Police Reopen cold case-KIM LARROW missing 1981 Canton, Michigan

[Nut44x4]

Police Reopen 27-Year-Old Missing Persons Case

POSTED: 4:40 pm EDT April 25, 2008
UPDATED: 12:58 am EDT April 27, 2008
CANTON, Mich. -- Canton police have asked the public's help in cracking a 27-year-old missing persons cold case.

"If anybody can think back 27 years, and if there's something that's not right, we would like to check out any and all leads," said Canton Sgt. Rick Pomorski

Kim Larrow was 15 years old in 1981 when she came from Dundee to Canton to spend the summer with her mother. That's when she disappeared without a trace. Police said she walked to the 31 Flavors Baskin Robbins on Ann Arbor Road near Sheldon Road and never returned.

"Kim was known for walking and hitchhiking. She was known to get a get a ride anywhere," said Larrow's cousin Robert Cooper, who is also a police officer. "She ran away quite a bit. And that doesn't make her a bad girl. But she always contacted someone."

A picture of Larrow as a preteen, with her shag haircut, fair skin and bright smile is the only evidence Canton police have from her 1981 disappearance.

Pomorski announced a new look at Larrow's cold case after family members including Cooper lobbied the department to reopen the case.

Larrow's father has died and her mother is remarried and lives in a different state.

Canton police have also asked for the Federal Bureau of Investigations' help in what they have called the most baffling case in the history of the Canton Police Department.

Investigators said Larrow had not yet applied for a Social Security number.

Canton police are trying is to join forces with the University of North Texas, which has launched a project to try and identify 40,000 unidentified bodies lying in morgues across the country. Police said Larrow could be one of them.

Larrow would be 42 years old this year.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/15997237/detail.html

[packy]

It will be great if they can join forces with the University of North Texas. Kudos to the university for taking on this project. So many remains waiting to be identified.

[TigressPen]

40 thousand unidentified bodies. Dear God. We need more forensic labs - some that only handle such as this - I pray one of those unidentified is Kim if she isn't still living. Wouldn't it be great to discover she is still alive. :1222423:

[til_they_are_home]

I only have one question about this entire case. In information listed on Doe Network and Charley project about her it sates that she did not have a Social Security number. Does this strike anyone else as odd?

[packy]

I only have one question about this entire case. In information listed on Doe Network and Charley project about her it sates that she did not have a Social Security number. Does this strike anyone else as odd?

Hi, Til they are home.

I believe it was before 1986 that social security numbers were not required if someone wasn't working or making a certain amount of money. Many teenagers waited to apply for one when they started working, so it doesn't seem too unusual for her age back then.

[Nut44x4]

DNA sent to Texas in case of missing Canton teen
BY CECIL ANGEL • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • April 29, 2008
When Robert Cooper read an article about a University of North Texas DNA database of unidentified deceased people, his thoughts turned to his cousin Kim Marie Larrow.

It inspired him to reenergize the search for the girl, who was 15 when she went missing from Canton in 1981.

Cooper, 46, of Temperance contacted the Canton Police Department, and the cold case once again is getting attention.

Canton Police Sgt. Rick Pomorski said the case never actually was closed, but not much could be done without new leads.

Larrow was last seen on June 10, 1981. Pomorski said the teen told her mother she was going to a friend's house and told a friend that she was going to hang out at Hines Park in Plymouth. She had run away a couple of weeks before she went missing and was picked up by police in Florida, Pomorski said.

Canton police have collected DNA samples from Larrow's relatives and sent them to Identity Laboratory at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Ft. Worth. The samples are to be compared with samples in the database.

Anyone with information on the case should call Canton police at 734 394-5400. Contact CECIL ANGEL at 313-223-4531 or angel@freepress.com.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080429/NEWS02/804290360/1001/RSS01

[til_they_are_home]

:duh:Thanks Packy, I didn't know that. I have no idea how that could have slipped past me.

[wheezer]

She was a rebellious teenager from Dundee, known to hitchhike and run away.

Kim Larrow, 15, disappeared 27 years ago, and her cousin is determined to make sure the search for her doesn't end until she's found.

Robert Cooper, 46, of Temperance petitioned police recently to reopen the case after he heard that a Texas university has begun a federally funded project using DNA to help identify thousands of unknown deceased people.

Mr. Cooper said he believes his cousin is dead, but it would be important to the family to have the nearly three-decade mystery solved.

"It's been a very long and arduous situation," Mr. Cooper said. "I think clearly we're looking at a death investigation."

It was June, 1981, when Kim left her father's home on Eggert Rd. in Dundee. Her parents divorced and she decided to move to Canton to live with her mother.

Shortly after arriving in Canton, Kim went to a Baskin Robbins 31 Flavors ice cream shop on Ann Arbor Rd. in Plymouth. Canton Police Sgt. Rick Pomorski said Kim's best friend worked at the shop and the two had made plans to meet up later that night at Hines Park.

"She never showed up," Sgt. Pomorski said. "She dropped out of sight."

No one came forward with any information about her whereabouts. Kim simply disappeared.

"It's highly unusual," Sgt. Pomorski said. "We have no direction to go on."

Kim once hitchhiked all the way to Florida. But Mr. Cooper said she would always call home to let her family know she was fine.

But after that summer day, she never called.

Kim had attended school in Dundee and much of her family was from Ida. Her father, Arnold Larrow, passed away in 2005. He owned and operated Arnie's Party Pack in Ida from 1969 to 1979 and ran Arnie's Town and Country Bar & Grill in Dundee from 1980 to 1984.

Connie Nagle of Milan, Mr. Larrow's sister, was close to her niece. She said Kim would stay at her home every weekend and lived with her for a while. She said Kim was a good girl, despite her rebelliousness.

"They weren't major issues," Ms. Nagle said. "She was just going through her teenage years."

Ms. Nagle said she prays that her niece is still alive and supports Mr. Cooper's efforts to keep the case open.

"I think it's great," Ms. Nagle said. "Hopefully we can get some closure."

When Kim disappeared, missing teenagers, especially those who were known as runaways, did not always get priority. That's why Mr. Cooper continues to hound authorities.

"She was part of our family," he said. "She had a lot of friends and family here in Monroe County. When she disappeared, I just feel she never got the opportunity to be looked for like they do now."

Sgt. Pomorski said Canton police never closed the case, which has been especially difficult because Kim did not have a driver's license or social security number. He said police officially do not consider her deceased and it is possible she is living somewhere under an assumed identity.

"We don't know if she's dead or alive," Sgt. Pomorski said. "There is no indication of foul play."

Canton police have collected DNA samples from Kim's relatives and sent them to the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. The samples will be compared to thousands in a database.

"You've got the try everything you can," Sgt. Pomorski said.

Mr. Cooper said he is hoping that his cousin is found, putting an end to almost 30 years of uncertainty.

"There are a lot of people who think about her every day," he said. "She is still remembered."

Sgt. Pomorski can be reached at (734) 394-5423.

On the web: www.doenetwork.org/cases/1810dfmi.html

http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080501/NEWS01/330267508/-1/rss

[Faith]

Friday, October 31, 2008
27 years later, missing teen's cousin presses for answers
Christine Ferretti / The Detroit News

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Former Toledo police officer Robert Cooper, 47, with his daughter, Sydney, 16, has made it his mission to look for clues into the disappearance of his cousin, Kim Marie Larrow. (Madalyn Ruggiero / Special to The Detroit News)
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CANTON TOWNSHIP -- When Kim Marie Larrow left the Stroh's Ice Cream parlor on Sheldon Road nearly 30 years ago, she was planning to meet up with friends to hang out in Hines Park.

She never showed and nobody seemed to care.

A chronic runaway who liked to hitchhike and hang with a tough, party crowd, the 15-year-old wasn't reported missing for several days after she vanished in the summer of 1981, and her mother refused to cooperate with investigators.

There are no new leads or evidence, but a cousin and former Toledo police officer, Robert Cooper, has re-energized the investigation, hoping to solve Canton's only remaining cold case. And Larrow's half-sister hopes the efforts stir some memories in the case.

"This kid, she had a life. She existed and then the next day she wasn't there. It was (as) if nobody cared," said Larrow's half-sister Andrea Stadwick, 47, who lives in Florida.

"No efforts were made. No posters were up. No telephone calls. All I want to do is let people know that she existed because nothing was done for her."

Cooper has gone national, teaming up with Crime Stoppers, offering a $1,000 cash reward for fresh leads in the case.

"We will not forget her. This little girl doesn't deserve to be abandoned," said Cooper, 47, of Lambertville, Mich., just north of Toledo. "I hate to imagine she's in a shallow grave somewhere or on a morgue table as a Jane Doe and no one is looking for her."

The investigation has always had its obstacles -- not one successful lead, DNA evidence was rarely used in the 1980s and township police had limited resources.

"Twenty-some years ago, cases were handled and investigation techniques were different," said Canton Police Sgt. Deb Newsome. "It was originally handled as a runaway complaint. If a person didn't want to be found and family wasn't pounding on the door, cases had a tendency to close."

The most chilling hurdle though, family and authorities claim, was the lack of initiative from Larrow's mother, who waited days to report the girl missing and has refused to cooperate with investigators or submit DNA.

The mother, Lucy Larrow, who lives in Arizona, could not be reached for comment Thursday. A relative at her home who answered calls from The Detroit News said "we don't talk about that much, it's too painful." Larrow's father is deceased.

Kim Larrow disappeared in June. She was 15 and had just moved from her father's home in Monroe County to stay with her mother on Beaufort Drive in Canton.

Police said she was last seen visiting a friend at a Stroh's Ice Cream parlor that at the time was on Sheldon Road. Larrow, whom Cooper said ran with a crowd allegedly into drinking and drug use, made plans to meet friends at Haggerty Field in Hines Park, a "party spot" in the 1980s for young adults.

She never made it.

Officers searched her mother's former residence and cadaver dogs scoured the area in Hines where she was known to hang out, but no credible tips ever came in, police said.

After that, family didn't pursue it and the case went cold.

"This would have never happened if there was a caring, decent human being she could have called mother or father that would have made an effort the day she went missing and never stopped," Stadwick said. "It just takes one person ... somebody that knows something, all they have to do is tell me where she is. The least I can do for my sister is have her memorialized."

Cooper said he urged Canton police to delve back into the case in July 2007.

By September that year, he and other relatives submitted DNA samples to the University of North Texas Health Science Center to match them against a national database of unidentified remains. From here, he hopes police will help him organize a township group to search and pass out fliers.

Over the last year, investigators have been attempting to make contact with former cops, friends and family members. It's proved challenging as some have moved, died or changed names by marriage.

Newsome said skewed memories, deaths and lack of dental records are all dead ends that have the department back at square one.

"We're following up on any leads ... hoping we find new witnesses who do remember something," she said.

"Any time you have a missing person like this, it is concerning. We have an obligation to exhaust all of our efforts for the family and for the case. Something happened to this young lady and we're going to exhaust all possible efforts we have available until there is nothing more we can do."

Cooper said he's hoping for closure.

"I think we're looking for a body. I'm treating it like that," Cooper said.

"Police are still ... seeking a missing person. Maybe she's under another name, maybe she hit her head and became a different person -- we don't know."

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081031/METRO/810310362/1409/METRO

[Claycat]

I can see why the case has become even more important to the cousin, because now he has a beautiful daughter near the same age.

I recently called the local sheriff, because he has a cold case of unidentified remains. He told me about the UofNT testing the remains. I, too, think this is great. Everyone needs to be claimed!

Til_they_are_home, I didn't get my social security number until I started working at the family business when I was a teen (in the 60s). They didn't start worrying about kids having a social security number until the jerks, that all send their money out of the country, decided we peons were squirreling away money in accounts with our kids' names on them.

[emmeblu]

40 thousand unidentified bodies. Dear God. We need more forensic labs - some that only handle such as this - I pray one of those unidentified is Kim if she isn't still living. Wouldn't it be great to discover she is still alive. :1222423:

Which tells me that families are worried about their missing and they may be in a morgue somewhere. Tragic. Wish there was a way for these people to be identified so that families can bury their loved ones.

:1222423::1222423::1222423:

[Porchlight]

http://www.hometownlife.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...520/1020/NEWS03

Canton police digging for new clues in girl's 1981 disappearance
By TIFFANY L. PARKS
OBSERVER Staff Writer


Where is Kim Marie Larrow?

It's a question Robert Cooper has asked himself a million times since his cousin's disappearance and he's no closer to the answer now than when she was last seen 27 years ago.

"The worst part is that this has always been hush-hush," said Cooper, a retired police officer.

"I have been told to mind my own business, but I know I'm doing the right thing. I'll never drop this because Kim could be in a shallow grave somewhere. It's like nobody cares - I almost cry thinking about it."

GONE WITHOUT A TRACE

The year was 1981 and the hot June sun beamed down over Canton.

Kim, a cute, rebellious 15-year-old who never stayed in one place for long, had recently packed her bags and left her father's Dundee home and made her way to the township to spend the summer at her mother's Beaufort Drive residence.

She hadn't been in Canton for more than a week before she vanished from Stroh's Ice Cream Parlor on Sheldon Road.

No one in her family has seen or heard from her since then.

"There is always the possibility that she is existing somewhere else under the radar, but we just don't know," said Canton police Sgt. Rick Pomorski. "We don't know if she is alive, if she succumbed to an illness or if she met her death by criminal means. It's very hard to trace her."

At the prompting of Cooper and other relatives, including Kim's aunt Rosemary Kunges of Kentucky, the Canton Police Department is taking another look at Kim's disappearance.

Pomorski said the investigation centers around the assumption that Kim is a missing person and not a homicide victim.

"It's slow-going because she had no driver's license and no social security number," he said, adding that if Kim is still alive, she could have changed her name.

Cooper said he knows the police are facing a tough battle in digging up new information.

"This is the true definition of a cold case," he said. "It doesn't get much colder than this."

A TROUBLED LIFE

With her mother, Lucy Larrow, divorced from her father, Arnold Larrow, Kim was often shuttled between their two homes and soon took advantage of her mother's lenient parenting style.

In an newspaper interview from 1984, Lucy Larrow said, "I wasn't a big disciplinarian. I always told my kids you don't have to do anything you don't want to; it's a democracy, after all."

Cooper, who hasn't spoken to Lucy Larrow since 1984 and said their relationship is strained, says Kim took her mother's words to heart.

"She came to live with my family in Milan when she was about 12 or 13," he said. "She was a rebel. She used drugs and did not listen to authority. She wasn't a model kid, but she was still a sweet kid."

After leaving Milan, Cooper said Kim began a pattern of running away.

According to a supplemental report attached to the original police report, Canton police documented that the teenager ran away from her mother's home twice in 1979 and once in 1980.

In her 1984 interview, Lucy Larrow smiled when recalling the time Kim left home and hitchhiked unannounced to Florida with a friend.

"I remember getting calls several times that Kim ran away again," Cooper said. "She ran with a tough group."

Kunges, a former Trenton resident who calls her niece by her first and middle name, said she was able to look past Kim's defiant behavior and saw a child in pain.

"Just before she disappeared, I had a minute to talk with her and I could tell that she was not happy," she said. "I let her know that she could always call her Aunt Rosie and she said, 'I know.' I think she was just curled up within herself and didn't know which way to turn."

HANGING ON TO HOPE

With Lucy Larrow now living in Arizona, Cooper said the last time he spoke with her, he was told to "drop this."

"I understand she may want to move on but if my daughter went missing, every day of my life would be devoted to finding her," he said. "We have to at least try to find her."

During the resurgence of the investigation, which has been picked up as a project by the University of North Texas, Pomorski said detectives have spoken with Lucy Larrow on a couple of occasions.

With so many years gone by since Kim was spotted, Cooper said he doesn't know if she is still alive but thinks that anything is possible.

"If we find this little girl, well, she wouldn't be a little girl anymore," he paused. "That would be so cool. What a wonderful (thing) if we did find her."

Kunges said it took her a long time to come to grips that Kim may not be alive.

"If I see a blonde, I always look," she said. "But I'm rational about it now, I just want closure. It's hard for me to admit it because Kim Marie had enormous potential. She was a loving child who just wanted to please."

Pomorski said he encourages anyone with information about Kim's disappearance to come forward. To contact him, call (734) 394-5423.

"We would love it," Pomorski said. "We are working on this as best as we can and we are keeping an open mind."

tlparks@hometownlife.com (734) 459-2700

[Porchlight]

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/ser...earchLang=en_US

KIM MARIE LARROW
Case Type: Non Family Abduction
DOB: Dec 17, 1965 Sex: Female
Missing Date: Jun 8, 1981 Race: White
Age Now: 42 Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
Missing City: CANTON Weight: 125 lbs (57 kg)
Missing State : MI Hair Color: Blonde
Missing Country: United States Eye Color: Blue
Case Number: NCMC1100523
Circumstances: Kim was last seen on the evening of June 8, 1981 at an ice cream parlor near Sheldon Road and Ann Arbor Road in Canton, Michigan. She has not been seen or heard from since.

[nanabillie]

I admire anyone who refuses to let a cold case stay cold. They all need to come home.

[TigressPen]

I admire anyone who refuses to let a cold case stay cold. They all need to come home.


I agree! God Bless this man for caring.

[packy]

She may be out there somewhere and read the news about her and come home. Wouldn't that be so good. Hope someone reads about her and can come forward with a clue.

[TigressPen]

She may be out there somewhere and read the news about her and come home. Wouldn't that be so good. Hope someone reads about her and can come forward with a clue.



That would be phenomenally awesome! I do hope he learns something of his cousin's disappearance - gets a good lead.

[Faith]

hat tip Packy.

This new information is posted in Who Am I?

http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?p=548263&highlight=Marie+Larrow#post548263


Wednesday, March 4, 2009
1980s mystery
Fresh hope for cold case
Christine Ferretti / The Detroit News

LA SALLE TOWNSHIP -- It's been 27 years since a young, unidentified woman's half-clothed body washed up on the shoreline of Lake Erie in Monroe.

She had brown hair, straight teeth, wore a plaid shirt -- and had a cord wrapped twice around her neck.

Fingerprints, dental records and fliers yielded fruitless tips to identify her. A month later, she was laid to rest in an unmarked Monroe County grave. And hope faded away.

Now, Canton Township police have urged Monroe County officials to give the case another look: They believe the body could be 15-year-old Kim Marie Larrow, a chronic runaway who went missing after leaving a Canton Township ice cream parlor in 1981.

The first step in unraveling the mystery came Tuesday, when the young woman's tomb was resurrected from the quiet depths of the Roselawn Memorial Park Cemetery on Dixie Highway in La Salle Township, near Toledo. The prospect overwhelmed Larrow's half-sister, Andrea Stadwick.

"It's difficult not knowing. My wish is that she went off and had this wonderful fairy tale life, and she's happy and healthy ... but I know that's not right," Stadwick said tearfully. "I'm so grateful if they can rule this out. And if it is (Kim) then certainly I'll have some kind of answer about what happened to my sister."

Investigators needed less than an hour to pluck the casket. They whisked it to a restricted building on site and loosened about 20 screws to reveal a "remarkably preserved" body, said Jeff Pauli, a detective for the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, which is leading the exhumation that is being paid for by the FBI.

DNA extraction and a 3-D facial reconstruction comes next.

Canton police declined to discuss the investigation Tuesday, but have said the time frame, general description and location where the body was found led them to believe it could be Larrow.

The cases emerged within eight months of each other. Both women had a similar build, height and hairstyle -- and Larrow had just relocated from her father's home in Monroe County to Canton to live with her mother.

"The time frame is pretty close and physical description. We have reason to believe she might have been heading back that way (toward Monroe)," Canton Police Detective Ken Robinson previously told The Detroit News. "It's something that definitely needs to be looked into."

But Stadwick said she doubts the body is her relative. The unidentified woman was 5 feet 4 inches tall with brown eyes. Larrow was a couple of inches shorter with bluish eyes, Stadwick said.

"I'm almost 99 percent sure it couldn't be her, because the eye color alone," said Stadwick, 48, who lives in Florida.

Ingham County Medical Examiner Dean Sienko said many things could happen to a body after death.

"I don't think we'd rule it out based on eye color," he said. "Many things could have an effect on the perceived body size or decay they have."

Larrow was last seen leaving a Stroh's Ice Cream parlor on Sheldon Road in Canton in the summer of 1981.

The unidentified woman -- believed to be 20 to 28 years old -- washed ashore March 31, 1982. The death was ruled a homicide by manual strangulation. The body was well preserved due to the chilly water. It may have been floating for several weeks to months, according to the original investigators' report.

Family and police said Larrow sometimes ran away and was known to hitchhike. She planned to meet with friends to hang out in Hines Park that June evening. She never turned up.

Leads never materialized, DNA wasn't obtained much in the 1980s, and resources were limited. Police also claim Larrow's mother waited days to report her missing and refused to cooperate with the investigation.

Despite the grim prospects, Larrow's cousin Robert Cooper teamed with Crime Stoppers last fall, offering a $2,000 reward for new information in the case.

He's holding on to hope.

"It makes sense. No other bodies (turned up) around this Michigan area," said Cooper, a former Toledo police officer. "If she was hitchhiking and wanted to go to Monroe, she could have been picked up by the wrong person. I'm hopeful that it is Kim. I'm happy. That is my goal: To find Kim."

The family won't have to wait too long.

Police said within a couple of weeks the remains will be shipped to the University of North Texas Health Science Center, where they will be matched against databases for missing persons and unidentified remains. Stadwick and an uncle submitted DNA samples in September 2007. Larrow's mother would not submit DNA, family and police said.

"If we have a direct family reference sample we can do a direct comparison, said Dana Benton Russell, a spokeswoman for the center. "The sister would be an excellent match."

Monroe County Sheriff's officials said when the woman's body was discovered 27 years ago, investigators did all they could.

"They tried all the options available: fingerprints, teeth and fliers but never got any hits," Pauli said.

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090304/METRO/903040395

[sarahhod]

Canton police hoping to solve cold case with exhumed body

BY TONY BRUSCATO • OBSERVER STAFF WRITER • March 4, 2009

With the urging of Canton Township police, Monroe County authorities have exhumed the body of an unidentified young woman to whose body washed up along the Lake Erie shoreline in Monroe 27 years ago.

Canton police want to learn if the body — wearing only a plaid shirt and a cord wrapped around her neck — is that of 15-year-old Kim Marie Larrow, a recurring runaway who was last seen alive at the Stroh’s Ice Cream shop on Sheldon Road in June 1981.

“A cousin contacted us with information he saw about technology being used to specifically identify DNA on Jane and John Does throughout the country, and he wanted to see if Kim Larrow could be part of the project,” said Canton Police Detective Kenneth Robinson, who received the case file in August 2007. “There was never anything to get DNA from, so with the case on the books we wanted to try it.”

Robinson contacted Monroe County authorities, who still had an unsolved murder on their hands.

“There’s a discrepancy between the ages as our medical examiner said the body is between 20- to 28-years-old,” said Jeff Pauli, Monroe County Sheriff’s detective. “The dates are intriguing because she was found five months after being reported missing. So, maybe it could be.”

The body was exhumed Tuesday and DNA extracted. Pauli said it’s being sent to the University of North Texas to be processed, and a clay model of the woman’s face will be reconstructed to what it may have looked like in 1981.

“The physical characteristics are similar, and she (Larrow) does have a connection to Monroe County,” said Robinson. “That’s where her father lived (Dundee) and where she was staying before she went missing.”

Larrow had been visiting with her mother in Canton for about a week before she disappeared.

“Her mother now lives out of state,” he said. “The last time we attempted to contact her she didn’t want to talk to us. Her father is deceased.”

Robinson said they may have information about the DNA in about a month. He said the case is both exciting and frustrating.

“It’s exciting because of the challenge to put together pieces of the puzzle from so many years ago,” Robinson said. “It’s frustrating because you make advances and then hit a wall and get stuck with no place to go.”

http://www.hometownlife.com/article/...EWS03/90304030 (http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20090304/NEWS03/90304030)

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Police hoping to solve cold case with exhumed body
Mar. 5, 2009

With the urging of Canton Township police, Monroe County authorities have exhumed the body of an unidentified young woman whose body washed up along the Lake Erie shoreline in Monroe 27 years ago.

Canton police want to learn if the body - wearing only a plaid shirt and a cord wrapped around her neck - is that of 15-year-old Kim Marie Larrow, a recurring runaway who was last seen alive at the Stroh's Ice Cream shop on Sheldon Road in June 1981.

"A cousin contacted us with information he saw about technology being used to specifically identify DNA on Jane and John Does throughout the country, and he wanted to see if Kim Larrow could be part of the project," said Canton Police Detective Kenneth Robinson, who received the case file in August 2007. "There was never anything to get DNA from, so with the case on the books we wanted to try it."

Robinson contacted Monroe County authorities, who still had an unsolved murder on their hands.

"There's a discrepancy between the ages as our medical examiner said the body is between 20 to 28 years old," said Jeff Pauli, Monroe County Sheriff's detective. "The dates are intriguing because she was found five months after being reported missing. So maybe it could be."

The body was exhumed Tuesday and DNA extracted. Pauli said it's being sent to the University of North Texas to be processed, and a clay model of the woman's face will be reconstructed to what it may have looked like in 1981.

"The physical characteristics are similar, and she (Larrow) does have a connection to Monroe County," Robinson said. "That's where her father lived (Dundee) and where she was staying before she went missing."

Larrow had been visiting with her mother in Canton for about a week before she disappeared.

Robinson said they may have information about the DNA in about a month.

http://cold-case-news.newslib.com/story/3072-3247484/

[Faith]

Saturday, March 28, 2009
Body not likely that of Canton teen

Bones and teeth are from someone 20 to 30 years old, probably not those of girl missing since 1981.

Christine Ferretti / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- A body extracted from a Monroe County cemetery last month is likely not that of a Canton teenager who went missing nearly 30 years ago, officials said Friday.

Investigators said an analysis of the unidentified woman's bones and teeth reveal she was probably between the ages of 20 and 30, older than the missing girl.

Canton police urged Monroe County officials to resurrect the decades-old cold case, hoping the unidentified body could be 15-year-old Kim Marie Larrow, a chronic runaway who went missing from a Stroh's Ice Cream parlor in the summer of 1981.

Both Larrow and the unidentified woman -- whose half-naked body washed up on the shoreline of Lake Erie in 1982 with a cord wrapped around her neck -- had a similar build, height and hairstyle. The cases emerged around the same time and Larrow had just relocated to Canton from Monroe County when she disappeared.

The woman's body was buried in La Salle Township's Roselawn Cemetery in April 1982, about a month after fingerprints, dental records and fliers didn't bring answers.

Larrow's family members were dismayed and relieved Friday to find out the body probably isn't hers.

"We'd sure love to know what happened to Kim, but when you hear about how this body came to its end you hope it's not your sister," said Larrow's half-brother Brandon Headley, 46, of Ann Arbor. "There is some relief in knowing maybe she didn't come to an awful demise."

Michigan State Police Trooper Sarah Krebs said a final ruling will take at least three months as DNA samples are evaluated by the University of North Texas.

In the meantime, State Police will release a 3-D facial reconstruction Monday to solicit clues about the woman's identity.

"If she's not Kim, she's definitely somebody else," Krebs said. "Hopefully, somebody remembers ... we can get her identified and solve the homicide."

Larrow's family isn't giving up hope. They are offering a $2,000 reward through Crime Stoppers for new leads.

And her cousin Robert Cooper said he's staying connected with relatives, police and missing-persons Web sites to keep the investigation going.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090328/METRO/903280404/1409/METRO/Body+not+likely+that+of+Canton+teen

[Nut44x4]

I think this report states they are positively NOT Kim's and NOT Carolyn Sue Martin

""DNA testing, however, showed neither family was related to the Jane Doe""

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100216/METRO02/2160370/Two-families-keep-search-alive-for-missing-daughters

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I cannot believe the mother refused her DNA.

There is something very suspicious about that. Most mothers would offer their own life for their children, let alone a saliva swab.