MO MO - West Alton, WhtFem 2-3, 1282UFMO, in suitcase in river, Feb'68

Ms Suzanne · Sep 15, 2015

Is this little Unidentified girl on here?I do not think I see her on NAMUS or the Doenetwork.Does anyone know any more on her? https://www.facebook.com/HelpIDMe/p...1890.698376120190298/1133198266708079/?type=1

Ms Suzanne · Sep 15, 2015

There was also a adult Unidentified female found around that time period.I don't know if they are related or not. http://doenetwork.org/cases/880ufmo.html

Ms Suzanne · Sep 15, 2015

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=141981778

Ms Suzanne · Sep 15, 2015

Has Elizabeth Ann Gill been checked with this Jane Doe? http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2144dfmo.html

Jake479 · Sep 15, 2015

Ms Suzanne said:
Has Elizabeth Ann Gill been checked with this Jane Doe? http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2144dfmo.html

She sure does look like her; the only difference is her hair color and the fact that she would have been slightly older by 1968. I hope they look into it.

UdbCrzy2 · Sep 24, 2015

St. Charles County police exhuming body of girl found dead in 1968, hoping for break in case

Authorities haven't developed any new leads, but the St. Charles County Police Department hopes that technology developed since 1968 can help solve the case. The case was ruled a homicide.

In addition to the plan to use DNA testing, police arranged for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to produce a fresh depiction of the girl as she may have looked while alive, based in part on photos of her body.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_8fbd705d-8ecf-5d26-a7bc-04c64ad229e5.html

amputate · Sep 25, 2015

How great that this case is getting attention after so long!

cocomod · Sep 28, 2015

Police exhume body of a toddler found stuffed in a suitcase and thrown into Mississippi River fifty years ago in hopes of finally identifying her

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-years-ago-hopes-finally-identifying-her.html

Jane Doe West Alton, as she is referred to, was thought to have been just 2 or 3 years old when her body discovered by fishermen in Missouri on February 1, 1968.
Investigators at the time had ruled her death a homicide without revealing how she died, but were never able to identify the toddler, or track down her killer.
She was buried in an unmarked grave in Oak Grove Cemetery in St. Charles.

'Jane Doe West Alton' successfully exhumed

http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/crime/2015/09/24/jane-doe-west-alton-successfully-exhumed/72767182/

Thursday morning, police exhumed the remains of a young girl who died in 1968. The toddler's body was found inside a suitcase near the Clark Bridge in West Alton.

Police recently released a sketch of what she may have looked like. They're hopeful DNA testing will help them figure out what happened.

cocomod · Sep 28, 2015

http://www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMU/1253098

NCMEC: 1253098 - NCIC: - NamUS:
Jane Doe 1968
No photo available
Date FoundFeb 1, 1968
Location FoundWest Alton, MO
Estimated Age3
SexFemale
RaceWhite
Hair ColorBlonde
Eye ColorUnknown
Estimated Height2'8"
Estimated Weight35 to 40 lbs
A young unidentified female was found on the banks of Alton Lake in St. Charles County, Missouri on February 1, 1968. The female had been deceased for a short period of time, likely within a few weeks, before being found. She is described as Caucasian, 2 -3 years old with long blond hair. The image above is a facial reconstruction completed by a NCMEC Forensic Artist and depicts what the child may have looked like in life.
1-800-843-5678St. Charles County Police Department (MO) 636.949.3000

cocomod · Sep 29, 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-years-ago-hopes-finally-identifying-her.html

She plans to compare the girl's DNA to samples from parents have reported their children missing since 1960.

A composite recreation of the missing girl has been assembled by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the hopes of identifying her.
But officials they believe they will have a more accurate age estimate and better facial reconstruction of the toddler within a few weeks, according to 11 Alive.

cocomod · Sep 29, 2015

http://www.floridanewstime.com/regi...est-alton-s-body-to-try-and-identify-her.html

She was buried in an unmarked grave in Oak Grove Cemetery in St. Charles.

Now officers are hoping technological breakthroughs will finally be able to crack the decades-old cold case.

Jane Doe West Alton will be returned to her grave in a new casket once investigators have analysed her body and taken DNA. She may also be given a headstone.

This case breaks my heart. I do not know how to find any missing toddlers from that time frame. Likely, she was never reported missing. Going to see if I can find anything today.

cocomod · Sep 29, 2015

Here are a couple of possibles; however, either one would have had to be preserved prior to being dumped because of their missing date:

http://www.nampn.org/cases/masters_edna.html

http://www.nampn.org/cases/zentner_patricia.html

Gourami Watcher · Oct 9, 2015

"Jane Doe West Alton" has NamUs and Doe Network pages available:

Backwoods · Oct 12, 2015

Could she possibly be Elizabeth Gill?

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/gill_elizabeth.html

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/6114/0/

ETA: Now I see that this possibility is already being discussed in Elizabeth's missing thread:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...-2-Cape-Girardeau-13-June-1965&highlight=Gill

CarlK90245 · Nov 8, 2015

I was sent a pm photo of this little girl, and asked to do a reconstruction.

Here is my estimation of what she looked like in life.

The photos don't give any hint of her hair length or style, so the dual pigtails are my artistic license.

Springrain · Nov 9, 2015

CarlK90245 said:
I was sent a pm photo of this little girl, and asked to do a reconstruction.

Here is my estimation of what she looked like in life.

The photos don't give any hint of her hair length or style, so the dual pigtails are my artistic license.

You've been working so hard! What an adorable little girl. She looks so different from the NCMEC composite, much more lifelike. Poor, sweet baby girl!

Tony1902 · Nov 21, 2015

:bump::bump:

carbuff · Nov 21, 2015

CarlK90245 said:
I was sent a pm photo of this little girl, and asked to do a reconstruction.

Here is my estimation of what she looked like in life.

The photos don't give any hint of her hair length or style, so the dual pigtails are my artistic license.

Wow, Carl, this portrait is amazing. I think pigtails are realistic for a girl with long blonde hair in that era--even if it's not her regular hairstyle, it's likely she wore them at least some of the time.

carbuff · Nov 21, 2015

Ms Suzanne said:
There was also a adult Unidentified female found around that time period.I don't know if they are related or not. http://doenetwork.org/cases/880ufmo.html

It's about 30 miles downriver from Clark Bridge, where the little girl was found, to the Jefferson Barracks Bridge, where the adult woman was found. Forty miles or so by any of several highway routes.

The girl is estimated to have died about a month before she was found in Feb. 1968, which would put her death in January 1968. The adult woman was found in May 1968, but her date of death is also estimated as "Estimated Date of Death: From January 1, 1968." So that fits.

You'd think they would have checked.

CarlK90245 · Nov 21, 2015

Ms Suzanne said:
There was also a adult Unidentified female found around that time period.I don't know if they are related or not. http://doenetwork.org/cases/880ufmo.html

Interesting that both bodies were weighted down.

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