Identified! VA - Annandale, WhtFem 245UFVA, ~60, 'NO CODE, DNR, No Penicillin', Dec'96

[Babyslims]

Connie sounds like a really good possible match! Can't wait till we hear something back!!

 

[rosesfromangels]

Connie has a very distinctive nose
Carl, what do you think?

 

[babelphissh]

Please delete if this has been posted..
http://connieconverse.bandcamp.com/

 

[Tssiemer]

On the doe network site it has a piece of paper with a saying on it. Maybe it's a song lyric she wrote. "Now I lay me down to sleep/soon to drift into the eternal deep/and though I die and shall not wake/sleep sweeter will be than this this life I forsake". There's nothing on google for it.

 

[FiveFelines]

When I first saw mention of Connie, I admit my first reaction was that it was a stretch. But I'm really liking her as a possible match for this woman. It would ceertainly explain a lot. If she is not a match, I'll add her to my list of considerations for other Does. Wonderful suggestion!

 

[Pseudonymph]

I think that is a great physical match, but was poor Connie living as a hermit all that time? It seems like somebody would have recognized her.

 

[carbuff]

I think that is a great physical match, but was poor Connie living as a hermit all that time? It seems like somebody would have recognized her.

But that's true no matter who she is. I don't think this woman's death was ever publicized much even in the area, let alone farther away.

 

[dogperson]

According to someone further up the thread, it looks like Connie wasn't reported missing. I guess because she left voluntarily? Did LE ever try to track her down? She was an adult who had the legal right to disappear, so did LE get involved? If this is her, she had to be making a living somehow, and the UIDs clothing was nice, so she was either working under her own name or some other.

 

[astridxx]

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrlllllllllllllll lease:lease:lease:

 

[ThePhantom]

Yes, calling Carl, your expertise is much needed!! I hope you will be able to help with this. Thank you so much!!

 

[carbuff]

According to someone further up the thread, it looks like Connie wasn't reported missing. I guess because she left voluntarily? Did LE ever try to track her down? She was an adult who had the legal right to disappear, so did LE get involved? If this is her, she had to be making a living somehow, and the UIDs clothing was nice, so she was either working under her own name or some other.

In 1974, it's very unlikely that LE was involved in what was clearly a voluntary disappearance.

Her family has posted a few times to Porchlight International: http://z10.invisionfree.com/usedtobedoe/index.php?showtopic=43947

One of the articles mentions that they determined there's no death report on her social security number, which doesn't mean much. As has been mentioned, it would have been easy for her to have obtained a new number before she left. You weren't required to have one before that.

And it was pretty easy to work without providing one as well, or to give a fake one.

 

[OnlineInstructor]

A close friend of Connie committed suicide as well according this article:

http://www.theawl.com/2010/08/the-story-of-connie-converse/2

Her response is interesting. (I think I did this correctly)

 

[dogperson]

So if LE was never involved, Connie could have worked under her own name all those years if she wanted to. Don't you need a warrant or something to search a person's work records using their SS#? Plus, we don't know whether she may have married, divorced, had name changes, etc. The family's best bet during those years would probably have been to hire a private detective because there was really no basis for LE getting involved. This was a voluntary disappearance. Also, Connie's brother mentions he wouldn't have felt free to contact her since she decided to leave the family.

Just based on what her family has written, I can see her as possibly giving in to depression and possibly taking her own life. I would have expected it to happen closer to 1974 and her disappearance rather than 1996, but you never know. Maybe she tried to live just a plain regular life all those years and finally couldn't do it anymore.

 

[rosesfromangels]

Can it be?

 

[rosesfromangels]

Note that she had a hysterectomy which would account for the scar. Also note one of the articles says that depressed her because she loved children. Note she committed suicide close to the childrens section
wow....can it be?

 

[ThePhantom]

I haven't been this excited about a potential match in a long time!

 

[ThePhantom]

The mention that Connie had been interested in civil rights led me to revisit hot issues in the l970's. It piqued my interest that NOW was getting into full swing, among other rights related organizations. D.C. definitely would have been the place to be for anyone interested in participating in social change. If it turns out our Jane Doe isn't Connie, the time spent investigating will still have been worthwhile, as I find Connie's case equally as compelling.

 

[Tssiemer]

Have we talked about how she would have gotten to the cemetery? No car was found I assume... bus? Cab? Walked?

 

[Fairy1]

I don't believe Connie was ever reported missing. Is there DNA on file?

I do believe there is a good chance this UID is Connie.

 

[ThePhantom]

Though the location of the cemetery is suburban, it is not far from D.C. The question of how she might have gotten there led me to a search of Metro's bus routes - this is what I found: served by Metrobus lines 29 C, E (Express Line), G,
H, K, L, N, and X (Express Line). Metrobus-Metrorail
connections are available from the Dunn Loring, Pentagon,
and King Street Metro stations.

So, she could have traveled from the city, or from areas close to the city such as Alexandria or Arlington.