Identified! TX - Huntsville, 'Walker County Jane Doe', WhtFem 14-16, 91UFTX, 1 November 1980 - id'd November 2021 - Sherri Ann Jarvis (14)

[Bit of hope]

Odd question, but the Walker County Jane Doe looks a lot like the girl on the right in some sketches,

On the right, this is from Aransas Pass Cold cases,
https://ap-police.com/1980-cold-case-homicide-involving-guadalupe-gomez/
Could she be related and be visiting a relative? Sorry if this has been discussed before.

But she was shot.....I don't understand the connection...

 

[Alleykins]

Odd question, but the Walker County Jane Doe looks a lot like the girl on the right in some sketches,

On the right, this is from Aransas Pass Cold cases,
https://ap-police.com/1980-cold-case-homicide-involving-guadalupe-gomez/
Could she be related and be visiting a relative? Sorry if this has been discussed before.

If I'm looking at this correctIy, I think the person on the right is a male, and is actually a younger version of the person on the left? Is anyone else seeing it that way, too, by chance?

 

[Alleykins]

Maybe the person who dropped her off came back by, saw her, and picked her up again?

 

[CarlK90245]

Maybe the person who dropped her off came back by, saw her, and picked her up again?

That part of it really doesn't make sense. BRS would not have been the person who dropped her off at the South-End Gulf Station. But perhaps she was returning to Huntsville to meet BRS some time after the tipster's husband took her to Huntsville..

 

[Finders]

"When I asked about family, she offered up, who cares. My first thought was she may be a runaway from a juvenile detention center in Oakhurst...if one existed." Does anyone else think this makes no sense?
The "who cares" is the exact thing she said to the truck stop waitress. Ok ,that could have been her token response to that question. The part that makes no sense to me is: to imagine she may be from a place that she didn't even know existed. That is very bizarre. The town of Oakhurst is very very small. I don't fully understand how she made that leap after she asked if it were near three rivers. I'm baffled.

 

[leilarose68]

I got another tip on WWWCJD. Not sure if it is credible, but it is interesting. I have to redact the tipster's name and the name of the Huntsville resident referenced in the woman's tip.

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I don't know if I buy this... kind of fishy that WCJD possibly said 'who cares' to the tipster as well as the restaurant worker and that she remembers the WCJD's exact outfit and 'weird necklace' from decades ago but not her face?? And never asked the girl for her first name?

 

[Alleykins]

That part of it really doesn't make sense. BRS would not have been the person who dropped her off at the South-End Gulf Station. But perhaps she was returning to Huntsville to meet BRS some time after the tipster's husband took her to Huntsville..

I'm missing the whole BRS thing. The tip I read had names redacted so I'm a bit confused, LOL

 

[sunnynz]

I'm missing the whole BRS thing. The tip I read had names redacted so I'm a bit confused, LOL

Google the county, date and charge and it’ll pop right up.

 

[CarlK90245]

I'm missing the whole BRS thing. The tip I read had names redacted so I'm a bit confused, LOL

The first and last redactions were the name of the tipster. All the redactions in between are the surname of a resident of Huntsville with the initials BRS. Websleuths rules don’t allow me to post names of people not publicly associated with the case, but I can refer to him by his initials.

 

[Bit of hope]

AddiesMom found something very interesting. The name of the man referenced in this tip is the exact same somewhat uncommon name as a man arrested in Guadalupe county in 1981 for "aggravated attempted rape". The man (whose initials are BRS) attempted to rape a 13 year old Mexican immigrant girl, threatening her with a shotgun. As the girl attempted to flee, he fired the shotgun at her (which missed), and then rammed her with his truck, knocking her into a barbed wire fence before driving away.

This BRS is not the same BRS referenced in the tip who lived in Huntsville. The arrested man was born about 1945. Huntsville BRS was much older.

Do you think this two man might be related or do I misunderstand your post?

 

[CarlK90245]

Do you think this two man might be related or do I misunderstand your post?

It is interesting that their first, middle, and last names are the same; and that their last name is not a very common one.

It is enough of a coincidence that LE should check whether they are related. I did mention it to Detective Bean when I forwarded the tip to him.

 

[Finders]

I know its probably foolish but i'm feeling optimistic that she will be ID'd within the next few years.

 

[Cryptic]

Wow! That is definitely intriguing! Off I go to dig

If all else fails,

The father was identified as having a Cajun accent. Most Cajuns are Catholic. Are Catholic baptismal records from the 1970s, late 1960s open to the general public via the Mormon Geneaolgy library? The Lewis / Louis (French name origin?) girl might have been in Louisiana, but baptized later in Texas. This would not be an unusual practice if the family was not actively religous.

 

[paul1980]

WCJD recons remind me somewhat of Ami Foster (Margaux from Punky Brewster). If WCJD was as pretty as AmI and the killer really was impotent, it would go a little way to explain the extreme violence.

 

[Finders]

If all else fails,

The father was identified as having a Cajun accent. Most Cajuns are Catholic. Are Catholic baptismal records from the 1970s, late 1960s open to the general public via the Mormon Geneaolgy library? The Lewis / Louis (French name origin?) girl might have been in Louisiana, but baptized later in Texas. This would not be an unusual practice if the family was not actively religous.

I've been looking on the familysearch site but so far haven't found much that i would consider concrete information.

 

[CarlK90245]

WCJD recons remind me somewhat of Ami Foster (Margaux from Punky Brewster). If WCJD was as pretty as AmI and the killer really was impotent, it would go a little way to explain the extreme violence.

When I see pics of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielyn, I think of WCJD.

 

[MOTORUNNER]

I have a friend that has a slight resemblance to WCJD, especially when she wears no makeup. Really hits me hard because she could easily have been a friend of mine

 

[Tony1902]

If all else fails,

The father was identified as having a Cajun accent. Most Cajuns are Catholic. Are Catholic baptismal records from the 1970s, late 1960s open to the general public via the Mormon Geneaolgy library? The Lewis / Louis (French name origin?) girl might have been in Louisiana, but baptized later in Texas. This would not be an unusual practice if the family was not actively religous.

They are more easily obtained from Fr. Donald Hébert's massive 20+ volumes of Southwest Louisiana Geneaological Records. They're in nearly every library and are as exhaustive as he could make them, detailing births, marriages, deaths of mostly Catholics but he also included courthouse records. He was notorious for barging into church archives and insisting that in the absence of secular records, ecclesiastical records should be considered as such in a previously Colonial area (French then Spanish.)

He also included translations of the original documents whenever possible. They span from the first records available, i.e., not missing or stolen from the original primary documents. Many of these records, both during slavery and Reconstruction, bear priests' notes in the margins. Many people had something to hide there. A lovely man and great lover of mysteries. And yes, he was a distant cousin.

 

[Tony1902]

Father Hébert's also did some Galveston and Beaumont records. Louis/Lewis is not uncommon here, and could have been pronounced in the French manner.

 

[Tony1902]

If I can get a bit more information, perhaps from Carl, I can go to my records, yes I bought them all and he autographed a few to his 'darlin cousine'