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FLF040414; Naples April 14 2004
Topic Started: Jan 9 2007, 09:29 AM (381 Views)
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Their Case Number: 2004-00126
Date of Death or Discovery: 2004-04-14
Estimated Age of Decedent: 36-45
Presumed Race: White
Gender: Female
Estimated Height: 5'-6'
Estimated Weight: Unknown
Additional Details:


Location Found: Richards Road, just East of CR951 off Immokalee Road in Naples

Hair: No details available

Eyes: No details available

Facial Features: No details available

Tattoos: No details available

Scars, Surgeries and Other Dental and Medical Information: Decedent had numerous dental restorations that should prove useful for establishing a positive ID if antemortem records or xrays become available

Jewelry: None

Clothing and Shoes: Cotton sweatsuit (possibly gray). Sweatsuit consisted of long sweatpants and long-sleeved sweatshirt. The label on the top read "Favorites."

Personal Effects: None

Other Details: Anthropological analysis revealed decedent to be @ 5' 3" tall and approximately 30-40 years of age at the time of her death. It is possible that the death occurred one or more years prior to discovery.

Contact: Michael Britt/ (239) 434-5020 or michaelbritt@colliergov.net

For more information about this case, contact:
Michael Britt with the District 20 Medical Examiner Office
239-434-5020, extension 1 or
michaelbritt@colliergov.net



FLUIDDB Case ID: 390
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NAPLES — Most people who attend the Collier County Sheriff’s Office’s Citizens Academy go there to learn.

Tricia Blair went with an offer the agency couldn’t refuse.

The 55-year-old grandmother and forensic artist, who dabbles in stand-up comedy, is hoping to bring closure to the friends and families of two murder victims whose skeletons were unearthed in North Naples about five years ago.

On Tuesday afternoon, Blair unveiled a face sculpted out of clay that she reconstructed around the skull of a man whose body was found by surveyors working at the Super Wal-Mart site near the intersection of Immokalee Road and Interstate 75 in 2003.

Blair also released a partial sketch of the face of a female, whose body was found in a North Naples field in 2004. She was only able to do a partial sketch because the Sheriff’s Office only had the top half of the skull, which was badly damaged and couldn’t support the weight of clay.

The two cases are not believed to be related.

“It’s not meant to be an exact replica,” Blair said of the clay face at a press conference Tuesday. “What you get is a resemblance.”

Blair’s background is in graphic design and advertising, but around 2001 she took a job as a dispatcher with the San Bernadino Sheriff’s Office in California. A year later, she started working in forensic art, training under two leaders in the field.

“I was trying to think of a way I could dovetail this very eclectic background,” she said of her decision to pursue forensic art.

In 2005, Blair moved to Miami to be closer to family, and ended up in Collier County about six months ago, she said.

A few months back, Blair said she attended the Citizens Academy with a proposal: She would do forensic art for the Sheriff’s Office in the capacity of an unpaid intern for a couple of years, allowing her to build a portfolio and get her license from the International Association for Identification.

“My ultimate goal in doing this is that it will lead to identifying the unknown, locating suspects and finding the missing,” Blair said in an e-mail. “As far as I’m concerned, my volunteerism is open ended.”

Sheriff’s Office officials jumped at the opportunity.

“Facial reconstructionists are not a dime a dozen,” Lt. Mike Fox said. “They’re rare. They’re hard to find.”

The two North Naples murder victims are her first tests in Collier County.

The man’s body was found by surveyors on July 31, 2003, buried beneath palm fronds in a heavily-wooded area near the intersection of Immokalee Road and Interstate 75, where Super Wal-Mart was being built. There is evidence the area had previously been used as a campground by homeless people and transients, Detective Ray Wilkinson said.

“He was killed there,” Wilkinson said, adding that the body had probably been there less than a year when it was discovered.

Investigators believe the man was Hispanic with possible Native American or Asian ancestry, about 45 to 60 years old, and 5 feet 2 inches to 5 feet 7 inches tall. His neck was congenitally shortened as a result of Klippel-Feil Syndrome, and his nose, right hand and ribs had been fractured at some point in his life, the Sheriff’s Office reported.

Blair sculpted the face with a smile, so as to show the man’s distinctive jagged teeth.

“We’re just asking the general public to take a look at John Doe and see if they recognize him,” Wilkinson said.

On April 14, 2004, a Collier deputy found the remains of the woman in a field off of Richards Road and Immokalee Road, reports said. She was buried in a shallow grave fully clothed and wrapped in a green shower curtain. She had been buried there at least a year, but was not killed there.

The white woman with possible European ancestry was 30 to 40 years old, between 5 feet 1 inches and 5 feet 6 inches tall.

She was wearing sweatpants, a sweatshirt and sneakers.

The sweatshirt had a label with “Favorites” in black stitching with light blue and pink coloring. Her sneakers were size 7-1/2 B and had silver and light blue coloring on the heel with “Olympics” on the back and the Olympics ring logo and “USA.”

Investigators are not saying how these people were killed. Everything else is on the table.

“We’ve given you as much as we possibly can,” Wilkinson said.

Blair said she uses 21 points on a skull as markers to reconstruct a face, describing the skull as a “road map.” However, there is much that she can’t tell from a skull, such as eye color and hair color.

“It’s a soft science at best,” she said of forensic art. “People have been identified by this method. That’s what we’re hoping for.”

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Anyone with information about these cases is asked to call the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 793-9300, or if you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477).

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/may/05...sculpture-draw/

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Unidentified White Female


•The victim was discovered on April 14, 2004 in Naples, Collier County, Florida
•Estimated Date of Death: One or more years prior to discovery
•Partial Skeleton: Right tibia and fibula and some bones of hands and feet are missing.

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Vital Statistics

•Estimated age: 30-40 years old
•Approximate Height and Weight: 5'1"-5'6"
•Distinguishing Characteristics: Possible European ancestry.
•Clothing: Cotton sweat suit (possibly gray). Sweat suit consisted of long sweatpants and long-sleeved sweatshirt. The label on the top read "Favorites" and sneakers size 7 ½ B, had silver and light blue coloring on the heel with "Olympics" on the back, Olympics ring logo and "USA".
•Fingerprints: Not available
•Dentals: She had numerous dental restorations. Third molars from maxilla and mandible were lost ante-mortem. Both maxillary second incisors and right first premolar are mesially rotated.
•DNA: Not available


Victim's Shoe


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Case History
The victim was located on Richards Road, just East of CR951, off Immokalee Road, in the Golden Gate Estates, in Naples, Florida on April 14, 2004.

A deputy stopped on Richards Street to use his cellular phone, got out of his car and walked into an open field to get better reception and, as he walked back to his car, he discovered the remains.

She was found buried in a shallow grave, wrapped in a plastic green shower curtain in a field.
The bones show evidence of plant root growth and rodent gnawing. No perimortem trauma observed.


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Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Anthony Falsetti
C.A. Pound Human Identification Lab
352-273-8320
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Collier County Sheriff's Office
239-793-9300
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Crime Stoppers
800-780-TIPS
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

Agency Case Number:
04-126

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