Person doing a backbend or hanging upside down in dense foliage

You've clearly put some thought into this!

Unfortunately, I don't believe they would be a match based on the prothesis. I requested a copy of the Brecksville John Doe's autopsy report and both ankles and feet were recovered.
That's awesome. I mean having his autopsy results. Btw I'm leaning towards The Catskills as an option. Because of Crip Camp, summer camp for disabled people. Started in 1971 using an existing camp ground.

Yes thanks, there's even more I may have found in this picture. I'll post that later.
 
I made this rough timeline of RD's locations and the females reported missing according to area and timeframe.
It's missing RD's trip to Denmark and visit to Wyoming.

1961-1964 North Carolina-
(1963) NC to California- Everywhere else- RA said that he had hitchhiked from Fort Bragg and traveled about three thousand miles to go AWOL.

1373DFLA - Jane Rowell Clement

3394DFOH - Linda Kay Britton

2277DFIL - Mary Ann Ruth Switalski

4021DFMO - Phyllis Marie Corbin

1964- 1968 California- 9/25/1968 rapped 8yo wf in his apartment in LA.

2880DFCA - Lynn Bernadette Luray
(She may have traveled out of the area in the company of an adult male.)


1675DFCA - Lynn Marjorie Bandringa
(Foul play is suspected.)

1734DFCA - Dixie Lee Arensen

September 1968- August 1971 NY- NH (summer camp in George Mills, New Hampshire)

754DFNY - Denise Marie Sheehy

In prison from 8/1971 until 8/1974

August/September 1974 Hired by a photography company to take photos in stores throughout Los Angeles County.

12/1974- 6/16/1977 Served sentence- released on parole

June 1977- Christine Ruth Thornton- Granger, Wyoming (missing from Biloxi, Mississippi), RA admitted to meeting and photographing her but claimed she was alive before he left her.

Summer 1977- John Berger NY/ Often takes women to Westchester County, New York

7/16/1977 - Ellen Jane Hover (WF, 23) is considered a missing person after last being seen with a photographer named John Berger in New York City, NY.



9/1977 Alcala returned to Los Angeles from New York and was hired as a typesetter at the Los Angeles Times.


73DFCA - Rachel Hanna Ziselman

915DFCA - Sylvia Helen Carlson

2883DFCA - Sarah Rachel Tokier


3/1978 Spent a brief period of time in jail when marijuana was found in his home


1787DFCA - Cheryl Schille Wyant

1112DFCA - Connie Gail Minchaca

877DFCA - Wendy Susan Byron

3712DFCA - Cristina Parodi

870DFCA - Debra Lynn Kidwell

739DFCA - Adrianne Gilliam

7/11/1979 Alcala rents a storage unit in Seattle, Washington.

7/12/1979 Returns to LA.


129DFCA - Diane Genice Dye

July 24, 1979 — Rodney James Alcala, an unemployed photographer, is arrested at his parents’ Monterey Park home.

I personally don't see any resemblance between these MPs and the person in the dense foliage... But there are few MPs that could be related to RA though.
Do you have anymore information regarding your theory in regards to Phyllis Corbin? She was suspected of heading to New Orleans at the time. I'm curious if you have a map showing his "route?"
 
I made this rough timeline of RD's locations and the females reported missing according to area and timeframe.
It's missing RD's trip to Denmark and visit to Wyoming.

1961-1964 North Carolina-
(1963) NC to California- Everywhere else- RA said that he had hitchhiked from Fort Bragg and traveled about three thousand miles to go AWOL.

1373DFLA - Jane Rowell Clement

3394DFOH - Linda Kay Britton

2277DFIL - Mary Ann Ruth Switalski

4021DFMO - Phyllis Marie Corbin

1964- 1968 California- 9/25/1968 rapped 8yo wf in his apartment in LA.

2880DFCA - Lynn Bernadette Luray
(She may have traveled out of the area in the company of an adult male.)


1675DFCA - Lynn Marjorie Bandringa
(Foul play is suspected.)

1734DFCA - Dixie Lee Arensen

September 1968- August 1971 NY- NH (summer camp in George Mills, New Hampshire)

754DFNY - Denise Marie Sheehy

In prison from 8/1971 until 8/1974

August/September 1974 Hired by a photography company to take photos in stores throughout Los Angeles County.

12/1974- 6/16/1977 Served sentence- released on parole

June 1977- Christine Ruth Thornton- Granger, Wyoming (missing from Biloxi, Mississippi), RA admitted to meeting and photographing her but claimed she was alive before he left her.

Summer 1977- John Berger NY/ Often takes women to Westchester County, New York

7/16/1977 - Ellen Jane Hover (WF, 23) is considered a missing person after last being seen with a photographer named John Berger in New York City, NY.



9/1977 Alcala returned to Los Angeles from New York and was hired as a typesetter at the Los Angeles Times.


73DFCA - Rachel Hanna Ziselman

915DFCA - Sylvia Helen Carlson

2883DFCA - Sarah Rachel Tokier


3/1978 Spent a brief period of time in jail when marijuana was found in his home


1787DFCA - Cheryl Schille Wyant

1112DFCA - Connie Gail Minchaca

877DFCA - Wendy Susan Byron

3712DFCA - Cristina Parodi

870DFCA - Debra Lynn Kidwell

739DFCA - Adrianne Gilliam

7/11/1979 Alcala rents a storage unit in Seattle, Washington.

7/12/1979 Returns to LA.


129DFCA - Diane Genice Dye

July 24, 1979 — Rodney James Alcala, an unemployed photographer, is arrested at his parents’ Monterey Park home.

I personally don't see any resemblance between these MPs and the person in the dense foliage... But there are few MPs that could be related to RA though.
Also, the initials for the serial killer; RD. Who is that?
 
The more I'm looking at this picture the more I think the legs/jeans belong to someone else- Maybe someone holding him up upside down? The legs/knees(?) look way too straight to be someone doing a backbend, IMO.
 
Posted something like this years ago but I think Photobucket deleted it. I not only see the beginnings of a swell of breasts at the edge of the frame, but the shadows on one arm confirm that the parts out of the frame continue the pattern.

Besides the view we have been studying for years, we have an additional angle projected on that arm. The sun is shining from the upper right, slightly out front of the subject. The shadow on the arm has a perspective-flattened profile of the face, the nose, slightly parted lips, the chin, the neck, and a good bit more of the chest than is directly visible.

Female.
 

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OK, those are not “slightly parted lips.” That’s a sharp leaf tip intruding on the outline.
 
Giving this point more attention than it deserves, but the lines I edited in above obscure the boundaries between the sharp shadows cast from inches away by the head and the light, fuzzy foliage shadows diffused by distance. A relatively unedited version, then.
 

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This pic is quite the puzzle
In " thread called "Profile Girl Against Green Wall' I now think this person hanging, and dead is "Wilma June Nissen. No, I do not think this girl against the green wall is Wilma. Profile In the Iowa site says that Wilma had arrest records out in California where I assummed she had met Alcala before, and he went out to Iowa to maybe meet her or visa versa. One site says RA had addresses on the back of some pics, and that at least 2 of the photos had dead people photographed.
Can you please tell me more about this? Wilma was my biological mother. Thank you!
 
When you turn the image upside down you see someone with their arms upwardly outstretched. Hair is growing in the armpits which meaning the person could be male or female. We don't see a nose or any lips. We see someone with their eyes open looking upward which if they are hanging upside down means they are looking towards the ground, probably because they have gone beyond the point of watching the person who has put them in that position. The person has downward shaped eyebrows, they don't have a natural arch like many people do, so that eliminates quite a few people. I realize this was the 1970s when many women didn't shave their legs or armpits or shape their eyebrows, the natural look was in but it still doesn't alter the fact that there are several different eyebrow shapes that are normal growth patterns. We also see the neck of this person, where the skin is stretched from the area of the Adam's apple to what would be the tip of the chin. I believe the person has their mouth slightly open from exhaustion, they are beyond fear, judging by the distance from the area between the eyes and where the bottom of the chin is. There are two different kinds of anatomy when it comes to the neck. One is a clearly defined shape that follows the jawline from the bottom of the chin to where the jawbone meets the neck. The second one is a less clearly defined jawline where an extra pad of skin/fat hides the jawline. Both are genetic. The second group of people are usually those who end up with a turkey neck when laxity sets in, for want of a better descriptor.
 

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When you turn the image upside down you see someone with their arms upwardly outstretched. Hair is growing in the armpits which meaning the person could be male or female. We don't see a nose or any lips. We see someone with their eyes open looking upward which if they are hanging upside down means they are looking towards the ground, probably because they have gone beyond the point of watching the person who has put them in that position. The person has downward shaped eyebrows, they don't have a natural arch like many people do, so that eliminates quite a few people. I realize this was the 1970s when many women didn't shave their legs or armpits or shape their eyebrows, the natural look was in but it still doesn't alter the fact that there are several different eyebrow shapes that are normal growth patterns. We also see the neck of this person, where the skin is stretched from the area of the Adam's apple to what would be the tip of the chin. I believe the person has their mouth slightly open from exhaustion, they are beyond fear, judging by the distance from the area between the eyes and where the bottom of the chin is. There are two different kinds of anatomy when it comes to the neck. One is a clearly defined shape that follows the jawline from the bottom of the chin to where the jawbone meets the neck. The second one is a less clearly defined jawline where an extra pad of skin/fat hides the jawline. Both are genetic. The second group of people are usually those who end up with a turkey neck when laxity sets in, for want of a better descriptor.
It’s true that neither nose, lips, or breasts are directly visible. The left arm, however, has the shadows of these features. There is enough breast shadow that I’m confident we’re looking at a female. That’s all I was trying to point out in three mumbling posts. Sorry.
 
It’s true that neither nose, lips, or breasts are directly visible. The left arm, however, has the shadows of these features. There is enough breast shadow that I’m confident we’re looking at a female. That’s all I was trying to point out in three mumbling posts. Sorry.
I still think it's male and we're seeing the pecs. Furthermore and most importantly the person was missing the lower left leg.
 
Do you have anymore information regarding your theory in regards to Phyllis Corbin? She was suspected of heading to New Orleans at the time. I'm curious if you have a map showing his "route?"
I don't recall mentioning a theory regarding Phyllis Corbin. As I said in my post, it is a rough timeline of RA's locations and the women reported missing according to area and timeframe.

MOO
 

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