Identified! NV - Henderson, 'Arroyo Grande', WhtFem UP46, "S" tattoo, Oct'80 *GRAPHIC* #2 - Tammy Corrine Terrell

mysteriew

A diamond in process
Joined
Jul 22, 2004
Messages
23,811
Reaction score
780
Could the young woman who is buried in a "potter's" grave in the Nevada desert be Laureen Rahn, a 14-year-old Manchester girl who disappeared 25 years ago this month?

Rick Jones, an investigator for the Clark County coroner's office in Las Vegas, believes it is possible.

Last week, Jones tracked down the former Judith Rahn with his suspicion that one of the 159 "unidentified" bodies his office is trying to identify could be her missing daughter. Laureen's mother has since taken back her maiden name, Judith Swanson, and lives in Florida.

Jones was searching national databases of missing children when Laureen Rahn's photo caught his eye. The Manchester girl bore some resemblance to a young woman whose nude body had been found by a passer-by, off a desert road in Henderson, Nev., on the night of Oct. 5, 1980.

Jones said it was the 1980 Jane Doe and another unidentified young woman who inspired him to look into these kinds of cases when he first joined the coroner's office in 1998. They reminded him, he said, of his own daughter.

"I just felt like if this was my daughter missing . . . I would never stop looking. And I fully believe that these families of these missing people have never stopped looking for their loved ones."

So he now spends "every free moment" working on the "Las Vegas Unidentified" Web site. "As far as we're concerned, they may be buried, but they're never forgotten," he said. "We're never going to stop looking."

And Jones is not the only searcher.

Gerald Nance is the senior case manager for the special case unit at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va. It's a unit he set up two and a half years ago.

A former homicide investigator, Nance deals now only with long-term missing and unidentified individuals; he refrains from using the term "cold cases."

"We call them special cases, because no parent wants to hear their kid's case is a cold case," he explained

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=53462

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=53462

Thread #1
 
Last edited by a moderator:
And here is the post I was looking for, reply number #545

I even copied over the quoted parts to make it easier. All you have to do is expand the quote below.

NV - Henderson, 'Arroyo Grande' WhtFem 258UFNV, 14-25, Oct'80 *GRAPHIC*

I worked on Arroyo's narrative today, found a few older articles, one from 2003 says she was raped which is not in the newer articles. Also included most of the ruled out

NV Arroyo Grande Jane Doe 5'2"- Age 14-25 Height: 5'2" Weight: 103-110 lbs. Hair: Light brownish-blonde, 11" in length Eye Color: Blue or green or hazel Found murdered in Henderson NV Oct. 5, 1980 Estimated Date of Death: 24 hours prior
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Pierced ears. Non-smoker. A crudely made tattoo of the letter "S" in blue in on the inner portion of right her forearm, approximately 1/2" X 1/4". Wearing silver-colored fingernail polish. Had a vaccination scar on her left bicep.

Dentals: Available. Wisdom teeth impacted. She had fillings. Dental Features: 7 & 8 are present, diastema - gap between two teeth on the upper right side of her mouth. Tooth 27 present - root tip.
Fingerprints: Available. Full prints are available in file. Prints sent to CA DOJ, FBI, and LVMPD - no matching record.
DNA: Available at UNT.
------------------

Doe Network Case File: 258UFNV
NamUs UP #46
NCMEC
Who Was Arroyo Grande Jane Doe? FB Page
Find A Grave - Arroyo Jane S Doe
___________________________
NCMEC
Date Found - Oct 5, 1980
Location Found - Henderson, NV
Estimated Age -14
Sex - Female
Race - White
Hair Color - Brown
Eye Color - Blue
Estimated Height - 5'2"
Estimated Weight - 103 lbs

On October 5, 1980, the body of an unidentified white female was found just south of Route 146, west of Arroyo Grande in Henderson, Nevada. It is believed she had been deceased for less than 24 hours prior to the discovery of her body. She had light brownish-blonde shoulder-length hair and pierced ears. She had a small tattoo on her right forearm. The tattoo was blue, approximately ½” x ¼”, and appeared to be homemade. She was wearing silver colored fingernail polish and had a vaccination scar on her left bicep. She had a gap between two teeth on the upper right side of her mouth. The reconstruction featured above is an artist’s rendering of what the Jane Doe may have looked like. Anyone with information should contact the Clark County Coroner’s Office, reference case number 80-01221 or the Henderson Police Department, reference case number 80-3937.

___________________________

NamUs UP # 46 - Full Case Report - Case Information - Status Unidentified
Case number 80-01221
Date found October 05, 1980 00:00
Date created June 30, 2007 00:00
Date last modified August 25, 2016 13:18

Investigating agency - Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency Clark County Coroner Office
Phone 702-455-3210
Case Manager - Ashley Grygor
Phone (702) 455-3210

Demographics
Estimated age Adult - Pre 20
Minimum age 14 years
Maximum age 25 years
Race White
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) 103, Measured
Height (inches) 62, Measured
Body conditions - Recognizable face
Estimated postmortem interval 24 Hours

Circumstances - Location Found
Address 1 State Route 146 near Arroyo Grande
Address 2 SR 146 and Arroyo Grande
Henderson, Nevada 89014 Clark County
Circumstances
The nude body of this unidentified white female was found just south of Route 146 and west of Arroyo Grande, in Henderson, Nevada at approximately 2100 hours on October 5, 1980. Lacerations of the scalp and puncture wounds of the back were identified.
Physical
Hair color Brown
Head hair Light brownish-blonde, 11"
Body hair Light brownish-blonde pubic hair
Left eye color Blue
Right eye color Blue
Eye description Hazel or Blue

Distinctive features as described below
Tattoos - Tattoo of a letter S on her right forearm.
Fingerprints Status: Fingerprint information is available and entered
Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered

___________________________
Can you identify this woman in a cold murder case? By Christine Kim Tuesday, January 19th 2016
One of Clark County's oldest murder mysteries remains a priority for the Henderson Cold Case Unit. A young woman, found dead, lying naked on a Henderson road.

Jane "Arroyo Grande" Doe was one of the reasons Clark County started its cold case project, but 36 years after her murder, she still doesn't have her real name.

A reconstruction of what she looked like when she was alive are on websites and posters that are being passed out at various missing persons events, and a billboard was created to reach more eyes.

The case now in the hands of Henderson Lieutenant Garrett Poinier and his colleagues.

This is a cold case detectives have tried to crack for decades, since October 5, 1980.

"Multiple people in that age frame went missing during that time. {Henderson} only has one case, but in the valley, there are several other cases that are possibly tied to this case. So if you can ID the victim it helps you decide if you can tie them to other victims," said Poinier.

John Williams was the Henderson police officer who discovered the young woman's body along what was once a dirt road near the Arroyo Grande Wash. News 3 went to her grave with Williams in May 2015. On the anniversary of her death and on holidays, he and his wife pay her a visit. They even paid for her gravestone.

"She had been struck numerous times in the face-- apparently with fists. And then in the back of the head with what appeared to be a roofing or framing hammer. And then stabbed with a two-pronged instrument in the back," he said.

In 2016, Clark County is seeing various agencies including the non-profit, "Can You Identify Me?" joining the effort to find who Jane "Arroyo Grande" Doe was by handing out fliers in hopes someone will recognize her.

For now, all we know is she was a white woman, 14-25 years old with brown hair and blue eyes, standing 5'2" tall. We are also learning an "S" was roughly carved into her right forearm. It could have been a homemade tattoo representing someone's initial, showing branding or ownership.


__________________________________

Henderson cold-case homicide marks 35th anniversary - Reported by: Vicki Gonzalez
Posted by: Tony Garcia - Published: 10/05/2015 5:09 pm - Updated: 10/05/2015 6:31 pm

But Jane “Arroyo Grande” Doe has an extended family. John Williams is the Henderson police officer who discovered her body and has spent the past 35 years trying to solve her murder.

"Extremely hurt that we haven't been able to identify her, at least," says Williams. "I say my prayers every night to at least get her identified and find out who she is and get some closure on that portion."

Williams and his wife frequently visited Jane “Arroyo Grande” Doe at Palm Mortuary in Henderson. The couple even purchased her gravestone.

“My wife and I come over all the time. You know just little flowers and stuff," he says. "I just want to keep her in my thoughts and in my heart."

Now retired, Williams is still involved in Jane “Arroyo Grande” Doe’s case. This summer he, along with the Clark County coroner’s office and Henderson Police Department, traveled to NCMEC in Virginia to present her case.

Williams says that a billboard with Jane “Arroyo Grande” Doe’s image and information will be posted in southern Nevada in the near future.

"Jane Arroyo Grande Doe was found just south of State Route 146, west of Arroyo Grande Boulevard in Henderson on October 5, 1980.

"She had light brown shoulder-length hair, pierced ears and blue eyes. She had a small tattoo on her right forearm. The tattoo was blue and appeared to be homemade. She was wearing silver colored fingernail polish and had a vaccination scar on her left bicep. She had a gap between two teeth on the upper right side of her mouth. She was between 14 to 25 years old, and approximately 5 feet 2 inches tall and 103 pounds."

___________________________
Resolving cold cases important to Clark County coroner - By Rochel Leah Goldblatt - Posted November 28, 2013 - 11:11pm Updated November 29, 2013 - 6:31am

It started with a young, pretty girl.

She was found face down and nude in the middle of Arroyo Grande Boulevard in 1980. Her cause of death was multiple stab wounds in her back and blunt force trauma to her head.

She should have been easy to recognize. But no one identified her.

The Clark County coroner’s office took X-rays, finger*prints and dental samples but couldn’t find a match in any existing databases.

“Back in the day, that’s the way everybody did business,” Coroner Michael Murphy said. “We’re talking about the science of the ’80s and ’90s versus today. We were very limited in the resources we could get.”

In November 2003, the 14- to 20-year-old girl remained unidentified. The Clark County Coroner’s Office had exhausted all techniques available at the time.

Except one: the Internet.

“Some people came up with the idea of putting dead people’s photos on the World Wide Web,” Murphy said. “I said, ‘We’ve done everything else. Why not this?’ ”

The initial reaction was not positive.

“I was convinced I had made a big blunder, and I thought I would lose my job,” he said.

But then reports from family members started coming in, and people started identifying their loved ones.

“Within 24 hours, we had identified our first decedent,” Murphy said. “The response that we got was amazing. That started to kind of give us a boost. Within 72 hours, we had identified another one. A week later, another, and we were off the ground running.”

In the 10 years since the November 2003 inception of the online program, the coroner’s office cold case unit has identified 67 people. About 200 open cases remain.

“It’s not an exact science,” coroner’s office investigations supervisor Rick Jones said. “There’s a lot of hard work behind it.”

Murphy’s decision to put images of the unidentified people online, along with a coroner’s office in Fulton County, Ga., led to the founding of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, commonly known as NamUs, Murphy said.

NamUs compares family reports of missing persons with police reports of unidentified bodies.

“We got much more sophisticated about what we did,” Murphy said. “We put today’s science to yesterday’s cases.”

A federal grant in 2009 allowed the coroner’s office to exhume 54 bodies from the county cemetery for identification.

The exhumations began in 2010 and lasted 18 months while the coroner’s office retrieved DNA samples and other data, such as fingerprints if available, from the bodies.

... As for the first unidentified girl entered into the cold case online program, the coroner’s office might finally have a lead.

The sister of an out-of-state runaway who went missing in 1971 thinks Jane “Arroyo Grande” Doe is her sister.

“She was the one that really sparked my interest in unidentified folks,” Jones said. “She’s somebody’s child out there, and that’s what we look at. Hopefully some day we can get this little girl identified.”
__________________________
Jane 'Arroyo Grande' Doe cold case open 35 years later - By Vicki Gonzalez - Published: 5/13 4:38 pm

Each “Doe” is assigned a unique middle name. This woman was discovered at Craig Ranch Golf Course. Her name: “Jane ‘Golfers’ Doe.” It’s the only thing that separates her from the more than 200 “cold cases” buried in various cemeteries throughout Clark County.

But there is one “Doe” with an extended “family.”

The family is in the persons of John Williams and his wife. He places flowers on a grave, remembering a bond that has lasted 35 years.

Williams has been watching out for Jane “Arroyo Grande” Doe since the day he found her body while serving as a Henderson police officer.

"I was on my day off,” Williams remembers. “It was a Sunday, October 5, 1980."

It was 9:20 p.m. along a once-dirt road near the Arroyo Grande Wash.

"Nothing was incorporated out there at the time," Williams says. "She was laying there, posed basically, and nude."

Williams saw the different faces of death.

"She had been struck numerous times in the face, apparently with fists. And then in the back of the head with what appeared to be a roofing or framing hammer. And then stabbed with a two-pronged instrument in the back."

The case tugged at his heart.

"Obviously I felt very sad for her," he says.

The attachment has lasted into his retirement from the force.

"She was a young lady, 14 to 18 years old,” Williams says. “It's just like, who could do this?"

From the moment he discovered her body, Williams has dedicated his life to finding justice for Jane “Arroyo Grande” Doe.

"We have done everything. We have done everything."

On the anniversary of her death each year, and on holidays, Williams and his wife place flowers at her grave.

"In fact we put some on the other day. We come down all the time and put flowers. Just so that she has someone that cares about her."

The Williams family even bought a gravestone for her final resting place.

"And why is that important? It's important to me. She's like family to me."

But to this day, she still does not have a name. Her identification is unknown.

"I would really, really like to find out who this youngster is."

He wasn’t the only one. Former Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy also is interested in finding out who she was.

"Jane Arroyo Grande Doe was one of the reasons we started our Cold Case Project to begin with," Murphy says.

In 2002, Jane “Arroyo Grande” and dozens of other “Does” were exhumed to gather new clues, hoping advanced technology might help solve some of these mysteries.

"We continue to identify old, and cold cases, and cases that we thought couldn't be done,” Murphy says. “And we have never identified her."

The mystery of Jane “Arroyo Grande” Doe has become a symbol.
__________________________
Cold cases go online, with respect for victims - By Abigail Goldman - Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008 | 2 a.m.
An unsolved case, 27 years cold, sits on Clark County death investigator Rick Jones’ desk. He flips through it every day, and sometimes on the weekend, because he can’t shake two simple facts: Jane “Arroyo Grande” Doe makes him think of his own daughter, just as someone out there must still be thinking of Jane “Arroyo Grande” Doe.

In July, the Justice Department launched a Web site that allows anyone to search through photos of America’s unidentified dead, carefully cropped images compiled from coroners and medical examiners across the country. The site, called NamUs after the federal National Missing and Unidentified Persons Initiative, is an sign of just how much public opinion has changed. When Murphy launched a local version of the same online identification concept in 2003, he took considerable criticism from colleagues who thought it was too morose, too disrespectful of the dead.

Then his office identified 29 bodies.

Now the Justice Department is developing a missing person’s component to the NamUs site. The goal is to create a public database of missing people, then cross-reference it with the unidentified remains on record, in the hope that each match will close two cases at once. The government is trying to get this done by 2009. Murphy, who has been closely involved with the creation of NamUs, said it could take years.

Arroyo Grande Doe is one of the cases that now lives online, unresolved.

Death investigators estimate she was 14 to 20 years old when she was discovered about 9 on an October night nearly three decades ago, nude and face down in the desert near what is now the intersection of the Las Vegas Beltway and the street that became her name: Arroyo Grande Boulevard. Her photo, the one they can show online, reveals nothing of her homicide: blunt trauma to the head, stab wounds to the back. Her fingerprints and X-rays are still in the coroner’s case file, but she’s long since been buried in Henderson, under a headstone that says “Jane Doe, Oct. 5, 1980. From your family at the Henderson Police Department.”

And Jones, sitting in his cramped cubicle in the coroner’s office, still flips through her file, scanning for something he can hold on to.
•••

Jane “Sahara Sue” Doe, for example, was discovered in 1979 outside what was then the El Rancho casino parking lot, a homicide victim with an unusual feature: Though she was only 17 to 21 years old, she had a complete set of dentures.

In years of searching national records, investigators have come across only one other missing woman that matched Sahara Sue Doe’s profile — a woman in Reno. It seemed as if that had to be her, so in 2003 they exhumed Sahara Sue, only to find out the DNA didn’t match.

Considering about 120 unidentified bodies are rolled through the Clark County Coroner’s office every year, with the vast majority identified within a matter of days, Sahara Sue is an exception to the rule. Still, she weighs on Murphy’s staff, just like all the others.

.... And DNA isn’t everything, either. Sometimes matches just don’t exist, and the death investigators are left to their lonely legwork. Jones has spent hours scouring online missing persons sites, looking for someone who resembles Arroyo Grande Doe. Other Clark County death investigators have formed a cold case unit, a group that reviews the old files in its spare time.

And for all this work, even when you get an identification, it’s a hollow victory.

Hollow because the thrill of putting a name to a case, Jones said, is quickly undercut by the task of telling someone his friend or family member is dead.

Some coroners use the word “closure,” but Murphy’s office doesn’t. Murphy doesn’t think his staff provides closure. So instead they say “resolution” and hope it heals more than hurts.

•••

But there’s an optimism in the coroner’s office, one that employees have to cling to if they’re going to last, Murphy said. So maybe Jones will find the third sister. Maybe Jane “Arroyo Grande” Doe will be identified. And even if she isn’t, maybe that’s OK for now.

“I often wonder why she’s the case that kind of started it all, and yet she’s the one that we’ve yet to identify,” Murphy said. “I don’t know if we’ll ever know who she is, but I know a whole bunch of folks have found homes as a result of her case, as a result of a case where we wanted to put a young lady to rest.”

___________________________

What’s your name, Baby Jane? - By David Kihara - Friday, Jan. 27, 2006 | 8 a.m.
For more than two decades, a teenager found naked, stabbed and beaten in Henderson has been known only as Jane "Arroyo Grande" Doe.

Also known as No. 80-1221, the girl's body was discovered in 1980 near what is now the intersection of Interstate 215 and Arroyo Grande Boulevard in Henderson.

Authorities exhausted leads to find her identity years ago. That doesn't mean, however, that they have stopped trying.

"Our goal in this office is to identify every body," Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy said.

...Richard Jones, an investigator with the Clark County coroner's office who also works with the cold case unit, has been trying to find the identity of Jane "Arroyo Grande" Doe for more than five years.

One of the best leads came in 2003 when he was searching through databases of missing persons and came across a photo of Rachel Garden, who had been missing since 1980.

Although she looked strikingly similar to the unidentified girl, officials discovered after contacting police and checking dental records that it was not a match.

"Somebody someday will identify her," Jones said.

___________________________
Nevada coroner puts photos of deceased on Internet / Visitors urged to try to help identify Jane and John Does - By Steve Friess, Special to The Chronicle Published 4:00 am, Thursday, January 22, 2004

2004-01-22 04:00:00 PDT Las Vegas -- Her naked corpse was discovered by accident by a pair of brothers more than 23 years ago along a dirt road on the edge of town. She looked like a teen, perhaps no older than 18, possibly a runaway. Her head was beaten with a hammer, but the coroner believes she actually died from stabbings of an unidentified 3-inch object.

The murder weapon isn't the only thing that remains unidentified. All these years later, the victim is still known only as Jane "Arroyo Grande" Doe, after the desolate desert path where her body had been dumped.

Over the decades, that path became a major interstate and the young officer who arrived on the scene became a seasoned veteran. But every effort by Detective John Williams to identify what he calls "my girl," including exhuming her body last year to gather DNA samples, have brought him no closer to closing the most vexing case of his career.

Now, in a controversial move, the coroner here is taking the search for answers to nagging cases like this to the Internet by posting, in what is believed to be a national first, the photos of dozens of unidentified bodies on the Clark County coroner's Web site.

Several coroner and medical examiner Web sites around the United States publish information about so-called "cold cases," and some even accompany the blurbs with artists' renderings or clay-model representations that approximate what the deceased looked like when alive. But at www.accessclarkcounty.net, a prominent box beseeches visitors to "help identify human remains." A few clicks -- and a couple of warnings about graphic content -- later, the screen is filled with thumbnail-size pictures that can be enlarged to show actual shots of dead people.

The warning states that "no decomposed remains will be shown," and some of the photos have been retouched to erase the more gruesome trauma. But many remain difficult to view.

.... "I just don't know if actual photos are the best way to accomplish this," said Sgt. Mike Harper, operations manager for the Alameda County coroner's office in Oakland. "A good description of the Doe and the circumstances would probably be just as beneficial as having a photo. If the photo is a clean shot of the face, maybe that's OK, but I don't think there's a need to go into the grotesque end of things."

... Yet Clark County says its approach is working. Since the launch in November, the site has received more than 350,000 hits and has helped identify as many as a dozen people, said Assistant Coroner Les Elliot.

... "It's something we're exploring at this point to see if it's feasible," said Herb Hawley of the San Francisco County medical examiner's office. "I don't believe we'll be putting up actual photos. The most we would do is put up sketches."

But Todd Matthews of the Doe Network, a national organization of volunteers and aggrieved relatives searching for missing loved ones, said he supports the effort.

"They're showing reality, and sometimes it's hard to hide this reality from the public," Matthews said. "They're definitely bringing some attention to cases that otherwise have not seen the light of day for years."

Williams, still trying to bring justice to Jane "Arroyo Grande" Doe, holds out hope that Matthews is right and someone will someday help resolve his case.

"If you look on TV, you'll see worse than what you see in this photo of my girl," Williams said. "If it's my daughter, I'd definitely feel bad to see a picture of her dead. But it would not bother me if someone saw it on the Internet or TV to give me some closure and my family some closure. I'm sure things will offend people, but so be it. You got a young kid, dumped in the desert. That's more offensive."
___________________________
Technology may help solve 23-year-old case - By Jen Lawson - Wednesday, June 4, 2003 | 11:15 a.m.
She was found dumped alongside Arroyo Grande Boulevard in Henderson almost 23 years ago.

The victim was a young woman, probably in her late teens, with blue eyes and feathered brown hair. Investigators determined she had been raped, hit on the head and stabbed multiple times in the back, but they never determined her name.

Now investigators hope technology that wasn't available in 1980 might help them identify the girl who has been known as Jane Arroyo Grande Doe.

When homicide victims remain unidentified it not only leaves family and friends without knowledge of their fate, it also means that a killer may be at large. Without knowing the identity of a victim, it is usually impossible for police to determine who killed that person.

A detective who had been haunted by the Arroyo Grande case for years thought he might have a lead on who the young woman was, so her body was exhumed Thursday from Palm Mortuary in Henderson. Coroner's investigators obtained better dental X-rays and a DNA sample, and she was returned to her grave Monday morning.

About 20 Henderson officers attended Monday's brief service at the mortuary. They stood with their heads bowed under a tent, gathered around the young woman's gray casket and asked for God's help in finding out who she was.

"We recommit her spirit to you," Henderson police chaplain Gary Morefield said during a prayer at the service. "We hope you help reveal the identity of this person that you care about very much."

The young woman was found the night of Sunday, Oct. 5, 1980, on Arroyo Grande near Lake Mead Boulevard, which is now Interstate 215.

She didn't carry any identification. She doesn't appear to be from the Las Vegas area; no one fitting her description was reported missing from Henderson or the surrounding area around that time. Her fingerprints didn't match those of any missing people entered in a national database.

In a short article that ran in the Las Vegas Sun at the time, police asked for the public's help in identifying the victim. No one ever came forward with information, police said. Two weeks later, police released a sketch of her. She remained nameless, but she wasn't forgotten.

....In the past few months, Williams learned that Jane Arroyo Grande Doe might be a runaway from Reno, Chambers said. That led to the exhumation, which was one of the last official acts of Ron Flud, who retired Friday after 19 years as coroner. Investigators were soon disappointed with the news that she wasn't the missing girl from Reno, however. Another possible match was also ruled out. Now they are trying to determine if she could be one of two runaways from the East Coast who disappeared around the same time the body was discovered.

As of this morning investigators had not determined whether Jane Arroyo Grande Doe was one of those runaways.

It's "very unusual" for the coroner's office to exhume a body, Clark County's new coroner, Michael Murphy, said.

"We normally would not do that unless we had reason to believe we could get a match," he said. "We are not going to arbitrarily exhume John or Jane Does to get DNA samples. While it's solid technology, it's still new technology and it's being stretched to the limit with current cases."

....In the Arroyo Grande case, Murphy said he believes there is a good possibility that investigators will eventually identify her.

"How good of a possibility? I am kind of the eternal optimist," Murphy said. "Good solid investigative work will ultimately prevail."


====== RULED OUT ===== Last Updated 10/6/2016
Arroyo Grande Jane Doe - all rule outs together, for easier reference

258UFNV
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

17 NamUs Exclusions - I have a bigger list will try to add today
The following people have been ruled out as being this decedent:
First Name Last Name Year of Birth State LKA
Tammy Akers 1962 Virginia
Sandra Butler 1962 Nevada
Sandra Butler 1962 Nevada
Terry Collier 1948 California
Carla Corley 1965 Pennsylvania
Melinda Creech 1965 Indiana
Kimberly Doss 1962 Florida
Rachael Garden 1964 New Hampshire
Cindy Haumann 1959 Arizona
Sandra Landrum 1957 Georgia
Debbie McCall 1963 Illinois
Marilyn Milligan * 1966 Missouri
Laureen Rahn 1966 New Hampshire
Carol Roberts 1958 Florida
Cheryl Scherer 1959 Missouri
Rosie Schlicker 1958 Kansas
Suzanne Schultz 1961 Wisconsin

Rule outs through Nola & other members (in 2010) by LE - Rick Jones
Information shown (Name; State, Last Known Alive date, Status, Date of Rule Out)
Rachael Gardner; NH;2/22/80; Neg. dentals;5/29/03
Sandra Butler; NV ;6/26/78 ;Neg. dentals; 5/29/03
Sandra Landrum; GA; 9/29/75; Neg prints; 12/3/03
Cheryl Ann Scherer;MO ;4/17/79 ; Neg dentals; 12/19/03
Suzanne Schultz; WI; 7/79; Neg dentals; 2/26/04
Angela Mae Meeker; WA; 7/7/79; Neg dentals; 5/29/04
Terry Lynch; CA; Found Alive; 4/18/05
Melinda Creech; IN;9/4/79 ; Neg dentals; 1/11/08
Margaret Kay Holst; NE; 8/4/77; Neg dentals; 2/24/10
Tammy Akers;VA ;2/7/77 ; Neg dentals; 2/24/10
Rebecca Dunn; NV; 4/79; Neg prints; 6/5/10

Added later to the rule out list by LE
Karen Lynn Zendrosky (dentals) -New Jersey - The Doe Network: Case File 1667DFNJ
Sherrlynn Leigh Mitchell - Australia (by DNA) - http://www.missingpersons.gov.au/mis...eigh - vic
Terry Collier - California - (by fingerprint comparison,6/8/11) http://www.missingincalifornia.com/t...llier1979.html
Diane Gilchrist - Washington - The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) (by DNA in 2013)
Janet Kramer - Minnesota- The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) (by DNA in 2014)
Katherine O'Neil Anderson - Maryland - http://www.nampn.org/cases/anderson_katherine.html (by dentals in 2014)

Missing Persons that are currently being checked (in 2010) as matches for Arroyo Grande Jane Doe:
Information shown by Name, Status and Date of Submission.
Laureen Rahn - Checking CODIS -5/03
Mary Trlica (AKA: Mary Rachell Arnold) Checking CODIS - 11/03
Alana/Leticia Carter: Checking CODIS - 12/03
Rebecca Rodriquez: Checking CODIS - 11/04
Tracy King: Checking CODIS - 11/04
Cindy Lou Werling: Checking CODIS - 11/04
Ann Ellinwood: Checking CODIS - 11/04
Diane Dye: Ck DNA CA DOJ - 3/06
Teresa Alfonso: Checking DNA UNT (University North TX) - 7/08
Sherrlynn Leigh Mitchell: Cheking with AU for DNA, etc. - 5/10
Wilma Rae Vermaas: Checking CODIS - 6/10
Adrianne Gilliam: Checking CODIS - 6/10
Lucinda Schaefer: Checking CODIS - 6/10
Brenda Crowley: Checking CODIS - 6/10
Kristy Lynn Booth: Checking CODIS - 6/10
Simone Ridinger: Checking CODIS - 6/10

Rule outs on websleuth by members discussions:
Laureen Rahn 1966 -New Hampshire - 204DFNH - Laureen Ann Rahn
Rachael Garden 1964 -New Hampshire (by dentals) - Have you seen this child?
Suzanne Marie Schultz - Wisconsin - The Doe Network: Case File 1182DFWI
Margaret Kay Holst - Nebraska - The Doe Network: Case File 2589DFNE
Sandra Kaye Butler - Nevada - Have you seen this child? SANDRA BUTLER
Melinda Karen Creech - Indiana - http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...h_melinda.html
Rhonda Jane Stait - Australia - http://doenetwork.org/cases/2151dfnsw.html
Julie Hill - Minnesota - http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/hill_julie.html
Theresa Louise Rains - California - (found out by starburst member that Theresa was located in 1999)
Robyn Elizabeth Hickie - Australia - The Doe Network: Case File 63DFNSW
Diane Genice Dye - California - The Doe Network: Case File 129DFCA (in CODIS, haven't generated automatic hit against AGJD; last seen in 1981)
Rachel Hanna Ziselman - California - (no strong resemblance) The Doe Network: Case File 73DFCA
Barbara Bruno - New York - The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) (nose & mouth difference)
Judy Worrell - California - The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) (last seen in 1981)
Cynthia Joan Gastelle - http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...e_cynthia.html (identified by websleuths as being Haymarket Jane Doe found on February 12, 1982)
Janice Younger - strong resemblance but have given birth previously, missing since July 1981- after UID found
Beverly Lynn England - Colorado - http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...d_beverly.html (given birth previously)
Helen Claire Frost - British Columbia - The Doe Network: Case File 254DFBC (gave birth previously)
Mary Anne Wesolowski - New York - The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) (crooked teeth)
Kerry Ann Graham - California - http://dojapp.doj.ca.gov/missing/det...=5651331600149 (links from DOJ for any UIDs are not working/opening in Europe for some reason) http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/graham_kerry.html
- too small resemblance
Mary Weekly - Missouri - https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/24532/1/ (small resemblance)
Gail Marie Dahl - California - http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/d/dahl_gail.html (way too tall)
Jackie Kay Boyer - California - http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/boyer_jackie.html (too young)

Pending suggestions on websleuth so far:
Debra Lynn Kidwell -California - http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/870dfca.html
Toni Maree Cavanagh - Australia - http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/654dfnsw.html
Nadine O'Dell -Michigan - https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/2489/2/
Kristy Lynne Booth - Texas - https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/2928/2/
Tina Fay Kemp - Delaware - http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/k/kemp_tina.html
Trenny Lynn Gibson - Tennessee - http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/425dftn.html
Debra Pscholka - California - http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...lka_debra.html
Janice Pockett - Connecticut - https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/2555/202/
Patricia Zentner - Michigan - https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/9909/1/
Sherry Jean Pickle - California - http://doenetwork.org/cases/1099dfca.html
Patricia Gomez - California - http://doenetwork.org/cases/981dfca.html
Ann Marie Ellinwood - Oregon - http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2522dfor.html
Cindy May Brown - Minnesota - https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/20955/0/
Star Joy Dodson -Pennsylvania - https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/27610/15/ (pic added now to Namus)
Brenda Cecelia Crowley - New York - http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/872dfny.html
 
I'm still liking theresa rains as a possible match, she looks so similar. I'm wondering about the post that says she was located? Is there any online links to this? She was just added to the doe network the other day and she's still listed missing on other databases, it's confusing.
 
Did I read or is it my imagination that the theory is that she was a prostitute? I thought the tattoo was possibly a brand.
 
Did I read or is it my imagination that the theory is that she was a prostitute? I thought the tattoo was possibly a brand.

I think it’s considered a possibility, but it’s not been proved. I think there’s indeed a theory based on the tattoo being some kind of “pimp brandmark” (based on an article unrelated related to our Doe about pimps using tattoos to mark their “property”), but as far as I know it’s only speculation.

(But please correct me if I’m wrong).
 
I think it’s considered a possibility, but it’s not been proved. I think there’s indeed a theory based on the tattoo being some kind of “pimp brandmark” (based on an article unrelated related to our Doe about pimps using tattoos to mark their “property”), but as far as I know it’s only speculation.

(But please correct me if I’m wrong).

You're right but I'm pretty sure that was suggested here and not in articles which I quoted at the top of this page
 
Last edited:
You're right but I'm pretty sure that was suggested here and not in articles which I quoted at the top of this page

Exactly, that was what I meant. I just noticed the typo in my previous message. My apologies for the confusion! I meant that I believe someone posted an article in this thread (an article that /wasn’t/ related in any way to Arroyo Grande Jane Doe) about prostitution and pimps ‘marking’ women.
 
And here is the post I was looking for, reply number #545

I even copied over the quoted parts to make it easier. All you have to do is expand the quote below.

NV - Henderson, 'Arroyo Grande' WhtFem 258UFNV, 14-25, Oct'80 *GRAPHIC*

I was intrigued by the Jane "Golfers" Doe from one of those linked articles. I lived in Las Vegas for 24 years yet never heard of that case. She was found on the old Craig Ranch Golf Course in North Las Vegas. I played that course many times. It closed maybe a decade ago. The article doesn't indicate when Jane Golfers Doe was found, or any of the circumstances. I can't find anything else online.
 
Recent article:

Jane Arroyo Grande Doe

AUTOPSY:
Upon the remains being brought in for examination, it was determined Jane Doe had died up to 24 hours before she was found, likely on October 4, 1980. As the body appeared to have been washed, it is believed she was murdered elsewhere before being dumped at the location where she was found.

There are conflicting reports as to whether or not Jane Doe was sexually assaulted. While some say there were no signs that a sexual assault occurred, others have said her body showed signs of rape.

The examination determined Jane Doe’s death was the result of a homicide. She’d suffered blunt force trauma to the back of her skull and behind her right ear, which is believed to have been done with either a roofing hammer or a framing hammer. She was also stabbed in the upper-left portion of her back seven times with a two-pronged instrument that was approximately 3″ long. These wounds are believed to have been caused by an ice pick. Her face showed signs that she’d been beating. The beating had resulted in facial injuries and three of her lower teeth had been knocked out: a canine tooth that was broken at the root tip and two bicuspids.

The attack on Jane Doe had also resulted in a gap between her upper-right central incisor and upper-right lateral incisor. While it was initially unknown whether this had occurred before her death, in 2018 investigators shared it had been the result of the trauma she’d suffered.

This case was one of the first times a coroner’s office posted postmortem photos of a victim on the internet in the hopes of getting an ID.

In June 2015, Jane Doe’s case was officially reopened, which led to another exhumation in December 2016 in the hopes of conducting isotope and additional DNA testing. Unfortunately, when investigators opened the casket, they found it filled with water, which had caused bacterial degradation to occur. Despite this, they are able to get enough DNA for the FBI to process. There have been no updates regarding the status of the isotope testing.

DETAILS:
Jane Doe is described as white, and is estimated to have been born between 1955 and 1967. Investigators have shared she was likely between the ages of 13 to 25, with recent estimates narrowing that range to between 17 and 19 years of age. She is believed to have stood at 5’2″, although estimates have put her anywhere between 5’0″ and 5’4″, and weighed approximately 103 pounds. Her light brown-to-blonde shoulder-length hair is described as feathery in texture, and her eyes have been described as blue in colour. However, descriptions have also listed them as being green or hazel.

She wasn’t wearing any clothing when found. Her ears were pierced, and her nails were trimmed with a silver-coloured nail polish. She is described as having been a non-smoker, and the examination of the body showed the possibility that she’d fractured her jaw at one point in her life. She had a vaccine scar on her left bicep and a small birthmark on the lower-left side of her back.

One of the most notable things about Jane Doe is a 1/2″ by 1/4″ tattoo on the inner portion of her right forearm. It appears to be amateurish and homemade, and is believed to be either the letter “S” or the number “5”. It appeared to have been done not long before she was killed.

Jane Doe is not believed to have lived an impoverished life when alive, given the amount of dental care she’d received. She had fillings in six of her eight molars, and all four of her wisdom teeth were present and impacted. An eye hook ligature was found on one of her bottom teeth, most likely placed there as a spacer, indicating she’d possibly began orthodontic treatment that had never been completed, and she’d had a unique dental procedure done to straighten one of her teeth, called a “suture”. This procedure was rarely done in the early 1980s.

A piece of yellow or orange shower curtain was found near the body.

It’s appears Jane Doe was not from the Las Vegas area. Investigators have theorized she may have been travelling from either California or Arizona to the city.

This article also includes: theories, a rule out list with 32 rule outs, including:
- Mary Frances Gregory, who went missing from Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada on February 18, 1978
- Ellen Rouse, who went missing from Vancouver, Canada sometime in 1975/found alive fyi and
- Mary Leah Rodermund, who went missing from Morgan City, Louisiana on March 2, 1978 and the one I still thought was a possibility) and contact information.
 
Recent article:

Jane Arroyo Grande Doe

AUTOPSY:
Upon the remains being brought in for examination, it was determined Jane Doe had died up to 24 hours before she was found, likely on October 4, 1980. As the body appeared to have been washed, it is believed she was murdered elsewhere before being dumped at the location where she was found.

There are conflicting reports as to whether or not Jane Doe was sexually assaulted. While some say there were no signs that a sexual assault occurred, others have said her body showed signs of rape.

The examination determined Jane Doe’s death was the result of a homicide. She’d suffered blunt force trauma to the back of her skull and behind her right ear, which is believed to have been done with either a roofing hammer or a framing hammer. She was also stabbed in the upper-left portion of her back seven times with a two-pronged instrument that was approximately 3″ long. These wounds are believed to have been caused by an ice pick. Her face showed signs that she’d been beating. The beating had resulted in facial injuries and three of her lower teeth had been knocked out: a canine tooth that was broken at the root tip and two bicuspids.

The attack on Jane Doe had also resulted in a gap between her upper-right central incisor and upper-right lateral incisor. While it was initially unknown whether this had occurred before her death, in 2018 investigators shared it had been the result of the trauma she’d suffered.

This case was one of the first times a coroner’s office posted postmortem photos of a victim on the internet in the hopes of getting an ID.

In June 2015, Jane Doe’s case was officially reopened, which led to another exhumation in December 2016 in the hopes of conducting isotope and additional DNA testing. Unfortunately, when investigators opened the casket, they found it filled with water, which had caused bacterial degradation to occur. Despite this, they are able to get enough DNA for the FBI to process. There have been no updates regarding the status of the isotope testing.

DETAILS:
Jane Doe is described as white, and is estimated to have been born between 1955 and 1967. Investigators have shared she was likely between the ages of 13 to 25, with recent estimates narrowing that range to between 17 and 19 years of age. She is believed to have stood at 5’2″, although estimates have put her anywhere between 5’0″ and 5’4″, and weighed approximately 103 pounds. Her light brown-to-blonde shoulder-length hair is described as feathery in texture, and her eyes have been described as blue in colour. However, descriptions have also listed them as being green or hazel.

She wasn’t wearing any clothing when found. Her ears were pierced, and her nails were trimmed with a silver-coloured nail polish. She is described as having been a non-smoker, and the examination of the body showed the possibility that she’d fractured her jaw at one point in her life. She had a vaccine scar on her left bicep and a small birthmark on the lower-left side of her back.

One of the most notable things about Jane Doe is a 1/2″ by 1/4″ tattoo on the inner portion of her right forearm. It appears to be amateurish and homemade, and is believed to be either the letter “S” or the number “5”. It appeared to have been done not long before she was killed.

Jane Doe is not believed to have lived an impoverished life when alive, given the amount of dental care she’d received. She had fillings in six of her eight molars, and all four of her wisdom teeth were present and impacted. An eye hook ligature was found on one of her bottom teeth, most likely placed there as a spacer, indicating she’d possibly began orthodontic treatment that had never been completed, and she’d had a unique dental procedure done to straighten one of her teeth, called a “suture”. This procedure was rarely done in the early 1980s.

A piece of yellow or orange shower curtain was found near the body.

It’s appears Jane Doe was not from the Las Vegas area. Investigators have theorized she may have been travelling from either California or Arizona to the city.

This article also includes: theories, a rule out list with 32 rule outs, including:
- Mary Frances Gregory, who went missing from Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada on February 18, 1978
- Ellen Rouse, who went missing from Vancouver, Canada sometime in 1975/found alive fyi and
- Mary Leah Rodermund, who went missing from Morgan City, Louisiana on March 2, 1978 and the one I still thought was a possibility) and contact information.

If the gap was a result of the beating, that would change a lot. Thank you for sharing thus article!

Her casket being filled with water doesn’t sound all too well. I’m surprised they managed to secure enough DNA. Perhaps, that’s why it’s all taking so long.

I don’t think I ever read such a detailed account of her injuries. It definitely sounds like overkill. Which often suggests she and her killer knew each other and had some sort of relationship. While the human trafficking theory still seems plausible to me, I’m wondering if she maybe left of her own accord with a boyfriend. If she was 17-19, got into a fight with her parents and decided to leave with her boyfriend to wherever, I doubt she would have ever been reported missing or that any police station would have taken the report back then.

This is the case that got me drawn into sleuthing Jane and John Does. I still think about her a lot. I really hope she’ll have her name back in the near future.
 
If the gap was a result of the beating, that would change a lot. Thank you for sharing thus article!

Her casket being filled with water doesn’t sound all too well. I’m surprised they managed to secure enough DNA. Perhaps, that’s why it’s all taking so long.

I don’t think I ever read such a detailed account of her injuries. It definitely sounds like overkill. Which often suggests she and her killer knew each other and had some sort of relationship. While the human trafficking theory still seems plausible to me, I’m wondering if she maybe left of her own accord with a boyfriend. If she was 17-19, got into a fight with her parents and decided to leave with her boyfriend to wherever, I doubt she would have ever been reported missing or that any police station would have taken the report back then.

This is the case that got me drawn into sleuthing Jane and John Does. I still think about her a lot. I really hope she’ll have her name back in the near future.

I was the one (I don't know of any others) who questioned the gap...knowing, learning she was hit in the face, severely. I'm glad there are answers now. I agree, it was overkill, still thinking two people could have done this. She is still my baby...after all this years....I feel helpless....Suggested Rouse and Rodermund, but they were both ruled out (and that's totally ok, in the sense no doubts anymore)
 
Last edited:
Like many UID cases that I've seen, I think that this was most likely some sort of domestic violence. I feel like she may have left or ran way from home to live with a person or people who ended up being abusive.

If ends up being on the older age of the estimate, it isn't too surprising that she was (most likely, in my opinion) never reported missing, as whoever killed her could have easily said that she had just run off, and nobody would really question it. I'm leaning more towards her being a teenager, though, based on the reconstructions and the crude tattoo that she had recently gotten.

On the topic of the tattoo, I've also heard people saying that the tattoo could have been a "brand" tattoo, a special type of tattoo used by pimps to mark their trafficking victims.
 
Recent article:

Jane Arroyo Grande Doe

AUTOPSY:
Upon the remains being brought in for examination, it was determined Jane Doe had died up to 24 hours before she was found, likely on October 4, 1980. As the body appeared to have been washed, it is believed she was murdered elsewhere before being dumped at the location where she was found.

There are conflicting reports as to whether or not Jane Doe was sexually assaulted. While some say there were no signs that a sexual assault occurred, others have said her body showed signs of rape.

The examination determined Jane Doe’s death was the result of a homicide. She’d suffered blunt force trauma to the back of her skull and behind her right ear, which is believed to have been done with either a roofing hammer or a framing hammer. She was also stabbed in the upper-left portion of her back seven times with a two-pronged instrument that was approximately 3″ long. These wounds are believed to have been caused by an ice pick. Her face showed signs that she’d been beating. The beating had resulted in facial injuries and three of her lower teeth had been knocked out: a canine tooth that was broken at the root tip and two bicuspids.

The attack on Jane Doe had also resulted in a gap between her upper-right central incisor and upper-right lateral incisor. While it was initially unknown whether this had occurred before her death, in 2018 investigators shared it had been the result of the trauma she’d suffered.

This case was one of the first times a coroner’s office posted postmortem photos of a victim on the internet in the hopes of getting an ID.

In June 2015, Jane Doe’s case was officially reopened, which led to another exhumation in December 2016 in the hopes of conducting isotope and additional DNA testing. Unfortunately, when investigators opened the casket, they found it filled with water, which had caused bacterial degradation to occur. Despite this, they are able to get enough DNA for the FBI to process. There have been no updates regarding the status of the isotope testing.

DETAILS:
Jane Doe is described as white, and is estimated to have been born between 1955 and 1967. Investigators have shared she was likely between the ages of 13 to 25, with recent estimates narrowing that range to between 17 and 19 years of age. She is believed to have stood at 5’2″, although estimates have put her anywhere between 5’0″ and 5’4″, and weighed approximately 103 pounds. Her light brown-to-blonde shoulder-length hair is described as feathery in texture, and her eyes have been described as blue in colour. However, descriptions have also listed them as being green or hazel.

She wasn’t wearing any clothing when found. Her ears were pierced, and her nails were trimmed with a silver-coloured nail polish. She is described as having been a non-smoker, and the examination of the body showed the possibility that she’d fractured her jaw at one point in her life. She had a vaccine scar on her left bicep and a small birthmark on the lower-left side of her back.

One of the most notable things about Jane Doe is a 1/2″ by 1/4″ tattoo on the inner portion of her right forearm. It appears to be amateurish and homemade, and is believed to be either the letter “S” or the number “5”. It appeared to have been done not long before she was killed.

Jane Doe is not believed to have lived an impoverished life when alive, given the amount of dental care she’d received. She had fillings in six of her eight molars, and all four of her wisdom teeth were present and impacted. An eye hook ligature was found on one of her bottom teeth, most likely placed there as a spacer, indicating she’d possibly began orthodontic treatment that had never been completed, and she’d had a unique dental procedure done to straighten one of her teeth, called a “suture”. This procedure was rarely done in the early 1980s.

A piece of yellow or orange shower curtain was found near the body.

It’s appears Jane Doe was not from the Las Vegas area. Investigators have theorized she may have been travelling from either California or Arizona to the city.

This article also includes: theories, a rule out list with 32 rule outs, including:
- Mary Frances Gregory, who went missing from Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada on February 18, 1978
- Ellen Rouse, who went missing from Vancouver, Canada sometime in 1975/found alive fyi and
- Mary Leah Rodermund, who went missing from Morgan City, Louisiana on March 2, 1978 and the one I still thought was a possibility) and contact information.

Thanks for finding the article.


Like many UID cases that I've seen, I think that this was most likely some sort of domestic violence. I feel like she may have left or ran way from home to live with a person or people who ended up being abusive.

If ends up being on the older age of the estimate, it isn't too surprising that she was (most likely, in my opinion) never reported missing, as whoever killed her could have easily said that she had just run off, and nobody would really question it. I'm leaning more towards her being a teenager, though, based on the reconstructions and the crude tattoo that she had recently gotten.

On the topic of the tattoo, I've also heard people saying that the tattoo could have been a "brand" tattoo, a special type of tattoo used by pimps to mark their trafficking victims.

Agree, it was either domestic violence or a woman that was extremely pissed off at Arroyo for some reason.
 
Hello everyone! Does anyone know if anything came up from Khymberly's possible ID as JD?
 

Members online

Online statistics

Members online
74
Guests online
811
Total visitors
885

Forum statistics

Threads
589,923
Messages
17,927,720
Members
228,002
Latest member
zipperoni
Back
Top