Identified! TX - Huntsville, 'Walker County Jane Doe', WhtFem 14-16, 91UFTX, Nov'80 Sherry Ann Jarvis

[mia g]

There is a Facebook page (it's public) I wonder if someone just asked if anyone remembered a KG from jr yr in 1979?? Or posted the pic to see if we get any hits (maybe Carl's recon?) ugh there is a Facebook group "I grew up in LaPorte Texas"

 

[annemc2]

Jeez, Carl - I think you might have done it (again)!

KG could not look more like your recon. Amazing find.

 

[anonymess]

I did about 2 hours of searching and couldn't find a living match for KG. Is she in 10th grade or younger yearbooks? Wondering if she was a local for awhile or just for a year. Inspiring work as always, Carl!

 

[CarlK90245]

I did about 2 hours of searching and couldn't find a living match for KG. Is she in 10th grade or younger yearbooks? Wondering if she was a local for awhile or just for a year. Inspiring work as always, Carl!

She was only at La Porte High School for her sophomore and Junior years. She wasn't in the 1977 or 1980 books.

There is also another girl YG with the same surname right next to her in both the 1978 (sophomore) and 1979 (junior) books. A third girl RG with the same surname attended LPHS as a freshman in 1979, but was not in the 80 book as a sophomore.

YG and KG might be fraternal twin sisters, but they don't look similar enough to be identical twins. Perhaps one was a year older, and one skipped a grade or was held back. Or maybe they are cousins or unrelated. But since none of them were at LPHS in 1977 or 1980, and all three of them were there in 1978 and/or 1979, I would guess that they are sisters.

 

[CarlK90245]

A few miscellaneous observations about KG's appearance for those who haven't seen the photo. She has the exact same nose, very similar lips and eyebrows. Her hair is about the same length as the recon, but it is longer on the sides, with less feathering. And her hair doesn't spread as widely over her shoulders.

The low end of the scar next to her eye is located in the precise same spot at the corner of her eye and hooks the the same way as the scar in the postmortem photo. The upper end of the scar is covered by her hair.

The scar looks fresh in the photo. There appears to be some swelling from the corner of her upper eyelid to her eyebrow, and that gives her eyes a slight bit of assymetry.

She has more visible upper eyelids than depicted in my recon, but other than that, they look pretty close.

My main concern is the chins. Other than the chins, her overall facial shape is identical to the recon. In her sophomore photo, her head is tilted back and her chin pointed forward in sort of a sassy-looking pose which makes her chin look even larger than it does in her junior photo. Her chin looks just a slight bit bigger than my recon in the junior photo. However, I have seen several instances where the postmortem appearance of someone's chin is quite different from how it looked in life.

While going through the yearbooks, if I had gone through the 78 book and scanned by her sophomore photo, I probably wouldn't have seen enough resemblance to stop.

But I stopped on a dime when I came across her junior photo.

 

[carbuff]

The differences in the hair are mostly in the way it's styled, not in the basic cut.

I'm not sure about the chin either. Clearly in the PM photo her chin is tucked way down and in the photo it's pushed forward, which also slightly changes the appearance of her nose.

But that scar. Man.

 

[mia g]

As far as the hair.. One we can't be sure how long it is.. Two she (like myself) has natural wavy hair from all appearance .. Under good circumstances east Texas humidity plays havoc with curly hair (my family their hand seen my hair fixed in 20 years.. There is NO use it just frizzes ... Under circumstances our JD is in its matted probably got wet from dew that time of year.. Ect .. I'm the late 70 early 80 I think every female in my family had the hairstyle Carl depicts in his recon .. No matter the link the front looked like his pic.. It was popular style for those of us with any natural wave/ curl.. (My family called it the Farrah style) lol
Just my observation on wavy hair in east Texas ..

 

[carbuff]

There's a KG, middle initial A, born in Lubbock on 1 November 1962, which would make her 18 in November 1980.

In fact, her 18th birthday. Which is so creepy and tragic that I sincerely hope this is not the right person.

 

[CarlK90245]

I went ahead and sent an email to Capt Whitecotton of the Walker County Sheriff and gave him a heads up. Perhaps he can locate her or her potential sisters using their superior resources and methods.

There's a KG, middle initial A, born in Lubbock on 1 November 1962, which would make her 18 in November 1980.

In fact, her 18th birthday. Which is so creepy and tragic that I sincerely hope this is not the right person.

Interesting. Tammy Jo Alexander (Formerly Cali Doe) was born on 2-Nov-1963. 1 year and 1 day after KG.

 

[coonhound]

Looks like I found KG and family online. Alive and well it seems.

 

[CarlK90245]

Looks like I found KG and family online. Alive and well it seems.

I got your info, - her father's obit, which not only lists her, but also her two sisters YG and RG and several other siblings.

So that is good enough to rule her out. Thanks Coonhound.


ETA: Good thing I didn't plaster her photo all over the place. It sure was close though.

 

[coonhound]

ETA: Good thing I didn't plaster her photo all over the place. It sure was close though.

That scar looked exactly the same- slight dimple to the right of the corner of the eye. Not sure how you spotted that in a sea of B&W yearbook mugshots.

 

[CarlK90245]

While we are on the topic, I found a girl a few weeks ago from Eisenhower HS in Houston. She was a freshman in the 1980 book. She also looks pretty close to WCJD. Her hair and the shadow of her hair covers the area where the scar would be, but she has very similar features and she is smiling broadly and wearing dark lipstick.

I located three marriage records for a woman with the same name and same approximate age. That would seem to rule her out.

However, they indicate that she married twice in 1984, to two different men in two different Texas counties nineteen days apart from each other, and three times in less than a year (i.e., between May 84 to Jan 85). She was married on May 11, 1984 to one guy in Harris County, and then again on May 30, 1984 (less than 3 weeks later) to another guy in Chambers County. She married again in January of 1985 in Harris County. And then she married a fourth time on 24 Sep 1999 in Travis County.

That sort of looks suspiciously like identity theft. People don't normally get married twice in a nineteen-day span, or three times in a 8-month span. I don't think it is too far-out of a theory that someone in the prison knew she was dead because of the interviews, and decided to exploit that by stealing her identity for use in fraudulent marriages.

Other than the marriage records, I can't find anything on her. Unfortunately, the 81, 82, and 83 books aren't available to see if she is in those. She isn't on the alumni list in Classmates. Nothing on her in Peoplefinders or Facebook that I can find.

Not sure how you spotted that in a sea of B&W yearbook mugshots.

I use an app on my desktop computer called Virtual Magnifying Glass. It enables me to zoom in on photos with much greater magnification than the browser's zoom capability.

 

[anonymess]

Looks like I found KG and family online. Alive and well it seems.

Nicely done

 

[sistershane]

yes-but that chin-lower shape of it-bugged me from the start-especially the lower lipspace to end of chin. I do sculpting-so i'm into that. Regarding twins-we have twins in our family-who do things to not always look identical. Some twins love to look identical-and mess with people-others go out of way not to-shorter hair, diifferent color, style., etc;

 

[sistershane]

have the same app Carl.!

 

[honesty]

I've spent a few days reading this thread and trying to think of a reason she woukd have been at the truck stop.
I'm thinking she hitched a ride with someone and it was not she who was going to the prison. Perhaps her ride was headed there and had told her that. He woke her and told her to get out of the car and took off and she was going to go to the prison to find him to get her stuff from his car.

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[AddysMom7610]

That's a plausible theory. If this is the case, all visitors from that day and the next should be tracked down and interviewed. Wonder if that's possible?


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[honesty]

I doubt they would have visitation records all these years later. That was before we used computers to track and store everything.

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[AddysMom7610]

Right but maybe the police dept does? I would think they would have copies of the visitor log of that day and the next day. And based on your theory, maybe the cops didn't ask the right questions to these visitors? If the driver who picked up WCJD and took her as far as Huntsville was interviewed, maybe he didn't fess up because he was afraid to become apart of the crime or become a suspect?


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