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multipleregression said:
Stumbled across this article from 2020, written about exhumations of does from the cemetery where Harper Jane Doe was buried (in a paupers grave apparently).

Police, FBI exhume bodies at United Memorial Gardens in Plymouth

"Last year, they focused on 21 cases and we were able to collect thirteen samples and submit them. It allowed them to help a man who submitted his DNA, hoping a relative’s match in a missing person database would help him find his mom. She went missing when he was a young child. Only now does he know, she was murdered.

“His mom didn’t leave him," Sgt. Jones said. "She didn’t just up and decide she didn’t want a kid anymore. Something tragic happened to her."

Sgt. Jones said letting that man know that means the world to her. She says if you have a missing relative you can put your DNA in the system and look for a match.

“He never gave up and this was in 1987," she said. "So even though it took 30-plus years, he now at least has his mom.""

IMO it seems likely they are referring to Harper JD. Interesting!
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i believe its her as well! it all lines up. im grateful to know the baby wasnt also killed. but it still makes me sus of the father.
 
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cvaldez1975 said:
i believe its her as well! it all lines up. im grateful to know the baby wasnt also killed. but it still makes me sus of the father.
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It’s 100% her. I just know it. So sad he lost her so early. She was probably a beautiful woman, both in appearance and personality. She strikes me as being a nice person. Even in her sketch you can see a beautiful sparkle in her eyes. RIP Harper :(
 
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I agree that this is definitely about Harper Doe. I recall upthread it was stated somewhere that she had a healthy, living, adult child (I believed it was stated that it was a son?) that had wondered what happened to his mother. I am glad he knows what happened to his mother, as terrible and sad as it is.
 
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multipleregression said:
My apologies, upon further research it appears that the previously linked article makes reference to Anita Wiley, not Harper JD.

Man describes finding mom more than 3 decades after she went missing in Detroit
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No worries but now I am super confused lol. Upthread it was stated that Harper Doe's child was located alive and now knows what happened to their mom and I think was a son as well. So it applies to both cases I think? Even if that case referenced was Anita's and not Harper's. Let me dig up the old posts...
 
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Nina Michigan said:
Harper Doe has an adult child (who was loved and wanted) and is asking for privacy while DPD investigates the murder.
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That’s good news. I’m glad that Harper loved and cared about the child. I’m sad for the child because they just found out about this recently. I can’t help but feel sorry for them.
 
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