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Here is Jennifer Joyce Barton's information:

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/535dftx.html

While searching on the web for other unidentified's, I came across this one:

It is located here: http://www.lacountymurders.com/unidentified_victims.cfm
Case #077-08142-1690-011
(NOTE: There are some pictures of other unidentified that are "deceased" photos - they aren't reconstructions. This Jane Doe has a reconstruction, not an actual picture.)

INFORMATION WANTED​
On 07-06-77, the above unidentified victim was located at the rear of
A&H Paint Company, 13124 Figueroa Street, Carson. She was
wearing a one-piece red jump suit with red shoulder straps that were
criss-crossed in the front. She was also wearing a white Gabardine
waist jacket and a blue open-toed wedge with a Rafia sole in her right
foot, tied around the ankle by a single white shoelace. Her left shoe
was missing. She wore a 14-inch long turquoise Indian-styel necklace
made of beads of silver tubes on thread with a single turquoise nugget.
The victim was estimated to be 20 years of age. She had an old 1-inch
scar on her chin. The image above shows what the victim may have
looked like in life. Some elements, such as hairstyle, are the artist’s
estimations to complete the image and should not be used as​
significant markers for identification.


I sent an e-mail off to the LAcountymurders website and received a personal response back. They saw similarities and are passing the information along to the Detective handling the case. I will keep everyone updated.


 
Nice job Ohwell!

I think this one might be a possibility also. It is from the same link you posted above.

http://www.lacountymurders.com/wanted/compton_coldcase.htm

She was found in 1975 and the picture is a computer assisted rendering. Maybe your contact will check both of them out?

Salem

Skip this one - Jennifer did not go missing until 1976. I don't know what I was thinking... I thought it said 1971.
 
I got another e-mail from the LA Police Dept...a different detective - the one that is actually handling this case. He said he will keep me informed of the outcome - one way or another. I'm thinking the similarities must be close enough to have one detective see an e-mail and actually pass it on to another.

I am keeping Jennifer's family in my thoughts and praying for closure on this one. It's just been too long.
 
Update: Received a reply back...the UID is NOT Jennifer.

I'll continue to look.
 
I thought she looked more like DOE Network Case File 475UFTX, I noticed that they did not estimate the time of death as being recent, only the date she was discovered. :mad: They did not give any detailed information, but I was wondering if the person doing the reconstruction had a reason for making her hair look the way it does in the drawing. Wish they had more info. Some of the facial features look similar.
 
Ruled out by dentals
Jennifer Joyce BARTON
RULED OUT BY DENTALS

Date Picture Updated: 1/6/2003
M9811002.jpg


Name: Jennifer Joyce Barton
AKA: J.J. Barton
Case Number: M9811002
Case Type: Endangered - Foul Play Possible
Last Seen in: Austin (Travis County)
Last Seen on: 5/31/1976
Height: 5' 7 "
Weight: 120 lbs.
Age Missing: 20
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Date of Birth: 5/31/1955
Race: Black
Sex: Female
State Missing From: Texas
Country Missing From: USA
Circumstances: Ms. Barton has a light and freckled complexion and she has a scar on the calf of her right leg. She was last seen wearing a burgandy body suit, blue jeans and sandals.

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/mpch/mp...2:36:03PM'

From her doenetwork information:
Circumstances of Disappearance
On the day Barton disappeared, she and a friend were headed up 11th Street to see a movie. She was short of cash and stopped at a bar to get money from friends. She met two men in the bar and later left in their van with California license plates.
A dropout from Reagan High School, Barton had a record of prostitution arrests. Friends said she had appeared distraught after a friend was killed in February, and her apartment was broken into shortly afterward.
Foul play is possible.
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/535dftx.html
 
Jennifer Joyce Barton
Missing since May 16, 1976 from Austin,
Travis County, Texas.
Classification: Endangered Missing

Vital Statistics

Date Of Birth: May 31, 1955
Age at Time of Disappearance: 21 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'7"; 135 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Black female. Brown eyes, brown hair. She has a light and freckled complexion.
Marks, Scars: She has a scar on the calf of her right leg.
Clothing: She was last seen wearing a burgundy body suit, blue jeans and sandals.


Circumstances of Disappearance

On the day Barton disappeared, she and a friend were headed up 11th Street to see a movie. She was short of cash and stopped at a bar to get money from friends. She met two men in the bar and later left in their van with California license plates.

A dropout from Reagan High School, Barton had a record of prostitution arrests. Friends said she had appeared distraught after a friend was killed in February, and her apartment was broken into shortly afterward.

Foul play is possible.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Austin Police Department
512-974-5250

Agency Case Number: 76-1424808

NCIC Number: M-077465873

Please refer to these numbers when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:

NCMA
Texas Department of Public Safety
The Doe Network: Case File 535DFTX

LINK:

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/535dftx.html
 
Jennifer has been missing for 41 years now. Her disappearance is mentioned in this recent article.

Unsolved: Young, black and vanished

http://kxan.com/2017/05/12/unsolved-young-black-and-vanished/

Detectives found out a third black woman, 20-year-old Jennifer Joyce Barton, vanished on May 16, 1976, within days of Stewart’s disappearance. She was a known prostitute.

“She was seen getting into a vehicle, which was brown or tan in color and van and it bore California license plates,” Jefferson says.

Different circumstances, but she was young, black and vanished nonetheless.

“You have three separate cases of three different people. Three different lifestyles. Because one of which we know is a known prostitute and the other two were working females who had lives that they were living as well, one of which was married,” explains Jefferson. “It makes it very difficult because all the similarities that you want to match up just don’t match as you want them to. They just don’t, so they are different cases and we have to treat them as different cases.”
Click to expand...

The other two cases from the article are Brenda Moore and Debra Kay Stewart
 
Good article:
A little summary, 3 young black women all missing from Austin, TX in the matter of 1 month in 1976. Is this really a coincidence? Looks however that the 3 women are very diffrent. Barton was a prostitute, and sadly it looks likely like she was murdered.

The other two were both working. Brenda Moore(no photo available) had just separated and met somebody new, so it's possible her ex had something to do with it? afterall she had a balanced lifestyle it seems.

Debra Stewart according to charleyproject "She was last seen leaving her job at Sears at the Hancock Center near Hyde Park. She said she felt sick and left work early, en route to a doctor's appointment at the University of Texas student health center, but never arrived there" was she pregnant, Perhaps with a married man that met her up and killed her? just speculation but seems likely she met with foul play by somebody she knew, just like Brenda Moore.

The 3 cases are not related IMO.

Jennifer Joyce Barton, 20
  • Last seen by a friend on May 16, 1976 getting into a van described as a "Good Times Van"
  • Van was tan or brown in color with California license plates
  • Witnesses say there were two black males inside
  • Barton was a known prostitute and frequented the area near 11th Street at Waller and 7th Street at Congress Avenue
  • Rumors indicated Barton had stolen from drug dealers who were never positively identified
  • Witnesses also said Barton made comments about going to California
  • Investigators made efforts to check in Los Angeles for Barton, but no one ever came up

  • Brenda Moore, 20
    • Last seen by co-workers on March 7, 1976 around 3:15 p.m.
    • Car was found by her co-workers on March 12, 1976 in the 1900 block of Coleto St. The keys were left inside the car.
    • Moore was married to Willie P. Moore and according to her husband, he and Brenda had been separated for about four months.
    • Moore's husband thinks she skipped town with another man.
    • Moore had a new boyfriend who drove a blue Chevy pickup truck.
    • Debra Kay Stewart, 19
      • Last had contact with family May 20, 1976
      • Went to work on May 21, 1976 and was not seen after leaving work
      • Car was found in the 1800 Block of Ferdinand in East Austin between 8-9 p.m. Her car keys were still in the ignition.
      • Two witnesses describe a black male, with a medium stock build getting out of her car.
      • He was about 5'9-5'10, 190 lbs.
      • He was described as neat looking with short hair wearing a long sleeved button up shirt and dark casual pants
 
Update on charleyproject and 1 more new photo of her

Jennifer Joyce Barton – The Charley Project

Jennifer Joyce Barton
  • barton_jennifer.jpg
  • barton_jennifer2.jpg
Barton, circa 1976

  • Missing Since05/16/1976
  • Missing FromAustin, Texas
  • ClassificationEndangered Missing
  • Date of Birth05/31/1955 (64)
  • Age20 years old
  • Height and Weight5'7, 135 pounds
  • Clothing/Jewelry DescriptionA burgundy body suit, blue jeans, and sandals.
  • Distinguishing CharacteristicsAfrican-American female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Barton has a light, freckled complexion. There is a scar on the calf of her right leg, and her ears are pierced. Barton may go by her initials, J.J.
Details of Disappearance
Barton planned to go to the movies with a friend in Austin, Texas on May 16, 1976. She was short of cash and stopped at a bar in the vicinity of east 11th Street and Waller Street to see if she could get some money there. She met two African-American men inside the bar, and spent half an hour talking to them. One of them is described as 5'4 with a thin build, wearing a sailor's cap and a t-shirt. The other was 5'6 with a heavy build and a large Afro. Jennifer told a friend the men offered her $25 for sex.

She decided to go with them. One man left via the back door, and the other went out the front door and got into a large brown or tan van. It had a large whip antenna, teardrop-shaped side windows, a spare wheel on the back, and California license plates. The van turned the corner, and the second man got inside it.

One of Barton's friends was walking down the street at the time, and saw the van go around the block and come back up the street. She looked into the van, but didn't see Barton. Barton has never been heard from again.

Two other young African-American women, Debra Stewart and Brenda Moore, both disappeared from Austin in the spring of 1976, and it's possible the three cases are related. Stewart was not a prostitute, but she did frequent the 11th Street area, like Barton did, and the two women had friends and acquaintances in common.

Moore vanished on March 7, 1976; she was last seen at 3:15 p.m. on the east side of Austin. On March 12, her car was found abandoned in the 1900 block of Coleto Street, less than a block from where Stewart's vehicle was later located, with the car keys inside it.

Photographs of Moore are unavailable; she was 19 years old at the time of her disappearance and is described as 5'0 tall and 125 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. She worked as a nurse's aide and had a history of depression.

Moore was married at the time of her disappearance, but she and her husband had been separated for about four months and she had a boyfriend who drove a blue Chevrolet pickup truck. Her husband said he thought she had simply left town with another man. There is no hard evidence that Moore, Barton and Stewart's disappearances are connected, but police are looking into the possibility.

Barton was raised in an upper-middle-class family and was well-behaved as a child, but she dropped out of Reagan High School in her senior year and began dating a man who was a drug dealer and a pimp. After her boyfriend was imprisoned, she started using heroin and became a prostitute.

In February 1976, her pimp was murdered in a robbery gone bad at an Austin hotel. There were rumors that Barton had set him up, and she was afraid that his friends would come after her.

Shortly after the murder, Barton's apartment was broken into and vandalized; obscene pictures and words were painted in red on the wall and someone pinned her underwear to the wall and wrote "blood" nearby. It's unclear whether the murder of Barton's pimp and and the subsequent break-in at her apartment are connected to her later disappearance.

Barton had made comments about wanting to go to California, and police looked for her in the Los Angeles area, but their searches turned up nothing. She has a record for robbery, assault and prostitution, but she has not been arrested since her 1976 disappearance. She is considered endangered and foul play is suspected in her case.
Investigating Agency
  • Austin Police Department 512-974-5250
Source Information

Jennifer waslast seen on

11th St. and Waller Street, AUSTIN, TX

Google Maps
 
The pimp/drug dealer that was murdered in Feb 1976, was Thomas Govea Jr.
Murder occurred at Salinas Hotel 1500 1/2 E 6th street. Heroine was involded

Two different articles indicate different sets of suspects;
1. Calvin Paul Cyphers - shot to death 7/28/76Robert Alexander Feld by his wife in Albuquerque (in town since May)

2. John E. Loggins - killed in a California barroom fight after fleeing Austin
(apparently Loggins was back & forth between Cali & Austin; was living in Cali in 1969)

*The police also wanted to question Jennifer


The other set of suspects;
1. Robert Alexander Felder 28yro
2. James Hemphill Jr 28yro
3. Cuemel Tyrone Grant 26yro
4. George Harold 27yro


I think all of these people are deceased
 
Last edited:
Moonwalker9 said:
Update on charleyproject and 1 more new photo of her

Jennifer Joyce Barton – The Charley Project

Jennifer Joyce Barton
  • barton_jennifer.jpg
  • barton_jennifer2.jpg
Barton, circa 1976

  • Missing Since05/16/1976
  • Missing FromAustin, Texas
  • ClassificationEndangered Missing
  • Date of Birth05/31/1955 (64)
  • Age20 years old
  • Height and Weight5'7, 135 pounds
  • Clothing/Jewelry DescriptionA burgundy body suit, blue jeans, and sandals.
  • Distinguishing CharacteristicsAfrican-American female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Barton has a light, freckled complexion. There is a scar on the calf of her right leg, and her ears are pierced. Barton may go by her initials, J.J.
Details of Disappearance
Barton planned to go to the movies with a friend in Austin, Texas on May 16, 1976. She was short of cash and stopped at a bar in the vicinity of east 11th Street and Waller Street to see if she could get some money there. She met two African-American men inside the bar, and spent half an hour talking to them. One of them is described as 5'4 with a thin build, wearing a sailor's cap and a t-shirt. The other was 5'6 with a heavy build and a large Afro. Jennifer told a friend the men offered her $25 for sex.

She decided to go with them. One man left via the back door, and the other went out the front door and got into a large brown or tan van. It had a large whip antenna, teardrop-shaped side windows, a spare wheel on the back, and California license plates. The van turned the corner, and the second man got inside it.

One of Barton's friends was walking down the street at the time, and saw the van go around the block and come back up the street. She looked into the van, but didn't see Barton. Barton has never been heard from again.

Two other young African-American women, Debra Stewart and Brenda Moore, both disappeared from Austin in the spring of 1976, and it's possible the three cases are related. Stewart was not a prostitute, but she did frequent the 11th Street area, like Barton did, and the two women had friends and acquaintances in common.

Moore vanished on March 7, 1976; she was last seen at 3:15 p.m. on the east side of Austin. On March 12, her car was found abandoned in the 1900 block of Coleto Street, less than a block from where Stewart's vehicle was later located, with the car keys inside it.

Photographs of Moore are unavailable; she was 19 years old at the time of her disappearance and is described as 5'0 tall and 125 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. She worked as a nurse's aide and had a history of depression.

Moore was married at the time of her disappearance, but she and her husband had been separated for about four months and she had a boyfriend who drove a blue Chevrolet pickup truck. Her husband said he thought she had simply left town with another man. There is no hard evidence that Moore, Barton and Stewart's disappearances are connected, but police are looking into the possibility.

Barton was raised in an upper-middle-class family and was well-behaved as a child, but she dropped out of Reagan High School in her senior year and began dating a man who was a drug dealer and a pimp. After her boyfriend was imprisoned, she started using heroin and became a prostitute.

In February 1976, her pimp was murdered in a robbery gone bad at an Austin hotel. There were rumors that Barton had set him up, and she was afraid that his friends would come after her.

Shortly after the murder, Barton's apartment was broken into and vandalized; obscene pictures and words were painted in red on the wall and someone pinned her underwear to the wall and wrote "blood" nearby. It's unclear whether the murder of Barton's pimp and and the subsequent break-in at her apartment are connected to her later disappearance.

Barton had made comments about wanting to go to California, and police looked for her in the Los Angeles area, but their searches turned up nothing. She has a record for robbery, assault and prostitution, but she has not been arrested since her 1976 disappearance. She is considered endangered and foul play is suspected in her case.
Investigating Agency
  • Austin Police Department 512-974-5250
Source Information

Jennifer waslast seen on

11th St. and Waller Street, AUSTIN, TX

Google Maps
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As for Debra Kay Stewart, the only information I found (other than the disappearance), was she was involved in a play, her favorite play, "Four Women";
performed by the African American Players which centered around a prostitute named Senfronia.
According to the private detective, Lopez, hired by her family, Debra identified with Senfronia.

Also, Debra was failing her classes & the police couldn't confirm/verify a doctor's appointment with any doctors in Austin
 
January 11, 2019

ourblackgirls.com

Jennifer Joyce Barton Was Last Seen Getting Into a Van In 1976

Jennifer Joyce Barton went missing around the same time as two other women, and police are still wondering if these cases are connected.
ourblackgirls.com ourblackgirls.com


February 7, 2023

original.newsbreak.com

What Happened To These Missing Women Who Vanished From Austin, Texas Months Apart? | The Vivid Faces of the Vanished | NewsBreak Original

23-year-old Pinkie Mae Davis-Herron got married in 1970 at the young age of 14 years old. She and her husband had two children and the couple divorced in 1975. Pinkie, who is a tomboy, enjoyed working on cars and motorcycles. She is a drummer who played in local bands, reports Whereabouts Still...
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From Charley Project, photos of Jennifer

  • barton_jennifer.jpg
  • barton_jennifer2.jpg
  • barton_jennifer3.jpg
  • barton_jennifer4.jpg
Barton, circa 1976
 
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