• #2,441
I know TX has a large Latino/Latina population, does anyone think WCJD could be latina? I know it really makes no difference or adds anything to this case, going through a lot of Corpus Christi yearbooks I'm seeing a lot of hispanic women.

She definitely looks Hispanic to me. I'm not sure if this was mentioned yet, but could she be Mexican? If she was, an accent would probably have been noted- but perhaps that could be a reason why there are no records of her.
 
  • #2,442
None of the witnesses are known to have reported a foreign accent.
 
  • #2,443
Thanks, Carl! I don't think I had ever realized that one photo was a mortuary photo and the others were coroners. Good to know, I can see what you're talking about now.
 
  • #2,444
Clyde Carl Wilkerson is another possible suspect. He was long haul trucker from Arkansas. He is currently in prison in California for murders that occurred in 1965. He also has plead guilty to a 1975 abduction murder in Tulsa Oklahoma in which the victim was strangled with a ligature and mutilated. He wasn't arrested until 2002.
 
  • #2,445
None of the witnesses are known to have reported a foreign accent.
And such an accent in east Texas at that time would have stood out more as there were very few immigrants in the region in the early 1980s.
 
  • #2,446
Did any of the witnesses report whether WCJD had a dishevelled look or smelled? that would help us figure out how long she'd been on the road.
 
  • #2,447
Did any of the witnesses report whether WCJD had a dishevelled look or smelled? that would help us figure out how long she'd been on the road.

She was described as looking like she'd slept in her clothes- I think "disheveled" is another way to say that. Haven't ever heard that she smelled bad.
 
  • #2,448
Thirty Seven years ago today she said "who cares?". If only she could see how many of us care nearly four decades later.

Isn't that the sad truth??? We want to know who you are...our Walker County Sweetheart.
 
  • #2,449
Does anyone think that the audio phone call from the truck driver who discovered WCJD exist? I remember clearly back then if you needed to call in an emergency you would dial ‘0’,911 was not in place yet.
 
  • #2,450
She was a sweetheart. She may have been bold and brassy to the waitress, but we don't know how much of that was a typical teenage act to hide herself from scrutiny.
 
  • #2,451
From the Snohomish County Jane Doe thread:

Pem Michelle Briggs. Missing since 1977. My half sister. I've been searching for her all my life.....
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Last seen my half sister Pem Michelle Briggs in Portland, Oregon. Our mothers name is Barbara Cecile Briggs, and our brothers name is Denman E. Wehrli. Pems last known whereabouts was in California. She left home when she was 16 yrs old, and we have never heard from her since. Her name on her birth cert. was Pem Michelle Yates, and she was born in Norfolk, Virginia, May 31,1963, her father was noy the man that signed her birth cert. but the father on her birth certificate name was J. Yates i believe, he in the service in Norfolk, Virginia at the time. Pems biological father was in California. She went to middle school in Post, Oregon under the name Pem M. Wehrli and in high school in Hood River, Oregon, and may have ended up in Goldendale, Washington trying to relocate us. I have been searching all these years, thru the internet, and Troy the locator even attempted to locate her without any luck. i have found five other family members in my search for my sister, including two half brothers that were adopted 50+ years ago...but not a trace of my sister has came up. if any of these names ring a bell, please contact me, i remember her, she loved me...and she is dearly missed.
http://www.voy.com/48081/2802.html

Message Sent Tuesday, October 19 4:15 (Pacific Time)
From: Cloverdale, OR, US
Area Code: 503
Zip Code: 97112

To: PEM M BRIGGS
I am searching for my daughter. She was 15 when I last saw her in Portland, Ore. She would be 47 now. Her birthday is March 31, 1963. I last heard from her a few days after she left she was at a police station in Calif. and they needed to know if she had my permission to be across state line. That was the last communication we had. I was moving at the time of this to Goldendale,Wa. and had no address to give her and she was headed for somewhere in calif. and had no address either. I know alot of time has passed and I am not to knowledgeable with computers. But I need to find you Pem. Please send me an answer. Please let this be you. I love you Please come home.I have changed my name many years ago to Bo Bradbury, and not because I didn\\\'t want you to find me but because I always hated my name. It reminded me of my dad. my given name is Barbara Cecile Briggs. You were born in Norfolk, Va.The name on your birth certificate is Pem Yates. Please contact me
http://www.zabasearch.com/messages/zaba_messages_thread.php?fid=1206985
 
  • #2,452
Now Pem really does look like WCJD!

I am a little confused about exactly when she went missing, but she would have been 17 in Nov 1980 ?
 
  • #2,453
Would she have had any connection to Huntsville TX or anyone in Ellis prison?
 
  • #2,454
Could walker Co. Jane Doe be a baby kidnapped from a single mother in Texas, Raised by the woman that kidnapped her and later died brutally out and about. Things I dont like about missing people cases. Is they will do age progressions but they dont seem to leave them all up. Sure its 30 years later this maybe what they look like. But what if they lived for only a few years and baby may die as a teenager. What happened to all those In between years of age progression. This young baby 21m old only has age progressions in her late 20s and 30s. Wonder what she would have looked like from the ages 14-18 like.

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1902dftx.html
 
  • #2,455
Carl, have you turned Pem into LE? She IS the closest I've seen suggested on this thread.

I also wish we knew the biological father's name.
 
  • #2,456
Carl, have you turned Pem into LE? She IS the closest I've seen suggested on this thread.

I also wish we knew the biological father's name.

Yes, I did. However,. someone just showed me some additional photos of her that raise doubt that she is WCJD. The one on the lower left shows that she had crooked front teeth. WCJD was described as having perfectly straight teeth.

Pem%20Briggs%20001.jpg
 
  • #2,457
Yes, I did. However,. someone just showed me some additional photos of her that raise doubt that she is WCJD. The one on the lower left shows that she had crooked front teeth. WCJD was described as having perfectly straight teeth.

Pem%20Briggs%20001.jpg

Gosh she sure does look familiar! I am wondering if she is another unidentified - I just can't place it at the moment...
 
  • #2,458
I agree Carl, and the new pics appear to be of Pem a little older and she looks less like our girl. I also agree with Daisy that she looks familiar!
 
  • #2,459
is that common? that a person proposed as one UID turns out to be another?
 
  • #2,460
Is there a WS thread yet for Pem?
 

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