Well, according to
post #1, one of Dutchess Doe's identifiers are
So if
this head didn't match up, at least
another did?
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Anyway, I found some newspaper clippings from when Jane Doe was found in March 1980:
"Police are seeking assistance in identifying the headless and handless body of a woman found last week in Fishkill, jammed into a steamer trunk that has been traced to Greenwich Village. Police said the body had been virtually drained of blood and that the head and hands apparently were severed to prevent identification. The body was found March 20 at the Hudson View Park apartment complex in Fishkill. police said last night They said they believe the woman was slain two days earlier. The woman was described as about 25 years old, 5-feet-5, weighing 140 pounds and with dark brown hair. "The shoe size is interesting." one state police detective said, "4 to 5. That's small for a woman that size." Police said the nude body was "very clean." The trunk was traced to a Greenwich Village resident, who told police that she had lost track of it in 1960. It bore a shield-shaped travel sticker of the French Line vessel Flandre and had been used in a transatlantic crossing from New York to Le Havre, France, in 1953. It also bore Cunard Line stickers pasted on for the return trip. Police said the trunk is 21 inches wide, 37 inches long and 14 inches deep. It has a blue fabric lining with no design and was in good condition. Police requested anyone with information on the woman or the trunk to call (212) 298-5000 Ext 268 or 212 in New York or (914) 896-6242 or (914) 677-6321 in Westchester. All information will be kept confidential. It was the second case involving headless, handless bodies in the New York metropolitan area in the past four months. The torsos of two women were . found last December in a Times Square motel. One was later identified as a Trenton, N.J., woman with a police record as a prostitute."
fishkill jane doe - Newspapers.com
"State police concentrated on an old steamer trunk Friday in hopes of finding clues Into the bizarre murder of a woman whose headless body was found Thursday Inside the trunk at an apartment complex here. The nude body, which was also missing both hands, was discovered by two maintenance workers at the Hudson View Park apartments off Route 9D. The woman was described as being In her mid - 20s, about S - foot - S and 135 pounds but but without the head or hands, police have been stymied In their attempts to identify her. Police said the body has no birthmarks or other unusual markings which would help them determine the dead woman's identity But Senior Investigator Roger Fairchiled of the state police Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Fishkill, said he hoped that police could learn more about the trunk in which the body was found. If police can confirm where the trunk was purchased or where it has been recently, he explained, it will help them narrow the scope of their investigation of the murder. The trunk bears stickers of the Cunard and Flandre steamship lines, as well as another sticker which is difficult to read. The trunk is dark green with brass fixtures, black vinyl edging and black leather handles. Meanwhile, police are currently checking hundreds of missing persons reports "up and down the eastern seaboard," Falrchild said."
fishkill jane doe - Newspapers.com
"The headless nude body of a young woman was found crammed into a steamer trunk at an apartment complex here Thursday and state police investiga tors said today they still don t know who she is or why she was murdered The body which was also missing both hands was discovered at 1 30 p m by a maintenance worker at the Hudson View , apartment complex off Route 9D accord ing to Senior Investigator Roger Fair - child The victim was described as a while female between 21 and 25 years old about 5 feet 5 inches tall and about 135 pounds Police said her shoe size was 41 2 or 5 she wore size 12 or 14 clothes, had a 26 - inch waist, wore a size 34B bra, and had type O negative blood Hundreds of missing person reports from throughout the eastern seaboard were ,being checked by authorities today to see how many match the description "We're running them all down," Fair - child said, "but we don't have anything definite yet " Police also were trying to trace the steamer trunk The time of death was established as sometime on Tuesday, and authorities said a sharp instrument was used to sever the head and hands The cuts were done carefully, police said, but not surgically."
fishkill jane doe - Newspapers.com
"The body was examined at the scene by Dutchess County Medical Examiner Dr John Supple and was removed to Vassar Hospital in Poughkeepsie Dr Francis McMahon performed an autopsy on Thursday evening. Fairchild said but the cause of death was not immediately clear As soon as arrangements were made to transport the body to the hospital for the autopsy investiga tors and troopers at the scene combed the woods near the apartment complex in a fruitless search for the woman s head and hands Without the head or hands, identifi cation of a body is difficult because police cannot rely on dental charts or fingerprints Fairchild said today that the inves tigation has not revealed whether the woman was killed somewhere else and transported here or whether the murder was committed nearby He said bodies of people who have been murdered in New York City or New Jersey have sometimes been found dumped in fields or along roads in the Hudson Valley But others at the scene questioned why someone transporting a body from another area would have cho sen to drive into a parking lot of an apartment complex to dump the trunk "If it's just a question of dumping a body " one investigator at the scene reasoned, 'why not just dump it in the (Hudson) river just down the road'' ' Fairchild said investigators planned to question everyone in the 506 unit apartment complex to find out if anyone saw or heard the steamer trunk being dumped Maintenance workers were picking up trash near a large recepticle for garbage in the parking lot of one of the buildings when they spotted the large, dark green steamer trunk, Fairchild said When one of the workers tried to move the trunk and discovered that it was heavy, the maintenance man then opened it and found the body "We were on our rounds when we saw the box,' said Thomas Newman one of the workers He said there was blood on the out side of the trunk, and it appeared the trunk had been previously tampered with, because there was tape around the seams, and some of the tape had been pulled off "Someone else had been there before us," he said, adding the trunk was not there when he and Stanley 0 Dell, the other maintenance worker, made their rounds on Tuesday Newman said he had nightmares Thursday "I woke up in the middle of the njght and I saw the white thing with no head." he said Fairchild asked that anyone with any information about the murder or the young woman's identity contact state police at Fishkil! at 896 - 6242 All information received will remain confidential and anonymous tips are encouraged, Fairchild said Maj Joseph Leary, commander of Troop K, was in charge of Thursday s investigatigation."
fishkill jane doe - Newspapers.com
There were several female UIDs found in southern New York during the 70s - early 80s time frame. They were decapitated and their hands were also missing, like
Greenwood Lake Jane Doe.
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