WA WA - Celia Victor, 26, Seattle, Nov 1988

According to the FBI, Sacramento may hold the best clue to the woman's true identity. In 1977, an FBI number was issued after an arrest by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department on Feb. 4. The number was used to track the woman's fingerprints. The number was issued to Brenda N. O'Neil, who said at the time she was born on April 27, 1958.

She told police she lived in Sacramento and listed an alias of Brenda Victor on her booking sheet. The name Brenda O'Neil may also be an alias. She may have also used an alias of Rita Lang, who was arrested multiple times in Washington. Police have linked the woman to arrests in California, Arizona and Washington.

She may have used the name Sherri Marie Edwards while in the Central Valley.

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shadowdancer said:

This is an interesting case. We have TWO unidentified persons here, although they are strongly believed to be one and the same.

'Rita Lang' is/was the last known alias of a woman who was arrested and jailed on many occasions for drugs and prostitution between 1977 and 1988. She used various different names (Brenda O'Neil, Sheri Edwards, Janet Dee, Rita Lang), but fingerprints showed that these were all the same person.

In 1988 (September 1st) she got out of jail for the last time and was never heard of again. In November 1988 she failed to show up in court on drug charges. They still don't know her true identity.

Here is her Namus page - https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/23748/9/

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This UID was found a year later. Namus says October 13th 1989, Doe Network says October 3rd 1989. She had been murdered. The investigators strongly believe that she is 'Rita Lang', but they cannot prove it because they have no DNA or dentals for 'Rita'.

The UID had been dead for about a year and is possibly a victim of the Green River Killer.

Here are her Namus and Doe Network pages -

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/11887

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/454ufwa.html


And here is a great article and video which gives more information about 'Rita Lang', the UID and the links between the two. http://catchwmw.com/2014/02/14/who-...-to-solving-possible-green-river-killer-case/

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Nearly a year later, skeletal remains were found by some construction workers in King County. The remains went unidentified until very recently. Through bone reconstruction and sketches, forensic detectives were able to figure out who it was. It was the woman who called herself "Rita Lang."

Investigators distributed her picture to the media, hoping the public would help find her real name and where her family lives and who might have killed her.

The picture made its way back to Sacramento, where Arlene Seuell lives.

Seuell was sure the woman was her sister, and DNA testing later confirmed that.

The woman's real name was Celia Victor.

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JusticeWillBeServed said:

Murder victim found in Washington identified decades later

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/02/18/murder-victim-found-in-washington-identified-decades-later/21314900/



Celia Victor murder: DNA leads to big breakthrough, real name of woman killed in 1988

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Vasquez credits social media with solving the mystery of her sister’s identity...

Saturday’s memorial service is open to the public, and Seuell and Vasquez invite people who may be searching for missing loved ones to attend. The service will include a presentation on what they have learned in the last year, not only in identifying the Seattle homicide victim as their sister, but also in working to find Victor’s children.

The service is scheduled from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at Church of the Sovereign God, 3232 51st Ave., Sacramento.

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Rodney Blockton II didn’t know his mother, Celia Victor, well as a child – but remembers her warm and cheerful phone calls. When he was 9 or 10, they suddenly stopped coming, he said. No one knew why.

“I was always wondering what had happened – it was unusual,” he said Saturday, standing near the flower-covered altar at his mother’s memorial. “I was glad to get some closure, to find out that she didn’t leave me”...

On Saturday, the white-walled Church of the Sovereign God in south Sacramento was packed with loved ones in flowered headbands and luau necklaces, a tribute to Victor’s Hawaiian heritage and her middle name Nalei, meaning flower.

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