More info on Scars etc...
SLIDELL -- In June 1986, fishermen discovered an unidentified white woman floating nude in Lake Pontchartrain with a plastic bag covering her head, secured with duct tape. The woman was seven weeks pregnant, had breast implants, a scar on her abdomen and another scar on her right wrist. Other than a gash on her head, there were no signs of trauma. The case was ruled a homicide, but investigators have been unable to find out who the woman was or who killed her. Now the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office is hoping a spot on a national television show will shed some light on the case.
"In 1986 not a whole lot was done with it," St. Tammany Parish Pathologist Michael DeFatta said. "It just sat there and sat there and sat there."
In 2003 cold case Det. Marco Demma reopened the investigation. The St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office exhumed the body and sent it to LSU Forensic Anthropologist Mary Manheim for a facial reconstruction based on the woman's skull. DeFatta said the woman's facial features had been very distorted when she was found. In addition to reconstructing her face, Manheim and her staff used a formula based on the femur bone to conclude the victim was between 5 feet, 2 inches tall and 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed 126 pounds. They also concluded the victim was between 20 and 30 years of age. This conflicted with original reports that the victim was between 17 and 20.
Manheim also discovered a right hip fracture that had healed, and there is a possibility the victim had plastic surgery on her nose. Also, all four of the woman's wisdom teeth had been extracted.
