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I just found this article about the retirement of the Philadelphia Chief Forensic Investigator.
http://articles.philly.com/2011-01-22/news/27043343_1_investigator-earring-police-officers
The article mentions a female of unspecified ethnicity about 22 years old found in a shallow pool of water near Kelly Drive in Philadelphia. There is no record that I can find of this UID in either DoeNet or NamUs.
http://articles.philly.com/2011-01-22/news/27043343_1_investigator-earring-police-officers
The article mentions a female of unspecified ethnicity about 22 years old found in a shallow pool of water near Kelly Drive in Philadelphia. There is no record that I can find of this UID in either DoeNet or NamUs.
Last week, as senior forensic investigator Gene Suplee cleaned out his desk in preparation for retirement, he came across a silver earring shaped like a tennis racket.
The earring belonged to a woman, believed to have been about 22, whose body was found in a shallow pool of water off Kelly Drive on a hot day in July 1982. Suplee, then a medical examiner's investigator, released information about her to the public, and her DNA and fingerprints were reviewed. But her name remains a mystery, and investigators have not determined how she died.
Suplee has always believed that the earring was distinctive enough that someone would come forward to identify her. But it has never happened.
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Suplee kept meticulous records of the city's unidentified bodies, Hill said. The unnamed woman's silver earring found in 1982, for example, may well remain in the Medical Examiner's Office until someone comes forward to say whom it belonged to.
"You always knew you could call down there and say, "Y'all still have those dental records for this kid, those X-rays?" Hill said. "Gene would know exactly what you were talking about, and he'd be able to get it for you."