Resolved LA - Tallulah, WhtFem Skeletal 163UFLA, 19-23, Dec'94 - Name not found

[taramarie]

I wonder if LE will ever release the identity of this young woman.

 

[carbuff]

I wonder if LE will ever release the identity of this young woman.

They might. They might need to locate and notify the next of kin, and since it's a murder case there might be legal procedures involved and that would delay an announcement.

 

[SwampMama]

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/163ufla.html
Unidentified White Female

Located December 27, 1994 in Tallulah, Madison Parish, Louisiana.
Cause of Death: The victim may have been bludgeoned.
Estimated Date of Death: Two-Six months prior
State of Remains: Skeletal

Case History
An Arkansas couple convicted of kidnapping and raping a Northeast Louisiana University student, are suspects in her death. Joseph McKinney, of North Little Rock, Arkansas is serving a life sentence plus 50 years, and his companion, Sylvia Grover, is serving a 45-year sentence for the September 17, 1994 abduction of an 18-year-old woman from the Super Kmart Center in West Monroe. The girl was taken to Caldwell Parish, where she was raped and her throat was slashed several times. She survived.
Several months before the West Monroe kidnapping, workers picking up trash near the intersection of Interstate 20 and Louisiana 602, about two miles east of Tallulah, found this Jane Doe’s bones near a culvert.
After McKinney and Grover were arrested in the West Monroe kidnapping, Madison Parish officials questioned them about the dead woman. After the questioning, there is no question they are somehow linked to the dead woman.
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Respectfully snipped and BBM.

I came across this thread and was quite stunned to see Sylvia's name. Tallulah, La is where one of the states prisons for women is. It is also where Sylvia currently resides. (I know this because I had a loved one who did a few months for a non violent gardening crime).

While my loved one was there I gathered up about 10 boxes of books to donate to the prison library. The prisoner/trustee/librarian knew my loved one because I had asked my LO to find out what kind of books the ladies were most interested in reading. My LO loves to read and became friendly with the prisoner who ran the library. She said the librarian was a fairly quiet and private person and my LO wondered what she was in prison for. She later found out that the prisoner who runs the library is Sylvia Grover.

 

[Find Brenda]

Did they ever release her name? I cannot seem to find much.