The Lost and the Found

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Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number 48239
Date found December 18, 1981 11:14
Date created May 12, 2010 13:43
Date last modified January 12, 2016 12:46
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed

Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency Riverside Cnty
Phone 951-443-2300
Case Manager
Name Dawna Wimsatt
Phone 951-443-2300

Exclusions
The following people have been ruled out as being this decedent:
First Name Last Name Year of Birth State LKA
Kristy Booth 1960 Texas
Lisa Borden 1960 Texas
Gail Dahl 1957 California
Rebecca Dunn 1958 Nevada
Janice Fullam 1961 New York
Kimberly Kahler 1964 California
Kimberly Kahler 1964 California
Carol Lubahn 1954 California
Dena Mchan 1962 California
Ann Narus 1955 Nevada
Judith ODonnell 1961 New York
Janel Peters 1960 California
Debra Pscholka 1958 California
Tracy Stewart 1963 California

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/711ufca.html

The Doe Network:
Case File 711UFCA




Unidentified White Female


The victim was discovered on December 18, 1981 in Corona, Riverside County, California
Vital Statistics
Estimated age: 17-21 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'8"; 133 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Blonde, short hair, with some red tints.
Dentals: Available.
DNA: Available
Fingerprints: Available.
Case History
The victim was located in a rural area, near State Road 91 freeway, near the McKinley offramp, in the City of Corona. It is unknown where she died. She was found in a shallow grave, **** with no jewelry or identification. Her death is being handled as a homicide.
Convicted killer Henry Lee Lucas said he picked her up in Riverside and took her to Corona where he strangled her and buried her.

Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Riverside County Coroner
951-443-2300
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

Agency Case Number:
48239; 81-023

Source Information:
Riverside County Sheriff's Office

http://unidentified.wikia.com/wiki/Riverside_County_Jane_Doe_(December_18,_1981)


Riverside County Jane Doe (December 18, 1981)

Riverside County Jane Doe was a young woman found buried near a California road in 1981. Henry Lee Lucas confessed to her murder.

Riverside County Jane Doe



Sex Female
Race White
Location Corona, California
Found December 18, 1981
Unidentified for 31 years
Postmortem interval 1 month
Body condition Decomposed
Age approximation 17-21
Height approximation 5'8
Weight approximation 133 pounds
Cause of death Homicide

https://www.biography.com/people/henry-lee-lucas-11735804

Henry Lee Lucas Biography.com
Murderer(1936–2001)

Synopsis
Henry Lee Lucas was a murderer born on August 23, 1936, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Born to alcoholic parents, including a mother who prostituted herself, Lucas's sexual deviancy formed in his teen years. In 1960, he was sentenced for the murder of his mother. Paroled in 1970, Lucas went back to jail for the attempted kidnapping of a 15-year-old girl. Released again in 1975, he killed two more women, and was arrested in 1983. He confessed to murdering hundreds of people, though no proof existed beyond three known victims. Lucas sat on Death Row, later changed to life in prison by Texas Governor George W. Bush. He died in a Texas prison from natural causes on March 12, 2001.

Early Life
Murderer Henry Lee Lucas was born on August 23, 1936, in Blacksburg, Virginia. One of nine siblings, Lucas was raised by abusive alcoholic parents. His mother ruled the household with an iron fist and prostituted herself in their backwoods community to make money. As a teenager, Lucas's sexual deviance became increasingly pronounced, and he reported having sex with his half-brother and with dead animals.

Lucas spent his teen years in and out of jail. In March 1960, he was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison for murdering his mother. He was sent to Jackson State Penitentiary in southern Michigan, but after two attempted suicides, he was admitted to Ionia State Mental Hospital. He was paroled in 1970 after serving 10 years.

Murder and Conviction
A year after his release, Lucas was sentenced to five years for attempting to kidnap a fifteen-year-old girl at gunpoint. After his second release in 1975, he traveled to Michigan where he teamed-up with a petty thief named Ottis Toole. They shared an unhealthy interest in **** and death. In October 1979, Lucas traveled the country accompanied by Ottis and his young niece, Becky Powell, who was mildly retarded.


According to Lucas, he and Powell became romantically involved, filling one another's lifelong need for love and respect. Despite this romance, however, he eventually killed Powell, along with Katharine Rich, an elderly woman with whom they had been staying.

In June 1983, Lucas was arrested for possession of a deadly weapon. In his cell, he began confessing to hundreds of murders. Egged on by investigators from around the country, Lucas's confessions became increasingly farfetched. It is unclear how many murders he actually did commit, but some believe it was just three: his mother, Becky Powell and Katharine Rich. He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment by Texas Governor George W. Bush. While on Death Row, Lucas became a born again Christian and spent the last 18 years of his life as a model prisoner. He died in a Huntsville, Texas, prison from natural causes on March 12, 2001, at the age of 64.