Identified! PA - Homestead, Female 143UFPA, 20-40, Oct'00 - Amanda Myers

[chaddylex]

Amanda's listed height (5'7") was off by three inches from the 5'4" listed height of the Jane Doe. And there were no listed tattoos on the supposedly "mummified" remains. Amanda had several tattoos.

Also, there was no mention that the Jane Doe had given birth. Amanda had given birth to twins, which she gave up for adoption.

She may have gotten the European dental work from an immigrant dentist working locally. She was living a transient lifestyle, so perhaps she found a low-budget dentist in the local immigrant community.

Imagine them being off on the height... We've seen this more and more and it can result in the missing being over looked as possible matches... What a shame...

 

[CarlK90245]

Imagine them being off on the height... We've seen this more and more and it can result in the missing being over looked as possible matches... What a shame...

That's why I never set a height parameter on my screens anymore. I look at the height after the list has been generated.

 

[chaddylex]

Here is an article from our Noon News:http://www.wtae.com/news/local/allegheny/Woman-found-dead-at-Homestead-Waterfront-in-2000-finally-identified/-/10927008/7694130/-/6auva6/-/index.html?treets=pit&tid=2655668618813&tml=pit_12pm&tmi=pit_12pm_1_10500111162012&ts=H



On Friday morning, the medical examiner's office said the woman has finally been identified through DNA as Amanda Myers, 22, of Pittsburgh.


Police got a DNA sample from Myers' family after she was reported missing and submitted it to an FBI lab for testing, the medical examiner's office said



Read more: http://www.wtae.com/news/local/alle...8/7694130/-/6auva6/-/index.html#ixzz2CPk4n2K1

 

[deca]

What are you opinions of the reconstruction now that we have a picture? It is definitely similar, but the face shape seems off to me. JMO

 

[Magnum P.E.]

This was relatively near me and I was not aware of the case. So she was local all along. I wonder how the eastern European dental work error happened, if indeed it was an error.
My family and I were just at the Waterfront a few weeks ago.

 

[passionflower]

Her remains, and those of two other unidentified women, were buried in 2009 while the families held out hope that they would be identified someday.
so was there a serial killer around and the area was never told?

The European crown?
wonder if her dad was ever stationed overseas? Did she ever live overseas?

 

[passionflower]

This was relatively near me and I was not aware of the case. So she was local all along. I wonder how the eastern European dental work error happened, if indeed it was an error.
My family and I were just at the Waterfront a few weeks ago.

same here, never heard of anything til now......

 

[Cubby]

What are you opinions of the reconstruction now that we have a picture? It is definitely similar, but the face shape seems off to me. JMO

The recon's face definately looks longer and narrower than Amanda's face. however the noses on both look very similiar. I think the comparable noses would have caught my attention if I had seen the side by side previously.

I think the inconsistencies that Chaddylex and CarlK pointed out above would be more indicative of missing this match than the differences in the facial recons.

 

[CCJD]

This was relatively near me and I was not aware of the case. So she was local all along. I wonder how the eastern European dental work error happened, if indeed it was an error.

Homestead Jane Doe had quite a bit of media coverage over the years and the burial of the three ladies was well publicized, so it's always a little surprising to me, and more than a little sad, when people (whether or not they're interested in missing/unidentified persons) have never heard of her. sigh!

I think what happened in the beginning is that where she was found figured heavily into her profile. There is a high concentration of Russian immigrants in the Homestead area and, in fact, authorities took an interpreter with them thru the community questioning those of Russian heritage in their efforts to identify her. That small, erroneous detail about the crown became, IMO, too significant to everyone looking to name her. After speaking with a forensic dentist about the crown, I added the following to her profile on Pennsylvania Missing:

These types of crowns are also used in the United States, sometimes used as space savers in children who are awaiting their permanent teeth and often used in patients who may not have the means to afford more expensive crowns.

Her remains, and those of two other unidentified women, were buried in 2009 while the families held out hope that they would be identified someday.
so was there a serial killer around and the area was never told?

No, the 3 cases are unrelated. When the Allegheny County Medical Examiners Office was preparing to move from their location in downtown Pittsburgh to the state-of-the-art facility in the Strip District, a decision was made to have the ladies buried. Initially, they were going to be in one grave, stacked atop each other, but Woodruff Memorial Park's owners buried them side-by-side, which would make exhumation easier should one (or all) be identified and 'taken home' by their families. It really was a lovely service.

The other two ladies buried at Woodruff are:
http://www.pamissing.com/397ufpawilkinsburg.html
http://www.pamissing.com/202ufpa.html

 

[mikkismom]

Unsolved Cases: These Are Among Western PA's Solved Ones

http://sewickley.patch.com/articles/unsolved-cases-these-are-among-western-pas-solved-ones-c55b63ee

This case plus nine more solved.

 

[summer_breeze]

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories...identified-12-years-after-being-found-662400/

November 16, 2012 3:32 pm
By Molly Born / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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The DNA of the woman now known as Amanda S. Myers, 22, of Pittsburgh, matched the hereditary material her family provided to Pittsburgh police.

Until today, Ms. Myers was known only as 00-4395.

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/143ufpa.html - IDENTIFIED

https://identifyus.org/cases/2642

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[cryssyx3]

wow. I remember this case from when I was a kid. I decided to Google it to see what happened and of course came to websleuths. I was 10. the waterfront wasn't really "The Waterfront" yet. there was a giant eagle(supermarket) they may have started building Lowe's. my brother used to ride his trike atv around there. I lived across and down the street from the flyover bridge to the waterfront. (any locals still around, the house burned down in 2004. my dad collected a to. of guns and bullets and.. stuff)

this case definitely gave me the willies as a kid. especially with that picture of the dark tunnel with the chair and chain link fence or gate. I'm glad to see she was identified. still curious what happened...