Author Topic: SANTA FE JANE DOE: WF, 14-19, found near Santa Fe, NM - 2 December 1974  (Read 240 times)

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The victim was located just South of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The body was found just off the U.S 285 highway by a Colorado couple who stopped to pick Pinon nuts. No clothing was found with her body. This case was classified as a Homicide. She was buried in Glorieta several months after her body was found.

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http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/407ufnm.html

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Case File 407UFNM



Reconstruction of Victim by Wesley Neville

Unidentified White Female
The victim was discovered on December 2, 1974 at U.S 285, South of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Estimated Date of Death: November 29 to December 1, 1974
Cause of Death: Asphyxia due to strangulation
Vital Statistics
Estimated age: 14-19 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 62 inches; 110 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Light brown/ reddish-blonde hair; blue-hazel eyes. Well-groomed and neat.
Dentals: Available
Clothing/Jewelry: No clothing. Plain gold, round wire earrings, on the left ring (4th) finger was a yellow gold ring, with silver color center designs.
Fingerprints: Available
DNA: Available
Case History
The victim was located just South of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The body was found just off the U.S 285 highway by a Colorado couple who stopped to pick Pinon nuts. No clothing was found with the body. This case was classified a Homicide.
She was buried in Glorieta several months after her body was found.

Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Santa Fe Police Department/Santa Fe County Sheriffs Office
505-955-5038
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

Agency Case Number:
40A-2-1

Source Information:
Santa Fe County Sheriffs Office
 

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Police Aim to Solve '74 Death

October 8, 2005

The Albuquerque Journal
By Jeremy Pawloski Journal Staff Writer

Santa Fe Police Lt. Gary Johnson will not give up on one of the city's oldest unsolved homicides a strangled "Jane Doe" who was found in 1974 off U.S. 285 near Arroyo Hondo Road.

Johnson said he recently helped get an artist's rendering of the unidentified young woman placed on www.doenetwork.org, a Web site with the motto "There is no time limit to solving a mystery" that tracks Jane Does from all over the world. The artist's drawing was based on the autopsy photos of the teenage girl taken after she was found in Santa Fe in 1974, Johnson said.

The girl's **** body had not decomposed when she was found in December of that year by a Colorado couple who had stopped by the side of the road to pick pi?on nuts, Johnson said.

"I know that this young lady, she's somebody's daughter," Johnson said. "Hopefully, we can get her back home and figure out what happened to her." Santa Fe's Jane Doe is estimated to be in her middle to late teens. She is about 5-feet-2, 110 pounds, with light brown hair and blue/hazel eyes. She was the victim of a sexual assault, according to Johnson.

In addition to getting Santa Fe's 1974 Jane Doe on the Web site, Johnson said he also has been trying to match her with lists of names from databases of missing children that date back to that time. Johnson said that during his investigation, he has noticed the names of missing women from Arizona and Washington whom he is looking at in connection with Santa Fe's Jane Doe.

"Hopefully, by getting her identified, we can identify the circumstances under which she disappeared," Johnson said. "Once you find out who the person is, you can backtrack from that point" and maybe find out who killed her. Johnson also is trying to get a DNA sample found on the Jane Doe's body; possibly from the perpetrator? analyzed and placed into a nationwide DNA database.

Police don't know where Santa Fe's Jane Doe was killed; whether it was in Santa Fe, another part of New Mexico or another state altogether. Johnson said he hopes police can at least put a name to the young woman so that her parents have the closure of knowing what happened to her.

"We're still doing a lot of research on this case," Johnson said. "It's a longshot, but you never know unless you try."

Johnson, 40, is a founding member of Santa Fe's "cold case unit," which investigates all of the city's unsolved homicides, no matter when they happened. In a prior interview, Johnson said all of Santa Fe's cold cases are solvable "if we don't forget about them."

Santa Fe's cold case unit has solved several old homicides in recent years, thanks to the work of detectives and the help of DNA technology, which makes it easier to provide links between human evidence left at crime scenes and potential suspects.

Santa Fe's 1974 Jane Doe homicide has been featured on the www.doenetwork.org Web site since Sept. 16. If anyone has any information on the woman's identity, they can contact the Santa Fe Police Department at 955-5038.
 

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N.M. Jane Doe 1974

Unidentified White Female

The victim was discovered on December 2, 1974 at U.S 285, South of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Estimated Date of Death: November 29 to December 1, 1974
Cause of Death: Asphyxia due to strangulation
Estimated age: Middle to late teens
Approximate Height and Weight: 62 inches; 110 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Light brown hair; blue-hazel eyes.
Dentals: Available
Clothing/Jewelry
No clothing. Yellow metal round wire earrings, on the left ring (4th) finger was a yellow and white metal ring.
Fingerprints: Available
DNA: Available

Case History
The victim was located just South of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The body was found just off the U.S 285 highway by a Colorado couple who stopped to pick Pinon nuts. No clothing was found with the body. This case was classified a Homicide.

have any information about this case please contact:
Santa Fe Police Department/Santa Fe County Sheriffs Office
505-955-5038
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

Agency Case Number:
40A-2-1

NCIC Number:
Not Entered
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
Santa Fe County Sheriffs Office

"THE DEAD CANNOT CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE IT IS A DUTY OF THE LIVING TO DO SO FOR THEM" Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness These are the rights listed in the Declaration of Independence for each of us; EXCEPT IF YOU ARE MURDERED YOU NO LONGER HAVE ANY RIGHTS. Someone took them and now THEIR RIGHTS ARE PROTECTED. is a tradgedy that doesnt help the victims or their families heal.

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May 30, 1976
A Publisher Extra Newspaper
The Santa Fe New Mexican from Santa Fe, New Mexico · Page 66

JANE DOE The area's most baffling murder puzzle Sheriff Paul Baca studies the mass of evidence that has piled up in the mysterious "Jane Doe Murder Case," where the body has never been identified and no good leads established. The "Jane Doe Murder Case" is still the most baffling in recent police history. It is perhaps more puzzling because not a shred of evidence has led to a slight break in the case since the sexually mutilated body was found on December 2,1974. "It's the most frustrating single case I've ever been involved with," says Sheriff Paul Baca, who has been tracking the crime since he became sheriff in January of 1975. The most devastating single factor in the puzzle is the anonymity of "Jane Doe." Since the brutal murder there have also been no clues to her identity. "And we have tried everything; tracked down every phone call and followed up every letter," says Sheriff Baca. He's faced the dead end that, in most cases, provide at least a clue to a victim's identity. "Families have come from all over the United States to look at photos and evidence," said Baca, pulling out a file on the case that's now more than two feet high. "They left us — all of them — with an unidentified victim." Clues, likewise, have dwindled to nothing in the search for a killer of the girl. But, small piece by small piece, the sheriff and Santa Fe County Un- dersheriff Levi Martinez have put together the "possibilities" that may tell the sketchy story of Jane Doe and what happened to her. F'irst, Jane Doe was about 15-years- old when she came through the Santa Fe area a few days after Thanksgiving in 1974. The final report of medical examiners in Albuquerque show that she was "well-groomed, neat and had reddish-blonde hair." The medical examiner has also concluded, in a final opinion, that Jane Doe was brutally and sexually mutilated. In other words, says Sheriff Baca, she was attacked "probably before she died and probably by a very strong man. I say this because there were signs of a struggle but not a severe struggle." Jane Doe was, apparently, never fingerprinted anywhere in the United States or Canada. "We plugged into the national fingerprint network for several months," said the sheriff. "All computer and other checks turned up nothing." This bears out the medical reports that now pinpoint Jane Doe's age at about 15 "She may never have had a driver's license from any state," says Baca. She may have been hitching a ride through the Northern New Mexico area; she may have been brought here by the killer. One thing is almost certain; she probably never spent any time in the Santa Fe area. "In the 17 months that we've been showing the Jane Doe photographs to people in this area, we've hit literally all the places frequented by young people in Santa Fe and surrounding communities," said Martinez. "No single person — except for a few on the outskirts of town — remembers seeing anyone of her description in Santa Fe." Third, Jane Doe was probably not from New Mexico or any of the surrounding states. "We have compared notes with too many of the other surrounding agencies and publicized the ease, locally, too well," said Baca. "If the girl were from the nearby area, something would have turned up no matter how vague." Fourth, the unkwown girl was probably not killed by any of the well known sex killers who have been nabbed since her death. "We have had several close possibilities," said Baca. "At one time, we were fairly certain it involved the Zodiac murders. Now 10 Sunday, May 30,1»7« everything points against that. Then we felt it might involve an Albuquerque man who was arrested with pictures of bound girls on his person. He was taken in for another crime, but lie detector tests here ruled that out." So Baca is left with a set of tire prints that could not be moulded by crime labs and the good imprint of a shoe found and photographed next to the body. Fifth, Jane Doe was probably killed somewhere besides the discovery site. "She was found in a knoll 80 yards from U.S. 185. Indentations on her body and the report of the examiners now indicate she was killed somewhere else — maybe in the car, "Baca said. Those are the known facts about Jane Doe. But there are unknown but speculative clues that lend traces of evidence to the case. A waitress in a small cafe on the highway thinks she saw the girl about two days before the body was discovered. She feels certain from the pictures ... but... Was Jane Doe a hitchhiker? Did she stop in the restaurant with a male companion? The waitress can't remember. A used car salesman on St. Michael's Drive believes Jane Doe came into the sales office about two days before the murder to get a drink of water? He's pretty sure but... Did Jane Doe walk into the used car office? Did she drive up with a companion? Those are local clues. Then a young man was arrested in Oregon for similar murders on old U.S. Highway 101 in the wild Northwest. "We don't know if he's connected. But that's the slim possibility we have now," said Sheriff Baca "The man has admitted to a number of killings very much like this one. There is the possibility he may have travelled all across the country including to Northern New Mexico." "We will soon ask for money to go out and question this man personally. How close a connection will be made is still a major question." Another speculation by all the investigators in the case is that Jane Doe and her murderer came into the state from the north and never entered Santa Fe. We don't really know about this, but the clues show this " Baca said. Speculation is also that there was only one killer involved. "There was only one type of shoe marking at the scene. There were no matches, no cigarettes or other indications around or near the body. There was evidence that one person made a scant effort to cover the body with brush and hoped for snow - which never came," Baca said. So, investigators are left with the known and tragic facts. They are: Jane Doe was found badly mutilated and naked with only plain gold earrings and a gold finger band providing a link with a past The jewelry was yellow gold with silver color center designs on the ring and plain gold design on the earrings. The girl's body was left in the open morgue from December 2 until February - the longest in recent history. "We held the body until a whole parade of possibilities came here to look at the girl," Baca said. "They came from all across the country — families missing a daughter, brothers missing a sister. But nothing turned up." By PETER BROWN

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New details emerge in 40-year-old cold case
Published: December 3, 2014, 10:42 pm



SANTA FE (KRQE) – It has been a mystery for 40 years, a teen girl dumped on the side of the road and no one knew who she was. Detectives were close to identifying her until they hit a new road block. They cannot find her body.

On Dec. 2, 1974, a Colorado couple stopped off the side of highway 285 just south of Arroyo Hondo Road in Santa Fe looking for pine nuts.

Instead, they found something very disturbing.

A Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department report said they “came across a figure, which appeared to them to be that of a mannequin.” An officer confirmed it was the naked body of a teenage girl.

An autopsy showed, she had been strangled, but no one knew who she was, where she came from, let alone who killed her, until about a year ago.

That is when the Doe Network, a volunteer organization that helps solve cold cases, reached out to Santa Fe Police.

“They said, ‘This missing person really fits your Jane Doe. Would you guys look into it?’” said Celina Espinoza with the Santa Fe Police Department.

The tip linked them to a woman 1,500 miles away in Michigan, who said her 19-year-old sister was going to her boyfriend’s house in 1974 and she never saw her again.

The teen was found only with a ring and small gold wire earrings, jewelry, police said, the sister in Michigan recognized.

She also confirmed it looking at pictures, but detectives cannot confirm it with DNA because they said she has gone missing again.

“She was put in an indigent grave we believe in Glorieta, but there was a fire and the Office of the Medical Investigator’s warehouse and all the records burned in that fire,” Espinoza said.

Police would not say who they think the woman is because it is not confirmed through DNA.

At this point, they are relying on tips to find where the woman was buried.
 

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The victim was discovered on December 2, 1974 at U.S 285, South of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Estimated Date of Death: November 29 to December 1, 1974
Cause of Death: Asphyxia due to strangulation
 

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The victim was discovered on December 2, 1974 at U.S 285, South of Santa Fe, New Mexico



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Santa Fe Police Lt. Gary Johnson will not give up on one of the city's oldest unsolved homicides a strangled "Jane Doe" who was found in 1974 off U.S. 285 near Arroyo Hondo Road.

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