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Unidentified White Female
* Located on December 9, 1999 in the Forest Preserve in Lake County, Illinois.
* Cause of death was multiple injuries. Manner of death is homicide. Authorities believe she was killed within 24 hours of when her body was found.
Vital Statistics
* Estimated age: 25 - 35 years old
* Approximate Height and Weight: 4'9" (145 cm.); 90 lbs. (41 kg.)
* Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair; blue eyes. She had short, recently dyed brown hair with a wide shaved section above her ears. She had partially shaved eyebrows. She had pierced ears, which had been closed. She had no distinguishing piercings or tattoos.
* Dentals: She had prominent gaps between her teeth. Dental chart available.
* Clothing: She was wearing a blue and white striped hooded pullover shirt and an old pair of dark blue sweatpants. Her feet were bare and her toenails were partly painted with green polish.
Vital Statistics
The victim was located on December 9, 1999 in the Forest Preserve in Lake County, Illinois. She was disfigured by a severe beating that led to her death. She may have been a transient from another country, possibly somewhere in Europe, based on dental work that didn't appear to have been done in the U.S.
Investigators quickly zeroed in on Jason Strong, who lived at the Motor Inn Motel near U.S. Highway 41 and Illinois Highway 173 in unincorporated Lake County and worked at a nearby adult bookstore. Strong was sentenced in May 2001 to 46 years in prison for the murder. Authorities believe Strong killed the woman soon after he met her walking on the roadside and invited her to his motel room in December 1999. Two other men--Jason Johnson, and Jeremy Tweedy, --worked with Strong at the bookstore and lived at the motel located between Zion and Wadsworth. Tweedy was sentenced in July 2000 to 2 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. Johnson was sentenced to 3 years in prison in September 2000 after pleading guilty to concealing a homicide.
One of the men told police they discarded the woman's identification in a garbage bin at the motel. Police traced the contents of the can to a garbage dump about 10 football fields long, where they abandoned the search. In trying to identify the woman, police enlisted the help of the FBI and ran her photo and fingerprints through missing-persons databases, but there were no matches.