Author Topic: MUSKOGEE COUNTY JANE DOE: NF, 30-40, found in Webbers Falls, OK - 27 April 2006  (Read 312 times)

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A passerby traveling down a county road about a half-mile west of Ross Road on the morning of April 27 discovered the woman's body in a ditch alongside the gravel road. No identification was found on or around the woman's body.

There were no signs of injuries, a sexual assaulted, or struggle. She was dead when she was placed in the ditch and estimated that she was placed there at about midnight. Fingerprints search of State and Federal law enforcement databases indicated she had no known criminal history.

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Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number 0610564
Date found April 27, 2006 10:30
Date created August 25, 2011 15:02
Date last modified March 07, 2018 09:48
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed August 28, 2011 06:56

Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency OK OCME
Phone 918-295-3400
Case Manager
Name Angela Berg
Phone 918-295-3400

Exclusions
The following people have been ruled out as being this decedent:
First Name Last Name Year of Birth State LKA
Estefanie Alegre 1973 New Jersey
Tracy Allen 1974 Oklahoma
Linda Davis 1946 Oklahoma
Latricia Fipps 1970 Oklahoma
Tracy Florez 1971 Oklahoma
Tammy Glaze 1969 Missouri
Hazel Klug 1962 Virginia
Hope Meek 1977 Oklahoma
Kimberly Mullens 1965 Oklahoma
Patty Leanne Peterson 1982 Oklahoma
Leichia Reilly 1963 New York
Patricia Schmidt 1964 Virginia
Patricia Schmidt 1964 Virginia
Nadine Timm 1935 Illinois

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NamUs UP # 9183

ME/C Case Number: 0610564
Muskogee County, Oklahoma
30 to 40 year old Female
Case Report - NamUs UP # 9183
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number 0610564
Date found April 27, 2006 10:30
Date created August 25, 2011 15:02
Date last modified March 07, 2018 09:48
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed August 28, 2011 06:56

Local Contact (ME/C or Other)

Agency OK OCME
Phone 918-295-3400
Case Manager
Name Angela Berg
Phone 918-295-3400

Demographics

Estimated age Adult - Pre 40
Minimum age 30 years
Maximum age 40 years
Race Unsure
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) 150, Estimated
Height (inches) 63, Estimated
Body Parts Inventory (Check all that apply)
All parts recovered

Body conditions
Recognizable face
Probable year of death 2006 to 2006
Estimated postmortem interval Hours

Circumstances
Location Found
GPS coordinates
Address 1 Ross Road 1.5 mile south of I40
Address 2
City Webbers Falls
State Oklahoma
Zip code
County Muskogee
Circumstances
Found in ditch along gravel road.

Physical
Hair color Brown
Head hair
brown with reddish tint, 4-6 inches in length

Left eye color Brown
Right eye color Brown

Piercings
both ears pierced twice, but no earrings located.

Prior surgery
vertical abdominal scar
right knee with 1.5 inch linear vertical scar

Clothing on body
white long-sleeve turtle neck
Sports bra
black jogging pants with double white stripes on outside of legs
Yellow pedal pushers/capris
Panties

Clothing with body

Footwear
socks x2
Jewelry
leather bracelets x2
cloth and elastic bracelet

Dental
Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered

DNA
Status: Sample submitted - Tests complete

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Her headstone is at New Hope Cemetery in Hulbert, Oklahoma

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617UFOK - Unidentified Female



Reconstructions of the decedent by Harvey Pratt and Lynn Cedarstaff.

Date of Discovery: April 27, 2006
Location of Discovery: Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma
Estimated Date of Death: Hours prior
State of Remains: Recognizable face
Cause of Death: Natural - Blood loos following uterine hemorrhage

Physical Description
Estimated Age: 20-40 years old
Race: White and/or Native American. Possibly of Greek descent.
Sex: Female
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 149 to 160 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown with reddish tint, 4-6 inches in length.
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Pregnant. Both ears pierced at least twice; no earrings recovered. Scar below umbilicus. One scar on right shin that shows suture marks.

Identifiers
Dentals
: Available
Fingerprints: Available
DNA: Available

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: A white turtleneck sweater and blue or black running pants with two white stripes on the outside of legs. Yellow capris. Panties and a black sports bra, two white socks. No shoes.
Jewelry: Two leather bracelets and a cloth and elastic bracelet.
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Discovery
A passerby traveling down a county road about a half-mile west of Ross Road on the morning of April 27 discovered the woman's body in a ditch alongside the gravel road. No identification was found on or around the woman's body.

There were no signs of injuries, a sexual assaulted, or struggle. She was dead when she was placed in the ditch and estimated that she was placed there at about midnight. Fingerprints search of State and Federal law enforcement databases indicated she had no known criminal history.

Investigating Agency(s)

Agency Name: Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner's Office
Agency Contact Person: Angela Berg
Agency Phone Number: 918-295-3400
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 0610564

Agency Name: Muskogee County Sheriff's Office
Agency Contact Person: Investigator Coletta Peyton
Agency Phone Number: 1-918-687-0202
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 12-042706-1

NCIC Case Number: Unknown
NamUs Case Number: 9183
Former Hot Case Number: 1023

Information Source(s)

NamUs
Muskogee County Sheriff's Office

Admin Notes

Added: 4/18/08; Last Updated: 12/14/17

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A passerby traveling down a county road about a half-mile west of Ross Road on the morning of April 27 discovered the woman's body in a ditch alongside the gravel road.

Ross Rd, Oklahoma



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Webbers_Falls_Ranch-3510117/ EW 109 Ross Rd , Webbers Falls , OK



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Interstate 40 West at Exit 284 - Ross Rd.


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http://www.doenetwork.org/media/news219.html

Officials haunted by cold cases New network could help discover identities

May 17, 2008
Muskogee Phoenix, OK
By Elizabeth Ridenour

Jane Doe was buried in 2006 under a large oak tree in a very peaceful spot in New Hope Cemetery near Hulbert. Her true identity may be a mouse click away for someone. Doe was discovered April 27, 2006.

Muskogee County Sheriff Charles Pearson hopes the Doe Network, a network of people on the Internet, can help discover the unknown woman’s identity.

“I think it’s a heck of a deal,” Pearson said. “There’s another sister site to it, and we’re going to put it on both of them.”

The Doe Network, the International Center for Unidentified and Missing Persons, “is a volunteer organization devoted to assisting law enforcement in solving cold cases concerning unexplained disappearances and unidentified victims from North America, Australia and Europe,” according to the Web site.

“It is our mission to give the nameless back their names and return the missing to their families. We hope to accomplish this mission in three ways; by giving the cases exposure on our Web site, by having our volunteers search for clues on these cases, as well as making possible matches between missing and unidentified persons, and lastly, through attempting to get media exposure for these cases that need and deserve it.”

Pearson hopes someone will recognize Muskogee County’s Jane Doe.

“We’re going to get the information on there as soon as possible,” Pearson said.

Jane Doe was found in Muskogee County in a ditch about one-half mile west of Ross Road, two miles south of Interstate 40 near Webbers Falls by a motorist. She was barefoot and clutching a bloody towel across her lower abdomen. Another bloody towel was on the ground beside her. The only noticeable sign of trauma was a tremendous amount of vaginal bleeding. The medical examiner's office determined that the woman was pregnant, and the cause of her death was massive loss of blood, and was estimated to be 25 to 35 years old and of American Indian, Hispanic or Asian descent. She was about 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighed from 135 to 140 pounds, and had collar-length, dark hair. She had a scar on her right shin that showed suture marks. Although she was wearing no jewelry, both ears had been pierced twice.

She was wearing a long-sleeved, white, turtleneck shirt and dark blue running pants with white stripes on the pants leg.

Tim Brown, who was an investigator with the sheriff’s department at the time, believes the woman may have been an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Brown is now the Webbers Falls chief of police. He lives near I-40 and on Monday was surprised to find a pickup loaded with 19 illegal immigrants in his driveway. Now, he’s wondering if Jane Doe may not have died during a cross-country trip similar to that of the 19 people jailed this

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Muskogee County Jane Doe, Discovered Deceased in Oklahoma in 2006.

This is an artistic reconstruction of the Muskogee County Jane Doe:





Jane Doe was found on April 27th, 2006 in Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. Her remains were located by a passerby in a ditch on the side of a country, gravel road 1/2 a mile from Ross Road. Her autopsy revealed that Jane was pregnant and likely died from massive blood loss. There were no obvious signs of trauma or assault. It is believed Jane was already dead when her body was placed in the ditch and that she had been there since about midnight. Authorities ran her fingerprints but there were no hits.

Jane doe was approximately 20 to 40 years old, and was 5'3 and 149 pounds. She had brown hair and brown eyes. Both of her ears are pierced at least twice with a scar on her chin that had visible suture marks. She wears a bridge to replace one upper right tooth.

If you have any information regarding the identity of Muskogee County Jane Doe, you are encouraged to contact the OK OCME at 918-295-3400.
Tribal Information: As Jane Doe is unknown so are her people. Jane Doe is though to be White with possible Native American or Greek admixture.

Sources:
NAMUS
Doe Network

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https://www.abqjournal.com/266142/does-an-oklahoma-jane-doe-have-ties-to-nm.html

Does an Oklahoma Jane Doe have ties to N.M.?

By Joline Gutierrez Krueger / Journal Staff Writer
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2013 at 11:15pm
Updated: Friday, September 20th, 2013 at 9:40am

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The flowers were fresh last Memorial Day, not frayed and faded from weather and neglect like so many of the wilted, worn bouquets dotting the green hillsides of New Hope Cemetery near Hulbert, Okla.

Which to December Spearman meant somebody still cared about the woman buried there under a big oak tree.

And yet no one knew who that woman was.

On the headstone, she is Jane Doe, found April 27, 2006, in forevers peaceful sleep, known only to God, loved by strangers, buried Aug. 19, 2006.

Online
The Doe Network: doenetwork.org.
West Mesa women: Submit tips to APD 118th Street Task Force at 1-877-765-8273 or 768-2450 or Detective Ida Lopez at ilopez@cabq.gov or Crime Stoppers at 843-STOP.

In the center of the headstone is an image of the womans face, pretty and young, framed with dark hair, eyes closed, lips curled in a vague smile.

I realized, Spearman said, that she was dead in that photo.

Spearman, a criminal justice student from nearby Tahlequah, couldnt shake the image of the woman with the vague smile. Who was she, she wondered. Who knew her?

So I decided to try to find out, she said.

Spearman started reading old news articles about Jane Doe and women who disappeared in general (which eventually led her to me, but more on that later). What she discovered shed little light on the womans life but some on her death.

Jane Doe, the generic name she was given by law enforcement, was found dead in a ditch off Interstate 40 near Webbers Falls, about 140 miles east of Oklahoma City.

It didnt appear she had been tossed or thrown away but placed there in deliberate roadside repose, her hands neatly clasped over her chest.

She had been dead half a day by the time a passer-by saw her.

She wore a white turtleneck and dark-blue running pants with a white stripe, but no socks or shoes or jewelry, although indentations on her fingers and piercings in her ears indicated she had worn rings and earrings until recently.

In one hand she clutched a bloody paper towel, the kind used to clean windows at gas stations. Another bloody towel was found nearby. Medical examiners later determined that she had died of excessive vaginal bleeding, perhaps because of a miscarriage.

Stretch marks indicated that she had likely given birth to other children. She had a vaccination mark on her arm. She had a scar on her right shin. She was small, about 5-foot-4 and 140 pounds. She was between the ages of 25 and 40 and may have been Hispanic or Indian or possibly Asian.

No match was found to her fingerprints or DNA.

Her image was posted on various websites including the Doe Network, an international database of missing persons and her story was reported widely by Oklahoma media.

But no one could identify her. No one claimed her.

Mary Carey of Muskogee, Okla., didnt know Jane Doe. But, she told a local newspaper, she couldnt live with the idea that this lost woman would not have a proper funeral.

So four months later, she gave her one.

Weve adopted her, and shes ours now until her real family finds her, Carey told the Muskogee Phoenix.

Word of Careys generosity inspired others to contribute, too. Donations poured in for funeral expenses, flowers, the headstone and the casket. Musicians and ministers offered their services.

Its going to be a real good tribute to whoever this precious person was, Carey told the newspaper.

And it probably was.

Still, Spearman wondered who Jane Doe was. Eventually, she found an old 2009 column of mine about the women who disappeared in Albuquerque, 11 of them later unearthed from shallow graves on a mesa near 118th Street and Dennis Chavez SW.

Thats about 700 miles from where Jane Doe was found in 2006 a year after the women stopped disappearing.

Still, Spearman wondered: She is pretty and young like many of the women buried on the West Mesa. And the West Mesa site is not far from Interstate 40, the highway near where Jane Doe was found.

Could this be a woman who, at least for a while, got away?

Now I am not claiming that she is any of these women, but there are resemblances, Spearman said. The possibility is there.

Well, yes, but no. Albuquerque police spokeswoman Tasia Martinez said there is no reason to believe Jane Doe is connected to the West Mesa investigation which, she added is still active, though there is no new releasable information.

I realized after speaking with Spearman that it had been ages since anybody had asked me about the West Mesa women, ages since Id asked about them.

People disappear, sometimes without a trace. The Doe Network website lists 23 missing persons from New Mexico alone eight John Does and 15 Jane Does.

Spearman said she plans to keep searching for the identity of Jane Doe. We, too, should keep asking questions about what happened to the women on the West Mesa, to all the missing people.

Like laying fresh flowers on a grave implies, its important never to forget.

UpFront is a daily front-page news and opinion column. Comment directly to Joline at 823-3603, jkrueger@abqjournal.com or follow her on Twitter @jolinegkg. Go to www.abqjournal.com/letters/new to submit a letter to the editor.

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Post Mortem photograph.