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| King, Marcia/OHF810424; Troy April 24 1981 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 17 2006, 10:45 AM (1,073 Views) | |
| ELL | Jul 17 2006, 10:45 AM Post #1 |
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POST MORTEM: http://www.theyaremissed.org/gallery/photo...300439S_879.jpg![]() ![]() OH - Jane Doe 0439 Classification: Unidentified Dental Charts Available: Y DNA Available: Y Skeletal Remains (y/n): N Located Date: 1981-04-24 Date of Death From: 1981-04-22 Area Found: 1200 block of Greenlee Rd. Area Found: Troy, OH Approximate Age: 18-25 Gender: Female Height: 66 inches Weight: 130 pounds Race: White Complexion: Medium Hair Color: Brown Hair (Other): Reddish color. Eye Color: Brown Identifying Characteristics: Hair worn in large thick braids, freckles on face, tan birthmark on left thigh, horizontal scar on chin. Blood type "O". Clothing: Brown pull-over sweater with an orange criss-cross design on front, bra (size 32-D), blue "wrangler" bell bottom jeans, handmade tan buckskin leather pull-over type Poncho jacket with leather fringe on sleeves and deep purple colored lining. No shoes or socks. Circumstances: A resident in the vicinity of the 1200 block of Greenville Rd., thought he had seen clothing laying in a ditch near his residence approximately 4 miles west if I-75. As he approached the area he noticed it was a female laying face down. The victim is believed to have been deceased 24-48 hours prior to discovery. Cause of death has been determined to be homicide by manual strangulation and blows to the head. Primary Investigating Agency Investigative Agency: Miami County Sheriff's Office Phone: (937) 332-6867 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Dec 23 2006, 03:05 PM Post #2 |
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Unidentified White Female Located on April 24, 1981 in Miami County, Ohio Cause of death was strangulation, she also had suffered blows to the head. Estimated Date of Death: April 23, 1981 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vital Statistics Estimated age: Late teens to mid-20s Approximate Height and Weight: 5'6"; 130 lbs. Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown eyes; reddish-brown hair plaited into thick pigtails. Her complexion was freckled and ruddy. She was in remarkably good physical condition, with excellent personal hygiene. Her ears were not pierced. Scar on chin. Dentals: Available. Her teeth were in good condition and she still had all four of her wisdom teeth. Clothing: She was wearing a brown and orange turtleneck sweater, a size 32 D bra, Wrangler brand jeans and a distinctive handmade suede jacket with a purple satin lining. DNA: Available. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case History This young woman's body was found on Greenlee Road near State Route 55 in rural Miami County, Ohio in April of 1981. A coroner's report revealed that she died of strangulation. She also had suffered blows to the head. Evidence indicates that the body was transported to the scene from another location. Investigators believe she may have been a runaway or just a wanderer, hitching rides from one state to the next, although it did not appear that she had been on the road very long. She was not sexually assaulted. Victim's Jacket, Sweater and Jeans -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Investigators If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Detective Steve Lord 937-440-3965 ext. 6633 Agency Case Number: 8104240101 NCIC Number: U-990001965 Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case. Source Information: Miami County Jane Doe http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/133ufoh.html |
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| PorchlightUSA | Dec 23 2006, 03:08 PM Post #3 |
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http://www.geocities.com/miamicountydoe/JaneDoe.html The following is the March 17, 2001 article by Martha Hardcastle for the Dayton Daily News. Officials work on Jane Doe case Twenty years ago next month, the body of a pigtailed young woman was found on a rural Miami County Road. Sheriff's deputies there are reexamining the case using today's improved communication tools and technology with hopes of at least identifying the woman, if not her killer too. On April 24, 1981 a man moving into a residence on Greenlee Road in Newton Twp. saw what appeared to be some clothing on the side of the road. He slowed down and saw the body in the ditch. The woman was about 5'6" and 130 pounds. She appeared to be in her late teens to mid-20s and her reddish-brown hair was plaited into thick pigtails. Her complexion was freckled and ruddy and she was wearing a brown and orange turtleneck sweater, a size 32 D bra, Wrangler brand jeans and a very distinctive handmade suede jacket with a purple satin lining. A coroner's report revealed that she died of strangulation. She also had suffered blows to the head. And despite a great deal of media exposure, no one came forward to identify the body. Miami County's Jane Doe was buried in a Potter's field at Troy's Riverside Cemetery. The case was never closed, although unknown to the MCSO, the case was accidentally dropped from the National Crime Information Center's database for about six years. The case was placed back in NCIC late last year. Todd Matthews of Livingston Tenn., is an amateur sleuth who solved a 30-year-old unidentified case in Scott County Ky. known as the "Tent Girl" Matthews worked on the case for 10 years before finally finding the identity of Barbara Hackmann Taylor using the Internet in 1998. Matthews, who has aided other police departments including Piqua, has created a website to aid Miami County deputies with their Jane Doe at http://www.miamicountydoe.mainpage.net/ In the early 1990s, the Sheriff's office participated in a task force trying to solve the serial killings of suspected prostitutes near or on Ohio interstate highways. The area's other long term Jane Doe, a woman found strangled on I-70 at the Hoke Road eastbound onramp in Englewood in 1987 was also part of that task force. Det. Tom Wheeler has been assigned to the case, and he believes that maybe today he will be able to identify the woman. "Without knowing who she is, we don't have a chance to find out who killed her," he said. He has also sent information to America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries in hope that they will feature the case. He also isn't convinced that she was necessarily a prostitute. The woman was in remarkably good physical condition. "Her teeth were in excellent condition and she had a plate," Wheeler said. "She was a very well-kept person." |
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| PorchlightUSA | Dec 23 2006, 03:09 PM Post #4 |
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| PorchlightUSA | May 28 2010, 09:34 AM Post #5 |
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Ruled out as Beverly England per Chaffee County Sheriff |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 16 2012, 08:57 PM Post #6 |
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https://identifyus.org/en/cases/full_report/4790 Ruled out as Beverly England per Chaffee County Sheriff Exclusions The following people have been ruled out as being this decedent: First Name Last Name Year of Birth State LKA Ellen Akers 1966 Florida Tammy Akers 1962 Virginia Katherine Anderson 1954 Maryland Maria Anjiras 1961 Connecticut Lynn Bandringa 1945 California Donna Barnhill 1967 North Carolina Kristy Booth 1960 Texas Joyce Brewer 1955 Texas Darcy Brown 1943 Ohio Sandra Butler 1962 Nevada Peggy Byars-Baisden 1941 Florida Diane Chorba 1949 Michigan Darlene Conklin 1959 New York Mary Cook Spencer 1954 Maryland Carla Corley 1965 Alabama Joanne Coughlin 1953 Ohio Donella Coultas 1950 California Melinda Creech 1965 Indiana Susan DeQuina 1957 Massachusetts Carol Donn 1963 Florida Rebecca Dunn 1958 Nevada Diane Dye 1965 California Christine Eastin 1952 California Carol Edwards 1955 Washington Beverly England 1947 Colorado Rachael Garden 1964 New Hampshire Cherry Greenman 1956 Washington Jamie Grissim 1955 Washington Corinne Groenenberg 1957 California Gina Hall 1962 Virginia Susan Hallowell Florida Evelyn Hartley 1937 Wisconsin Kathleen Henson 1948 Oklahoma Lorraine Herbster 1962 New Jersey Margaret Holst 1958 Nebraska Paulette Jaster 1954 Michigan Rita Jolly 1955 Oregon Tina Kemp 1964 Delaware Kimberly King 1966 Michigan Vicke Lamberton 1949 Massachusetts Lori Lloyd 1961 Ohio Carol Lubahn 1954 California Tammy Mahoney 1961 New York Anne Manchester 1954 Delaware Aleca Manning 1952 Arizona Deborah McCall 1963 Illinois Angela Meeker 1965 Washington Deborah Meyer 1958 Wyoming Barbara Monaco 1960 Virginia Audrey Nerenberg 1958 New York Linda Nickell 1955 Michigan Nancy O'Sullivan 1959 Illinois Judith ODonnell 1961 New York Mary Opitz 1963 Florida Patricia Otto 1952 Idaho Linda Pleva 1949 Oregon Sharon Pretorius 1960 Ohio Dean Pyle Peters 1966 Michigan Laureen Rahn 1966 New Hampshire Angela Ramsey 1961 Florida Elaine Robertson 1955 Washington Lonene Rogers 1951 Pennsylvania Alma Root 1965 California Alma Root 1965 California Nancy Rose 1950 Idaho Janis Sanders 1950 Michigan Lucinda Schaefer 1962 California Gayla Schaper 1951 Idaho Cheryl Scherer 1959 Missouri Diane Schulte 1954 Idaho Suzanne Schultz 1961 Wisconsin Beverly Sharpman 1930 Pennsylvania Mary Shinn 1953 Arkansas Catherine Sjoberg 1957 Wisconsin Mary Cook Spencer 1954 Maryland Debra Spickler 1955 Connecticut Mary Sprague 1960 Florida Kimberly Stewart 1956 California Mary Trlica 1957 Texas Virginia Uden 1947 Wyoming Belinda VanLith 1957 Minnesota Floradean Walker 1925 Texas Christina White 1967 Washington Christina White 1967 Washington Kathy Wilcox 1956 Michigan Debra Wilhite 1955 Indiana Cynthia Woolard 1957 Florida April Zane 1960 Illinois Karen Zendrosky 1963 New Jersey |
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| tatertot | Mar 13 2017, 07:19 AM Post #7 |
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https://www.ksl.com/?sid=40545046&nid=148&t...hio-murder-case Utah firm makes breakthrough in 1981 Ohio murder case By John Hollenhorst | Posted Jul 6th, 2016 @ 10:43pm TROY, Ohio — Homicide detectives in Ohio have a new breakthrough in a murder case that's baffled them for 35 years, and they're giving credit to innovative forensic techniques developed by a company in Salt Lake City. The unsolved 1981 case has no obvious connection to Utah. The frustration all along for Ohio detectives is they have no idea who the young victim was or where she came from. "A victim without a name," said detective Stephen Hickey of the Miami County (Ohio) Sheriff's Office. "It's a face without a name." Now, a Utah lab analysis of the young woman's hair — preserved since she was buried in 1981 — may help crack the case. Chemical isotopes in her hair point to a specific area in north Texas and southern Oklahoma as the victim's possible home. "It's a very good breakthrough," Hickey said. The finding stems from the fact that everyone's hair contains a detailed record of the places where a person travels and drinks the water. In the Ohio case, the hair has provided new clues about the victim's travels in the 12 months preceding her murder. "We see that there are some patterns in this data," said Brett Tipple, senior research scientist for Utah-based IsoForensics Inc. "That suggests she did move quite a bit." Gravestone for Jane Doe The unidentified victim was buried in Troy, Ohio, in 1981, under the generic pseudonym Jane Doe. Police drawings made at the time show an attractive young woman with long hair. "She looked like Dorothy from 'The Wizard of Oz,’” said Cheryl Lavin, the clerk and caretaker at Riverside Cemetery. "She had those long braids." On a recent visit to the cemetery by two detectives, Lavin told them she's been waiting a long time for answers. "I've been here 23 years," she said, "and it's my greatest wish that 'Jane' gets to go home." One of the pallbearers 35 years ago was Bob Sweitzer, the Miami County detective originally assigned to the murder case. He now manages the sheriff's office property room where the meager evidence has been stored since 1981. "When you can't identify who the person is you have no place to start the investigation," Sweitzer said Jane Doe's distinctive clothing has always been viewed as a possible clue: "The news media called her the Buckskin Girl because of this coat," Sweitzer said, as he pulled a three-quarter length coat from an evidence bag. It was the buckskin coat that caught the attention of farmer Greg Bridenbaugh back in 1981. He spotted it alongside a rural Ohio road as he was passing by with friends. "And I said to one of my guys, I said, 'You know, I'd like to have that,'" Bridenbaugh recalled recently. "Lo and behold, there was somebody in it." Ohio detectives have a new lead in a murder case that's baffled them for 35 years. The unidentified victim was buried in Troy, Ohio, in 1981, under the generic pseudonym "Jane Doe." IsoForensics Inc., in Salt Lake City, analyzed chemical isotopes in her hair to point to a specific area of the victim's possible home. (Photo: John Hollenhorst, Deseret News) The coat was on the girl's lifeless body. She'd been beaten and strangled. "She was dumped there," Sweitzer said. "Killed somewhere else and dumped there." Hickey and detective Ben Garbig are the latest in a long line of Ohio investigators who've tried to crack the case. "Somebody knows something," Garbig said, conversing with Hickey as the walked alongside the road where the body was discovered. "Oh, absolutely," Hickey replied. "Somebody's got a secret," Garbig responded. At his desk in the Miami County Sheriff's Office, Hickey pointed to a thick binder holding the investigative file for the 1981 case. "As of right now, in this file, there are no leads," Hickey said. But that would soon change. New clues in Utah "When you've hit a dead end, anything can help," said Lesley Chesson of IsoForensics Inc. IsoForensics is a spinoff company from the University of Utah. During the past decade, the Research Park-based company has honed its techniques for tracing a person's history through isotopic analysis. Isotopes are variant forms of common elements, such as hydrogen and oxygen, but they have varying atomic weights. "In isotopes, it's the neutrons that's different," said IsoForensics lab technician Thuan Chau. Oxygen atoms, for example, usually have an atomic weight of 16 because they have eight protons and eight neutrons. The isotope called Oxygen 18 has two extra neutrons. The two different forms of oxygen turn up in molecules of drinking water all over the world, but the relative ratio of the isotopes varies from place to place. The water that a person drinks delivers those isotopes to growing tissues in the body. Every day fingernails and hair are growing, they're preserving a record of the isotopic signature in the water that person drinks. "You're a giant tape recorder," Chesson said. "You're walking around, and all of your tissues in your body are recording what you ate and drank." Years ago, IsoForensics staffers traveling throughout the country collected samples of drinking water from hundreds of locations. After analyzing the isotopes of oxygen and other elements, the company developed maps that show distinctive regional patterns of isotope ratios. That unique database has helped identify victims in previous murder cases, including one case in Utah. A murdered woman in Utah was nicknamed Saltair Sally after her unidentified body was found near Saltair, west of Salt Lake City. IsoForensics was able to chart her travels by analyzing isotopes in her hair. That steered the investigation toward a missing person case in Seattle. Later, DNA analysis confirmed that Saltair Sally was a young Seattle mother, Nikki Bakoles. "The crime itself is unsolved," Chesson said. "How she ended up at Saltair is unsolved." The Utah company also provided a critical clue for a murdered Jane Doe in California. Isotopes in her hair led to a missing person case in San Francisco. DNA confirmed that California's Jane Doe was Mary Alice Willey. Researchers at IsoForensics Inc., in Salt Lake City, analyze the chemical isotopes of hair to pinpoint a specific area a victim could be from. (Photo: Eric Betts, Deseret News) The hope is that IsoForensic's techniques will eventually help identify Ohio's Jane Doe. "She's connected to a family," Chesson said. "We need to get her back to that family, whoever that is." The new results in Utah make a positive outcome in Ohio much more likely. The strands of hair preserved in Ohio since 1981 are long enough that they preserved a year's worth of growth, providing oxygen isotope values for the last 12 months of Jane Doe's life. Into Texas One region stands out like a bull's-eye on the map. It's a rough circle encompassing a region that runs from the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of north Texas into southern Oklahoma. "That's the only region in the United States that tap water corresponds to those isotope values in her hair," Tipple said. Although the data suggests Jane Doe was traveling most of her last year, she was in the north Texas region twice, staying there for at least two months each time. That leads to the possibility she once lived in that region or had close ties there. It's possible the first of her stays in that region was much longer than two months. Evidence of that visit was detected in isotopes at the very end of the strands of her hair, at the point where the hair was trimmed off decades ago. It's possible she'd been living in that area for many months, perhaps years, but the evidence was lost in Jane Doe's last haircut. The new evidence supports an earlier finding by a different laboratory that studied pollen in the victim's clothing. In the buckskin coat, the analysis found pollen that is characteristic of plants in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. That area includes north Texas. The Ohio detectives now plan to work with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to generate publicity in north Texas about the murder case in Ohio. They're hoping that drawings of Jane Doe and the facts of the case may jog the memory of someone who knew her 35 years ago. "Once we identify her," Hickey said, "then we can possibly look for a suspect who caused her death." As he stood alongside the road where he made the gruesome discovery as a young farmer more than a third of a century ago, Bridenbaugh said, "You know, it's time for closure. 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| tatertot | Apr 10 2018, 03:30 PM Post #8 |
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/miami-county-sheriff-office-release-new-details-1981-unsolved-homicide-case/fmfdENjXMReEHV5VZGPcpI/ Miami County Sheriff’s Office to release new details in 1981 unsolved homicide case Breaking News Staff 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 10, 2018 News The Miami County Sheriff’s Office will be having a press conference tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. to release developments on an unsolved homicide case from 1981. In this case, an unidentified female was discovered beside Greenlee Road on April 24th. The press conference will be held at the Sheriff’s Office Training Center classroom located at 2050 N. County Road 25A in Troy. |
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| tatertot | Apr 12 2018, 08:17 AM Post #9 |
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May Marcia Rest in Peace ![]() http://www.dailycall.com/top-stories/38440/buckskin-girl-identified-2 POSTED ON APRIL 11, 2018 BY MELODY VALLIEU ‘Buckskin Girl’ identified DNA, technology provides identity of county’s Jane Doe By Melody Vallieu TROY — Greg Bridenbaugh, one of the three men who found the murdered girl in 1981, said he was happy to hear that “Buckskin Girl” finally was able to be given her real name back. “I’m glad that this has happened. It’s been something I’ve thought of for 37 years,” Bridenbaugh said. “I’d about given up on it.” Bridenbaugh said he was moving from State Route 55 to Greenlee Road on the day the body was discovered. He said his friends, brothers Neal Hoffman and Martin Hoffman, were helping him move when he noticed a buckskin coat in the ditch. “I was like, ‘That’s a nice coat,’” said Bridenbaugh, who said they continued with moving items from State Route 55 to Greenlee Road. The next time they came back to Greenlee Road, however, Bridenbaugh said he told Neal Hoffman to go look at the coat. “He said ‘Oh my god, there’s a woman in that coat,’” said Bridenbaugh, then a lieutenant on the Ludlow Falls Fire Department. Bridenbaugh — who went on to have a long career as the chief of the LFFD — said he didn’t have a phone yet at the Greenlee residence, so he used his fire department radio to contact dispatch about the girl, who they believed to already be deceased. “It was first believed they thought it was a car accident, and the State Highway Patrol came flying in,” Bridenbaugh remembered. “Then the the sheriff’s office, including detectives, soon convened on the site.” He remembers a member of the Pleasant Hill rescue squad as the one who pronounced her dead while she remained untouched in the ditch. “She was laying on her right side, almost in the fetal position,” Bridenbaugh recalled. “It was like someone just laid her in there. “Once we found her, we kind of just stayed back from everything,” Bridenbaugh said. About a year ago, Bridenbaugh said he met a detective from Salt Lake City, Utah, who was looking into unsolved murders around the country and did an interview with the man. Bridenbaugh said he hoped at that point it was leading to her identification. “This just puts closure to everything,” Bridebaugh said.
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