tim).

This email address does not work This is what the sheriff is referring to when he says he thought it was fixed months ago.

If you can't wait a few days to see if they get it fixed, try sending to [email protected] That is the sheriff directly.

Salem

 

[Salem]

Florence Dumontet has blue eyes and white hair and is listed as 5 ft tall but her missing info doesn't say anything about having any scars.

Donjeta - do you have a link to Florence? We could compare any pictures.

Salem

 

[Salem]

I'm not sure how to send a tip...? If you think it's worth doing I'll be happy to - just not sure how.

Hi ScorpiosD,

What I did was contact both jurisdictions by way of email and I included links to the articles with the pictures. So, I composed an email to the Linn Co. Sheriff, with a subject line of "unidenfied woman found wandering" and then posted a brief message about Fay from Maine and included the link to the article with Fay's picture. I also included the link to the Gazette article from the first post that has the unidentified woman's picture in it.

Then, I went to the Oxford County, ME sheriff's website for their email. They didn't provide an email contact but they had a "send in a tip" screen. So I clicked on that, filled it in and then just copied and pasted my composed email in the box provided.

Then I actually sent the email off to Linn Co.

Once you do it a time or two, you get the hang of it

Tips may always be called in, but I prefer email. If you prefer the phone, just call the phone numbers provided. Generally, almost always, the voice on the other end of the line is friendly, welcoming and encouraging. So if you are a little nervous, they help you through it. No need to worry about that

Salem

 

[ClaireNC]

Yeah, but when would the last time someone measured her height be? For years I thought I was 5'1". For medical reasons I needed to have my height checked recently and the doctor laughed and said people rarely underestimate their height, apparently I'm 5'2". Yes, that's only one inch, but if they're going by her driver's license or their memory, the height could be wrong. If the woman behind her in the picture with the tie dye is standing on the same level as she is, there is no way she's 5'7" unless the woman behind her is a well over 6'3". Also, is she 5'7" barefoot or in shoes? Even shoes without heels can sometimes add 2" to height, especially anything with work boot soles.

I don't believe heights except on children who regularly see a pediatrician.

JMO

In reading this I realized that the last time my height was measured was probably around 1977, when I graduated from high school. If anybody asks me I still say 5'8", but that is a measurement from a long, long time ago. I have been married to my husband for nearly 3 years now. I bet if somebody asked him my height, he would have no idea. He might say 5'10" or 5'6" depending on how tall he believes he is, I'm about 3 inches shorter. But I don't know if my husband is 6'2" or 5'11". Does that make sense? People don't generally measure their height once they get older.

With that said, I wish somebody can find who this poor woman belongs to. My heart aches for her.

From my experience with some Alzheimer patients or other elderly people with memory problems, when they are talking about things like hitchhiking across the country, it was something they did or somebody they know did when they were young. My uncle, who had a stroke, now often talks to my father in Hungarian. My father and his siblings haven't spoken Hungarian to each other since their parents died in the late 1960's/early 1970's. My MIL also had a stroke and she keeps trying to introduce me to her daughter, but she only ever had 4 sons. Dementia sets in with my MIL when her oxygen gets low and her blood pressure drops. She sometimes forgets to drink water or other hydrating beverages and becomes dehydrated. Dehydration can also lead to delusions, even it its not technically Alzheimer's. At other times she is perfectly fine and totally coherent.

 

[necco]

Yeah. I have a tendency to think all tall men are 6'3", medium men are 5'10" and short guys are 5'6". Since I'm so short, I hate it when someone describes someone to me as tall. Unless you have a show on TLC, you're tall to me. People's perceptions of height are influenced by many things, including how floofy (that so should be a word) a woman's hair is. Someone with poker straight flat hair would be perceived as shorter than someone with a little more air in their hair, as they say.

 

[Donjeta]

Donjeta - do you have a link to Florence? We could compare any pictures.

Salem

https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/show/12803

She has shorter hair in the photo but she's been missing since October last year so the hairstyle might not be current.

 

[necco]

Hey, the woman said she was from Maine, but seemed confused. Could she maybe be from Portland, OR, but misremembered and thought it was Maine?

Also, if she is suffering from Alzheimer's she could be unwinding backward in time, memory wise. In other words, she could have been from Maine at the point her memory has gone back to. She could have hitchhiked to somewhere from Maine in the 1960s. My grandmother used to think I was her sister near the end, because she had unwound to the 1930s or so.

 

[annemc2]

This email address does not work This is what the sheriff is referring to when he says he thought it was fixed months ago.

If you can't wait a few days to see if they get it fixed, try sending to [email protected] That is the sheriff directly.

Salem

Thanks for clearing that up, Salem. You are a superstar! :blushing:

 

[Kimster]

The deputy who is working this case has a link to this thread and will be checking it for everyone's tips.

Thank you all for trying to help Katie find her way home! :grouphug:

 

[deca]

Hey, the woman said she was from Maine, but seemed confused. Could she maybe be from Portland, OR, but misremembered and thought it was Maine?

Also, if she is suffering from Alzheimer's she could be unwinding backward in time, memory wise. In other words, she could have been from Maine at the point her memory has gone back to. She could have hitchhiked to somewhere from Maine in the 1960s. My grandmother used to think I was her sister near the end, because she had unwound to the 1930s or so.

I think this is entirely possible. My experience with Alzheimer's--- both people forgot their names on occasion and one would sometimes make up one (I think he was confused/embarrassed so just made up one). I think is possible that all or part of the info garnered from her is incorrect.

Sad possibility: I wonder if her caretaker, like a husband, just couldn't do it any longer and dropped her off on the side of the road?

 

[Kaliste]

This is just breaking my heart. I keep checking back hoping her family has found her.

 

[Donjeta]

If she's gone back in time the name she gave might be a maiden name too and her last name might have been something different for decades.

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.facebook.com/MissingFayEJohnson

Per Fay's daughter on the Missing: Fay E. Johnson page, this lady is not Fay.



Thanks Salem for following up!

 

[necco]

I wish the 1940 census was searchable by name.

 

[JDB]

I think this is her. Look at the watch. She may have been 5'7" a few years ago? Sometimes as we get older there is shrinkage in the bones.

I think this is her.

Salem

Salem I don't think so Fay missing poster says she has a pacemaker . Which I am sure the doctors in Oregon could tell right away. No mention of a scar on her chest. I think this one two scars might be the key to unlock who she is.

 

[RoseRed]

I spent a few hours looking through NaMUS but did not find anyone that really looks her. There is a Katie Brewer from TX but she has been missing a long time. I wish they had said something about her accent to search a more specific area.

 

[tatertot]

Bless that person who gave her water and then sought help when she poured it out. He or she went the extra mile and considering this woman was so confused, that could have made the difference between her becoming a true unidentified decedent. He or she could have thought, "I gave her water, I helped enough" and thank goodness this individual didn't stop there.

Jane Doe was "well-kept" -- does that mean she appeared to have only recently been on the move, i.e. no sunburn (she looks pale in her photo) or blisters/callouses on her feet? What about her shoes -- did they look worn, like shoes that had been worn outside often, or were they barely dirty, like those of someone who spent most of her time indoors? I assume "well-kept" means she was found in a state of good personal hygiene, whether she had taken care of herself recently or someone had looked after her?

 

[LisaB]

List of different versions of "Catherine"... lots of possible names she could have been given. Given her age, her given name is likely NOT Katie but something more formal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_(given_name)

This is just a gut feeling by looking at her, but she seems of Irish decent. If she is Irish, at her age, she's liable to really be a Mary Catherine or a similar double name, particularly if she's Catholic and/or the oldest girl in the family (as they are traditionally given two names after their grandmothers.)



I wish they would do a linguistic workup of living Jane/John Does. Show them various items like a can of Coke and a foot long sandwich and see what they call them. That would help greatly in narrowing down the origin.

Wow. Other items:
elastic band (rubber band, or gum band?)
shopping bag (bag or sack?)
ski cap (cap, toboggan, or toque?)
What a great idea!

 

[Kaliste]

Nothing new? I was hoping She would be identified and reunited with family quickly.