Author Topic: ANNE ARUNDEL DOE: WF, 19-23, found in Arundel Park, MD - 27 July 2005  (Read 259 times)

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On July 27, 2005, two boys were walking through the wooded area near basketball courts in the Arundel park near the 700 block of Cross St. They saw what appeared to be a leg sticking out of a blanket, police said. They also saw a skull, pants and a pair of shoes near the blanket.

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https://identifyus.org/en/cases/1856

Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number 05-05076
Date found July 27, 2005 14:57
Date created May 22, 2008 14:40
Date last modified May 18, 2012 14:10
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed May 23, 2008 07:27

Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency MD Ofc of Chief St Med Examiner
Phone 410-333-3225
Case Manager
Name Charlotte Noranbrock
Phone 410-333-3254

Exclusions
The following people have been ruled out as being this decedent:
First Name Last Name Year of Birth State LKA
Shannon Arif 1977 Tennessee
Kelli Cox 1976 Texas
Hope Curry 1977 Virginia
Molly Dattilo 1981 Indiana
Yuliana Escudero 1987 Oregon
Danielle Imbo 1970 Pennsylvania
Hazel Klug 1962 Virginia
Katherine Lyon 1964 Maryland
Sheila Lyon 1962 Maryland
Maura Murray 1982 Massachusetts
Michelle Rust 1977 Maryland
Patricia Schmidt 1964 Virginia
Patricia Schmidt 1964 Virginia
Tiffany Sessions 1968 Florida
Tracey Tetso 1972 Maryland

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NamUs UP # 1856

ME/C Case Number: 05-05076
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
19 to 23 year old White Female
Case Report - NamUs UP # 1856
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number 05-05076
Date found July 27, 2005 14:57
Date created May 22, 2008 14:40
Date last modified May 18, 2012 14:10
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed May 23, 2008 07:27

Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency MD Ofc of Chief St Med Examiner
Phone 410-333-3225
Case Manager
Name Charlotte Noranbrock
Phone 410-333-3254

Demographics
Estimated age Adult - Pre 30
Minimum age 19 years
Maximum age 23 years
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) 120, Estimated
Height (inches) 65, Estimated
Body Parts Inventory (Check all that apply)
All parts recovered

Body conditions
Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton
Probable year of death to 2005
Estimated postmortem interval Months

Circumstances
Location Found
GPS coordinates
Address 1 5201 Wasena Avenue
Address 2
City Brooklyn
State Maryland
Zip code 21225
County Anne Arundel
Circumstances
Subject was found lying in a wooded area.

Physical
Hair color Brown
Head hair
Red and brown, curly, approximately 8 inches in length

Skeletal findings
Healed nose fracture, healed left cheek fracture

Fingerprints
Status: Fingerprint information is currently not available

Clothing and Accessories
No clothing or accessories
Clothing and accessories are described below
Clothing on body
Red and light colored tank top with "NIKE" on front, red lace underwire bra size 34B, light color bikini style underwear
Clothing with body

Footwear
White "NIKE" sock, white tennis shoes

Dental
Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered

DNA
Status: Sample submitted - Tests complete

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http://www.marylandmissing.com/unidentifiedpersons.html



July 2005
19-23 years old
Anne Arundel County Police
410-222-3453 or 410-222-8610.

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http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/21ufmd.html

The Doe Network:
Case File 21UFMD




Sketch and Reconstruction of Victim by Anne Arundel County Police

Unidentified White Female
The victim was discovered in July 27, 2005 in Brooklyn, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Estimated Date of Death: Months prior
No signs of trauma were apparent
Partial Skeletal Remains
Vital Statistics
Estimated age: 19-23 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'5"; 115 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Red and brown, curly hair, approximately 8 inches in length.
Clothing: Red and light colored tank top with "NIKE" on front; red lace, under wire bra, size 34B; light color bikini style underwear. White "NIKE" sock, white tennis shoes.
Skeletal Findings: Healed nose fracture, healed left cheek fracture.
Fingerprints: Available searches with fingerprints had no findings.
Dentals: Available. Tooth #30 has root canal treatment.
DNA: Available in FBI NMPDD.

Case History
The victim was located in a wooded area in the 700 block of Cross Street and Wasena Avenue, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland on July 27, 2005.
Two boys saw what appeared to be a leg sticking out of a blanket and called authorities.
According to police, witnesses reported seeing homeless people in the area where the remains were found.

Investigators

If you have any information about this case please contact:
Anne Arundel County Police Department
Detective Cremen
410-222-3453
410-222-8610
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Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Dr C Allan
410-333-3250
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

Agency Case #:
05-05076

Source Information:
The Baltimore Sun 7/6/07
UDRS

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http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-03-14/news/bs-md-ar-body-20110314_1_remains-dna-old-case

A number, no name, for unidentified Anne Arundel body
Police trying to identify woman found in park in 2005


March 14, 2011|By Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun
She has no name. She's known only as 05-730560.

"This is everything we've got," said Anne Arundel County Police Detective John Gajda, plunking down a plastic box that holds folders of what's known about the young woman with reddish brown hair — which isn't much — and her investigation.

Gajda keeps the box at his desk in Crownsville, 17 miles from where children found her decomposing body at the northern tip of the county five and a half years ago.

The woman's remains are kept in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore. What's left of her mud-caked clothing is packed in a cardboard carton in a police evidence room in Millersville.

Gajda and his cold-case partner, Detective Scott Seegers, are renewing the investigation into the unknown young woman. After looking through files, they found her case and thought they could make progress. They hope to

learn her identity and how she came to be dead under a pink bedspread off a wooded path in Brooklyn Park, not even 100 yards from the city line.

They've got a little more information than police had in the past — full dental information, a broadened description of her, and are waiting for DNA.

Was she a runaway? Why were her shoes off? Did she die of an overdose? Where were her belongings? What of her family?

The early investigation, which included neighborhood canvasses, turned up nothing. The 2007 flier of an FBI clay model and sketch, which depicted a woman with a thin nose and hair just covering her ears, also failed to produce results. An autopsy was inconclusive because of lack of a wound and sufficient tissue.

"It's a mystery," Seegers said.

The case illustrates the challenges police face in trying to lay to rest an old case with nameless, faceless remains and an unknown cause of death. They hope to bring a sense of closure to families and finality to a case. By reopening the case last month, and putting it in the public eye, they hope somebody who knew or recognizes the woman will come forward. Even a nickname would give them a starting point.

Of the 8,000 cases the state medical examiner's office handles annually, hundreds start out as nameless corpses, but most remains are soon identified. For others, dental records and DNA are needed.

"We wind up with about 10 to 12 a year that are not identified," said Dr. David Fowler, the chief medical examiner. A database shows that there are 246 unidentified bodies in Maryland, at least one dating to the Eisenhower Administration.

"By the time we are finished, they are fairly rare, yes. They are still unidentified, which is sad," Fowler said. "This is a human being, this is somebody's friend, somebody's daughter."

His office stores nameless remains while they still have the potential to yield clues, such as DNA.

Then, the remains are sent to the state Anatomy Board, where a month later, and only after officials get a go-ahead from Fowler's office, planning is begun for cremation. The Anatomy Board's schedule for cremation and burial leaves between one and two more years for a family to step forward, said Ronn Wade, director.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, a Department of Justice website, shows 7,328 open cases of unidentified bodies nationwide. And a 2007 report said about 1,000 bodies nationally remain unidentified a year after they are discovered.

Mike Sullivan, program manager for the cold case homicide unit of the Naval Criminal Investigative Unit and a former president of the Mid-Atlantic Cold Case Homicide Investigators Association, said putting a name to human remains is "critical" to any next step in a cold case.

"If you have no determination of a cause or manner of death, that makes it worse," Sullivan said. "You work to try to figure that out."

But it can be difficult. The recent growth of databases — fingerprint, DNA, identifying features — and advances in technology encourages investigators, Sullivan said, but, as the many nameless remains indicate, matches are hard to come by.

Gajda and Seegers are sifting through an inch-thick stack of potential matches to women reported missing nationwide. None of the reports of missing women from Maryland and Washington have panned out, but they're not finished looking through reports from the rest of the country. Still, detectives don't know whether she was ever reported missing by anyone. Fingerprints have yielded nothing.

The investigators are awaiting an FBI profile of mitochondrial DNA extracted from a bone.Once it's available, it can be compared directly to the DNA of someone believed related to the unidentified person. In the FBI's computerized DNA database, it can be compared to the DNA of missing people, convicted offenders and relatives of missing people.

Meanwhile, the detectives plan to add this woman to the department's cold case website. They may present the case at meetings of cold-case investigators and will consider approaching television shows for publicity for the case.

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http://www.wbaltv.com/article/polic...to-identify-woman-found-dead-in-2005/19436744

Police use DNA technology in effort to identify woman found dead in 2005

Using DNA phenotyping technology, Anne Arundel County police are asking for the public's help to identify a woman whose body was found in 2005.

County police on Wednesday released an image developed from forensic DNA analysis by Parabon-Nano Labs. The process predicts physical appearance and ancestry from unidentified DNA evidence, police said.

Two juveniles found the woman's body on July 27, 2005, in a wooded area off Cross Street near Wasena Avenue in Baltimore.

The recovered remains were identified as a 19- to 23-year-old white woman who was about 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall with dark, reddish or brown curly hair.

To date, the woman remains unidentified and the medical examiner has been unable to provide an exact cause and manner of death.

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New reconstruction of Jane Doe.

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https://patch.com/maryland/annapolis/image-woman-2005-cold-case-released

Anne Arundel County Police say they have not given up hope of identifying the woman and "hope to provide some closure to her surviving family members." The department's Cold Case Unit recently sought help from Parabon NanoLabs in Reston, Virginia, to create an image of the woman.

On its website Parabon says that it uses a forensic DNA analysis tool to predict the physical appearance and ancestry of an unknown person from DNA. It can also determine kinship between DNA samples out to six degrees of relatedness. The firm bills Snapshot as useful for generating investigative leads, narrowing suspect lists, and solving human remains cases.

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https://snapshot.parabon-nanolabs.com/

This is the technology they are using. They have also used it to determine the appearance of a suspect, when there is DNA evidence from an attacker found at a crime scene.

https://www.forensicmag.com/news/20...cide-days-after-release-dna-phenotype-profile

A murderer in Texas, Ryan Riggs ended up turning himself in days after his 'snapshot' was released. Within hours of it's release, the police already got tips from people who thought that it was Riggs.

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