Ok, I'm breaking silence. I'm the "local woman" from the article a moderator posted about on the first page. I ask you all to not look for the article, which Google has thankfully buried, because I don't want my name associated with this post.
The reason you guys cannot find anything out about this case is that almost nothing of it exists on the internet. For whatever reason, this case received very minimal press - it was not even mentioned in the Los Angeles Times. The Department of Coroner has most of the case file on this Jane. She died in an accident on the 101 freeway, but the California Highway Patrol has since destroyed all papers on the file. The DMV has also destroyed most documents related to the Galant, the car she died in. So this is very precarious.
The reason the car cannot be traced to the Jane Doe is because the owner claims to have not owned the car and says he has no idea who she is, and that story has not been properly verified. A domestic missing persons report to match Jane Doe has never been located, although I did locate a missing persons report in Korea that is very close.
I have been very, very quiet about this because it is very delicate. It's hard to investigate something like this as a member of the public. People assume you want attention. The last thing I want is attention. Doing that interview was probably a mistake, but they offered a Korean speaking translator that I needed - that was the first time I tried to do the interview with the owner of the car, but it did not resolve. That was almost four years ago.
However, I've reached a bit of a problem. The Cororner's office is overloaded, and despite Inv. Machian telling me my data I've turned in to him is valid and it warrants a new visit to the man who owned the car, he has not done so in three years. I get it. He's working triple case loads. But Jane's case is running out of time. Combined with the documents being destroyed and the persons of interest reaching senior years, the interviews need to get done now.
I have been speaking with a Korean-speaking police officer who works as a PI. The PI firm has an excellent reputation. There are not very many Korean speaking PIs in LA, oddly enough, especially ex-cops, so I don't have a lot of options. They are requiring a $1200 retainer, and the unused portion will be refunded. I can't really afford this right now. I don't know how to crowdsource this without attracting the attention of wildcards on the internet, and I was hoping you guys had suggestions.
I'd be happy to provide any details to the moderators if they would let me do a , but the most intimate details of this case are going to stay with me. I will say though, her death was instant. Jane was not wearing her seatbelt, and died of a broken neck as a result of the collision. She was dead before the fire and did not suffer.
