Identified! AZ - Phoenix, WhtFem, 35-50, @ 43rd & Baseline Rd, Apr'04 - Ginger Bibb

The Doe Network:
Case File 538UFAZ http://doenetwork.org/cases/538ufaz.html
Namus UP2017 https://identifyus.org/en/cases/2017


Reconstruction of Victim

Unidentified White Female

The victim was discovered on April 21, 2004 in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
Estimated Date of Death: up to one year prior to being found.

Vital Statistics


Case History
The victim was located on the side of the road near 43rd Avenue and Baseline Road in Phoenix, Arizona on April 21, 2004.


Victim's Watch & Glasses

I've been trying to identify this Jane Doe from Phoenix (I couldn't find a dedicated thread to her), and saw a striking similarity to Jerri Denise Cox. What do you think?

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/2017
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/cox_jerri.html

DDP pending case! At lab for QC/sequencing

Identified as Ginger Lynn Bibb. Addresses include Ft. Worth/Dallas area in TX, North Lauderdale/Pompano Beach in FL, and Glendale. Relation, probably sister Connie in Glendale, AZ, where Ginger was last listed as residing. Probably the Ginger Bibb who is listed as 1976 grad of Perryton HS in TX. Never reported missing, as far as I can find.

Having seen the living picture of Ginger I have to say the recons aren't great. Remains were likely skeletal or nearly skeletal (PMI 'up to one year prior') so I'll forgive the nose being totally off, but not a lot about the recons seems to match. The larger forehead on the one recon is more accurate and I suppose she's smiling wide in the living picture of her so it's hard to compare face shapes. She also seems to have had a more masculine appearance in life which the artist had no way of knowing.

It was said there was unrelated, healing trauma to her face and throat that occurred prior to her death. Domestic abuse? She was found in rolled up carpet. I can't access any of the websites for info as they're not available in my country.

Phoenix PD turns to genetic genealogy to ID victim in 2004 cold case


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The Phoenix Police Department teamed up with the DNA Doe Project (DDP) to use genetic genealogy to identify a woman whose body was found in west Phoenix in 2004. Ginger Lynn Bibb has been known only as Jane Doe for almost 16 years. Because police could not identify Bibb, her case went cold.

Police said Bibb’s body was found near 43rd Avenue and Baseline Road on April 21, 2004. According to DDP, an ROTC cleanup crew discovered a rolled-up carpet on the side of the road. Skeletal remains were inside. At the time, very little information was available.
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Fast-forward 15 years to April 2019. Detective Stuart Somershoe of the Phoenix Police Department’s Missing and Unidentified Persons Unit enlisted DDP and its team of volunteer genetic genealogists. Less than 48 hours later, they had a lead from the GEDmatch database
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“Ginger’s DNA matches were not very close, but our team was lucky and found a link between families which helped us to solve her case quickly,” DDP team leader Cairenn Binder explained in a news release. Somershoe contacted Bibb’s family, and they agreed to take part in DNA testing. Those results confirmed what DDP, which is a nonprofit organization “whose mission is to identify John and Jane Does and return them to their families” suspected. The remains were those of Bibb. She is one of more than two dozen people DDP has successfully identified.

Phoenix PD turns to genetic genealogy to ID victim in 2004 cold case

Announcement on DNA Doe Project FB page:

DNA Doe Project Case Announcement: Phoenix Jane Doe 2004 (AZ)

Status: IDENTIFIED

Phoenix, AZ – February 3, 2020 – The DNA Doe Project (DDP), working with the Phoenix Police Department (PPD), has identified a previously unnamed middle-aged female whose remains were found on April 21, 2004 in a rolled-up carpet near 43rd Avenue and Baseline Road in Phoenix as Ginger Lynn Bibb. Attempts by PPD to identify her via fingerprints were unsuccessful, and the case went cold.
In April 2019 Det. Stuart Somershoe of PPD contacted the DNA Doe Project. DDP received the autosomal SNP profile in September 2019. Using the genetic genealogy database GEDmatch and an extensive search of available records, DDP’s team of volunteer genetic genealogists developed Bibb as a likely candidate within a day and a half.

As Cairenn Binder, the team leader for the case, explained, “Ginger’s DNA matches were not very close, but our team was lucky and found a link between families which helped us to solve her case quickly.”

Several weeks later Det. Somershoe contacted the victim’s family who agreed to submit DNA for testing. In January 2020 the test results confirmed the Phoenix Jane Doe as Ginger Lynn Bibb.

Image Credits: Stephen Missal Photo courtesy Phoenix Police Department

DDP wishes to acknowledge the groups and individuals who helped solve this case: Det. Stuart Somershoe and the Phoenix Police Department, who entrusted the case to us; Investigator Christen Eggers of the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office; Bode Cellmark Forensics, Inc., who performed the DNA extraction; HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology who completed the sequencing; Dr. Gregory Magoon, Senior Research Engineer, Aerodyne Research Corp. (contracting through Full Genomes Corp.) for his bioinformatics work; GEDmatch for providing their database; and the DNA Doe Project’s team of talented volunteers.

Det. Somershoe suggests that anyone with tips regarding this case can contact Silent Witness, http://www.silentwitness.org .



Direct link to announcement - DNA Doe Project

Kudos to the DDP. These identifications are starting to become more frequent these days.

According to the US Public Records Index, Ginger L Bibb was born on May 7, 1958 and has residence listings in Texas. Her mother died in 2016, with the obituary listing Ginger as living in Glendale, Az; her father seems to still be living. RIP.

Apache Junction Jane Doe is their only remaining case from Arizona.
Phoenix has dozens of Does on NamUs.
I quite like Stephen Missal's sketches. They are very visually pleasing.

RIP Ginger.

Here’s a timeline thanks to one of my Best Friends (she is a literal timeline genius and did them for fun )

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GINGER LYNN BIBB

MAY 7, 1958: GINGER IS BORN

MAY 1976: GINGER GRADUATES FROM PERRYTON HS

MARCH 1993 - NOVEMBER 1996: GINGER IS IN IRVING, TEXAS

NOVEMBER 1996 - FEBRUARY 2001: GINGER IS IN DALLAS, TEXAS

FEBRUARY 2001 - c. 2003 GINGER IS IN GLENDALE, ARIZONA

APRIL 21, 2004: GINGER’S REMAINS ARE FOUND IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA
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Hey, can we get a mod to put the header to IDENTIFIED- Ginger Bibb?

leilarose68 said:

Hey, can we get a mod to put the header to IDENTIFIED- Ginger Bibb?

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I sent a request

Roselvr said:

I sent a request

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Hmm, they never changed the header.

I messaged Carl. Hate to bother him because he's busy

leilarose68 said:

Hmm, they never changed the header.

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It's fixed.

Welp, I read some of Ginger’s court records... yikes. Ginger was a narcotics user and has many court orders against her. She had been summoned many times and also had a attest warrant filed against her.

TmmEye said:

Welp, I read some of Ginger’s court records... yikes. Ginger was a narcotics user and has many court orders against her. She had been summoned many times and also had a attest warrant filed against her.

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She has one case that seems to involve possession of a small amount of pot and two different narcotics, one of which according to the complaint is Tylenol 3. The charges are entered as three separate entries despite all seeming to have originated in a single arrest on the same day. All seem to have been dismissed. I also see a bunch of moving violations.

The bench warrant you mention was issued shortly before a mental health exam, and doesn't seem to be related to the charges mentioned above.

Welp.

Unfortunately, it appears that Ginger was murdered http://www.silentwitness.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2004-1742-PHOTO-FLYER-1.jpg