Identified! OR - Sweet Home - 'Swamp Mountain Doe' - Am Ind/Native/WhtFem 18-40 - UP7765 - Jul'76 Marion McWhorter

[its.evey]

Unfortunately with skeletal remains, often all you can tell from teeth, growth plates, and all the other clues is "fully adult, but younger than when arthritis and wear start to make their mark." But I've always felt like she was probably at the younger end of the age range--no evidence for that, just a gut feeling and probably wrong.

Hopefully we won't have to wait too much longer to find out who she is.

I feel like she is on the younger side as well. Due to the recon and her clothing.

 

[onceuponadecember]

I feel like she is on the younger side as well. Due to the recon and her clothing.

Agreed.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Could it be a match?

Barbara Ann Bryson – The Charley Project

 

[John/Jane Doe]

I also see a resemblance to Bonita Bickwit

Bonita Mara Bickwit – The Charley Project

 

[onceuponadecember]

I also see a resemblance to Bonita Bickwit

Bonita Mara Bickwit – The Charley Project

I don’t think it’s Bonita, it seems like she probably drowned alongside her boyfriend, sadly.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Some possibilities based on the new recon, since NAMUS now says that the phenotyping found with 96.5% accuracy that her eyes would have been brown or hazel:
Edna Christine Thorne, PA, 6/24/1975 (she's blonde in the photo, but NAMUS says her hair was naturally brown)

Bonita Mara Bickwit, NY, 7/27/1973

Dorothy Mildred Clitheroe, AZ, 9/20/1973

Denise Kathleen Anderson, CA, 4/13/1971

ETA:
Iris Leslie Brown, VT, 3/15/1976

Hoping she gets her name back soon.

I think it would be worth sending Bonita Mara Bickwit, even though she probably drowned with her boyfriend but I still see that she looks a lot like Jane Doe

 

[John/Jane Doe]

What do you think?

Bonita Mara Bickwit – The Charley Project
762UFOR

 

[its.evey]

What do you think?

Bonita Mara Bickwit – The Charley Project
762UFOR

Yea side profile is definitely similar to one another. I would submit if I were you.

 

[theshadow45]

Swamp Mountain Jane Doe has been unidentified for 45 years today.

 

[JeffManzanita]

Has anyone considered Elaine Faye Lehtinen? She was 5 feet tall. Her remains were never located, She vanished about 5 weeks before Swamp Mountain Jane Doe's remains were located. She was from Tucson originally. The Thunderbird design is used by the native people there. I have a suspect from the SF Bay Area, who would have driven that road many times in his life, and still did occasionally at the time Jane's remains were found. I can't say anything more, since it is an active case again.

 

[carbuff]

Lehtinen's Charley Project page: Elaine Faye Lehtinen – The Charley Project

I'm pretty sure she's on Namus and Doenetwork as well but I don't have time to look the links up right now.

 

[Captain Beck]

I don’t think Elaine Faye Lehtinen is a match because of the distance and, above all, the state of the remains and PMI. She disappeared about a month before the remains were found.
If I were to guess, I think Elaine Faye Lehtinen is closer to her home.

Lehtinen is originally a Finnish name, by the way.

 

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

Currently Rule-Outs as of 6/16/2021:
Denise Sheehy 07/07/1970 Queens NY
Lynda Hanley 11/04/1971 Providence RI
Karen Lee 05/26/1977 Washington OR
Vicki Hollar 08/20/1973 Lane OR
Georgann Hawkins 06/11/1974 King WA
Debra Pscholka 06/05/1971 Riverside CA
Niki Britten 07/16/1969 Linn OR
Virginia Erickson 10/21/1973 Linn OR
Rita Jolly 06/29/1973 Clackamas OR
Martha Morrison 09/01/1974 Multnomah OR
Suzanne Justis 11/05/1973 Multnomah OR
Madeline Babcock 06/30/1968 Los Angeles CA

MP30894
Cindy Moore
May 23rd, 1985
Oakland
MI

has been added to the ruleouts (although disappearing almost a decade later..).

 

[MadMcGoo]

I was searching for matches for 2 unrelated cases so this one was fresh on my mind when I came to this thread. Eileen Francis Hynson – The Charley Project All the vitals match. Is her disappearance too close to the discovery of Doe? A little less than 2 months.

 

[carbuff]

It's tight, but Namus lists year of death 1966-1976, so it looks possible. She has the long upper lip and narrow face depicted in all the reconstructions, and the general appearance seems very close.

It's quite a distance from Napa to Swamp Mountain, but it's main road.

I think she's definitely possible.

 

[MadMcGoo]

It's tight, but Namus lists year of death 1966-1976, so it looks possible. She has the long upper lip and narrow face depicted in all the reconstructions, and the general appearance seems very close.

It's quite a distance from Napa to Swamp Mountain, but it's main road.

I think she's definitely possible.

Thanks Car! I'll submit her tomorrow. Although I'm becoming more convinced that matches in older cases would have probably been made by now.

 

[carbuff]

Thanks Car! I'll submit her tomorrow. Although I'm becoming more convinced that matches in older cases would have probably been made by now.

That does tend to be true, assuming both cases have comparable identifiers. But we often don't have that information any more so it's worth checking.

 

[MadMcGoo]

That does tend to be true, assuming both cases have comparable identifiers. But we often don't have that information any more so it's worth checking.

Submitted.

 

[Bit of hope]

Submitted.

@MadMcGoo Thx sweetie.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

45 years ago Jane Doe was discovered, I hope that one day she will regain her identity and can rest in peace.