Identified! CA - Sacramento, BlkFem 328UFCA, 16-30, burned in dumpster, Jun'01 - Parrean Gray

[future criminologist]

I don't know what condition her teeth were in, but has Erin Pospisil been ruled out?

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/pospisil_erin.html

 

[zinc]

The Doe Network: Case File 328UFCA
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/328ufca.html

Unidentified White Female

• The victim was discovered on June 29, 2001 in an industrial area off 18th Avenue and Power Inn Road in Sacramento, California.
• Cause of death is from a fire. Remains were badly burned.

Vital Statistics

• Estimated age: 16-25 years old
• Approximate Height and Weight: 5’0" - 5'6"; 90 lbs.
• Distinguishing Characteristics: Dark hair; Dark eyes. Light complexion. Thin to average build. The victim has had a broken nose in the past.
• Dentals: Available. The victim had no dental cavities and her teeth were very well cared for. All teeth have had plastic sealants applied. She had porcelain caps on her teeth. The victim is missing all of the first bicuspids, #5, #12, #21, and #28. She has had orthodontics or preparation for orthodontics and all four of her wisdom teeth are present. The lower wisdom teeth are not fully erupted.
• Clothing: Victim may have been wearing "Structure" brand jeans or jean jacket.
• Other: DNA available

Case History
The victim was found in a burning trash dumpster on June 29, 2001 in Sacramento, California. The victim's hair color and style along with her eye color are unknown. Viewers of the reconstruction are asked to concentrate on the teeth which are real and very well cared for.
The victim may have been wrapped or carried in a comforter.
It was reported that, just prior to the fire, a Seventies-era, orange Datsun 240Z or 260Z with a primer gray left front fender was seen in the area.

Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Sacramento Police Department
916-264-5471
Investigator Greg Wyatt
Email

or

Sacramento County Coroner's Office
916-874-9320
or
Detective Dick Woods
Detective John Kingsbury
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.
Coroner Case Number:
01-3041
NCIC Number:
U-990002866
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

 

[zinc]

Jane Doe is an unidentified young white female, 16-25 years old, whose burning body was found in a dumpster in Sacramento in the early morning on June 29, 2001. Soot deposits in her lungs indicate that she was alive while being burnt.

She appears to have been wearing trendy jeans. Her teeth were well cared-for, with sealants (applied when she was young?) and evidence of long-term orthodontic work.

Sacramento News & Review: Meet Jane Doe
Seven years ago, someone set fire to you in a dumpster and left you to burn. We still don’t know who you were.
April 3, 2008
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=646622

Sacramento County Unidentified Deceased Persons Case #01-3041
The following link contains forensic sketches and sculptures.
http://coroner.saccounty.net/unID-01-3041.htm

Doe Network Case File 328UFCA
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/328ufca.html

NamUs UP Case Number: 2367
ME/C Case Number: 13041
https://identifyus.org/cases/2367

 

[CarlK90245]

I was looking at Alissa Marie Turney of Phoenix AZ, and found that she has been ruled-out.

Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - AZ-Alissa Marie Turney -Missing-Phoenix, AZ 5/17/01

Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - AZ-Alissa Marie Turney -Missing-Phoenix, AZ 5/17/01

Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - AZ-Alissa Marie Turney -Missing-Phoenix, AZ 5/17/01

 

[not_my_kids]

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/328ufca.html
Updated Doe network link. Still unidentified.

No NAMUS profile that I could find by searching their database.

She is listed here:
http://ag.ca.gov/missing/unident.php

 

[zinc]

I also posted about this case a while back. She does have an entry in NamUs, given below.

CA CA - Unidentified white female, age 16-25, Sacramento - found June 2001 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

Jane Doe is an unidentified young white female, 16-25 years old, whose burning body was found in a dumpster in Sacramento in the early morning on June 29, 2001. Soot deposits in her lungs indicate that she was alive while being burnt.

She appears to have been wearing trendy jeans. Her teeth were well cared-for, with sealants (applied when she was young?) and evidence of long-term orthodontic work.

Sacramento News & Review: Meet Jane Doe
Seven years ago, someone set fire to you in a dumpster and left you to burn. We still don’t know who you were.
April 3, 2008
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=646622

Sacramento County Unidentified Deceased Persons Case #01-3041
The following link contains forensic sketches and sculptures.
http://coroner.saccounty.net/unID-01-3041.htm

Doe Network Case File 328UFCA
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/328ufca.html

NamUs UP Case Number: 2367
ME/C Case Number: 13041
https://identifyus.org/cases/2367

 

[jodierenee]

bumping for this Jane Doe.

 

[SeeMamaRun]

Where can I find rule outs for this UID? There aren't any listed on NamUs but I see up thread that at least one person has been ruled out.

TIA

 

[RCaldwell]

What about Diana Loewen
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/17310/4

 

[rcoope23]

Namus profile is here- Not much on it though https://identifyus.org/en/cases/2367
I have submitted Erin Pospisil as a possibility for this one. She is one year younger than the estimate but everything else matches up perfectly.
Erin Kay Pospisil

Missing Person

Case Type: Endangered / Missing
Age at Report: 15 YOA
DOB: April 14, 1986
Sex: Female
Race: White
Weight: 130 lbs.
Height: 5′ 03″
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Missing From: Cedar Rapids, IA
Linn County
NCMEC #: NCMC-919997
Missing Since: June 3, 2001

Case summary compiled by Jody Ewing

Erin Pospisil was reported missing to the Cedar Rapids Police Department on June 3, 2001.

Gazette article
The Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 1, 2009

The [then] 15-year-old was last seen at a friend’s home in the 100 block of 12th Street SE on late Sunday, June 3, 2001, getting into a dark-colored Chevrolet Cavalier with tinted rear windows. Friends said they didn’t recognize the car, but that Erin seemed to know the people inside and went with them willingly.

According to “Curtis” — a friend of Erin’s older brother — he was leaving the Pospisil home at the same time as Erin and agreed to give her a ride to her friend Brit’s home, where Erin and Brit planned to watch movies or go to the movie theater.

When they arrived at Brit’s house at 8:45 p.m., no one answered the door. As Erin walked back to Curtis’s truck, a dark-colored Chevrolet Cavalier with tinted rear windows pulled up to the curb. Erin went up to the car and had a short conversation with someone in the vehicle. She then told Curtis, “These guys will give me a ride,” and got into the Cavalier’s back seat.

No one has seen nor heard from her since.

Age progressed photo
Erin Pospisil age-progressed to how she might look at age 23. (Courtesy Iowa Dept. of Public Safety)

Erin — a freshman at Metro High School — lived with her father and stepmother, Jim and Carolyn Pospisil, and three siblings when she disappeared. The family distributed fliers and posted billboards with Erin’s photo and description, to no effect beyond a few tips that proved unfounded.

Erin has a small scar above one eye and had red highlights in her hair at the time she disappeared. She was last seen wearing a light-colored tank top and beige overall shorts.

In a KCRG TV-9 story that aired May 7, 2013, Erin’s grandparents, Joan and Doug Minney of Cedar Rapids, said they continue to hold out hope for Erin’s return. The family created the website HelpFindAChild.org and update it regularly with hopes Erin will one day come home.

The recent discovery of three missing women in Cleveland gave the Minneys a glimmer of hope.

“Our daughter called us and said ‘you are not going to believe this,’” Doug Minney told KCRG. “We got on the internet right away.”

Joan Minney empathized with the three women’s families. “Just knowing what those families had to be feeling, that they never gave up hope and now they have their children back … that’s what we pray every day,” she said.

Tuesday morning, May 7, Doug Minney passed out more than a hundred small missing persons cards.

“People think it will get easier; I think it gets harder,” Joan Minney told KCRG. “I know someday I’ll know where she is and all that happened, but I just want it to be today.”

On Saturday, May 25, 2013 — National Missing Children’s Day — Erin Pospisil’s family and friends gathered in Jones Park for a balloon launch to remember Erin. Despite the cold and rainy weather, the event — the 10th since Erin disappeared — went forward as planned, though those in attendance took the balloons home to release at a later date.

Jim and Carolyn Pospisil told KWWL the gathering also honored other missing children, all of whom they hoped would one day safely return home.
http://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/erin-pospisil/

Dentals are available so it should be an easy rule out.

 

[rcoope23]

Here is a side by side of Erin and the UID...

 

[The Cheese]

FBI Most Wanted • Seeking Information
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info

JANE DOE
Murder Victim
Sacramento, California
June 29, 2001

This link has 5 photos of facial reconstruction using victim's skull and teeth, and 1 photo of the comforter in which she may have been wrapped:
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/jane-doe-2/person_view_multimedia#images

This link has a poster with the following information, and 4 of the reconstruction photos at the previous link:
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/jane-doe-2/view

Seeking Information
Murder Victim
Sacramento, California
June 29, 2001
JANE DOE

DESCRIPTION
Age: Late Teens or Early 20s
Height: Approximately 5'0"
Build: Thin
Hair: Dark
Eyes: Dark
Sex: Female
Race: White

Remarks:
The victim may have been wrapped or carried in a comforter (see additional images). Her teeth were very well cared for in that there were no dental fillings, plastic/composite sealants were applied to the teeth, and all four anterior premolars were missing. In the past, the victim had a broken nose. She may have been wearing "Structure" brand jeans at the time of her death.

DETAILS
On June 29, 2001, at approximately 4:45 a.m., the Sacramento, California, Fire Department responded to a possible structure fire in the area of 14th Avenue and Power Inn Road. Upon arrival, firefighters located a dumpster fire just west of Power Inn Road. After extinguishing the fire, the remains of a badly burned female were found. The victim's cause of death was ruled to be acute thermal injury, which means that the victim was alive while the fire was burning and there were soot deposits throughout her upper and lower respiratory tracts. The victim remains unidentified.

It was reported that, just prior to the fire, a Seventies-era, orange Datsun 240Z or 260Z with a primer gray left front fender was seen in the area.

If you have any information concerning this person, please contact your local FBI office or the nearest American Embassy or Consulate.

Field Office: Sacramento

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/jane-doe-2/view

 

[Oblio]

Sigh, still nothing?

 

[gayeld]

I read on Namus that the victim's fingerprints are on file and available, which probably rules out a known prostitute like Angelina Evans, BUT the dump site is about a five minute drive from Stockton and Fruitridge (which has pretty much always been a prostitution/drug area.)

 

[Ambercat]

The circumstances and description of the victim reminded me of another unidentified slim young woman who was found burned in a trash can in Garden Grove (Orange County), CA about 15 years earlier.

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/7657
http://ocsd.org/divisions/prof/coroner/ud/jane/8602061kg

I wonder if they are connected or the similarities are just a coincidence?

 

[zinc]

For what seems like ages now, whenever I come back to this UID, I have a mental image of her as a black/non-white female despite the Sacramento Jane Doe's having originally been described as white. (Sources now specify race unknown for Sacramento Jane Doe. Also, her upper age bound has been raised, to up to age 30.)

Eventually I realized I was doing that because of the orange 1970s-era Datsun 240Z or 260Z that was seen near the Sacramento Jane Doe's body dump site. I kept unthinkingly associating it with the similar-looking orange 1970s-era Ford Pinto that the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer (Lonnie David Franklin, Jr.) was reported by a 1988 surviving victim to have driven.



Lonnie David Franklin, Jr. targeted black females around South Los Angeles during 1980–2010. He was a frequent client of sex workers; most of his victims were not sex workers, but many used hard drugs or had otherwise high-risk lifestyles. He committed most of his homicides with a .25-caliber pistol but also used methods like strangulation. There is a lengthy break between the survivor escape in 1988 and his next definite victim, a 14-year-old girl who died in 2002. However, apart from 10 publicized known victims, Mr. Franklin has strong links to at least 6 other Los Angeles homicides. A few occurred during the 1988–2002 gap.

I have the impression that orange was not that rare a color for those little 1970s hatchbacks, and Sacramento is quite a ways from Los Angeles. It's unlikely that Sacramento Jane Doe has any connection to Lonnie Franklin. Still, little bit of a coincidence for an orange 1970s Pinto-like car to be associated with a woman dumped 5 minutes from a prostitution track.

 

[grateful1]

It says she was wearing Structure brand jeans. Structure was a Men's line of clothing, that was a branch off of Express/Limited brands. (it was later sold to Sears in 2003)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express,_Inc.

 

[tatertot]

Has LE ever said whether the Pinto was still registered to Franklin in 2001, assuming it was his own car to begin with? And was the car ever recovered?

Different shades of "Seventies orange" were popular on that era of hatchbacks, and thanks to the unique, elongated shape of the Pinto, I can see it being mistaken for a Datsun much easier than something "stubby" and more compact like a Chevette or a Gremlin.

(My icon is strangely fitting for this post.)

 

[zinc]

Has LE ever said whether the Pinto was still registered to Franklin in 2001, assuming it was his own car to begin with? And was the car ever recovered?

Different shades of "Seventies orange" were popular on that era of hatchbacks, and thanks to the unique, elongated shape of the Pinto, I can see it being mistaken for a Datsun much easier than something "stubby" and more compact like a Chevette or a Gremlin.

(My icon is strangely fitting for this post.)

Very, very fitting.

I read at some point that Lonnie Franklin's friends and neighbors said after he was in custody that he had driven an orange Ford Pinto for years and years after the 1988 report. I haven't ever seen anything more specific. No one ever reported him to police for having an orange Pinto, but of course South Los Angeles was not a place where residents had a friendly relationship with law enforcement.

He has a long arrest record for things like car theft and possession of stolen property. His neighbors knew him as a guy to whom you could go for a cheap "new" flatscreen TV or a replacement fender for a 20-year-old car. So it's conceivable that the Pinto may never have even been registered to him at all. It's even possible that law enforcement sometime had the orange Pinto in their possession without realizing it, because apparently over the years they seized hundreds or thousands of items of stolen property from his garages.

 

[carbuff]

The car made me think of the Grim Sleeper as well, but as a couple of other people have also pointed out, that was a popular color and style in the seventies.