Unidentified Female, Fd near State Hwy 157 NE Bossier Parish LA, Jan 1981

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Case solved, mystery remains
Technology gives new face to Bossier's Jane Doe from '81

By Loresha Wilson • ljwilson@gannett.com • January 29, 2009 2:00 am

Jane Doe has a secret. It's her identity — locked in her dirty and bloody clothes and what little was left of her decomposing body discovered nearly three decades ago.

But investigators believe they may have found the key: an image of how the woman may have looked developed through facial reconstruction.

"The case is solved," said Ed Baswell, Bossier sheriff's office spokesman. "Hopefully, seeing this picture will jog somebody's memory and put her to rest."

The mystery dates back to January 1981 when her decomposing body was found by a man walking down a logging road off state Highway 157 in northeast Bossier Parish. Authorities believe she was stabbed to death about four to six weeks earlier. A kitchen knife stuck in the ground near her body is believed to be the murder weapon.

Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas admitted to the crime in 1984, but died in prison before he stood trial for her murder and before any additional identifying details were revealed.

Jane Doe was thought to be in her late teens or early 20s, about 5'6" and weighing about 130-140 pounds. She was dressed in a beige, long-sleeved, striped button-up shirt, hooded sweater, blue jeans and men's briefs, Baswell said.

Most distinctively, she was wearing a belt buckle in the shape of a buffalo nickel and a pair of Evonne Goolagong-brand tennis shoes. The shoes had the name "David Michael Brisco" on one shoe and "Resha and D. Davies" written on the other.

For the second time since her murder, a facial reconstruction was released by the sheriff's office Wednesday. An art student did the initial facial reconstruction in 1984; however, Mary Manhein, of the LSU FACES (Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services) Lab in Baton Rouge, recently decided to do another one using new, enhanced technology.

"It's an image that may or may not look like this girl but we have nothing else to go on," Manhein said. The lab used tissue depth markers as guides to show the thickness of the tissue on the face. "There has been success, and we are anxious to see if it will lead to anything. It looks real."

She selected the case among the hundreds of Jane and John Doe cases waiting for lab's attention.

"With the new techniques, (facial reconstructions are) incredibly close," said Dr. John Chandler, the Bossier Parish coroner. "With the old clay techniques, they were hit and miss."

Bossier investigators have attempted a dental record match, taken fingerprints and submitted DNA to the crime lab, but still no luck. They've also contacted authorities in other jurisdictions.

"Henry Lee Lucas was basically on a rampage back then, killing and sexually assaulting women," Baswell said. "(His) M.O. was to pick up women as he went along. I doubt he even knew this woman's name."

He toured Louisiana and other states in the 1980s, volunteering confessions to murder after murder. He admitted to killing as many as 600 people in Canada and 26 in the United States.

"I have a hunch if we ever find her she'll be from multiple states away," Chandler said. Investigators with Bossier sheriff's office would be happy to get even a hint of her identity, residency or history.

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Who is Jane Doe? Bossier Investigators release new photo in cold case

http://www.ksla.com/global/story.asp?s=9751011

Updated: Jan 29, 2009 12:25 AM CST

BOSSIER PARISH, LA (KSLA) - Bossier Sheriff Larry Deen's investigators and Bossier Parish Coroner Dr. John Chandler want to know, "Who is ‘Jane Doe'?" They are hoping a new facial reconstruction can help them answer that question.

"We're asking for your help and hopefully seeing this picture will jog somebody's memory and be able to find this young lady's name, notify her family give them closure and finally put her to rest," Dr. Chandler said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

The mystery dates back to a cool January day in 1981 when her partially decomposed body was found by a man walking down an old logging road off of Louisiana Highway 157 in northeast Bossier Parish. Bossier Sheriff's investigators know that she was young, white and blonde. She had been stabbed in the chest several times. A kitchen knife, believed to be the murder weapon, was found plunged into the ground near her body. At the time, the then Bossier Parish Coroner estimated the woman had been dead about four to six weeks when her body was found. Her age was thought to be in the late teens to early 20s and her height was believed to be 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 6 inches tall. She weighed 130-140 pounds.

"What you would think would've happened after her body was discovered is that somebody would come forward and say, ‘She's a missing person, she belongs to oiur family,' but that did not happen," Baswell says. "Pretty unusual. This whole case is unusual. You're looking at 30 years where someone has not been identified. You would think someone would have missed her, and would have been looking for her, but that has not been the case. And Baswell says investigators have exhausted every avenue, from dental records to sending thumbprints to the FBI. Nothing panned out.

Now, thanks to the work of forensic anthropologist Mary Manhein of the L.S.U. F.A.C.E.S. (Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services) Laboratory in Baton Rouge, Deen and his investigators have something new to work with. Manhein and her associates have put together a new facial reconstruction of the victim. Manhein credits the artistry of Eileen Barrow, who works with Manhein at the F.A.C.E.S. Lab. "It really takes an artist, because she's working with a two-dimensional image, because they were working with a picture of a skull, which had tissue depth markers." The actual skull is no longer available to work from. They used Photoshop to combining Barrow's artistry with Manhein's anthropology expertise to come up with the new image.

Until now the only reconstruction available was a photo of a clay likeness based on the victim's skull. That image was released in 1984, three years after the murder. Forensic technology has come a long way since then. "We have a better understanding of it today," says Manhein. But, she warns, "The purpose is not for it to look just like someone but to grab someone's attention." It will be the unique articles of clothing found at the crime scene and on ‘Jane Doe' that Manhein and investigators believe will provide the final positive identification.

They have many details about her clothing, including her designer tennis shoes with friends' names signed on them. The most distinguishing items she wore were an unusual belt buckle in the shape of a buffalo nickel and a pair of Evonne Goolagong-brand tennis shoes. On the sides of the shoes were written the names "Michael Brisco, David; Resha and D. Davies."

She was dressed in a beige, long-sleeved, button-up, hooded sweater; white athletic socks with blue and yellow stripes; blue jeans; men's white briefs; a white bra; and a woman's-style, button-up white shirt with small stripes of pink, blue and yellow.

When the body was found in 1981, the Bossier Sheriff's Office immediately began investigating the homicide and in 1984 questioned serial killer Henry Lee Lucas about the crime. He was brought to the site where the body was found and told investigators he recognized the area. He subsequently admitted he killed "Jane Doe," was arrested and eventually indicted by a grand jury. Lucas died in prison before he could return to Bossier Parish to stand trial on a murder charge. He never revealed any clues as to who she was or where he might have picked her up. "Henry Lee Lucas' ‘M.O' [modus operandi, Latin for "method of operation"] was just to pick women up as he moved across the country. I'm not sure he even knew where he picked her up. I doubt that he even knew her name. That was the way he operated," says Baswell.

If "Jane Doe" is identified, the Bossier Sheriff's Office and the Bossier Parish Coroner hope to bring closure to the victim's loved ones. "The relatives of this young lady could be anywhere from Florida to California. We just don't know. But we're hoping with your help in publicizing this photograph this reconstruction that somebody will see the face, it will ring a bell and they will call us up and say I know exactly who that is. When we find out who this is, then we would be able hopefully to go to the family and say, this is your loved one and give them closure."

Baswell says they're hoping the media can help get the image out across the country. Anyone with information concerning the identity of "Jane Doe" is encouraged to call the Bossier Sheriff's Office at 318-965-2203 and ask for a detective.

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Fond du Lac Co. slaying probe takes new tack

Technology could help identify victim

By Russell Plummer • Gannett Wisconsin Media • January 30, 2009

FOND DU LAC — The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department wants to put a face on a Jane Doe homicide. http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-e4m3Yko6bFYVc.gif?labels=NewsAndReference,CultureA ndSociety
No strong leads developed after investigators presented a mannequin in late December dressed in the exact clothing of the woman whose body was found the morning of Nov. 23 in a wooded area behind W4617 Skyline Drive in the town of Ashford, hoping it would grab the attention of a relative, friend or boyfriend.
Now, Lt. Bill Flood is turning to technology to help solve his detective bureau's only Jane Doe case.
"What we're doing now is utilizing the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to digitally reconstruct her face based on photographs of the skull and her face as it appeared when we found her," Flood said.
The wait for the digitally reconstructed face could take three months. If that process is unsuccessful, Flood said, he is talking to forensic experts about possibly reconstructing the woman's face with clay.
Flood said all information on the homicide was re-entered with a dental profile into the National Crime Information Center.
"We have gotten a couple pages of possible hits (from the NCIC)," Flood said. "Some of them can be ruled out by just looking at (race or gender)."
He said help may arrive when the University of Texas finishes using skeletal remains to create a DNA profile that can be entered in the Combined DNA Indexing System, an FBI-funded national database.
Flood said he, his detectives and Fond du Lac County Medical Examiner Douglas Kelley met last week to discuss what has been done, what they know and where they are going with the investigation.
"Each detective is trying to think of how to develop new leads or new ideas that might help us find out who she is and where she is from," Flood said. Detectives are "checking various aspects of the area (where she was found), continuing to make contact with bigger law enforcement agencies and scouring all the missing persons resources that are out there. We are trying to get our information out far enough so it can touch somebody else's."
In December, Sheriff Mick Fink said "Jane Doe" was a white 15- to 21-year-old female. Hispanic ancestry could not be ruled out.
The woman was about 5 feet tall, weighed 110 to 135 pounds and had light brown or dark blonde hair.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20090130/GPG0101/901300622/1207/GPG01

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These two girls were missing in late 1980.
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Cindy Haumann msg from Tucson, Nov. 1980
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Carol Donn, msg. Oct. 1980 from Palm Bch., FL

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