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Authorities still seeking identity of dead woman
By RICHARD WALKER, T&D Staff Writer Monday, April 13, 2009


ST. MATTHEWS - The search for a Jane Doe's identity is continuing in Calhoun County a month after law enforcement officials released the facial reconstruction of a woman whose skeletal remains were found in a remote wooded area last year.

After following leads locally, Calhoun County investigators have opened up their search.

"Obviously, you got to start somewhere, so we started locally and then worked statewide, then throughout the Southeast," Calhoun County Sheriff Thomas Summers said. "We've been looking nationally, but our focus has been more local, in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic."

On Sept. 27, 2008, a concerned resident notified deputies after discovering the skeletal remains of a woman believed to have been the victim of a homicide. However, no identification was found with the remains.

Officials have not disclosed the reasons they believe the woman was murdered.

Since the facial reconstruction taken from the skeletal remains was released March 6, investigators say thousands of missing persons reports have been researched and phone tips followed.

But the dead woman remains a Jane Doe.

The woman's physical characters and possible hair color have been used to search a national data base. The result of that search has been more than 300 names of women who have been reported missing in the Southeast over the past seven years. Some "hits" came from as far away as Ohio and Michigan. Those have since been ruled out.

Summers said each name they've looked at takes about a week to be eliminated. The records for each have to be obtained from the agency reporting a missing person and then compared with the Calhoun County Jane Doe.

So far, 20 women locally and in the Southeast have been removed from the list of potential identities.

Calhoun County authorities are continuing the effort to find out who Jane Doe is with the help of the State Law Enforcement Division and the FBI.

"And we've contacted 'America's Most Wanted' to see if they could run it on that program," Summers said. "We're doing everything possible to ascertain her identity."

Summers said his investigators have not run out of leads but want to keep the woman in the public's mind in the event anyone may have known her or have any clue as to who she was.

"We're not going to stop until we find out who she is," he said.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office at 803-874-2741.
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