FL FL - Mary Ann Lambert, 21, Pompano Beach, 13 Sept 1983

This woman has been identified! :clap:

http://doenetwork.org/cases/553uffl.html

http://www.wftv.com/news/16989512/detail.html

The only thing that gets me is why didn't anyone claim she was missing. I didn't find her in any missing persons reports.

Body Identified After 26 Years

Brother Recognizes Sister's Picture Online

POSTED: Monday, August 3, 2009
UPDATED: 1:48 pm EDT August 3, 2009


POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- A body found in a Pompano Beach field 26 years ago was finally identified when a family member found her picture on a Broward Sheriff's Office web page featuring unidentified victims.

The woman, who had a homemade Playboy bunny tattoo on her abdomen, remained completely unidentified until 2008. According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, investigators resubmitted four partial fingerprints to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's latent section, which identified the woman as Tina Moore.

Moore was arrested in Broward County in the early 1980s, and detectives knew she had an alias of Mary Ann Lambert. Police said she never gave them next-of-kin information and was never reported as a missing person. BSO posted her picture and information on its "Found & Forgotten" page in the hope that someone could identify her family.

More at link:
http://www.justnews.com/news/20265610/detail.html

In 1983, a female body was found in a vacant field in Pompano Beach. But no family had reported the woman missing. It wasn't till 2008 that the fingerprints were matched to those of a young woman who had multiple arrests in Broward County: Tina Moore. Or at least that was the name she had given police, who also documented an alias, Mary Ann Lambert. And that turned out to be her actual name, according to a release by the Broward Sheriff's Office.

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Detectives now know Lambert lived at 1811 N.W. 2nd Terr., Pompano Beach, seven blocks away from where her body was found, and that she also associated with two adult dancers at a gentlemen's club called Cheetah III in Pompano Beach. One had a stage name of "Snow" and the other was "Dawn." Mary Lambert and Dawn may have shared an apartment in Lighthouse Point.

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/family-claims-body-of-1983-murder-victim-6448971

Never reported missing.

:woohoo: A family gets answers today! I am so glad her brother happened to be looking online!

I think this is one reason so many people are still unidentified. Family members, for whatever reason, fail to report their loved ones missing. RIP Tina, I am glad that you finally have your name back.

Rest in Peace Tina. Prayers for your family.

Her killer could have been from anywhere. The small airport Pompano Beach Airport is typically used by business people and private pilots. The bigger airport, Ft. Lauderdale, sees a lot of traffic, even back then. I doubt anyone from Tampa / Hillsborough County would come over to the east coast to murder her. You never know tho.

MURDERED WOMAN FOUND ON WEBSITE

Police, however, knew her as Tina Moore, 22, an exotic dancer who in September 1983 was found raped and murdered in a field near an airport in the 1800 block of Northeast Fifth Avenue in Pompano Beach. Police knew she sometimes went by Mary Ann Lambert, but thought it was fake.

Lambert's mother Catherine moved with her from New York to Pompano Beach in the early '80s after Lambert's father died.

But Lambert, blonde and pretty, continued on a reckless path, traveling between Florida and New York. She was arrested for burglary in Hillsborough County and for prostitution in Broward. The 5-foot-7, 130-pound woman danced at the Cheetah III club in Pompano Beach.

When police found her body she had been dead for three days. Investigators would not release the cause of death. All they had to go on was her three silver earrings - a three-leaf clover, mushroom and horseshoe - and the tattoo of a Playboy bunny on her abdomen.

I wonder what Snow and Dawn said about Mary Ann if they were interrogated. Maybe clients of the Cheetah III were also interrogated?