Here are two articles i found on the tapatalk forum i thought were interesting I’m assuming these leads went nowhere.
Elko Daily 2009
After more than 15 years, police believe they are close to finding out this woman's identity and who her killer might be. Journigan said for the majority of her life, the woman lived in the Southwest - southern California, Arizona or New Mexico - but the most precise information from the sample is that for the last seven months of her life she lived in the area of Afton, Wyo. At one point it was believed the Shafter Jane may have been in her 30s, but Journigan said carbon dating has determined she was 27 at the time of her death. Autopsy records from the time indicate she had a child. She was also found with pink nail polish on her fingernails. Journigan said the sheriff's office is working with the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office and the Wyoming Division of Investigation in Wyoming to determine the woman's identity. Investigators are searching dentist offices, hospitals and even beauty parlors since the woman's hands appeared to be professionally manicured. The medical examiner determined the woman had endometriosis, and may have been undergoing treatment for it. The woman's teeth were in good condition, but she was in the process of having a root canal. Records indicate there were traces of alcohol and marijuana in her system. It is believed she was dead for at least six days before being discovered. Journigan said the woman had a 2-inch by 4-inch mark on the back of her right calf. The examiner thought it was a burn scar, but Journigan believes it may actually be a birth mark. The only fingerprint from the woman was lifted from her right thumb. Detective Mike Kolsch said in an Elko Daily Free Press article published a few days after the incident that the woman may have never been reported missing. "Her lifestyle may have been such that no one knew she was missing," Kolsch said. Although the woman's identity is still unknown, Journigan said there is a man who may have been involved in her murder. Dale Wayne Eaton, who was in Elko at the time of the murder, is now on death row after being convicted of several murders - all female victims. Journigan said Eaton had girlfriends in Elko, had a child who went to school here and worked here. The details from several of Eaton's murders match those of the Shafter Jane scenario. Eaton was the subject of a domestic violence case, but it never went to court because the victim fled the country. Journigan said Eaton kept trophies from his murders, and had even given a hunting knife to the woman who had fled the country. She now lives in the United States and has been interviewed by police. In the case of one of Eaton's victims, the woman was tortured for six to seven days before he killed her. Journigan said a timeline has been constructed on Eaton, tying him to Lovelock, Las Vegas and other locales where women have been murdered in similar manners.
Technology may lead to victim’s identity
Elko Daily March 2010
Just as some leads run out, others start up in the ongoing Shafter Jane Doe cold case.
Elko County sheriff’s Detective Dennis Journigan has been reviewing the case since he received chemical analysis results back in early 2009 that used isotope information from the murder victim’s hair to determine she’d lived the last few months of her life near Afton, Wyo.
Both the Casper Star-Tribune and Billings Gazette, sister papers of the Elko Daily Free Press, picked up the story on Shafter Jane, the name given to a woman whose body was found Nov. 16, 1993, at the Shafter exit off Interstate 80 in eastern Elko County. As a result, Journigan said he was contacted almost immediately in the form of phone calls and e-mails after the story ran.
Some of the leads prompted him to contact authorities in Sweetwater, Wyo., about a missing woman in their records who was about the same age, disappeared about the same time, had also had a child and had a burn scar on the inside of her leg.
But with all the circumstantial facts adding up, the hard evidence of the dental records and fingerprints just couldn’t clinch it. It wasn’t the same woman.
Still, just as one door closes another opens.
Journigan said he recently received “another bit of info” from a man who claims to be a former manager at the Orvis outdoor recreation store near Jackson, Wyo. He claims to have worked with a woman who also went missing in the same period of time Shafter Jane was found in Elko County. Jackson Hole is just north of Afton.
The former manager claims the woman worked at Orvis up until that time and several things fit. Although he can’t recall the woman’s name, he said the FBI composite photo looks very much like her. She, too, was pregnant, about the same age and had — as Journigan puts it — “old man trouble.
Leads keep coming in Shafter Jane cold case
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I Care---missing persons cold cases-Unidentified female found in 1993 in Elko Nevada
