OR OR - Wanda Ann Herr, 19, Gresham, 1 Jun 1976

[Beekarina]

Police have released more photos from Alcala's creepy stash....including another image of the "Girl in the Fur Coat..." Comparing the new image to Wanda.....



Serial killer Rodney Alcala's photographs: Do you recognize anyone?

 

[onceuponadecember]

Just read about this case and did a little research. If they really did last see Wanda at the grandmother's funeral, that was in November 1976. It looks like dates are sketchy here.

 

[Slawsb]

Police have released more photos from Alcala's creepy stash....including another image of the "Girl in the Fur Coat..." Comparing the new image to Wanda.....

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Serial killer Rodney Alcala's photographs: Do you recognize anyone?

What a CREEP!!!

 

[Andreee]

What a CREEP!!!

No, I don't think that looks like Wanda.

 

[Backabeyond]

No, I don't think that looks like Wanda.

agreed.

 

[Beekarina]

I think there are some similarities, which is why I posted, (the tip of the nose, general stats, such as hair and eye color.) but I do not have a strong opinion it is a match. Since we only have an actual photo of Wanda when she was 12, it is very difficult to know. Looking at photos of my teens, at myself, at friends, we look very different at 12 vs 19 or 20.

Anyway, hope more info comes out for her. Such a sad case.

 

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

Can't seem to see Wanda's WS thread as a Jane Doe been posted in this thread yet:

Identified! - OR - Clackamas Co., WhtFem Skull 510UFOR, 18-24, on Mt Hood, Aug'86 - Wanda Herr

 

[citizen_sleuth]

I did some digging on the Albertina Kerr Home, and was able to find out more information about the institution and the children it served.

In 1966, a member of the board of directors of Albertina Kerr told a local paper that most of the young children placed in the facility were there only for a short period before they were transferred elsewhere. Prior to a change in regulations by the State Welfare Commission, many of the children brought to Albertina Kerr were brought there by police who "found the children abandoned," but after 1966 such cases were redirected to Waverly, another group home.

The center offered "a home for disturbed for disturbed or delinquent teenage girls, a juvenile clinic for girls, a nursery for temporary baby care, a Foster Home program, and an adoption program." Three years after Wanda Herr disappeared from Albertina Kerr, the center's director, Guy Hancock, testified before a state legislative subcommittee that Oregon's current method of assigning children in need of care was disastrous––"If you set out to create a system to destroy kids you couldn't design a better one than what we have right here." Clearly it wasn't a place Wanda would've be happy in.

 

[Andreee]

Can't seem to see Wanda's WS thread as a Jane Doe been posted in this thread yet:

Identified! - OR - Clackamas Co., WhtFem Skull 510UFOR, 18-24, on Mt Hood, Aug'86 - Wanda Herr

RIP Wanda Herr.

 

[Andreee]

I did some digging on the Albertina Kerr Home, and was able to find out more information about the institution and the children it served.

In 1966, a member of the board of directors of Albertina Kerr told a local paper that most of the young children placed in the facility were there only for a short period before they were transferred elsewhere. Prior to a change in regulations by the State Welfare Commission, many of the children brought to Albertina Kerr were brought there by police who "found the children abandoned," but after 1966 such cases were redirected to Waverly, another group home.

The center offered "a home for disturbed for disturbed or delinquent teenage girls, a juvenile clinic for girls, a nursery for temporary baby care, a Foster Home program, and an adoption program." Three years after Wanda Herr disappeared from Albertina Kerr, the center's director, Guy Hancock, testified before a state legislative subcommittee that Oregon's current method of assigning children in need of care was disastrous––"If you set out to create a system to destroy kids you couldn't design a better one than what we have right here." Clearly it wasn't a place Wanda would've be happy in.

 

[Andreee]

It's a sad outcome. Condolences to remaining family members.

 

[Andreee]

I think there are some similarities, which is why I posted, (the tip of the nose, general stats, such as hair and eye color.) but I do not have a strong opinion it is a match. Since we only have an actual photo of Wanda when she was 12, it is very difficult to know. Looking at photos of my teens, at myself, at friends, we look very different at 12 vs 19 or 20.

Anyway, hope more info comes out for her. Such a sad case.

Not related. Sadly, Wanda Herr was id'ed as the skull found on Mt. Hood.