Tag: Jane Doe

Lake Pontchartrain Jane Doe

DISCOVERY: On June 18, 1986, police in Louisiana received a call from an unknown person saying they would find two bodies beneath an interstate bridge if they met up with a man at the state tourist information center on I-10, just west of Slidell, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. When they arrived, they found there was

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Update: Grundy County Jane Doe Identified, Investigation Into Murder Ongoing

Artist's rendering of what the Grundy County Jane Doe may have looked like when alive + Portrait of JoAnn "Vickie" Smith

*Last Updated – July 14, 2024* UPDATE JUNE 2024: Nearly five decades after her body was discovered in a ditch along US Route 6, the identity of the woman known as Grundy Jane Doe and Jane Seneca Doe has been uncovered. Thanks to genealogical work by volunteers at the DNA Doe Project, she has been

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Valentine Sally

*UPDATE: The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office has identified Valentine Sally as Carolyn Eaton, a 17-year-old runaway from St. Louis, Missouri.* DISCOVERY: On February 14, 1982, an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer searching for a blown out tire discovered the decomposing body of an unidentified female about 11 miles from Williams, Coconino County, Arizona. The

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East Haven Jane Doe

DISCOVERY: On August 16, 1975, a truck driver discovered the body of an unidentified woman in a drainage ditch in East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. The body was discovered behind the former Bradlees department store on Frontage Street, which is now a Carmax. When found, Jane Doe was wrapped in a canvas tarpaulin. She

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Lady of the Dunes

DISCOVERY: On July 26, 1974, a 13-year-old girl walking her dog at Race Point Dunes in Massachusetts discovered the nude body of an unidentified woman, just 15 feet from a secluded service road. The body was lying face down and had already begun to decompose. The area in which the body was discovered was near

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