I have followed this case for a while and find it perplexing. She just seems like such an unlikley unidentified person. I find the following points key in identifying Jane Doe.
1) the spot where the body was found would require at least a five mile hike plus a fairly short but very rough scramble up a steep, rocky slope. A robust, outdoorsy woman who was 8 months pregnant could do it, but why? There are shorter ways to get there but they would require much rougher climbing that I don't think would be resonably possible for such a woman. She probably began at the Clarksville parking area and she had to have gone their on her own accord. Nobody carried a body that far. The police report indicates that no vehicle was left at any parking area nearby. This suggest that someone accompanied her and presumably killed her or left her for dead.
2) the clothing she was wearing suggest cool, not cold weather; probably spring or fall. The hooded sweatshirt + a swim**** would be consistant with cool weather but the prospect of finding a warm sunny spot to sunbath. There is the possiblity, however, that the swimsuit did not belong to her. In winter the area is very cold with snow; in summer the temps often exceed 100. The death probably occured Oct - May. The clothes also suggest a "middle class suburban" type rather than either a teenage runaway or the street/druggie type which seem to be the more "typical" Jane Doe. She would seem to be an unlikly unidentified body.
3) I have gone over all misssing women in the time period 92-95 and I can find none that really seem likely matches. Height, hair color, or circumstances of disappearance don't seem to fit. We must trust that Yavapai County LE has reviewed the same information and come to the same conclusion. Assuming that this was a genuine unreported missing person, it would suggest that she had been estranged from friends and family. There could be incorrect information on the some missing person report or on the police report that prevented a "match" but otherwise it is likely she was unreported. The clothing appears to have been bought in the US or Canada and missing person listing for those counties are quite complete for the 1990's. She could have come from Europe but she would have had to purchase all of her clothing in the US.
4)The Solar Sheild sunglasses are normally used for people after cataract surgery. It would be unusual in someone so young. They are sometimes used by people who are particularly sensitive to intense sunlight/glare. This area has pinkish white rocks with only thin forest cover. On a bright sunny day, glare would be a problem.
5) there was a theory that she was lost or injured and the bathing suit in the tree was some kind of "signal for help". I think this is unlikely. There were no broken bones and she was not that far from the trail (less that a 1/4 mile). This is a relativly narrow canyon with a well marked trail running along the bottom. It would be virtually impossible to get lost because you could always find the trail by going downhill towards the canyon floor. She should have been able to make it down with even a very serious "soft tissue"(non-broken bone) injury.
The likely explaination is that a young preganat woman, who was estranged from friends or family (probably due to the pregnancy or the father) was lurded to a "special spot" then murdered by the father. A second possibility would be suicide. It is rare but not unheard of for a woman that pregnant to commit suicide. The big problem in the suicide theory is "how did she get there? This assumes that there definily was no vehicle abandoned near the body. Since the removal of an abonded vehicle would have been a rather minor event and it could have happened over a long time range, could it have been overlooked?
There are thousands of parents, siblings, children etc who have seen loved-ones "leave" and then never hear from them again. They must wonder, worry or dread what may have happen. I think there is story like this behind our Jane Doe.
1) the spot where the body was found would require at least a five mile hike plus a fairly short but very rough scramble up a steep, rocky slope. A robust, outdoorsy woman who was 8 months pregnant could do it, but why? There are shorter ways to get there but they would require much rougher climbing that I don't think would be resonably possible for such a woman. She probably began at the Clarksville parking area and she had to have gone their on her own accord. Nobody carried a body that far. The police report indicates that no vehicle was left at any parking area nearby. This suggest that someone accompanied her and presumably killed her or left her for dead.
2) the clothing she was wearing suggest cool, not cold weather; probably spring or fall. The hooded sweatshirt + a swim**** would be consistant with cool weather but the prospect of finding a warm sunny spot to sunbath. There is the possiblity, however, that the swimsuit did not belong to her. In winter the area is very cold with snow; in summer the temps often exceed 100. The death probably occured Oct - May. The clothes also suggest a "middle class suburban" type rather than either a teenage runaway or the street/druggie type which seem to be the more "typical" Jane Doe. She would seem to be an unlikly unidentified body.
3) I have gone over all misssing women in the time period 92-95 and I can find none that really seem likely matches. Height, hair color, or circumstances of disappearance don't seem to fit. We must trust that Yavapai County LE has reviewed the same information and come to the same conclusion. Assuming that this was a genuine unreported missing person, it would suggest that she had been estranged from friends and family. There could be incorrect information on the some missing person report or on the police report that prevented a "match" but otherwise it is likely she was unreported. The clothing appears to have been bought in the US or Canada and missing person listing for those counties are quite complete for the 1990's. She could have come from Europe but she would have had to purchase all of her clothing in the US.
4)The Solar Sheild sunglasses are normally used for people after cataract surgery. It would be unusual in someone so young. They are sometimes used by people who are particularly sensitive to intense sunlight/glare. This area has pinkish white rocks with only thin forest cover. On a bright sunny day, glare would be a problem.
5) there was a theory that she was lost or injured and the bathing suit in the tree was some kind of "signal for help". I think this is unlikely. There were no broken bones and she was not that far from the trail (less that a 1/4 mile). This is a relativly narrow canyon with a well marked trail running along the bottom. It would be virtually impossible to get lost because you could always find the trail by going downhill towards the canyon floor. She should have been able to make it down with even a very serious "soft tissue"(non-broken bone) injury.
The likely explaination is that a young preganat woman, who was estranged from friends or family (probably due to the pregnancy or the father) was lurded to a "special spot" then murdered by the father. A second possibility would be suicide. It is rare but not unheard of for a woman that pregnant to commit suicide. The big problem in the suicide theory is "how did she get there? This assumes that there definily was no vehicle abandoned near the body. Since the removal of an abonded vehicle would have been a rather minor event and it could have happened over a long time range, could it have been overlooked?
There are thousands of parents, siblings, children etc who have seen loved-ones "leave" and then never hear from them again. They must wonder, worry or dread what may have happen. I think there is story like this behind our Jane Doe.
