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About the Jane Doe Case: 1313UFCT - Unidentified Female, Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP8909
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On May 30, 1974, the Connecticut State Police received a tip about two murders and dug up a shallow grave in a wooded area behind the house. The decomposed bodies of a man and a woman were found. The man was successfully identified as a convicted bank robber, Gustavous Lee Carmichael.
Carmichael was a serial bank robber and had even escaped custody from jail. He and the woman (who was his girlfriend) used the aliases, Dirk and Lorraine Stahl before their murders on December 31, 1970. "Lorraine Stahl" was an alias of a woman found deceased in 1974. She also used the names Sandy and Connie.
Two men have been convicted for their murders. The unidentified woman was murdered because the two men feared that if apprehended, the woman would divulge details of their illegal activity. Carmichael was murdered, as the two men thought it would be impossible to kill the woman without killing Carmichael as well, as he would likely intervene.
She was murdered by David Brant and Richard DeFrietas murdered Carmichael at the same time. Brant was later killed in a shootout with police. James Gardner was a part of this trio. He confessed to helping dispose of the bodies. I've never been able to find the names of Carmichael's accomplices, but they were all active around these same areas.
THIS ALL IS KNOWN BEFORE THEIR MURDER:
The victim was found in a wooded area wrapped in a blanket. She had been known to have been driving around in a 1964 green
Oldsmobile with either Massachusetts or Maine plates. The vehicle was found dumped in Hartford, Connecticut with a Maine inspection sticker.
There are some interesting details in an article I found in the Hartford Courant (June 30, 1976). * Carmichael bought the car that was found after the murders in Bridgeport, CT on October 28, 1970.
* After his murder, it was found stripped in Hartford but the inspection sticker remained.
* LE was able to learn from the sticker that the car was registered on Dec. 15, 1970 in Portland, Maine to David Skaggs, an alias of Carmichael's.
* A woman named Sandra Maiden claimed that at 17 years old, she, her husband (Roger Brown), Carmichael, and Jane Doe traveled together to "an Inn in CT" after a bank robbery in New Jersey
* The bank robbery was committed in Hamilton Square, New Jersey on Dec. 22, 1970 by the men and netted them $60,000.
* Sandra Maiden was subsequently left alone in an apartment in Exeter, NH a few weeks after the robbery, caught a bus to Portland, Maine, and called the FBI.
Skigirl wrote: I found a newspaper article saying that DeFrietas (convicted of murdering Jane Doe and Gustavus Carmichael) and his common-law wife, Joanne, had come to CT after he killed a man in NH in 1969. There are mentions of the murder in several articles in the Hartford Courant, including July 10, 1976. The timing sure fits.
Jane Doe had this clothing: Tan leather "wet look" vest, gold/tan sweater, brown tweed skirt, brown granny boots that go to the knees, and a yellow rain coat.
Clothing description of Darlene: A brown blouse, a polka-dotted skirt and a brown suede coat with a fur collar. Her clothes are very similar
like the Doe had and the same brown color etc.
James Gardner, accomplice to the murder, gave his wife some of the UID's clothes. Her name was Hilda Iemma and she kept the clothes in Rhode Island until they were seized by detectives in 1974.
This information was from an article in The Day, July 1, 1976. The clothes and rollers were intact because they were given to a girlfriend/wife of one of the killers. They were recovered in her home during the investigation into the deaths of Doe.
Dentals: Available. No maxilla due to gun shot. #30 has two separate occlusal amalgams. #17 is mesially inclined.
DNA: Available
DARLENE DEWOLFF POLIZZI - 1544DFNJ - Darlene Polizzi - NamUs #MP18331
1544DFNJ - Darlene Polizzi
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The Missing
Darlene DeWolff Polizzi
Case #: MP18331 (NamUs)
County: Bergen
Darlene DeWolff Polizzi was 19 years old when she went missing on Monday, April 24, 1967. She was a waitress at the Hangar Restaurant in Paramus, New Jersey. She was last seen at her home at the 400 block of Westminster Place in Lodi, Bergen County, New Jersey.
Darlene has reddish-brown hair and brown eyes, 5’3”, and weighing only 100 pounds. She was wearing a brown blouse and a skirt with polka dots, along with a brown suede coat with a fur collar. Darlene was a regular at Tommy’s Diner on Paterson Avenue in Wallington, New Jersey.
According to her husband Leonard, the couple were looking to move, so Darlene accompanied him to look at new apartments that day. After looking at three, they returned to their residence. At some point later, Darlene’s husband went out again, by himself, leaving his wife at home. When he returned, she was gone. She has never been heard from again. Darlene’s husband reported her missing the next day, April 25.
It was determined that Darlene had taken several clothing items with her, but she left behind the rest of her personal belongings, including her jewelry.
She does resemble the sketch of Doe. Also interesting, she has a ring hanging from a necklace. Looks like there’s a cross also hanging with it.
The Doe also was wearing a handmade necklace. Just for comparison, put the rings in question together. They do look similar. Please, look at the attached photo of both rings.
The identity of the unknown woman is apparently Darlene Polizzi. The fits the description and also has the spots on her cheek. The spots on the cheek are freckles. Darlene had brown/red hair and brown eyes. Redheads often have freckles. Darlene had spots (freckles) on her face. She does show spots on her face. Jane Doe had spots (freckles) on her cheeks.
Jane Doe's belongings included a suitcase and clothes. There was also a Lady Clairol hair roller set. Darlene's hair was curly and styled in all pictures. She used curlers. It was determined that Darlene had taken several clothing items with her.
Police did not have Darlene’s DNA until they obtained it from the last surviving sister, who passed away in 2016.
The enclosed photo of the main suspect, Raymond Alves, a serial killer that was active in the area at the time, he was convicted of raping a teenage girl in Fair Lawn and pushing another teenager girl off a bridge in Clifton in 1976. A year later in 1967, he ended up living in Darlene's neighborhood, and he actually worked with her husband at a sheet metal plant, and Darlene was friends with Raymond's wife. Suspiciously, the Alves family moved away the day after Darlene disappeared. Raymond has not been officially connected to the disappearance. He eventually served 23 years of a 47 year sentence and was released in 2000. He is also suspected of the murders of 7 different teenage females whose bodies were found in Bergen county, New Jersey. He claims he has raped and killed more than a dozen women.
