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PRINCESS BLUE: F, 15-19, found in Brazoria County, TX - 10 Sept 1990 - Robert E. Lee High School class ring
Scorpio:
http://unidentified.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_Blue
Princess Blue was a teenage girl whose skeleton was found at the side of a road in Texas. She is known by her nickname due to a blue 1975 class ring that she wore.
Case:
Princess Blue's body was found under a pile of brush and a tire by a man who stopped to relieve himself. She wore several rings, including the class ring that was found. She was likely deceased for around a year, which indicated that the ring did not belong to her originally.
She was thought to be Hispanic, but was later found to be White with African-American heritage, most likely having at least one Black grandparent. Because of this, the sketches may not be accurate.
Scorpio:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/137uftx.html
Date of Discovery: September 10, 1990
Location of Discovery: Manvel, Brazoria County, Texas
Estimated Date of Death: 6 months - 1 year prior
State of Remains: Skeletal
Cause of Death: Undetermined
Physical Description
Estimated Age: 15-25 years old
Race: Biracial (White and Black). It is likely she had a parent or grandparent who was Black. Originally believed to be Hispanic.
Gender: Female
Height: 4'10" - 5'3"
Weight: Unknown, but likely slim to medium build.
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Two fractured ribs; and a defect on a bone beneath her left knee. The victim possibly had a tumor on her knee.
Identifiers
Dentals: Available. There were several teeth with untreated carries, and two amalgam fillings. Tooth #10, an upper left, lateral incisor, which is right next to her two front most teeth was surgically removed prior to death and the corresponding space was partially obliterated by mature bone.
Fingerprints: Not available.
DNA: Available.
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: None.
Jewelry: One pearl, beaded bracelet. Six rings. One gold band ring with six clear stones; one silver band with a scroll design; two thin silver bands; one silver-colored ring with a turquoise horse or unicorn. One 1975 class ring, size 9 1/2, of Robert E. Lee High School (now the Margaret Long Wisdom High School), located in Houston. This ring has a blue stone with a silver colored, inexpensive metal band. It is unknown whether or not there were ever engravings on the inner side of the ring's band. The ring was up sized twice, which would have removed evidence of previous engravings. However, it does have an inlaid, "L" which many students chose as an option that year that stands for the school mascot, Robert E. Lee himself.
Additional Personal Items: None.
Circumstances of Discovery
The decedent was located on a pile of debris at the end of a Brazoria County road (101) just east of Highway 288 inside the Manvel city limits on September 10, 1990. The skeleton was found by a man who had pulled off the highway to relieve himself. He stepped behind a barricade and saw a skull in an old tire. No purse, wallet, clothing or hair were located around the skeleton, six rings were on the fingers, and a bracelet around her wrist.
The company that made Robert E. Lee High School's (now Margaret Long Wisdom High School) rings doesn't have records from 1975. The Lee class of 1975 had about 300 girls. Authorities would like to hear from any of the girls who lost a ring or gave it to somebody else, as the female would likely have been too young to have graduated in 1975.
Toxicology tests yielded no trace of opiates in her bone marrow. However, it is unknown whether or not other drugs were present, tested for or could have been tested for.
The female is known as "Princess Blue" for the class ring she wore.
Scorpio:
Victim was wearing a 1975 Robert E. Lee High School class ring. This ring has a blue stone with a silver colored, inexpensive metal band. It is unknown whether or not there were ever engravings on the inner side of the ring's band. The ring was up sized twice, which would have removed evidence of previous engravings.
The ring has an inlaid, "L" which many students chose as an option that year that stands for the school mascot, Robert E. Lee himself.
Scorpio:
1975 Robert E. Lee High School class ring.
Victim wore a silver-colored ring with a turquoise horse or unicorn design
A silver ring with a scroll design
Another piece of jewelry
The Victim also wore a gold band with 6 clear stones, 2 thin silver bands and a pearl-beaded bracelet.[/img]
Scorpio:
http://www.officialcoldcaseinvestig...ed-in-Brazoria-County-Texas-September-10-1990
Houston Chronicle (TX)
June 8, 2007
Edition: 3 STAR
Section: B
Page: 3
MANVEL - Investigators hope new forensic drawings can lead to identification of a young woman whose skeletal remains were found 17 years ago, dumped behind a road barrier near Texas 288 in Brazoria County.
"Even if it didn't clear the case, we want to have her identified," said Manvel Police Sgt. Jay Coffman. "It could mean closure for her family."
Coffman has never had a name to call her by. To the state, she is case number U03-10-014. One Internet forum, Some oneKnowsMe.com, has named her Princess Blue, for the blue stone in the class ring she wore from Houston's Robert E. Lee High School.
"We would love to know her real name," Coffman said.
Investigators originally thought she might be Hispanic, but a recent forensic analysis conducted by the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification determined that she was probably Caucasian with some possibility of African-American ancestry.
Using information from the new study, Texas Rangers forensic artist Suzanne Birdwell created two new drawings of what she may have looked like - one with long hair and one with short hair.
Investigators think she was between 4-foot-11 and 5-foot-3 and had a slight to medium build. When she died she was probably 17 to 21 years old.
Police have no idea of how she died or how her remains came to be where they were found. A motorist relieving himself behind the barrier at the end of County Road 101 just east of Texas 288 spotted her skull on Sept. 10, in 1990. The spot is barely visible from 288.
No clothes were found with the body. Investigators think she was dead six months to a year before her remains were found.
Because she was probably born sometime between 1968 and 1973, the Lee High School class of 1975 ring wouldn't have originally been hers.
Just how she got it remains one of the many mysteries surrounding the case. The original owner could have given it to her. She could have found it or stolen it or bought it in a pawn shop. It could even have been put on her finger after she died.
The body had other jewelry - a silver-colored ring with a turquoise horse or unicorn, three silver-colored bands, one with a scroll design, and a gold-colored ring with six clear stones. She also wore a pearl-type beaded bracelet.
The case is one of many listed on the Texas Department of Public Safety's Missing Person Clearing House Web site: www.txdps.state.tx.us/mpch/.
Anyone with any possible information are asked to call Coffman at 281-489-1212 or Brazoria County Sheriff's Investigator Richard Rosser at 218-756-2218.
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