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NCF030304; Granville County March 4 2003
Topic Started: Sep 25 2006, 09:32 PM (497 Views)
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Case Number - OCA030410

On March 4, 2003, a passing motorist made a grim discovery along Interstate 85 in Granville County. The body of a female was found in the wood line. The body was partially decomposed and had no identification. The body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Chapel Hill, NC.


Information was sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for a facial reconstruction of the victim (photo is below this text). The victim is described as approximately 5'3" tall, 150 pounds, long wavy black hair and is believed to be 16-18 years of age. At the time of death the victim was wearing a long sleeve, beige pull-over shirt; a black t-shirt with the logo "Route 66"; light green cargo pants; white socks; no shoes. Victim also had 4 elastic hair bands in her hair; one was pink, one was green, one was yellow, and one was white. The victim had no dental reconstructions.

http://www.granvillecounty.org/OCA030410.html
Anyone with information that may lead to the identification of this person is asked to contact the Granville County Sheriff's Department at (919) 693-3213. Or you may contact the lead detective on the case via e-mail by clicking on his name: Danny Emory.


This is the composite facial reconstruction:
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Unidentified Biracial Female


The victim was discovered on March 3, 2003 in Granville, Granville County, North Carolina
Estimated Date of Death: four to six weeks prior to her discovery.
Partially Decomposed.


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Vital Statistics


Estimated age: 16-18 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'3"; 150-160 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Black with some racial mixture, possibly White. Black hair; brown eyes. She didn't have any visible scars, marks, or tattoos. Her ears were not pierced.
Dentals: The victim had no dental reconstructions.
Clothing: Light green cargo pants (Route 66 brand), a black t-shirt with a Route 66 logo on the front, a beige long-sleeve pullover shirt with a collar and three buttons on the front, white socks, Hanes brand underwear, and a brown belt. She had four colored elastic bands in her hair and a pink hair comb was found near the body


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Case History
The victim was located in the wood line along Interstate 85 in Granville County, North Carolina.
The body was partially decomposed and had no identification.



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Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Granville County Sheriff's Department
Detective Danny Emory
919-693-3213
Email
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

Agency Case Number: OCA030410

NCMEC #: NCMU400057

NCIC Number: N/A
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Granville County Sheriff's Department
The Daily Dispatch 12/9/04

http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/182ufnc.html
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http://www.nbc17.com/news/2628001/detail.html

Authorities Hope Computer Image Helps Identify Girl

Men Find Body Near I-85

POSTED: 10:24 am EST November 11, 2003
UPDATED: 10:47 am EST November 11, 2003

GRANVILLE COUNTY, N.C. -- Authorities are hoping that a computer-enhanced image of a girl whose remains were found in Granville County a few weeks ago will lead to answers.

"Jane Doe's" remains were found near I-85 in Granville County on March 4. Two men driving from Henderson to Durham pulled over to the side of the road because their car was overheating. They went to a nearby dam to get water and found the body.

Authorities say the girl had not been stabbed or beaten. Detective Danny Emory of the Granville County Sheriff's office says the body was simply dumped. It was partially decomposed.

They've already circulated the computer-enhanced image once to hundreds of police agencies but have had no luck identifying the girl.

Emory hopes another nationwide circulation will spark more interest in the case.

Authorities believe the girl was between 16 and 18 years old. She is described as approximately 5 feet 3 inches tall, 150 pounds, with long, wavy black hair.

At the time of death, she was wearing a long sleeve, beige pull-over shirt, a black T-shirt with the logo "Route 66," light green cargo pants, and white socks with no shoes.

Anyone with information that may lead to the identification of this person is asked to contact the Granville County Sheriff's Department at (919) 693-3213.
Copyright 2003 by NBC17.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Granville Authorities Hope New Composite Will Shed Light On 8-Month-Old Case

Unidentified Remains Found Near I-85

POSTED: 4:10 p.m. EST November 10, 2003
UPDATED: 5:36 p.m. EST November 10, 2003

GRANVILLE COUNTY, N.C. -- Authorities hope a computer-enhanced image of a girl whose remains were found in Granville County will lead them to some answers in the case.

Authorities want to know if anyone can identify this girl. Her remains were found near Interstate 85 in Granville County.

Two men were driving from Henderson to Durham on March 4, 2003, when they pulled over to the side of the road because their vehicle was overheating. They were retrieving water from a nearby dam when they found the body.

"She was not stabbed and she had not been beaten. That's a strange circumstance in that the body was just dumped," said Detective Danny Emory, of the Granville County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities said the body was partially decomposed and did not have any evidence that could help investigators identify her.

"She had no tattoos and she had perfect teeth. [There was] no dental reconstruction to her teeth," Emory said.

Copies of the computer enhancement were circulated to hundreds of police agencies nationwide with no luck, but Emory hopes another nationwide circulation will finally break the case.

"Maybe this will regenerate some interest again, and maybe we can get her identified," he said.

The girl was believed to be between 10 to 15 years old.
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Cold case: Jane Doe's tale is still baffling

http://www.herald-sun.com/granville/11-691120.html

BY WILLIAM F. WEST : The Herald-Sun
bwest@heraldsun.com
Jan 18, 2006 : 7:50 pm ET

OXFORD -- Despite nationwide attention and the dogged efforts of a local lawman to solve what might be Granville County's most puzzling crime, authorities are no closer to identifying a young woman whose body was dumped off Interstate 85 three years ago.

Working without an evidence trail, investigators with the Sheriff's Department and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children are not giving up hope of identifying the woman, classified as a Jane Doe, and determining why she was left for dead.

"No case like this happens in a vacuum," said Jerry Nance, the center's head of cold cases. "Somebody knows something, and it's only a matter of time before somebody will come forward with it."

Still, Sheriff David Smith said the case tugs at his and his fellow law enforcement officers' hearts.

"We just don't know," he said. "We just don't have a clue."

"If anybody knows anything, we certainly would love to get a call," he said.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children was able to help by taking Jane Doe's skull and, by using clay, create a lifelike reconstruction of her face for the Internet.

"It was kind of eerie," Sheriff's Detective Danny Emory recalled of first seeing the image, which is on both the sheriff's and the center's Web site.

When asked his belief in the chances of identifying the woman, Emory calmly but candidly said, "Fifty-fifty at this particular point."

The victim today would be about 21 years old.

A man who was driving to Durham discovered her in early March 2003.

The motorist's vehicle radiator overheated, he pulled off I-85 between mile-markers 192 and 193 and stepped down to a beaver pond to get water.

Then he saw the female, in a semi-fetal position by the water's edge, her face decomposed.

Due to wintry conditions at the time, precisely determining how long the body had been there was difficult, though the medical examiner figured at least a week to 10 days, Emory recalled.

Emory said what struck him was that the female was wearing socks but no shoes and was lightly clothed, meaning she was not hitchhiking.

He said there was no evidence she was on drugs.

Further details are open to speculation for Emory, a plain-speaking man with a down-home side -- he adorns his belt with a buckle resembling the encircled star of the federal marshals and Texas Rangers.

His office also has a sizeable collection of law artifacts, including a dusty, beefy 1960s-era hand-held Motorola portable radio made for Civil Defense.

When asked about emotional entanglement in unraveling the mystifying case and whether there has been any progress, he acknowledges frustration yet remains unflappable in answering questions.

"Totally cold. Cold as the driven snow," he said. He has not received any contacts since last summer.

"We'd like to solve it, at least to bring some closure to somebody, because she's somebody's child," Emory said.

Emory showed a photograph sent to him by an agency saying the subject in the snapshot could be Jane Doe, "but this girl is too big. You can see how thick her thighs are here. There is some facial resemblance to this girl, but then after we got talking -- she's got pierced ears."

Jane Doe stood 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighed 150 pounds, with no evidence of any marks, scars or tattoos.

Emory said she had good teeth and did not appear to be malnourished.

She was of African American and Hispanic descent, Emory said.

Emory believes she could have been an illegal alien going to Florida, which has a large Hispanic population, or toward Latin America.

"Apparently this was a child that, we figured out early on, was kind of young, possibly a runaway, that she was traveling with whomever, and they were traveling from Point A to Point B, and something happened," Emory said.

There was no indication of sexual assault or any kind of evidence of gunshot or stab wounds, he said.

"The only thing that we couldn't determine was if she had been strangled -- because of the decomposition -- so that was a possibility," he said.

Getting additional information and leads continues to be an arduous task.

Emory works for a law enforcement agency already strapped for deputies and other officers patrolling roads, fighting crimes that mostly are related to illegal drugs, and keeping track of convicted sex offenders.

"We're covering 543 square miles and about 51,000, 52,000 population," he said. "I mean, there's some days we've worked the county with three deputies."

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http://www.herald-sun.com/granville/11-691122.html


Mix of basics, high tech used in Jane Doe case

BY WILLIAM F. WEST : The Herald-Sun
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Jan 18, 2006 : 8:20 pm ET

OXFORD -- Jerry Nance hopes a combination of high-tech DNA sleuthing combined with old-fashioned poster-posting might dislodge sorely needed clues in Granville County's enigmatic Jane Doe case.

Nance is senior case manager for the special case unit at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Solving crime riddles is his specialty, particularly in the area of long-term missing and unidentified persons.

Currently, Granville County's 3-year-old Jane Doe case is one of at least 165 special files being worked by the nonprofit organization. Created in 1984, the organization receives tips from citizens and coordinates with law enforcement to help solve difficult cases.

Nance has been working the Granville County case since shortly after the discovery of the young woman's remains just off Interstate 85 in 2003. The center's experts reconfigured the woman's badly decomposed face using clay, and Nance plans to distribute more posters of her computer-generated facial likeness to a wide range of people.

Nance also said he is going to ask about getting permission to have a sample of her remains placed in a DNA indexing system at the University of North Texas to help with possible future identification.

Nance said in instances of unidentified remains the center runs descriptions and any unique information through computer software called Avidan to bring up possible matches. It also conducts offline searches of the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), which is the nation's database for tracking illegal activities.

"Basically, what we're here to do is to provide resources to the police that they don't have internally," Nance said.

Still, there is a larger question about the number of missing children in the U.S. and how many of them are nameless. Nance said within the NCIC, there are about 5,700 cases regarding remains.

But, he said, based on conclusions among homicide investigators and medical examiners approximately 40,000 cases are not in the system. That is chilling, he said, because the U.S. has the technology needed to make the connection.

"Unfortunately, you've hit on what I like to call 'the silent crisis,' " he said. "That is, nobody knows the number of unidentified dead."

Nance worked homicides for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. He tries not to become emotional about stories such as the Jane Doe case.

"You have to sort of build up firewalls in your brain, just to kind of keep things civil, because this is obviously a very depressing type of thing in dealing with a lot of people in various stages of grief," he said.

"That's not stuff you want to take home and dump on your family," he said.

Danny Emory, the Granville County's Sheriff's detective working on the Jane Doe case, said he contacted the FBI, which conducted a search and provided him with at least 400 names, none of which provided him with a match.

He said at first North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation would not allow information about her to be loaded into the system for lack of more specific details until the SBI changed the policy about a year and a half ago.

"We've got her entered now," he said.
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The victim was located on March 3, 2003 in Granville, North Carolina . She was identified in March 2007.

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