Identified! GA - Norcross, Female skeletal remains, Dec'09 - Maritza Yepez

Ms Suzanne · Dec 11, 2009

Does any one have more information on this or can please keep us updated.

Human remains found in Norcross

by Staff reportsDecember 10, 2009 | 08:09 PM
GWINNETT COUNTY Gwinnett County police have confirmed human remains were found Dec. 6 by a resident walking his dog off Forest Vale Drive at about 12:30 p.m.

Whats more, investigators believe the unidentified victim, who died months ago, was murdered.

Police said the resident was playing with his dog in the woods when it discovered what appeared to be skeletal remains.

The scene was subsequently examined and processed by county crime scene investigators, detectives and personnel from the Medical Examiners Office. The skeletal remains were then collected and transported to the Gwinnett County Police Department Morgue, where an autopsy was performed that indicated the remains were human.

More at link
http://www.gwinnettherald.com/Articles-c-2...n_Norcross.html

Ms Suzanne · Dec 11, 2009

They mentioned these remains were possibly female in this article where other remains were Identified.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/21930132/detail.html

Ms Suzanne · Dec 11, 2009

Remains found in Gwinnett likely female, police say

By Rhonda Cook

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Gwinnett County police said the skeletal remains found Monday most likely were a woman but it would be some time before investigators learn her identity.

Gwinnett Police spokesman Cpl. David Schiralli told the AJC Tuesday the medical examiner's findings would dictate the next step in the investigation.

http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/remains-found-in-gwinnett-230884.html

TripleA · Dec 14, 2009

Nothing more on these remains?

nashobo · Dec 14, 2009

Police are now saying the remains are of a woman between 15 and 21 years old and have released photos of what she was wearing and several items of clothes found near the body.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/21961548/detail.html

carbuff · Dec 14, 2009

Looks like the murderer buried her with more than just the clothes she was wearing.

TripleA · Dec 14, 2009

Maybe she was a runaway with a bag packed?

future criminologist · Dec 15, 2009

what race/ethnicity do they think she is? do they have a height/weight estimate? I really hope there's more to go on than clothing.

carbuff · Dec 15, 2009

Probably still waiting for autopsy/forensic reports.

future criminologist · Dec 15, 2009

based on what we know - here are some possibilities:

Alison Mullins
http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/ncmaprofile_all.php?A200905695S

Viola Carty
http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/ncmaprofile_all.php?A200905773S

future criminologist · Dec 15, 2009

also:

Tiana Nichelle Lewis

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

Alisha Lynn Kirby

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

Lissett Lopez

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

Shakila Anquionette Denson

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

carbuff · Dec 15, 2009

Viola looks like a good possibility, since she was heading to Atlanta with a suitcase. She seems a bit older than their initial estimate, but not that far off.

tsisqua · Dec 15, 2009

I live in the area. The neighborhood where the body was found is predominately hispanic.

From the missing children on this page = http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...act=usMapSearch&missState=GA&searchLang=en_US

I would start with the following

http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

SouthernMom · Dec 18, 2009

snip GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. -- Gwinnett County police have identified the remains found by a dog in a wooded area Dec. 6.

Officials said the remains of Maritza Yepez, 16, were identified through dental records.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/21995323/detail.html

OkieGranny · Mar 13, 2016

From January 2010:

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/teen-girls-slaying-still-a-mystery/nQbqS/

Photographs of Maritza show a beautiful teenager with a winning smile. Family members said she was a sweet girl with a fiercely independent streak. She was open at home and school about being a lesbian... But Maritzas grin masked bouts of depression and loneliness. Born in Texas and raised in Georgia, Maritza chose to remain behind two years ago when her mother and four siblings returned to Mexico...

Nothing seemed amiss on Aug. 23 when Maritza texted her aunt to ask permission to go to the movies with a friend. But the teenager never returned home. Olvera said Maritza had left home before, but she usually would answer her phone and return a few days later. This time was different...

Her concerns mounted when, while looking through Maritzas things one day, Olvera stumbled upon something chilling. It was a memory card containing some strange photographs that Maritza had taken of herself, as if to document some unknown offense. The photographs depicted Maritzas arms and legs, mottled with bruises...

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