Resolved NY - Brooklyn, Van Dam St, WhtFem 18-30, UP8516, unresp in car w/male, very short arms/legs, Aug'90 - namus removed

[JayFletcher6493]

I could be totally off base but this case reminds me of a drug overdose. Lots of drug users, do drugs in their car and many OD in them.

 

[jessr927]

Thalidomide was given to pregnant women for morning sickness, before it was known to cause birth defects.

The cancer drug or the deficiency?


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[carbuff]

I would have thought a prostitute with dwarfism would be well known and remembered. There can't have been many such, even in a city the size of New York.

Yeah, but the people who would have noticed her missing probably weren't the kind to contact police. More likely they assumed she had either been jailed, or had moved on.

 

[Alleykins]

It sounds like she might also have had a child, based on the description of the abdominal scar.

 

[Alleykins]

Hm. I'm not finding one little person MP listed anywhere.

 

[KaylaraOwl]

I found one, but it was a boy who went missing way after this woman.


Also, there are a large number of dwarf escorts and prostitutes in NYC. Like really large. Wow.

 

[carbuff]

Hm. I'm not finding one little person MP listed anywhere.

There are quite a number of people whose height indicates they're very short though there's no description. Over the years we've often questioned whether a height of say, 50", is accurate because it seems so out of band. But maybe we should have asked different questions.

 

[Alleykins]

There are quite a number of people whose height indicates they're very short though there's no description. Over the years we've often questioned whether a height of say, 50", is accurate because it seems so out of band. But maybe we should have asked different questions.

I see what you mean.

 

[Laughing]

Anyone turn up a contemporary newspaper article with more information???

 

[carbuff]

Anyone turn up a contemporary newspaper article with more information???

I didn't turn up anything in any of the major papers, but there are a bunch of local publications in Brooklyn and I haven't identified or located any of them.

 

[Alleykins]

I wonder if we could get a facial reconstruction or something.

 

[Laughing]

Some information abut the male & the car would be a start....

 

[Alleykins]

I didn't find this UP in Doe. Has she been added and I missed it?

 

[carbuff]

Doenet doesn't list everybody.


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[Alleykins]

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I'm finding that out, LOL

 

[Alleykins]

I scoured Doe Network, and this is way off, but it's all I could find. I bolded and changed the text color of the things that don't match, but the date of disappearance, height, hair and abdominal scar fit.
Just curious, how do they know the UP's eye color given the state of decomposition?
This is for Cynthia Louise Day
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1487dfil.html

• 
  [*]Date Of Birth: November 11, 1952
  [*]Age at Time of Disappearance: 38 years old
  [*]Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 4'2 to 4'5; 125-135 lbs.
  [*]Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Blue eyes; blonde hair.
  [*]Marks, Scars: She has no tattoos. Has one pierced hole in each ear. She has a scar from a hysterectomy; a previously fractured pelvic bone and a scar above her lip.
  [*]Dentals: Available. Missing left canine tooth on the left side.
• DNA: Available
• Nickname: Peaches

 

[Laughing]

There may be a thread here started by a daughter of Cynthia Louise Day, looking for her. Off to search, :seeya:

 

[carbuff]

I would take that state of decomposition thing with a large grain of salt. Sometimes it seems like whoever fills out the form just checks it at random. Sometimes it reflects the state of the body at autopsy two or three days later. In this case, it's most likely that the male companion survived and was able to give them some more information.

 

[Alleykins]

I would take that state of decomposition thing with a large grain of salt. Sometimes it seems like whoever fills out the form just checks it at random. Sometimes it reflects the state of the body at autopsy two or three days later. In this case, it's most likely that the male companion survived and was able to give them some more information.

I was hoping you'd clue me in.
Good suggestion, it didn't occur to me that a witness could have given that description.
I posted this on Cynthia's thread along with some questions, even though they suspect her remains may have been found somewhere else but can't be identified because the lack of DNA for that UP.

 

[carbuff]

I was hoping you'd clue me in.
Good suggestion, it didn't occur to me that a witness could have given that description.
I posted this on Cynthia's thread along with some questions, even though they suspect her remains may have been found somewhere else but can't be identified because the lack of DNA for that UP.

We have a number of cases in here where a person was known in the local area but when authorities tried to contact next of kin, it turned out to be an alias. Sometimes that information is mentioned in descriptions but more often we only uncover it when we start finding newspaper articles and such.