The Lost and the Found

http://www.defrostingcoldcases.com/missing-johanna-jopie-atalia-gersina-de-haas/

“This unidentified woman committed suicide on December 18, 1996. She left two 50$ bills one for the coroner and one for the cemetery with the same typed note:

Deceased by own hand…prefer no autopsy.

Please order cremation with funds provided.

Thank you, Jane Doe

She was located inside Pleasant Valley Memorial Park, a small cemetery in Annandale, Virginia. There was a clear plastic sheet on the ground. Next to the sheet was an 8″ Christmas tree, adorned with gold balls and red ribbons.

In addition to drinking brandy (she had a 0.14 blood-alcohol level) and swallowing Valium, the victim had two empty juice bottles and a new roll of masking tape in her knapsack.

She had no receipts in her pockets to enable police to trace her movements. She had a portable tape player, the headphones over her ears and had listened to a recording of comedians Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner doing their “2000 year old man” routine.

She had placed a plastic bag over her head and tied it off with tape. This made her suffocate.

The site she chose, Pleasant Valley, probably wouldn’t be known to a drifter. She lay down near the section of the cemetery where infants are buried, but not near any particular grave, and most of the stones nearby were fairly recent.”

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/6279

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/6279

Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Name Constance Di Angelo
Agency Northern District ME Office
Phone 703-530-2603
Case Manager
Name Paul Yoakam
Phone 757 683-8366

Exclusions
The following people have been ruled out as being this decedent:
First Name Last Name Year of Birth State LKA
Teresa Abeja 1953 California
Geneva Adams 1922 Missouri
Linda Adams 1963 Washington
Frances Allen 1937 Kentucky
Kimberly Allen 1958 Wyoming
Dawn Amlo 1949 Connecticut
Carla Anderson 1964 Minnesota
Cynthia Anderson 1961 Ohio
Denise Anderson 1948 California
Denise Anderson 1948 California
Katherine Anderson 1954 Maryland
Eva Arehart 1922 Michigan
Ina Arnall 1934 Oklahoma
Maureen Baca 1950 California
Nancy Baird 1952 Utah
Lynn Baltzley 1962 Missouri
Dixie Barker 1926 Kentucky
Teresa Barnett 1956 Texas
Kathleen Bennett 1960 Michigan
Marie Blee 1964 Colorado
Lina Borges 1959 California
Linda Bowdre 1948 Ohio
Georgiana Breckenridge 1939 California
Kimberly Britts 1963 Virginia
Carlene Brown 1955 Wyoming
ROBIN BULL 1945 Washington
Mary Burns 1947 Washington
Sandra Butler 1962 Nevada
Patricia Calloway 1954 Kentucky
Sharman Carey 1956 Washington
Peggy Case 1960 Utah
Josephine Chatraw 1948 New York
Debra Childers 1954 North Carolina
Janet Clark 1955 Michigan
Rose Cole 1956 California
Cynthia Coleman 1963 California
Patricia Colyer 1948 Washington
Shelia Cooper 1952 Kentucky
Tina Coverdale 1963 Delaware
Andrea Coyle 1948 Pennsylvania
Rebecca Crist 1962 Virginia
Wilda Cross 1953 Louisiana
Frances Crownover 1953 Tennessee
BEATRICE CUBELOS 1950 New Mexico
Lois Darnopuk 1956 New York
Sherry Daughtery 1963 Arizona
Evelyn Davis 1962 Ohio
Deborah Dean 1961 Missouri
Eva Debruhl 1962 South Carolina
Jennifer DeLap 1951 Oregon
LORREE DENNIS 1965 Nevada
Patricia DePunte 1957 New Jersey
Josephine Despard 1958 New York
Audrey Dill 1946 Iowa
Linne Dominelli 1950 California
Kelly Dove 1961 Virginia
Debra Duncan 1957 Michigan
Lilli Dunn 1951 Michigan
Wendy Eaton 1959 Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Eisel 1962 Washington
Ann Ellinwood 1965 Oregon
Debbie Escalante 1960 New Mexico
Mary Etter 1959 Oklahoma
Sherry Eyerly 1963 Oregon
Marsha Ferber 1941 West Virginia
JENNIE FISHER 1953 Florida
Teresa Fittin 1957 Florida
Laura Flink 1947 Washington
Melanie Flynn 1952 Kentucky
Iva Foss 1901 New York
Francine Frost 1938 Oklahoma
Audree Gagne 1935 Nevada
Rachael Garden 1964 New Hampshire
DAVETTE GAUNT 1959 California
Rose Gayhart 1962 Florida
Mae Gebhard 1915 California
Judith Geurin 1945 New York
Pamela Golden 1949 Arkansas
Donna Gonzales 1964 Louisiana
Arisoneide Gosselin 1960 California
Linda Grimm 1961 California
Clara Grunst 1963 Missouri
Anita Gunn 1953 Virginia
Heather Guy 1953 Washington
Billie Hall 1960 Maryland
Gina Hall 1962 Virginia
Lynda Hanley 1948 Rhode Island
Marchelle Hansen 1964 Wisconsin
Nelda Hardwick 1959 Louisiana
Karen Harmon 1956 Oregon
Darla Harper 1960 Arkansas
Donna Harris 1956 Virginia
Donna Harris 1956 Virginia
Cindy Haumann 1959 Arizona
Katherine Heckel 1951 Pennsylvania
Charlotte Heimann 1954 New York
Rogene Helm 1952 Oklahoma
Ashley Higgins 1962 California
Mary Carol Hill - Frederick 1957 Florida
Sherri Holland 1962 Florida
Susan Hoppes Bennett 1948 Washington
Frankie Horsley 1964 North Carolina
June Howard 1951 Washington
Mary Hunter 1960 Washington
Elba Irizarry 1951 New Jersey
Gail Joiner 1959 Florida
Suzanne Justis 1950 Oregon
Gail Katz-Bierenbaum 1956 New York
Joyce Kennedy 1933 Washington
Debra Kent 1957 Utah
Nahita Khatib 1946 Wisconsin
Debra Kidwell 1952 California
Frances Kiefer 1949 Pennsylvania
Tracy King 1960 Pennsylvania
Shirley Klemgard 1940 New York
Hazel Klug 1962 Virginia
Gloria Korzon 1943 Pennsylvania
Marilyn Koski 1953 Oregon
Renee LaManna 1958 New Jersey
Peggy Lammon 1961 Michigan
Elaine Lehtinen 1945 California
Sherrill Levitt 1944 Missouri
Velda Leyba 1953 New Mexico
Dorothy Limestahl 1939 Minnesota
Dagmar Linton 1926 Washington
Lillian Lipscomb 1921 New York
Lori Lloyd 1961 Ohio
Ella Beth Lodermeier 1948 South Dakota
Sheree Magaro 1956 Maryland
Tammy Mahoney 1961 New York
Cynthia Maine 1959 California
Anne Manchester 1954 Delaware
Donna Manson 1954 Washington
Susan Marable 1956 Washington
Donda Martino 1961 Tennessee
Elisabeth Martinson 1960 California
Sandra Matott 1942 Utah
Deborah McCall 1963 Illinois
MARINTHIA MCCOY 1963 Florida
Teresa McKinley 1952 California
Martha McNiel 1959 North Carolina
Patricia Meehan 1951 Montana
Kathleen Meyers 1962 Delaware
Stephanie Miles 1961 Washington
Barbara Miller 1959 Pennsylvania
Frances Morales 1962 New Jersey
Sheri Muhleman 1964 California
Pamela Nater 1946 Florida
Madalene Neace 1955 Ohio
Barbara Nunez 1956 California
DEBBY OBERG 1954 Nevada
Deborah Owens 1955 California
Juanita Oxenrider 1947 Maryland
Barbara Paciotti 1949 Minnesota
Laurie Partridge 1957 Washington
Jan Pattinson 1955 Michigan
Susan Pearson 1935 Montana
Kathleen Pehringer 1947 Wyoming
Karen Penson 1952 Washington
Kristina Perkins 1953 Arizona
Rose Peterson 1948 Michigan
Robyn Pettinato 1960 Montana
Babette Phillips 1959 Louisiana
Evelyn Piper 1940 Alabama
ADA PLA 1933 Florida
Deborah Post 1961 Massachusetts
Behdokht Pyke 1952 Florida
Angela Ramsey 1961 Florida
Juanita Reedy 1943 West Virginia
Marcia Remick 1962 Virginia
Edna Reynolds 1921 New Mexico
Teresa Rhodes 1962 Pennsylvania
BEVERLY RIBLEY 1946 California
Dorothy Richardson 1960 Texas
Simone Ridinger 1960 Massachusetts
Anne Riggin 1956 Pennsylvania
Isabel Rizzo 1953 New York
Anne Robinson 1930 California
Lonene Rogers 1951 Pennsylvania
Martha Rooks 1936 Colorado
Guadalupe Rosales 1924 Michigan
Hannah Rowell 1964 California
Veronica Safranski 1956 Minnesota
Cheryl Scherer 1959 Missouri
Juliana Schubert 1959 Washington
Jeanne Scrima 1935 New York
Linda Seymour 1947 Illinois
Denise Sheehy 1954 New York
Jami Sherer 1963 Washington
Nancy Shoupp 1963 Colorado
Barbara Shumac 1953 Pennsylvania
Terry Slaugenhoupt 1962 Pennsylvania
Betty Smith 1942 New Jersey
Dale Smith 1933 Georgia
Verna Smith 1919 California
Sharon Sons 1965 Kentucky
Sally Stone 1964 Idaho
Mary Ann Switalski 1946 Illinois
Linda Taylor 1948 Tennessee
Flora Tobin 1936 Louisiana
Donna Urban 1959 Delaware
Darline Vaughan 1950 Virginia
Wilma Vermaas 1952 California
Debra Vowell 1957 California
Kathi Warren 1956 North Carolina
Mary Watkins 1925 California
Cherry Weaver 1941 Florida
Julie Weflen 1958 Washington
Vernette Wester 1947 Arizona
Joanne Williams 1956 Pennsylvania
Karen Wilson 1963 New York
Candace Wright 1947 Wisconsin
Jennifer Wyant 1958 Tennessee
Jerry Yell 1940 Oklahoma
Karen Zendrosky 1963 New Jersey

The first order of business was to take a closer look at the class ring. A jeweler confirmed that it was a woman's ring, size 9.5. It had been upsized twice, from an original 7.5, and this would have wiped out any markings, like initials or school activities, that might have been inside the band.

Balfour, the ring's Austin-based manufacturer, did not have records from 1975. And that year's graduating class of Robert E. Lee High was about 650 students, meaning at least 300 girls. Students could choose from several colored stones that year. Rosser and Coffman faced the possibility of having to track down 300 female graduates to see who bought a blue stone, and how many of those women parted with their rings prior to 1990. Coffman and Rosser released the information about the ring to the media in late August or early September 2006.

http://www.houstonpress.com/news/cold-case-6540443


This is important information about the ring. It had been upsized from a 7.5 to a 9.5.

continued

When it became her turn, Princess Blue's remains were lifted from a shelf at the Center for Human Identification, and for the first time in 17 years, she had visitors.

Armed with nearly two decades' worth of advances in forensic pathology, the specialists studied her, and they came to a new set of parameters: She was no longer Hispanic. She was white, but with some African-American ancestry. A black parent, maybe, or grandparent. She grew older, too; she was now 17-21 years old; and then she just grew. She was now at least 4'11". But they wanted to give Princess Blue something that had been erased a long time ago. They wanted to give her a face.

Sue Birdwell, a forensic artist with the Texas Rangers, put pencil to paper. She drew big eyes framing a pronounced yet somehow still delicate nose. She drew a pair of full lips placed atop a sharply defined chin. She drew thick, dark, wavy hair adorning a slightly squarish head, parted down the middle. Princess Blue wore it pulled back in one rendering, collected in a ponytail or maybe up in a bun. In the other picture, her hair hung straight down, the waves more obvious now, spilling straight down somewhere below the bottom frame. Whoever she was, she was pretty. And now that she had a face, she was ready for the camera.

In June 2007, Princess Blue made news again.

The sketches were released to television stations and newspapers throughout Texas. But they probably had no greater impact than on the sleuthing sites. For months, sleuths had combed through hundreds of photographs of missing girls and young women, having no frame of reference except for words on a page. They didn't have any way to tell if the faces staring back at them actually looked like Princess Blue. So while it seemed likely that Princess Blue came from Harris or Brazoria counties, the drawings made it impossible for the sleuths to ignore those photos of the woman from Dallas.

launchedwww.SomeoneKnowsMe.com, a site devoted to finding the identity not only of Princess Blue but of other unidentified and missing persons.

"Somewhere, somebody has to know something about this ring," she says.

The sleuthing sites generate a lot of cross-traffic, because the sleuthing community believes in sharing information, something that is not always practiced among law enforcement agencies.

The only mention of Princess Blue's surgically removed upper left tooth is buried in the 1990 medical examiner's report; it was never released to the public as an investigative aid. If it had been, someone — sleuth or cop — might have taken a closer look at Babette Alberti.

Alberti was last seen in October 1983, in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, which comprises a large part of suburban New Orleans. Based on the information on the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Web site, Alberti seems an unlikely candidate for Princess Blue. The height is on, but the age, 31, is off. Alberti's photograph vaguely resembles the Princess Blue sketches, but certainly not more than Cheatham.

It's on the Web sites of the Doe Network and the Charley Project — privately established sites run by volunteers — that Alberti comes more into focus. A second photograph on those sites shows Alberti smiling, revealing what appears to be a gap in her upper teeth where a tooth might have been. Those sites also reveal that Alberti fractured her ribs as a child. Princess Blue's upper two ribs were fractured; the autopsy never established if that occurred post- or antemortem. The sites also state, "She may have been involved in drugs and ****."

Of course, the chances of Alberti being a match for Princess Blue would rise and fall dramatically on whether she was actually missing a tooth, and, if so, which one. But a call to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office proved a dead end.

"I cannot give any information out," said Captain Hilda Montecino of the JPSO. She said she would contact the Manvel Police Department, and any information would have to come from them. All she could disclose was that Alberti was last seen in St. Bernard Parish in September 1983, placing her last known whereabouts in a different parish and a different month than what's listed on the JPSO Web site.

Montecino offered to put the Houston Press in touch with the JPSO's public information officer, although he wouldn't be able to say anything, either. When the Press asked for the PIO's name and number, Montecino said he would be the one calling. That's because, when it comes to the name and number of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office's public information officer, "We just don't give that out to the public."

When Coffman and Rosser reopened the Princess Blue case, they knew they had to talk to Tommie Tolson, the original investigator.

By that time, the former Manvel police chief had moved to Hallettsville, where he works as a truck driver. Coffman and Rosser wanted to see if he might be able to tell them anything that had been left out of the original report. It was only a few paragraphs long and was never supplemented. If Tolson ever sketched or photographed the crime scene, that evidence has long disappeared. He did not appear to have interviewed anyone other than the motorist who found the remains.


Tolson didn't have much to tell them. Besides, he had another life now, and he had more important things to deal with than a bunch of bones dumped on a dead-end road nearly two decades earlier.

"He said he's not interested in saying nothing," his wife, Susan, told the Press. And even if he wanted to talk, what could he say about an unidentified body?

"Nothing came of it," Susan Tolson says of the original investigation. She laughs when she says it, just like she laughs when she adds, "They did what they could."

The bottom line: Tommie Tolson cannot be bothered with this stuff. He's out in his rig, trying to keep a schedule.

"He has to keep his mind on the road," she says.

So the reason he sat on the single most important clue in the case remains a mystery.

"I can't think of a reasonable explanation why the high school ring would not be put out there [to the public]," says Vernon Geberth, a consultant in homicide and forensic case investigations for authorities in the U.S. and Canada. Geberth was a member of the New York Police Department from 1965 to 1987, retiring as the commanding officer for the Bronx Homicide Task Force.

"It's been a traditional practice in law enforcement to withhold information about the case so only you and the actual killer know what has happened," Geberth says. "But if I have an unidentified body, my biggest quandary is the identification of the deceased. Because I don't have a base for my investigation unless I know who I'm investigating."

If he doesn't have a name, he doesn't have the victimology, which means he doesn't have an idea why she was chosen as a victim, which means there's nothing pointing to a suspect.

Or at least a new suspect. There was always an old standby.

Roy Alan Stuart had a knack for turning up in towns where young women went missing.

His talent came to fruition in 1971, when the body of Linda Kay Simmons was discovered in a pasture outside Amarillo. When investigators there followed the leads, they wound up at Stuart's front door. He was arrested on July 13, charged, released for want of proof and arrested again three weeks later when the bludgeoned body of 40-year-old Kay Sands was found in a field. This time, there would be a trial.

While he was out on bond, two women accused him of assault in separate incidents. He was charged for those assaults, which were dropped when the women refused to testify. Ultimately, a jury found him not guilty of Sands's murder.

Four years later, police would arrest him again, this time for aggravated sexual assault. And this time, Stuart pled guilty. He would be remanded to the Darrington Unit in Rosharon, Brazoria County. His sentence was 15 years; he served seven.

Some months before Stuart's release, Brazoria County Sheriff's Deputy Matt Wingo got a call from a sheriff in north Texas, up near Amarillo.

"He told me of the man named Roy Alan Stuart," Wingo wrote in a memoir for The Police News. "The Sheriff understood Stuart was to be released soon from TDC and our caseload may go up."

When Stuart was released, he didn't leave Brazoria County. He got a job as an auto mechanic and moved into a trailer near Clute with the woman he married while in prison. Wingo writes that his office and the Houston Police Department began a surveillance on Stuart, who proved less than a faithful husband.

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Thomas L Villanueva[​IMG]
Julie Vinas[​IMG]
David W Voudrie[​IMG]
Mark L Walker[​IMG]
Alfrida Washington[​IMG]
Charlie Watkins[​IMG]
Stephen Watts[​IMG]
Susan Wenglar (Mucci)[​IMG]
Stephen D Wherry[​IMG]
Paula D Whitlock[​IMG]
Kent W Whittington[​IMG]
Robert W Williams, Jr[​IMG]
Michael Winborn[​IMG]
Judy A Young[​IMG]
Karen Zastro (Gilbert)[​IMG]

This is the list of missing classmates who can't be found.

http://www.lee75.org/class_classmates.cfm

Here is the entire class list for 1975.

http://www.classmates.com/siteui/yearbooks/4182710468

This is the 1975 yearbook.

A jeweler recently told investigators the ring was a size 9 1/2 and had been resized twice. The person it fit was probably about 175 pounds.

http://brazoriacoghost.weebly.com/princess-blue.html

True Ghost Tales Of Brazoria County

Princess Blue
What was left of her was found in a mound of dead vegetation and trash. Her tombstone was a tire; that's where the skull lay. Beyond it, her skeleton



Princess Blue's Autopsy Report

Here is a copy of the original autopsy report done on Princess Blue in 1990. A Houston reporter, Cra autopsy report:ig Malisow, was gracious enough to provide this for us. Please note that a complete forensics work-up was completed in March of 2007; however, we have not yet been able to obtain a copy of it. There is much updated information in the report, and if we are able to obtain it we will post it on this thread:


History: These skeletal remains of a Hispanic female were found under a trash pile at the dead end of County Road 101, east of Hwy 288, Manvel, Brazoria County, Texas at 5 pm on Sept. 10, 1990. Some property (jewelry) was recovered at the scene with the skeletal remains.

Autopsy: The autopsy was performed in the [HCME's office] by forensic pathologist Eduardo Bellas, MD, at the request of and upon the written authorization of the Hon. Bill Todd, Justice of the Peace, Precinct 8, Brazoria County, Texas, beginning at 2 pm on Sept. 11, 1990.

Extrernal Appearance: The body was that of a totally skeletonized human remains which consisted of the entire skull with nonprominant frontal ridges or mastoid process. The nasal aperture were those of a caucasion configuration and the upper arch was U-shaped, resembling mongoloid character. The cheek bones were not prominent. The orbital sockets were rather square. The right and left sides of the upper jaw were not still fused as was not the transversal suture of the hard palate.

The foramen magnum and the configuration of the base of the skull and the outside of the skull showed no abnormalities. Upon removal of the calvarium, it was found that the clivus was almost totally obliterated and the endocranium appeared to be not remarkable. Natural teeth in good condition in part and some in bad condition were observed. According with the Universal System, teeth 1, 17 and 32 (wisdom teeth) were present and unerupted. Tooth 16 was absent. The corresponding alveolar spavce was totally obliterated by mature bone tissue.

There was a large caries on the buccal aspect in tooth 2 and tooth 5 was missing postmortem. Teeth 3 and 4 were in good condition as well as tooth 14 which had a minute occlusal amalgam. Tooth 6 (upper right canine) had extensive caries at the mesial surface extending to the buccal surface as well as toward the lingual area. Tooth 9 (left upper central incisor) had a recent occlusal postmortem fracture at the tip. Tooth 10 was surgically absent and the corresponding alveolar space partially obliterated by mature bone. In the lower arch, tooth 17 was unerupted and tooth 18 had a minute round buccal amalgam. Tooth 19 had a large occlusal caries extending to buccal, mesial and distal aspects with only 1/3 of the crown surface left. Teeth 2o-29 were present. A large caries on the mesial and buccal surgace of tooth 20 was observed. A small lateral caries was noticed in tghe lateral aspect of tooth 29. Teeth 30 and 31 were in good condition, however, the lateral aspect of tooth 30 was observed with black discoloration of the crown area and conssitent with a distal caries.

The lower jaw was intact. The two scapula as well as the hip bones were submitted and the fusion between the first sacral vertebra with the sacrum was incomplete in the anterior portion. the configuration of the three bones of the pelvbis were consistent with female-type and the symphysis pubis with numerous pits alternating with the elevations which suggested a very young person. The fusion of the iliac crests of the hip bones was partial in some areas. The sternum was submitted in two pieces and was not remarkable. 22 ribs were submitted. The right first rib aliong with the second right rib showed a hairline fracture measuring 1-3/4 inches in length in the first right rib and 1-1/4 inches in the second right rib. In addition, 1-1/4 inches before the anterior tip of the second rib there was a transveral compression.

The two humeri with the two cubitus and radii were submitted and not remarkable. Similarly, both femurs, both tibias and fibulas were also submitted. The bones of the extremities showed no abnormalities except for a defect in the distal portion of the left tibia extending up to the articular surface and measured one inch in the virtucal dimension and 1-1/4 inches anteroposteriorly. The length of the humeri was 11-1/2 inches each. The length of both femurs was 16-1/2 inches. The length of the tibia was 13-3/4 inches. Also submitted were the seven cervical vertebrae, the five lumbar vertebrae and the eleven thoracic vertebrae. None of the certebrae submitted showed any abnormalities. In addition, multiple bones of the hands and feet were submitted and were not remarkable. The central portion and the two wings of the hyoid bone were identified and intact.

Lab results: Opiate -- bone marrow=negative

Opinion: It is my opinion that the cause and manner of death of the decedent, unidentified skeletal remains of a Hispanic female, is undetermined.