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You have the details of those cases? If you have their names, maybe there will be birth announcements or obituaries that can be checked.Alright. I created this chart of all murders of black females in St Louis in 1983. I excluded one, which was an 86-year-old woman who was burgled and then murdered, since I doubt that it is related to this case. The victim of this crime's details are highlighted in red (I assumed 999 means age unknown), possible women who were mothers of the girl are in green, and murders of other young girls are in pink. I included them in case this is the work of a serial killer.
Hi and welcome @Mors_Et_Vita. Thank you for your research and screenshots. I would like to know the details of the 27 years old, killed by knife or cutting instrument (modus operandi stands out to me in relation to this case). And I wondered if this murder was solved. In your screenshot with solved cases there is also a 27 year old female killed by knife or cutting instrument. Is this the same case? Is it possible this was the mother of this Jane Doe. She would have been between 16-18 when given birth. Because of the lack of details I can't answer this question myself. Thank you upfront.
Mors_Et_Vita,
Good find! I tried to look for murder cases across the county, like a namus database but there's no national webside for that. You have to look at state by state, sometimes county by county. Only a few states have decent websites about unsolved murders.
I also theorized that JD's Mother was either murdered shorly before JD was found or that she died from another cause and JD was given to a person close to the family before JD was murdered.
Since JD most likely came from a caring home and was well nourished prior to her death and forensic evidence showed she spent most of the life outside of St Louis I'm not sure her mother was murdered in St Louis, she could've been murdered almost anywhere in the county (south, or midwest) a few weeks prior to JD's murder. I have checked for this on namus and found 1 interesting case that could've been her mother. This may be far fetched, since it happened in Califiornia. But her age is right and she died at almost the same time JD was found. JD could have been abducted while the mother was on drugs and when she realized she was gone she went crazy which eventually caused her death. This woman is still unidentified though.
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
STATE v. FOOTE | 791 S.W.2d 879 (1990) | w2d87911598 | Leagle.comWow...I just found something.
"At about 4:00AM on December 18, 1984, 10-year-old Alfred Foote was discovered missing from the home where he was visiting his grandmother and uncle in northwest St. Louis. At 8:30AM, officers followed a trail of blood from the home to a vacant house at 5640 Kennedy Avenue, where they found Alfred’s body partially concealed in a plastic bag underneath a concrete stairwell behind the building. He was lying directly on top of his severed head.
Alfred’s uncle, 28-year-old Michael Foote, was immediately arrested for his murder. He quickly became a suspect in Jane Doe’s case due to the similarities to Alfred’s murder; both around the same age, had been decapitated, and their bodies were dumped on vacant properties less than two miles apart. However, after questioning Michael, they were unable to establish any link between the two slayings."
Very weird. The two murders are almost identical.
I was thinking if one could find out what kind of sweater it was (brand, etc) that might help narrow down where it was bought and when. While it's a bit of a long shot to imagine that would work given the time that has passed since the crime was committed, I figured it couldn't hurt — after all, the killer likely cut the tags out of the sweater for a reason, right?
I think this is an excellent idea, so I did some vintage yellow sweater sleuthing to see what comes up.
Here's one from the '70s, so who knows if it could be a hand-me-down? Tag says "norm MEAGERS." Appears to be a men's sweater, but I still find that valuable because who says the sweater belonged to the girl at all?
70s Yellow V-Neck Wool Sweater - Ragstock
This one seems to be the most promising to me. Christian Dior, 1980s. It appears to have a logo on the chest, but that could also be a stain. If our Doe is not wearing this exact sweater, it could be a knock off? Though, I know it's a bit of a stretch to knock off a plain yellow sweater. The auction site is no longer active, so these links are to photos only.
https://shop.r10s.jp/auc-grab/cabinet/yrc-1504a/o-apd14y15n16ze9cb.jpg
https://shop.r10s.jp/auc-grab/cabinet/yrc-1504a/o-apd14y15n16xe9ce.jpg
This one is Dragon brand from Sears, 1980s, sold as Men's. It has some unique sleeve cuffs, but I still wanted to include it because it's difficult to get a good look of the cuffs in the evidence photos of the sweater.
Mens Vintage 80's Sears Dragon Yellow V-neck Pullover Sweater Size Large • $17.99
True! It definitely strikes me as a bit odd, but I grew up far away from my extended family and am only one of three female cousins on my fathers' side. I'm also the eldest of my siblings, and I know that things tend to get a bit more relaxed with subsequent children, so my experience is far from universal. I'm still interested in if there was a consensus on the colors of the polish, though, given that information varies from site to site. It's not much to go on, but there's not much to go on at all here & I think muddying what little information we do have isn't exactly helpful.I don't know... I have LOTS of cousins (my dad was one of 10 kids) most of them in the same age group as this little girl in 1983 (I was 12 and older than the rest). We all played with different coloured polishes, it was fun and girly and totally innocent. As the eldest cousin I was generally the one doing the painting of those wriggly little kid fingers. They weren't professional manicures but then I've not seen anything to indicate this UID had professional-style nail paint either. Yes, it could be a sign of something nefarious OR it could have just been child's play.
As a former resident of this area, this definitely probably took place in the major part of the city. That area was considering the “ghetto” back then and still is. This area of the city is still dangerous to be in, which doesn’t surprise me why the girl’s body was there. Crime is a major problem in the city, it has one of the largest murder rates in the US...