I just found out that this Jane Doe was solved. I have off and on, tried to identify her. Police have long suspected that her murderer was Dale Anderson, a "sexual psychopath, imprisoned for one of the most brutal slayings in Belleville history..."
More at links:
http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/A/ANDERSON_dale_r.php
http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4726907-1.html
I the Summerfield case, attempted removal of the entire vaginal area was clearly noted at the crime scene and during autopsy.
Thanks. This whole thing is so sad. The family never reported her missing and apparently if the local (CA) police had put her prints in NCIC they might have id'd her years ago. Last I heard the family is donating her remains to the Body Farm and the grave here will be a memorial to her. This just makes me so sad. I am glad she is id'd now, to be sure, but sad she seemingly wasn't missed by her family.
Okay here is ome interesting stuff http://www.officialcoldcaseinvestigations.com/showthread.php?t=581&page=2
including list of evidence
Scroll down to the next poster and check this out regarding similar cases
Both women had extensive dental work - coincidence ?
Is this you Medusa ?
Maybe I can re ignite your interest
I am appalled at how this adoptive mother has simply forgotten her child that she took and adopted as her own , even giving her body to science
just not right
Also whats with the name ? Some reports say Pholia Mylia Chavez and others say Eulalia Mylia Chavez
Was this her adopted name given to her ? OR her birth name
I feel like this has been updated elsewhere, but I noticed it had not been here. Just in case someone was looking for current information.
http://www.coldcasefiles.us/2008/02/after-21-years.html
She was identified as Pholia Mylia Chavez, an occasionally used alias. Her name was Eulalia Mylia Chavez. Her nickname was Lolly. What a relief to finally know what happened to your child and sister, and to finally have a name on her, to know who she was.
Katie is the daughter of Summerfield's "Jane Doe," who was strangled and left in a cornfield outside the small village. She remained unidentified for more than 21 years until in January 2008 an FBI fingerprint recheck revealed she was 27-year-old Eulalia Pholia Mylia Chavez Wilcomer...
Katie, now 32, learned the name of her mother, who gave her up for adoption in California when she was an infant, from her mother's high school friend in 2008, then learned through a computer search that her mother was found in an Illinois cornfield near a small town called Summerfield, strangled, mutilated and unidentified for decades...
Though its been 24 years since the murder, police insist they are still pursuing the killer by following every lead, including the latest that involves a register for what used to be called the Lebanon Hotel... A former Lebanon police chief, Jerry Harris, said he remembered hearing that Chavez had stayed overnight in a room in the village, possibly with a boyfriend.
Larry D. Hall, a federal prisoner in North Carolina, remains a suspect in the murder and disappearance of dozens of girls and young women mostly throughout the Midwest, including 13 who remain unidentified. Now, Hall has emerged as a suspect in the Chavez killing, St. Clair County investigators say.
Hall became the prime suspect in Chavez’s murder after he admitted in a prison telephone interview with an Associated Press reporter that he had abducted 39 women and also confessed to several sexual murders. He mentioned in a hand-printed letter to a television reporter in 2008 that he killed Chavez. The letter implied that he found Chavez, who traveled basically by hitching rides, in St. Louis.
He later recanted all of the confessions, including Chavez’s murder, and denied killing anyone.
Local law enforcement officials are hoping DNA evidence will tie him to the Chavez killing three decades ago.