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WIF081123; Ashford (Fond du Lac County)
Topic Started: Dec 23 2008, 02:12 PM (1,721 Views)
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Hunters find body in Fond du Lac County woods
The Reporter Staff • November 23, 2008

TOWN OF ASHFORD — Hunters have discovered a body, believed to be a woman, in rural Fond du Lac County.

The badly decomposed body was found about 9:17 a.m. off Skyline Drive, west of Memorial Drive, in the town of Ashford, near St. Killian, said Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Rick Olig.

A team of detectives has been sent to the area. Olig said the body has not been identified. The hunters believe it is a woman due to the clothing, he said.

No women have been reported missing in the Fond du Lac area in recent months, Olig said. Officers are checking with surrounding counties to see if they have any missing persons reports.

Further details will be posted as they become available.

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Hunters Discover Body In Small Town
Michael George

TOWN OF ASHFORD - In a small abandoned farm in the town of Ashford, a badly decomposed body was found in a creek.

If a group of hunters didn't stumble across the body on Sunday morning, the body might not have been discovered.

Hunters came across the body on a secluded farm in an unincorporated town. Local hunters are talking about the discovery.

"I hope that would never happen to me," hunter Greg Kottke said.

It's not known who the person is or how he or she died, but it's clear to investigators the person did not die recently.

"I can tell you, I was a death investigator for 9 years. From what I see there, that body has been there awhile," said Fond Du Lac County Sheriff Mick Fink.

The body was sent to the medical examiner, who will keep trying to figure out the age, gender and identity of the person. Hunters thought it was a woman, based on the clothing found at the scene.

"Hopefully, we can get some kind of I.D. We don't have anyone missing in Fond Du Lac County," said Fink.

Even though there are plenty of unanswered questions, this chance discovery could lead to answers for a family wondering what happened to a loved one.

"I think it might bring closure to some family some day, that if they can do the investigation and find out about it," Kottke said.

Fond Du Lac Sheriff's Department investigators are contacting other counties to see if there have been any recent missing person reports.


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Woman's Body Found in Fond Du Lac Co.

Posted: Nov 24, 2008 07:56 PM EST

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Who was she and how did she end up in a creek?

In Fond du Lac County, investigators are now trying to answer that mystery.

On Sunday, hunters found the body of an unidentified female in a creek in rural Ashford. The body was in a state of decomposition. Authorities don't know who the person is but believe she may be a homicide victim based on where the body was discovered. The age of the victim is not known, but authorities don't believe the body is that of a child.

Sheriff Mick Fink held a news conference Monday morning. "The body's in a rural area. The body's in an area which certainly could be referred to in the old detective type of lingo as a 'dump site.' There's not a residence that's nearby. It wasn't on a residential property...why would there be a female out there in that creek?"

Fink also said Fond du Lac and surrounding counties don't have any missing person cases that match the description of the body found Sunday.

For now, forensic scientists will take over, studying and analyzing bones and teeth fragments, in effort to make some sort of positive identification. No cause of death has been revealed. It's also not known how long the body was there.

"Hopefully...we can bring this thing to some sort of successful resolution," said Fink.

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Sheriff: Body found was partially decomposed
Associated Press

Last update: November 24, 2008 - 3:57 PM


ASHFORD, Wis. - The Fond du Lac County sheriff says a body found by some deer hunters in a creek was partially decomposed and dental records will be used to try to identify it.

Sheriff Mick Fink said Monday that investigators believe the body belongs to a female at least 15 years old. He says how she died is unknown.

Fink says because the body was only partially decomposed, it's likely the victim has been dead a matter of months, not years.

The sheriff says no missing women are currently being reported in Fond du Lac County or any surrounding counties that would match the remains found Sunday morning.

The body was found about 17 miles south of Fond du Lac.

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Autopsy planned to identify body found in Dodge County

Wisconsin State Journal

An autopsy is scheduled for today in Fond du Lac to identify a decomposed body found by hunters outside of the village of Iron Ridge in Dodge County on Sunday afternoon.

Police Chief Charles Young said the human remains were in an advanced stage of decomposition when found along a brush line between two fields only 100 yards from the village limits.

"It was covered by leaves and things, and at this point we are going to wait for the autopsy," said Young.

He said the village has one active missing person case but would not speculate on any possible connection.

Earlier Sunday, hunters in Fond du Lac County also found a decomposed body off Skyline Drive in the town of Ashford, said Sheriff's Lt. Rick Olig.

That body also has not yet been identified, but the hunters who found it believed it was a woman's body because of the clothing.

Olig said no women are known to be missing in the Fond du Lac area, but investigators are checking with surrounding counties to see if the body matches any of their missing persons reports.


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New Info. On Body Found By Hunters
Michael George

FOND DU LAC COUNTY - New information now about a body found in Fond Du Lac County.

Police say it was a young woman and the body had been there for awhile.

A group of hunters came across the body in a shallow stream on an abandoned farm, and new evidence has investigators thinking someone murdered the woman and dumped the body, thinking no one would ever find it.

Click here to see video from the scene.

Investigators are now calling the case a Jane Doe homicide, but they still don't know who the victim is.

"This is somebody's sister, this is somebody's daughter, somebody's mother, who knows? It's a human dealing we're dealing with,” Fond du Lac County Sheriff Mick Fink said.

Click here to see and interview with Fond Du Lac County Sheriff Mick Fink.

The victim is an adult woman, most likely Caucasian. It's not clear how long the body has been in this wooded area far from any homes.

"The body's in an area that could certainly be referred to in the old detective lingo as a ‘dump site,’” Sheriff Fink said.

The owner of the land didn't want to comment, but the sheriff says he is not considered a suspect. Residents aren't surprised someone picked this area to dump the body.

"It might have seemed a good place as it has at other times. You hide a body in the woods, you cover it up with branches,” Lomira resident Bill Melandes said.

The investigation is proving tough. There haven't been any reports of missing people matching the woman's description.

As forensics experts try to identify the woman, the investigation is growing. Detectives are even talking to police departments in other states, in the hopes that someone out there knows who this woman is.

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'Jane Doe' body taken to Madison
The Reporter Staff • November 27, 2008

The body that's the focus of a Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department's "Jane Doe" homicide investigation has been moved to Madison.

Sheriff Mick Fink said the woman's body was moved to Madison on Tuesday for study by forensic anthropologist Leslie E. Eisenberg, burial sites preservation program coordinator for the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Sheriff's Department Detective Charles Sosinski will be in contact with Eisenberg regarding the investigation.

The body was found by three hunters at 9:17 a.m. Sunday partially submerged in a frozen creek in a wooded area behind W4617 Skyline Drive in the town of Ashford.

Fink said if studying the woman's skeleton reveals the cause of death, the information will be released to the media.

He said he did not know when forensic odontologist Don Simley will look at the woman's teeth.

Fond du Lac County Medical Examiner Douglas Kelley was at the crime scene Sunday and had the body in the Medical Examiner's Office office on Monday.

"I have a lot of things in the works to fully investigate this death, and it will be a little while before I have any results," Kelley said in an e-mail to The Reporter. "Obviously, making an identification is a priority for us."

Fink said the level of decomposition of the body was too great to draw immediate conclusions and likened Kelley's job to a physician sending a patient to specialists.

"Yesterday, we had what we thought was a possibility (for an identity)," Fink said. "There was a runaway or missing female from the Hartford area. By the end of the day, we found out she was alive and well, which is a good thing."

Despite the investigation depending on finding out the cause of death and identity of the woman, Fink said Lt. Bill Flood's detective bureau is following up on leads from other jurisdictions with missing women.

Anyone with information on the death of the woman found Sunday in rural Fond du Lac County can call the Sheriff's Office Tip Line at (920) 906-4777.


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Sheriff: Fond du Lac Co. body probably isn't Laurie Depies, Amber Wilde or Stacy Peterson
By Robert Imrie • The Associated Press • December 5, 2008
Deer hunters find skeletal remains buried in two remote places nearly 100 miles apart in eastern Wisconsin. Brown County investigators identify theirs quickly. Fond du Lac County officials aren’t so lucky.


After almost two weeks and inquiries from 18 law enforcement agencies, Fond du Lac County Sheriff Mick Fink said today he has no leads into the young woman’s identity.

“Somebody saying, ’Hey my kid is missing or my wife is missing and I think John Doe murdered her,’ none of that,” Fink said. “It doesn’t appear to be a high-profile local missing person or even statewide in Wisconsin. At this point, we don’t see that.”

That rules out Laurie Depies, who was 20 when she disappeared Aug. 19, 1992, from a parking lot at a town of Menasha apartment complex where her boyfriend lived. And University of Wisconsin-Green Bay student Amber Wilde, 19, who was 4½ months pregnant when she vanished Sept. 23, 1998, in Green Bay.

Fink said he also doesn’t think the body belongs to Stacy Peterson, the young suburban Chicago police officer’s wife whose disappearance has drawn national attention.

For now, Fink calls the partially decomposed body found Nov. 23 in a creek 17 miles south of Fond du Lac “Jane Doe.” He believes she’s a homicide victim who’s been dead months, not years.

“I am hoping the forensic people can come back with something,” he said.

The Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Missing & Exploited Children & Adults listed 32 adults and 10 children as missing Thursday in Wisconsin, the longest being a Mauston woman who disappeared in 1949. Thirty have been missing since 2000.
Excluding Fond du Lac County’s Jane Doe, seven other bodies found in the state since 1977 remain unidentified, the Clearinghouse said.

Fink said his detectives have identified 24 girls described as missing and exploited children in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan who “kind of fit our description” and are sorting through those.

On Wednesday, remains found by hunters Nov. 26 in a shallow grave in rural Brown County were identified as Areerat Chuprevich, a 32-year-old Allouez woman missing since April 2003. Investigators said she died of a gunshot wound to the head.

A suspect in the killing, Chuprevich’s 41-year-old stepson-in-law, hung himself in prison in 2006, investigators said.

Fink said Brown County had a big advantage — they had a person missing under suspicious circumstances and dental records to compare to the remains.

In Fink’s case, all investigators know is: the remains are those of a physically mature, Caucasian woman, maybe as young as 14 or as old as 40. The cause of death is unknown, but investigators found no evidence of suicide, and there’s no explanation for why she was found in an isolated, rural area.

Investigators sent insects located near the body to an expert at Purdue University who “hopefully can give us some rough time frame of how long the body has been there,” Fink said.

Other forensic specialists are working to get a good sample of DNA from either her teeth or bones, the sheriff said.

Police inquiries about the remains have come from Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin, Fink said.

Illinois investigators asked whether the remains could be Peterson, the 23-year-old Bolingbrook, Ill., woman who vanished Oct. 28, 2007, Fink said.

“It is very slim, probably outside the realm of possibility, that this is Stacy Peterson,” he said. “Based on their known facts and what we know.”

Peterson’s husband, 54-year-old Drew Peterson, a former Bolingbrook police sergeant, is a suspect in her disappearance. He has not been charged and has repeatedly said he thinks his wife ran off with another man and is alive.

Sgt. Tom Burek, a spokesman for the Illinois State Police, which is leading the Peterson investigation, said he was unaware of any inquiries made in Wisconsin. “I don’t get briefed every time something is discovered,” he said.

Fink said the discovery of Jane Doe’s remains prompted a call from some worried parents from Hartford who hadn’t heard from their daughter in a while. The lead was promising, given Hartford wasn’t that far from the discovery site.

“But we found her alive and well,” the sheriff said.

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Investigators Have More Clues to Jane Doe's Identity
Updated: Dec 15, 2008 07:11 PM EST

Clues Get Closer to Jane Doe's Identity

By Natalie Arnold

It's been nearly a month since hunters found a woman's body in a wooded area in the southern part of Fond du Lac County.

With no hot leads, authorities are more certain now that she is not from Wisconsin.

"We are fairly certain that our victim isn't a local, high-profile missing and endangered person," Sheriff Mick Fink said.

Fond du Lac County investigators hope a national missing persons database will be a key to solving their case.

Right now scientists are examining the young woman's body, trying to determine everything from her height and weight to what caused her death.

It's information investigators plan to share with agencies all over the country, along with other clues, such as what she was wearing at the time she was found.

While they certainly know what they found in the woods, a month later Fond du Lac County investigators still don't know who, why, or how.

Which means they must wait for the scientists to complete their work.

But while investigators are taking a close look at the body, they are also examining the clothes found on the body. Those, too, could provide clues as to who this woman was.

One would be the victim's socio-economic status. Clothes can also indicate their manufacturer.

Investigators say in this case they did, leading them generally to the stores that sold the clothes.

"Certain clothing manufacturers sell to Wal-Mart, KMart, Shopko, Penney's, Sears. You're able to narrow it down like that to where they went to, but there's how many of those stores out and about?" Sheriff Fink said.

Investigators say it is a long but very important process.

"I want to put a name to her, I want her remains to go back to her loved ones, and I would like to, if in fact this is a crime, bring that person to justice that did it," the sheriff said.

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Sheriff: No leads on ID of human remains found near Fond du Lac
Associated Press

Updated: 12/22/2008 12:59:04 PM CST


FOND DU LAC, Wis. — The partially decomposed remains found a month ago by deer hunters in a creek were those of a female 15 to 21 years old who was probably knock-kneed and pigeon-toed, Fond du Lac County Sheriff Mick Fink said today.

"How she walked and carried herself would be a distinctive characteristic," the sheriff said.

Investigators believe she died in late summer or early fall but her identity remained a mystery.

"We are up against it here and we know that," Fink said. "Anything is a possibility. I wouldn't rule out anything."

Hunters found the remains Nov. 23 in a creek 17 miles south of Fond du Lac. Investigators believe she was murdered based on the isolated area where the body was found, but Fink said her cause of death was unknown.

Experts determined the victim was white but could not rule out that she had Hispanic ancestry, the sheriff said.

The victim was wearing a Zoey Beth brand black top with pink trim that had a belt tie in back and size three Angels brand jeans, Fink said. She weighed 110 to 135 pounds, stood between 4 foot 9 and 5 foot 4 tall and had long, light brown hair, the sheriff said.

"That's best we can do at this point," he said. "Maybe somebody will recognize the clothes. Somebody might say, 'I borrowed that shirt to somebody or I know somebody who walked knock-kneed and pigeon-toed' and hasn't seen them for a while. That is basically what you are hoping for."

Detectives have investigated about 20 leads inquiring about the remains but have ruled them all out, Fink said.

If the victim was a teenager, she could have been a runaway, the sheriff said, indicating Milwaukee police routinely list 400 active runaways.

Nationally, 814,967 people got listed as missing or runaways in 2007 and all but about 1,700 were eventually found, Fink said.

"That tells you what we are up against here," he said.

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff Department's tip line is 1-920-806-4777.

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FDL Authorities Show Clothing Found on Body
By Jon Byman

The Fond Du Lac County Sheriff's Department has released pictures of clothing found on the body of a woman. Authorities have been unable to identify the woman. Hunters found the body several weeks ago in a rural portion of the county.

Authorities say she was likely white, although she may have been Hispanic. She was roughly 5'1" tall, 110 to 135 pounds and 15 to 21-years-old. Investigators think her body had been in the woods since this past summer.

Click Here to see more, including photos of the victim's clothing, from the Fond Du Lac County Sheriff's Department.

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Link to Sheriff's page and more photos of clothing:

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Investigators say information on Jane Doe is out there
The Reporter Staff • December 26, 2008

Law enforcement authorities are encouraging people not to be shy when it comes to tips involving the "Jane Doe" homicide.

Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department Lt. Bill Flood said phone calls of possible leads have been coming in since a Monday press conference that revealed physical statistics and clothing of a woman found Nov. 23 in a wooded area behind W4617 Skyline Drive in the town of Ashford.

Even if someone is nervous to call or thinks their lead has little substance, Flood said he would prefer they dial him or the tip line.

"We can take all kinds of information from people, and we can run down the lead and make a determination if it is viable or not," Flood said. "We would rather have them call than not call. A lot of times, people aren't aware of the intricacies of an investigation. Therefore, the significance of the information that they have might mean something more to us than them."

The woman was 5 foot 1 inch tall, give or take 3 inches, weighed 110 to 135 pounds and had light brown or dark blonde hair cut at the length of 10 to 12 inches.

Fink said during Monday's press conference that woman was knock-kneed, pigeon-toed or both.

Clothes found on the body were Angels jeans and a strapless Zoey Beth top with a pink bow on the back.

Flood said the woman — estimated to be 15 to 20 years old — might be easier to identify than an older victim because of recent ties to family and friends.

"People are creatures of habit," Flood said. "They have friends, they have locales that they visit and they have lives. We like to think that whoever our 'Jane Doe' is, (she) had friends and family and there is information out there that will lead us to identifying her."

Fond du Lac County Medical Examiner Douglas Kelley confirmed the three experts in the forensics field with whom he is working are wrapping up their involvement in the case.

"The Sheriff's Office and I are utilizing all the resources we have available to us; however, the process, while progressing, takes time," Kelley wrote in an e-mail to The Reporter. "Frankly, with a case such as this, I prefer steady progress to hasty decisions and time-wasting redundancy.

"Bad investigations rely on throwing the 'long ball' and hoping to get lucky. More often than not, the passes fall incomplete or get intercepted. We are opting for a strong, well-managed ground game," he added.

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No new leads on identity of body found in Wis.
Associated Press - December 31, 2008 1:55 PM ET

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) - Ten days after authorities released new details about the partially decomposed remains of a woman found in a creek, her identity remains a mystery.

Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Lt. Bill Flood said Wednesday the new details generated about 15 leads but none panned out.

Hunters found the remains Nov. 23 in a creek 17 miles south of Fond du Lac. Investigators believe the woman was murdered because the body was found in an isolated area, but the cause of death is unknown.

Flood says dental remains from the victim have been compared with those of 5 missing people but none matched.

Authorities say the remains are those of a 15- to 21-year-old who was probably knock-kneed and pigeon-toed.
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Police seek help with murder victim's identity
By Russell Plummer • Gannett Wisconsin Media • December 24, 2008

She was a white 15- to 21-year-old donning jeans and a pink and black top before her body was found Nov. 23 in the town of Ashford.

Thirty days after the "Jane Doe" homicide investigation began, Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department investigators met with the press, hoping that images of a mannequin dressed in the same clothes found at the scene will spark leads.

Sheriff Mick Fink said Hispanic ancestry cannot be ruled out for woman found in a wooded area behind W4617 Skyline Drive.

The woman is 5 foot, 1 inch tall, give or take three inches, weighs 110 to 135 pounds and has light brown or dark blonde hair cut at the length of 10 to 12 inches.

Forensic anthropologist Leslie E. Eisenberg noted that the woman was knock-kneed, pigeon-toed or both. Fink said the woman would have had a distinctive walk that will hopefully help identify her.

Detective Charles Sosinski presented a mannequin dressed in the exact clothes found on the woman. He said the Angels blue jeans — currently available for purchase — would typically be found at a store similar to Kohl's and the strapless Zoey Beth top — with a pink bow on the back — could be purchased at Family Dollar. The girl was found with no shoes or socks.

"A picture is worth a thousand words," Fink said. "I'm hoping (press) coverage of this story will able to put a face and a name to the case."

Lt. Bill Flood said the body is estimated to be outside for 30 to 90 days, and the cause of death is still undetermined. More details on length of time after death will surface when forensic entomologist Neal Haskell finishes studying bugs found at the scene.

Fink said the dental profile is currently in the National Crime Investigation Center database and DNA results will also be entered. However, if the woman was never reported as missing, she could remain "Jane Doe" forever.

Russell Plummer writes for the Fond du Lac Reporter.

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Digital Artists Putting Face to Fond du Lac County's Jane Doe
Updated: May 28, 2009 05:06 PM CDT
Giving Jane Doe a Face
By Natalie Arnold

Fond du Lac County authorities say soon we will be able to see what a woman discovered dead last fall in a creek bed looked like. A digital facial reconstruction is almost complete.

"Now we can put a face with the mannequin, and hopefully that will jog somebody's memory or there will be a recognition factor there," Lieutenant Bill Flood of the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department said.

This month, Fond du Lac County investigators say they finally received a DNA profile of the unidentified woman found in a wooded area by hunters just off Skyline Road in the Town of Ashford.

Now they're on the verge of getting a picture of her face, put together by artists at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Investigators believe it's another big step toward possibly solving this mystery.

Fond du Lac County investigators know exactly what she was wearing and what she was carrying the day of her death. They even have a good idea of her race, age, weight, and height.

But they still have no idea who the woman discovered in the woods was.

They hope the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children can help. "I believe they received the skull and any other measurements -- X-rays and things like that," Flood said.

That was three-and-a-half months ago. The word is, the artists are just about finished doing what they've done for many unsolved cases -- putting a face to the unidentified victim..

But once the facial reconstruction is done, investigators will wait to share it with the public. They want the scientists who examined the body to look at the image first.

"We want them to evaluate it, and there may be something they may be able to add to it," Flood explained.

After that, they will release the image to the media. That could happen just a few weeks from now.

"These are the ones you really want to solve," Flood said.
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Facial reconstruction, media push may hold keys to 'Jane Doe's' identity
BY RUSSELL PLUMMER • The Reporter • June 9, 2009

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The Fond du Lac County sheriff hopes a computer-generated face and possible nationwide media coverage can crack the “Jane Doe” homicide case.

Sheriff Mick Fink held a press conference Tuesday morning to debut the face created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Three deer hunters found the body of a woman on Nov. 23, 2008, in a wooded area behind W4617 Skyline Drive in the town of Ashford. Since then, no solid leads have surfaced.

“Without an identification, we are really limited on what we can do in an investigation, and it almost makes it impossible to bring anyone forward on charges until we know who this person is,” Fink said.

The face was constructed by taking 3D images of the skull using computerized tomography scanning and virtual reconstruction of soft tissue, he said.

Fink said he thinks the woman has family members or someone who cared for her, but media coverage so far has not reached out far enough. He noted forensic odontologist Don Simley’s results showed fillings and dental work that proves somebody cared for the woman estimated to be 15 to 21 years old.

“This kid has a family that took care of her or at least some kind of structured upbringing,” Fink said. “… I’m all but begging the newspapers, radio and TV stations to get this out farther than what we have. We’re pretty sure she is not from a pretty high-profile local person.”

He added “Jane Doe’s” DNA makeup was recently entered into the National Crime Information Center with no hits.

The body is being kept near forensic anthropologist Leslie Eisenberg at the Dane County Coroner’s Office. Fink said a burial will not happen until family members come forward.

“Neither the Medical Examiner (Douglas Kelley) or I am comfortable with burying this young female until we can have a burial with her family,” Fink said. “We don’t want to bury her body now when her remains may still hold some key to identification.”

The cause of death remains undetermined and the case will continue to be investigated as a homicide, he said.

Eisenberg noted traits consistent with Asian and Native American ancestry; however, Hispanic or Caucasian ancestry cannot be ruled out.

Eisenberg reported the woman was knock-kneed, pigeon-toed or both. Fink said the woman would have had a distinctive walk that will hopefully help identify her.

Forensic entomologist Neal Haskell’s study of bugs found at the scene revealed her body began to decompose sometime between mid summer and Labor Day of 2008.

Fink said he is not ruling out any possibilities on how the woman’s body ended up in Ashford. He noted southern Fond du Lac County is not far from downtown Milwaukee were serial murders have occurred.

Fink said “Jane Doe” has been one of the most difficult investigations since he started in the Sheriff’s Department in 1981.

“We’ve had abductions and it would be between 30 to 40 days before the bodies were found,” Fink said. “You can start an investigation because you can look at a lot of different people involved in the victim’s life long before you find the body.

“This case is really frustrating because we don’t know who we have. Therefore, we do not know who her friends or enemies are.”

HOW TO HELP
Anyone with information on the woman found Nov. 23, 2008, in rural Fond du Lac County can call the Sheriff’s Department Tip Line at (920) 906-4777, Detective Gerry Kane at (920) 929-3388 or Detective Cameron McGee at (920) 929-3383.

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Efforts to Identify Fond du Lac County Jane Doe Continue

Updated: Aug 14, 2009 08:31 AM EDT




Composite over clothing style found with the body






By Jason Zimmerman

Solving a Jane Doe case is often a struggle for investigators.

A Jane Doe found in Fond du Lac last fall still has investigators puzzled. Hunters found the body last fall.

Authorities believe victim is between 15 and 21 years old. She's about 5'1" and between 110 and 135 pounds.

A computer-generated sketch was released in June but her identity remains a mystery and investigators say it's possible she's not from Wisconsin.

"We have a demo profile and we have a DNA profile, and now we have a visual reconstruction or recreation of her face, and it's circulated coast-to-coast. I don't know what more we can possibly do. We're waiting to find that one lead that will give us a break," Lieutenant Bill Flood of the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department said.

Investigators are even using social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace hoping to attract a national audience through the Internet.

So far it's resulted in only a handful of tips.

"What we are trying to do is stack the deck, so to speak, in our favor as much as we possibly can, to jog someone's memory, just have one of those light bulbs turn on, to send us in the right direction," Lt. Flood said.

Detectives say cases like this are especially frustrating since they can't begin to solve the crime if the victim doesn't have an identity.

"Once we do get her body identified, our Jane Doe identified, that gives the detectives something to really sink their teeth into at that point."

In the meantime, investigators can only hope a picture generates a big break.

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