Identified! CO - Montrose Co., 'Windy Point Jane Doe' Fem 642UFCO, 35-40, scoliosis, Jul'94 - Susan Hoppes

[victoriarobinson642]

Rest in peace, Susan Hoppes

 

[carbuff]

I'm glad you've got your name back.

 

[PromotedPawn]

I'm glad she has her name back and I hope whoever did that reconstruction is held accountable for their actions (joking). She was lovely. May she finally rest in peace.

 

[Murkywaters]

30-year-old cold case cracked as Windy Point Jane Doe ID'd

July 7, 1994, rural Montrose County. Aug. 9, 1993, Lakewood, Washington.

www.montrosepress.com

Hoppes had no known connection to Colorado. Lillard said she abruptly left the home where she was staying in Washington, reportedly departing with two others, but it is not clear how she wound up in Montrose County. Lillard said investigators would forge ahead to fully solve the case.

“Back in 1993 when she was reported, there wasn’t a lot of information other than she was a missing person and there were no suspicious circumstances at the time. It was a basic missing persons case,” Lillard said.

Washington authorities added information as they received it and Hoppes was entered into the state’s equivalent of NCIC. (As stated earlier, she was cleared from that database in 1994 for reasons Lillard has not determined.)

 

[yawningreyhound]

FWIW, knowing about Bundy and his Colorado crimes, this is the sort of location I could see him dumping a body at. He is known to have traveled through this general region and killed a woman a couple hours' drive away in Grand Junction. Seems like they believe the victim to be a bit older than his typical victim, though.

Regardless of any potential Bundy connection, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some sort of connection to UT here. These remains were found close to the state line, and the public land is practically seamless around here. Recreationists and locals frequently travel back and forth over the line and there's plenty of back routes through wilderness. NM and AZ would also be good to focus on.

I forget if Ted was operating in WA in 93. Also, i agree, Susan doesnt seem to fit that young, long hair-parted-in-the-middle look of some of Bundy's victims. And wasnt he fond of hitting victims in the head w a crowbar, wood, etc?

 

[JupiterAmmon]

Glad she was identified. The large eyes of the strange original reconstruction do recall how she actually looked.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Remains found by hiker in 1994 identified as missing Washington state woman

Susan Hoppes was reported missing from Pierce County, Washington on Aug. 9, 1993.

www.9news.com

Colorado Cold Case Files - Case Detail: Susan Hoppes

642UFCO

 

[meanmaryjean]

I forget if Ted was operating in WA in 93. Also, i agree, Susan doesnt seem to fit that young, long hair-parted-in-the-middle look of some of Bundy's victims. And wasnt he fond of hitting victims in the head w a crowbar, wood, etc?

Bundy was caught for the last time in 1979.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

'Truly remarkable': Forensic DNA ID's Colorado cold case victim as missing Pierce County woman

Over the past 28 years, investigators from multiple law enforcement agencies have tried to find out what happened to Windy Point Jane Doe.

www.king5.com

Decades old cold case 'Windy Point Jane Doe' identified as missing Pierce Co. woman

The remains of a woman that were found nearly 30 years ago in Colorado have been identified as a missing woman from Pierce County, using new and advanced DNA technology. The Montrose County Sheriff's Office in Colorado says a hiker found the remains of the woman on the Uncompahgre Plateau in...

komonews.com

Colorado cold case solved: Missing Washington woman ID’d as Windy Point Jane Doe

It was a mystery that baffled investigators and a Colorado community for nearly 30 years—Who was Windy Point Jane Doe? That mystery was recently solved and now a Washington-state family can seek closure thanks to familial DNA analysis, the Montrose County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday.

www.thedenverchannel.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Private investigator provides critical links in Windy Point Jane Doe cold case after victim ID confirmed

When private investigator Amy Johnson’s phone rang one day not long ago from a Colorado number, she had one thought: “Spam.” But the message was from Montrose County Sheriff’s Office

www.montrosepress.com

Western Colorado Cold Case Victim From 1994 Positively Identified

The remains of a woman who disappeared 29 years ago in western Colorado have been positively thanks to new and advanced technology.

kool1079.com

Body found in CO identified as Pierce County woman who went missing 28 years ago

A body found in Colorado was identified Wednesday as a Pierce County woman who disappeared nearly 30 years ago.

www.q13fox.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Amy Johnson is still on the case. The Washington-based private investigator, whose extensive research helped shine a big light on a cold Montrose homicide case, came to the scene this week.
Johnson had been seeking missing Washington State woman Susan Hoppes, who vanished at age 45 in 1993 under suspicious circumstances, since 2004.

Despite repeated efforts to shake loose information that would identify “Windy Point Jane Doe,” decades passed without investigators here knowing her true name.

Wednesday, Johnson, formerly a florist, brought along a bouquet she had arranged personally and placed it at the ledge of a cliff nearby, a commanding Colorado view stretching out before her under a storm-brewing sky.

“When you stand there, for me, personally, it’s a feeling like you know so much about her personally,” Johnson said.

“Just to know that she laid up there for almost an entire year — I’m grateful that they found her, but it’s pretty bittersweet, that someone so evil traipsed through there and left her, abandoned and alone.”

Johnson’s years of research pointed her toward likely suspects; however, because Montrose is investigating the case as an active homicide, she isn’t detailing all of her theories of the crime right now.

Despite what she has learned, Johnson would still like to know the final missing pieces in the Hoppes’ tragedy.

“My thing about all of this is there could be somebody out there that this spurs some recollection; some sort of connecting piece,” Johnson said.

Coming to Windy Point: PI who cracked cold case makes ‘bittersweet’ visit to scene

Amy Johnson is still on the case. The Washington-based private investigator, whose extensive research helped shine a big light on a cold Montrose homicide case, came to the scene this

www.montrosepress.com

 

[carbuff]

Susan's Websleuths thread: Found Deceased - WA - Susan Hoppes Bennett, 45, Tacoma, 9 Aug 1993