AL AL - Tuscaloosa, BlkFem UP10469, 17-25, may have been hitchhiking, Jul'79

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"Tuscaloosa County sheriff's deputies on Monday morning exhumed the body of a woman killed in 1979 in an effort to identify her.

The body of the woman, who was buried in the cemetery at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church on Old Greensboro Road in December 1980, will be sent to a lab for a DNA test that will be submitted to a National Center for Missing and Exploited Children missing persons database."


http://blog.al.com/tuscaloosa/2012/07/tuscaloosa_county_deputies_exh.html#incart_river_default
 
Tammy Hollins is the only young black female on my list from that time period.

But at 14, she is a little too young for the stated age range.

hollins_tammy.jpg

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/hollins_tammy.html
 
and while it's not completely impossible, Daytona is over 10 hours from here.
 
http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...jAdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3p4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5110,1810079

She was killed approx 3 weeks before she was found - which would be close to the 4th July 1979.

The black woman was approximately 17-25 years old, weighed 105-120 pounds, was between five feet and five feet three inches tall, and had a short afro haircut. She wore a yellow and white long sleeved pullover knit shirt with 1/4 inch yellow horizontal stripes around the shirt and a three inch yellow stripe around the upper sleeves. The woman was wearing dark maroon pants at the time she was found. No shoes were found.
 
OK, now this is interesting:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...QgdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BJ4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5703,5761475

For those that haven't read the links, the quick run down is two girls were found stabbed dead in the same area in Tuscaloosa.

Sharon Williams aged 20 was found on the 5th July 1979 (no indication of when she died)
Our UID found on the 23rd July 1979 (suspect deceased approx 3 weeks).

The killer of Sharon Williams "Anthony Tyrone Washington" was found and arrested on the 18th July 1979 in Texas.

_________________________________________


http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/535dftx.html
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/barton_jennifer.html

barton_jennifer.jpg


Jennifer Joyce Barton
Missing since May 16, 1976 from Austin, Travis County, Texas.
Classification: Endangered Missing

Vital Statistics Date Of Birth: May 31, 1955
Age at Time of Disappearance: 21 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'7"; 135 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Black female. Brown eyes, brown hair. She has a light and freckled complexion.
Marks, Scars: She has a scar on the calf of her right leg.
Clothing: She was last seen wearing a burgundy body suit, blue jeans and sandals.
 
Could someone who thinks this might be a possible call this in?

Numbers are here:
http://www.tcsoal.org/phone_directory.php

I live on the other side of the world, calling this is just isn't a possibility for me.

Edited to add: It's OK, I've found some email addresses and sent off an email.
 
"Tuscaloosa County sheriff's deputies on Monday morning exhumed the body of a woman killed in 1979 in an effort to identify her.

The body of the woman, who was buried in the cemetery at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church on Old Greensboro Road in December 1980, will be sent to a lab for a DNA test that will be submitted to a National Center for Missing and Exploited Children missing persons database."


http://blog.al.com/tuscaloosa/2012/07/tuscaloosa_county_deputies_exh.html#incart_river_default

Tuscaloosa is home to me. Unfortunately we have had a lot of missing individuals in the surrounding areas (especially minorities), and there are plenty of rural areas to dispose of someone.

Not in the same time range obviously, but this is one of the more highly publicized cases in the area about 12 years ago or so. This part of the state is heavily wooded and large parts are very sparsely populated.

https://projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=2434.0
 
Tuscaloosa is home to me. Unfortunately we have had a lot of missing individuals in the surrounding areas (especially minorities), and there are plenty of rural areas to dispose of someone.

Not in the same time range obviously, but this is one of the more highly publicized cases in the area about 12 years ago or so. This part of the state is heavily wooded and large parts are very sparsely populated.

https://projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=2434.0

It is home to me, as well. The county, anyway. ;)
 
Another article about this case.

In a back corner of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church cemetery, covered by brush, investigators and archeologists sift through dirt in order to collect every possible piece of the puzzle.

The remains, investigators are exhuming, belong to a female that police said was stabbed to death. Her decomposed body was found on Crisstown Road in McCalla in 1979.......


http://www2.alabamas13.com/news/2012/jul/02/2/murder-victims-remains-exhumed-ar-4073786/
 
Another article about this case.

In a back corner of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church cemetery, covered by brush, investigators and archeologists sift through dirt in order to collect every possible piece of the puzzle.

The remains, investigators are exhuming, belong to a female that police said was stabbed to death. Her decomposed body was found on Crisstown Road in McCalla in 1979.......


http://www.alabamas13.com/story/21409820/murder-victims-remains-exhumed

a snippet from Kimster's link:

Hinton said, “I think there was only 13 people was here when she was buried. That was the information that I got. But like I say one of the old deacons he was out here when they did put her in the ground and he was the only one that knew exactly where she was located.”

Hinton believes there use to be an "unknown" sign that marked the grave, but much like the family of the unidentified victim, it is nowhere to be found.



I hope they took the sample from this victim. you'd think they could match up the stab wound from the skull but I found that part about no one knowing for sure where the body was buried to be very sad.
 
Here's the NamUs casefile for this Jane Doe.

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/10469

Apparently, when they exhumed the remains, they were only able to find a few bones, mostly from the lower body.

But they were able to develop full mtDNA and nucDNA profiles.
 
Carl, that Namus profile is just incredible. they listed the information upon exhumation, not as the victim was found. they said there was no head recovered and no clothing. she was stabbed in the temple! obviously they had her head when they found her. (I don't know what happened to the skull, usually given their sizes, skulls tend to survive a long time even buried.

Dippybonder had a link that describe the victim's clothing, none of which went into the Namus page.

do they not have the original investigation file with all the information about this homicide victim?
 
NamUs UP10469

Date Body Found: July 23, 1979
Location Found: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Condition of Remains: Not recognizable - Decomposing/putrefaction, one or more limbs and one or both hands not recovered
Estimated Year of Death: 1979
Estimated PMI: 4 weeks
Sex: Female
Race / Ethnicity: Black / African American
Estimated Age: Adult - Pre 30; 17-25
Estimated Height: 5'0" - 5'3" (60-63 inches)
Weight: Cannot estimate
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Distinctive Physical Features: Toenails were painted red
Clothing: Dressed in a long-sleeve yellow and white stripe blouse, maroon pants, two pair of panties, a 'Playtex' bra (size 34D), no shoes

Circumstances of Recovery: Victim was an unidentified homicide victim of 1979, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Determined to be a homicide and probable sexual assault. Believed to be from the Jefferson County, Alabama area, possibly Bessemer AL. Also could have been a hitchhiker or prostitute. A suspect from Bessemer, AL was convicted of killing two other women and discarding their bodies in the same general area, but this individual victim was never identified. Of the two identified victims, both were determined to have been last seen in the Bessemer, AL area. One identified victim was a hitchhiker, not a resident of Bessemer. This victim was never identified despite extensive investigation and media coverage in 1979, leading to the belief that she may have also been a hitchhiker or prostitute from another area.


0 Missing Person Exclusions
 
So sad. Poor girl belongs to someone!
 

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