UK UK - North Yorks, 'Sutton Bank Jane Doe', WhtFem 35-40, Sz 4 shoe, mild upper spine malformation, Aug'81

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http://www.doenetwork.org/cases-int/528ufuk.html

Recent DNA tests have been done on this UID, but no matches have been found. I think I remember reading a few years ago that in the very early investigations, the victim was thought to be an escaped convict, but that lead was quickly discarded when the convict herself actully wrote to the North Yorkshire police stating that she was still very much alive and on the run.
 
Bobby88, was it the Sutton Bank Jane Doe you linked to? Only the link's broken so I can't be sure. Here's a link to the N. Yorkshire police page about the Sutton Bank Doe. Found on the same date you mention, so I think it must be her.

http://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/8399
 
The deceased is described as:

5ft 2in in height and aged over 35 years.
All her upper teeth were missing, she had an upper dental plate fitted and she had just six lower teeth.
She had short dark hair.
The post mortem showed she had given birth to two or three children. She also had a displaced septum between her nostrils.
Her toenails were painted pink - the varnish coming from the Max Factor Maxi range.
She also had an abnormality to her neck vertebrae which would have caused back-ache.
She had an old fracture to her ankle.

Police have a full DNA profile now, which they got in 2012. But no matches.

He added: "We have reissued the appeal for potential family members to come forward and also for the mystery caller who rang the police on 28 August 1981.

"At the time the mystery caller claimed he could not reveal his identity in the interests of national security. Perhaps he is now in a position to come forward and talk to the police. Alternatively, information could be passed to Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111."

http://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/8399
 

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Is a displaced septum visible, I wonder? I can't see anything unusual on the recon.
 
I don't know if it's possible that she's from the US but she sure does resemble MP Juanita Reedy
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. https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/13242/0/ in case the pic didn't pop up. JMO
 
"At the time the mystery caller claimed he could not reveal his identity in the interests of national security.

A chap I used to drink with many years ago who was ex-special forces told me that during the 1970s and 1980s there was a lot of covert surveillance carried out on suspected IRA members across the UK mainland. The IRA had a substantial number of safe houses and weapons caches around the mainland, especially in rural areas, which were kept under observation, sometimes for lengthy periods. If something of that sort was going on in the Sutton Bank area it's likely that the body was discovered long before it was reported, and that it was reported only after any security services activity in the area had ended.

Whether such an individual would indeed now be free to come forward I have no idea. Perhaps anonymously.
 
The remains of a woman’s body, found near Sutton Bank in 1981, were exhumed from Malton Cemetery 12 months ago so DNA material could be extracted in a bid to identify her.'

I wonder if they also carried out isotope analysis when they had the chance. If they have been unable to identify her in the past 35 years they should at least consider the possibility that she was not British.
 
I've just been watching a crime documentary on YouTube and the first segment was about Gloria Bielby who went missing in 1979. I've never seen her on any missing person sites. Could this be her?
The UK missing person site doesn't appear to list rule outs.
 
Case 06-023693

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Gender: female
Age range: 35 - 45
Ethnicity: white european
Height: 157cm - 157cm
Build: thin
Date found: 28 August 1981
Estimated death: 28 August 1980
Body or remains: body

Circumstances
Naked body of a female found near the side of a road at Thirsk. Believed to have been dead for 1 year or more. The female may have suffered back problems and is believed to have borne 2 or 3 children.

Hair: dark brown - short
Eye colour: Unknown
Distinguishing features
Lacking - false teeth - teeth
Peculiarity - unspecified - back
Peculiarity - unspecified - Right ankle - fracture

Known not to be: Mary FLANAGAN

UK Missing Persons Unit
 
I think it's really unlikely Alice managed to get across the sea to England, and she was nearly 60 so the age range is out. Not impossible, of course!
Yeah I dunno, I just see a lot of similarities in the facial structure.. It isnt unheard of that the coronor gets the age wrong... and if she has Alzheimers, she could have ended up anywhere! BUT she had to end up somewhere!
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Police investigating in 1981
March 24 2022 rbbm Snippets of lengthy article.
Nude In The Nettles: Cold case team revisiting mystery death which has remained unsolved for 40 years | Yorkshire Post
''Now, a specialist cold case team from North Yorkshire Police is revisiting the investigation in a bid to finally solve the mystery which at the time was dubbed “the nude in the nettles”.

''Police now believe gaps in people’s family tree could give them fresh leads to finally unlock the secrets of the case, combined with advances in science and forensic methods that have come on since the 1980s.''

“We don’t know when she was last heard of. It could have been that she last saw her family on the day she died in 1979, it may be she last saw them as a small child in the 30s, along came the war, rest of the family are wiped out and she might have lived in care.''

''He hopes family tree searches, long-lost relatives and secrets that have been long held and never spoken of could be the key to finding out who the woman was and what happened.''

'Mr Harland said: “If names are put forward, we’re now in a position where we can apply this information to our DNA forensic records for this lady.''

“I’d rather 200 names were put to us and 199 were wrong than nothing to work from at all. That one piece of information could be all we need now to solve a decades-old mystery.”

''What police do know is this. The victim was probably born between 1935 and 1940, making her between 39 and 44 when she died, was probably from a low socially-economic background and possibly from an industrial city in the north of England.''

''She was white with brown hair, around 5ft 4ins tall and wore size-four shoes. She had several distinguishing features, including a mild upper spine malformation that could have made her hold her head at an unusual angle.


She also had several missing teeth and other evidence of a lifestyle that involved regular smoking and drinking.''
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A wax model of how the woman would look
 

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