Miss X (1982)

DISCOVERY:

Three men were sportfishing on Slaughter Creek, adjacent the banks of the Black Warrior River, connected April 18, 1982. The location, successful Romulus, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, is adjacent the Old Robinson Bend Landing, adjacent to Robertson Cemetery Road.

Not agelong aft they arrived, the trio saw what they thought to beryllium a ample log covered successful weeds. Upon person inspection, they realized the assemblage of an unidentified pistillate was down it, lying partially submerged successful the water.

AUTOPSY:

Jane Doe’s remains were collected by the section authorities for examination. It was determined she’d died wrong 24 hours of being found, with her origin of decease being strangulation. Prior to this, she’d been beaten and sexually assaulted.

DETAILS:

Jane Doe is described arsenic a 30-to-40-year-old White pistillate with a ruddy complexion, indicating she often engaged successful outdoor enactment and whitethorn person performed manual labour. She stood astatine 5’4″, weighed betwixt 110 and 115 pounds, and had shoulder-length acheronian brownish oregon achromatic hair. Her eyes were perchance brown, and she had a disposable scar nether her close eyebrow.

When found, the decedent was wearing a long-sleeve Preppy marque button-up garment that was airy bluish successful colour; knitted bluish pants with an elastic waistband; a achromatic bra and underwear; and grey tennis shoes, size 7.

The introspection of Jane Doe’s remains recovered she whitethorn person fixed commencement successful the past and had benignant “O” blood. She besides had an precocious partial denture plate, which replaced her cardinal and lateral incisors.

INVESTIGATION:

A hunt of the determination wherever the decedent was recovered showed signs of a struggle, starring investigators to theorize she’d been killed wherever her assemblage was dumped. It’s besides imaginable she’d been sportfishing astatine the country conscionable anterior to her death.

A radical of campers were interviewed not agelong aft by investigators. They’d acceptable up their structure adjacent to wherever Jane Doe was found, but didn’t callback hearing, smelling oregon seeing thing retired of the ordinary.

A 2nd radical of witnesses riding three-wheelers recalled seeing a pistillate matching Jane Doe’s statement connected April 16, 1982. She was with a antheral betwixt 35 and 40 years old. Their vehicle, a 1973 oregon ’74 Ford LTD with a acheronian vinyl apical and imaginable frontend damage, had go stuck successful the mud on Robertson Cemetery Road.

The pistillate had asked the radical for assistance portion the antheral stayed with the vehicle, visibly upset and blaming her for the incident. He besides spoke astir having been astatine a barroom earlier successful the day. According to the witnesses, helium was White, with a ruddy, reddish complexion. He weighed astir 180-200 pounds, stood astatine 6’1″ and had a muscular build. He was besides clean-shaven.

Homicide detectives initially worked the case. While they looked into each lead, including scouring missing persons reports and sharing details with the public, they were incapable to place the decedent. At the time, it was believed her slayer could person been idiosyncratic local, fixed the determination wherever her assemblage was found. That being said, it’s believed she herself whitethorn not person been section and, instead, a drifter.

In 2013, Jane Doe’s remains were exhumed to extract DNA and further look astatine her bones. This was portion of a renewed effort to place her and her killer.

RULE OUTS:

1. Cynthia Colleen Allegro, who went missing from Independence, Missouri connected February 12, 1982.
2. Theresa Elizabeth Baxter, who went missing from Huntington Beach, California connected August 1, 1977.
3. Andrea Jean Coyle, who went missing from Altoona, Pennsylvania connected December 19, 1978.
4. Sandra Louise Matott, who went missing from Salt Lake City, Utah connected July 10, 1979. Her remains were recovered conscionable implicit a period later, but weren’t identified until August 2021. Her now-deceased hubby is believed to beryllium liable for her disappearance and death.

CASE CONTACT INFORMATION:

Miss X’s dentals and fingerprints are disposable for comparison. It’s presently chartless if DNA was extracted pursuing the caller exhumation of her remains.

Those with accusation regarding the decedent’s individuality and/or execution are asked to interaction the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office astatine (205) 752-0616 oregon the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit astatine (205) 344-5420. Tips tin besides beryllium called into the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences astatine (205) 344-5420 oregon anonymously via Crime Stoppers astatine (205) 752-7867.

Image Credit: Unidentified Wiki/The Doe Network

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