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

[CarlK90245]

Another question I have for everyone. Do you agree with me that this looks the work of a serial killer? The brutality and randomness make me think the perp wasn't a first or last timer.

Very likely, IMO, though I am unaware of any other murders from that era with a similar degree of depravity, and a similar victim demographic. Bittaker and Norris were probably the most similar in terms of M.O., but they were both incarcerated by the time WCJD was killed.

 

[lmadler]

Very likely, IMO, though I am unaware of any other murders from that era with a similar degree of depravity, and a similar victim demographic. Bittaker and Norris were probably the most similar in terms of M.O., but they were both incarcerated by the time WCJD was killed.

Don't they believe it was the work of Henry Lucus

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[CarlK90245]

Don't they believe it was the work of Henry Lucus

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No, they don't.

 

[lmadler]

No, they don't.

Wasn't sure. I know they thought it was someone "serial". Do you recall who it was?

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[lmadler]

No, they don't.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_County_Jane_Doe

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[Gourami Watcher]

I've been thinking for the past month about contacting The Hunt: With John Walsh about this case to see if they'd detail her case (since AMW and Unsolved Mysteries aren't doing anymore new episodes). Don't know exactly where to go to submit this idea, however. Since they've done episodes on unidentified suspects, they might just do one on an unidentified victim.

 

[Finders]

Was a mold taken of the bite? Perhaps finding the perp is the first step to giving this poor girl her name back.

 

[Finders]

Also, I would bet anything the killer stopped and got fuel or food at the hitch'n'post. I wish they had cameras and kept records from 1980.

 

[CarlK90245]

Was a mold taken of the bite? Perhaps finding the perp is the first step to giving this poor girl her name back.

I would guess that a bite mark of that nature is not something that can be preserved by taking a mold. Unless his teeth actually sunk into her flesh, It was probably just a red imprint on the skin, not a depressed pattern.

 

[Finders]

That's probably true.

 

[Finders]

In an odd probable coincidence, it seems like Orange Socks and WCJD locations are in a straight line across. Georgetown and Huntsville are not on the same parallel but the body locations seem to be. One year apart! I only looked into this because I couldn't really see any similarities between the two cases even though I read a ton of accounts saying that they may be related. If this is at all connected it may stand to reason that 1981 Halloween murders may be connected. I can't seem to find much on this though...

 

[U2forever]

I would guess that a bite mark of that nature is not something that can be preserved by taking a mold. Unless his teeth actually sunk into her flesh, It was probably just a red imprint on the skin, not a depressed pattern.

I assume a Forensic Odontologist took pictures and measurements of the bite mark. I hope so, at least.



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[paul1980]

Was a mold taken of the bite? Perhaps finding the perp is the first step to giving this poor girl her name back.

Just a little perspective. 1980 was 37 years ago. that's almost 40 years. Assuming the perp was middle-aged, he's either very elderly or very dead by now. After all, all of the known witnesses who saw WCJD are now dead.

 

[italianbella]

Could it be possible that someone followed her out of the hitch'n post and killed her? I really think she was off to see someone at the prison either a guard or an inmate. She was underage so they probably didn't want to admit it. There is a reason why she was so fixed on getting to the Ellis prison unit. I think she was either not reported or her records probably purged.

 

[Alleykins]

I think she may have been a ward of the state who went unreported.

 

[Finders]

I agree the killer is probably dead or if not dead, I have to hope he is in prison. I have been trying to get into the head of the killer and I am now looking for a list of SK's that were known to be impotent. I have read the speculations that it was a woman that did it but I just don't see that. I am fairly certain it was a trucker that killed before and/or again. I believe him to have a hatred for women possibly caused by feelings of inadequacy and possibly past trauma from a mother figure. The use of a ligature is by someone that is intending to strangle the life out of someone. This is not a crime of passion. This was premeditated and has been fantasized about before and after. Robert Rhoads comes to mind. So does the toybox killer. This is a sexual sadist but since he used a blunt instrument I believe he had issues in that department. I am so focused on the killer because it is well known that many of them kept trophies. Maybe somewhere in a storage locker are her pullover or her jeans or an earring. There has to be a clue somewhere! I want this girls identity returned to her and her family this year!

 

[Armchair-reader]

http://www.nampn.org/cases/peters_dean.html

Could she be a possibility? I can't find the full rule out sheet

 

[Alleykins]

It's too bad they never found the driver of the blue car that dropped her off. Maybe he was just some random motorist who picked her up along the way and didn't know anything, but maybe we could have back tracked to where he picked her up. Then maybe we could have worked our way back to her origination point.

 

[sonz82]

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http://www.nampn.org/cases/peters_dean.html

Could she be a possibility? I can't find the full rule out sheet

she does look similar but it sounds like this girl was close to her family. From what I've read WCJD it sounded like she wasn't close with her parents

 

[Alleykins]

I'm thinking Dean Peters would be an auto rule out because they both have DNA profiles available, but you never know sometimes.