Identified! CA - San Mateo, AsianFem UP10661, 30-50, at reservoir, May'00 - M. Gonzales

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• Oct 14, 2012

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https://identifyus.org/en/cases/10661
http://doenetwork.org/cases/456ufca.html

ME/C Case Number: 00-834A
San Mateo County, California
30 to 50 year old Asian Female

Probable year of death 1999 to 2000

Skull found in remote area that is not accessible to public by a San Francisco County Water Department employee while on routine foot patrol of watershed property.

 

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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/chan_michelle.html
http://doenetwork.org/cases/2740dfca.html

Michelle Ngan Ho Chan
Missing since October 9, 1999 from Fremont, California (29 miles away)

Age at Time of Disappearance: 31 years old

So little information in both the UID and Michelle but it's the closest match I can find.

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permission error on NAMUS????

 

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cvaldez1975 said:

permission error on NAMUS????

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I found this UID's page on the San Mateo County Coroner's website. It says she was "Identified 01/2014 via DNA".
http://coroner.smcgov.org/identifiedjane-doe-00-03-case-00-0834
But her Charley Project Page mentions nothing of her identification.
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/456ufca.html
Maybe LE informed NAMUS but not Charley? I can't find any articles mentioning a woman found in the Crystal Springs Reservoir (the body of water the UID was found in) being identified.

 

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***IDENTIFIED*** JANE DOE #00-03 / CASE #00-0834-A
Identity given as "M. Gonzales"

 

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• Jul 18, 2023

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Not Asian but Hispanic with a high amount of Native admixture that appears Asian on anthropological examination. Good she got her name back.

 

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Susikatze said:

Not Asian but Hispanic with a high amount of Native admixture that appears Asian on anthropological examination. Good she got her name back.

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She could still be ethnically asian but have that last name, you never know.

 

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cheemsg said:

She could still be ethnically asian but have that last name, you never know.

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True, anything is possible. Some Filipinos actually do have Spanish surnames.

 

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Susikatze said:

True, anything is possible. Some Filipinos actually do have Spanish surnames.

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Or it could be a married name

 

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cheemsg said:

She could still be ethnically asian but have that last name, you never know.

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Yeah, I was thinking Filipina.

 

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cheemsg said:

Or it could be a married name

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It definitely could be. One of my cousins on my dad’s side married a Hispanic woman. We’re Russian-American and have a very Russian last name. So imagine someone with a very distinctly Hispanic first name, let’s use Guadalupe (not her real name), and my last name, let’s say it’s Petrova (again, not my real last name, just a placeholder).