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PAF061208; 100 E. Tusculum St. Philadelphia,
Topic Started: Feb 9 2007, 09:39 AM (1,597 Views)
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General Case Information
Reporting Agency: Philadelphia MEO Contact: Suplee, Eugene Phone: 215-685-7445
Case Number: 06-5308 NCIC Number: Not Available Date Found: 12/08/2006
State Found: PA County Found: Philadelphia
Estimated Age: Adult - Pre 70 Minimum Age: 34 Maximum Age: 65
Race: White Sex: Female
Estimated Height: 66 inches Weight: 0 pounds

Case Details
Body Condition: Partial Skeleton Probable year of death: 2001 Post-Mortem Interval: 5 years
Address Found: 100 E. Tusculum St. Philadelphia, PA 19134

Skeletal Findings: arthritis on the lumbar vertibrae
Clothing With Body: The clothing is decayed and soil ridden
1). Thin, white torn clothing possibly from a blouse, skirt, or dress. No pattern, size, or brand grossly evident
2) Darker color nylon knee high stockings

Footwear: none
Jewelry: Yellow metal necklace and charm. The charm is a sorority key with missing stones and is inscripted with "AZB", E. MATHIS, Life Member June 2, 1946, Alpha Delta (See picture)

Eye Wear: none
Head Hair: Brown/Auburn

Body Hair: unknown
Facial Hair: unknown

Eye Color: unknown


Circumstances of Death: Skeletal remains are found in a black plastic trash bag inside a vacant lot near Tusculum St. in the Kensington Section of Philadelphia. The remains are mixed in with soil and appear to have been dug up from another area and dumped. The head and small bones of the feet are missing. Some clothing and jewelry were also discovered within the bag. Also found were four red acrylic fingernails. The cause and manner are still pending.
Body Parts Inventory: Head Not Recovered

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Clothing on Body
Clothing with Body The clothing is decayed and soil ridden
1). Thin, white torn clothing possibly from a blouse, skirt, or dress. No pattern, size, or brand grossly evident
2) Darker color nylon knee high stockings
Footwear none
Jewelry Yellow metal necklace and charm. The charm is a sorority key with missing stones and is inscripted with "AZB", E. MATHIS, Life Member June 2, 1946, Alpha Delta (See picture)
Eye Wear none
http://udrs.orainc.com/case.php?id=446&tab=demographics
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The letters in this column refer to the Greek letters of the chapter's name. (A = alpha, B = beta, G = gamma, D = delta, E = epsilon, Z = zeta, H = eta, J = theta, I = iota, K = kappa, L = lambda, M = mu, N = nu, X = xi, O = omicron, P = pi, R = rho, S = sigma, T = tau, U = upsilon, F = phi, Q = chi, Y= psi, W = omega) THETA ALPHA KAPPA

alpha zeta beta chapter alpha delta
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Putting a name on one of the city's deadDetectives say it's not as easy as on TV.
By Joseph A. Gambardello
Inquirer Staff Writer

APRIL SAUL / Inquirer Staff Photographer
Forensic-services manager David Quain with a bust of an unidentified boy from 1957, says, "On TV there is an element of truth . . . but they take an element of truth and make it fantastic."
» More images The skeletal remains of a woman were found in a black plastic trash bag in Kensington on Dec. 8.
The bones were mixed with soil, leading investigators to suspect that they had been dug up elsewhere and dumped in a lot near Tusculum Street.

Six months later, the woman's identity remains unknown. One clue, a sorority key with the name E. Mathis on it, might provide an answer - but only if someone can recognize it and if, in fact, it belonged to the woman.

For the investigators at the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office, this is one of the rare situations in which they have not yet put a name to one of the city's dead.

Many cases are straightforward. Some a bit harder. A few - including this one, perhaps - impossible.

The morgue detectives will tell you that seldom, if ever, do their cases play out as they do on TV, where CSI programs mix science with fiction to produce entertaining mysteries with neatly packaged endings.

"On TV there is an element of truth . . . but they take an element of truth and make it fantastic," said David Quain, forensic-services manager at the Medical Examiner's Office. "But it really isn't the way it works."

In the real world, investigators carry photos of the dead or of tattoos on discolored flesh and show them around. They seek out dental records and X-rays and even photographs of smiling faces that can be used to see whether the teeth match those of the deceased.

Most often, they take fingerprints - if the dead still have flesh - and wait for a match.

Even that, Quain said, might not yield a proper identification, because criminals don't always give their real names when arrested, making it harder to find next of kin.

Of course, there's DNA, but if detectives have no idea who the person is, DNA is of little use because it must be compared to that of a blood relative.

And it takes time.

"DNA is kind of a last resort," Quain said. "Fingerprints can be done in a day. Dental workups can be done in a day. DNA can take weeks or months."

DNA is used to confirm an identity, not establish it, he said.

A team of 10 investigators, backed by technicians, works around the clock, staffing a communications desk and going out to scenes of homicides or unusual deaths, Quain said.

About 300 bodies or sets of remains arrive at the Medical Examiner's Office each year as unknowns.

Many are quickly identified.

For example, word of a fatal shooting can spread quickly through a neighborhood, carrying the bad news to the victim's family.

Shortly thereafter, relatives show up at the morgue and make an ID.

But even then, Quain said, investigators have to be careful. He recalled a case in which a woman who heard her daughter had been shot went to the Medical Examiner's Office, on University Avenue, and made an identification - only to be doubly shocked when her daughter returned home later.

"She was so upset and so distraught, she never actually looked closely. She already accepted" it was her daughter, Quain said. "That's why we like to do scientific means whenever we can, fingerprints being one of them."

Besides identifications, investigators help pathologists determine manner of death: natural causes, homicide, suicide or an accident. The medical examiner establishes the cause of death if a doctor has not provided one.

Along with fingerprints and dental records, tattoos - now common on both men and women - and body piercings are helping more and more to identify bodies, morgue detectives have found.

A trend in which relatives get a tattoo with a victim's name - or nickname - and sometimes the date of death has assisted investigators in recent years, Quain said.

"They are one more way to put the pieces together," he said, adding that running the tattoo information through the office's database has helped investigators find kin.

Those who remain unidentified are eventually cremated after experts take a DNA sample for possible future analysis; the ashes are stored at the morgue with the cremains of those who were identified but unclaimed for whatever reason.

How the woman found with the sorority key died, like her identity, remains unknown. The Alpha Zeta Beta key also was inscribed with "Life Member" and "June 2, 1946." Four red acrylic fingernails also were recovered.

Anthropological examination indicates the woman was white, 5-foot-4 to 5-8, and 34 to 62 years old with brown or auburn hair.

If all efforts fail to identify the woman, chances are that her remains will one day be cremated and end up in the modern-day equivalent of potter's field.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_scie...ila_s_dead.html

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Contact staff writer Joseph A. Gambardello at 215-854-2153 or jgambardello@phillynews.com.
Ell

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terrip,Feb 9
2007 - 04:44 PM
The letters in this column refer to the Greek letters of the chapter's name. (A = alpha, B = beta, G = gamma, D = delta, E = epsilon, Z = zeta, H = eta, J = theta, I = iota, K = kappa, L = lambda, M = mu, N = nu, X = xi, O = omicron, P = pi, R = rho, S = sigma, T = tau, U = upsilon, F = phi, Q = chi, Y= psi, W = omega) THETA ALPHA KAPPA

alpha zeta beta chapter alpha delta

Terrip Dont tell me YOU were a sorority member??????
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the update on this is the key is a alpha zeta beta AZB
names associtaed with the AZB sorority
http://www.vivaniagara.com/testimonials/
Nancy Fagnan, Treasurer/Entertainment Coordinator
AZB Sorority
University Alfred Eleanor J. Witter of Hornell, NY, died on Nov. 11, 2003. Eleanor was a teacher in the Hornell School System for many years and also taught for several years on Long Island. She was a communicant of St. Ann’s Church and a life member of AZB Sorority. She is survived by a sister.
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:MZNAF...clnk&cd=7&gl=us
HORNELL , Margaret A. Coogan, formerly of 298 Canisteo St., died early Sunday afternoon (May 16, 2004) at McAuley Manor, after a lengthy illness
A graduate of Hornell High School and the Hornell Business School, Margaret was a member of the AZB Sorority and was an active business woman during her working life. She was the proprietor and owner of Lanoue's Liquor Store on Canisteo Street in the 1940s and later was an associate at Clark's Liquor Store in the 1950s and 1960s. She retired to become busy as a wife of the Chief of Police.
the key might have something to do with hornell business school in hornell new york
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http://www.alphachi-azb.org/
The sisters of Alpha Zeta Beta website
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There is a larger picture of the key charm on identifyus.org:

https://identifyus.org/report.php?p=individual&i=446
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Unidentified White Female


The victim was discovered on December 8, 2006 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Partial Skeleton & partial decomposition- head and feet not recovered
Estimated Year of Death: 2001


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Vital Statistics


Estimated age: 34-65 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'4"-5'8"
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown or auburn hair. Four red acrylic fingernails were recovered. She had arthritis on the lumbar vertibrae.
Clothing/Jewelry: Thin, white torn clothing, possibly from a blouse, skirt, or dress. No pattern, size, or brand evident; darker color nylon knee high stockings. Yellow metal necklace and charm. The charm is a sorority key with missing stones and is inscripted with "AZB", E. MATHIS, Life Member June 2, 1946, Alpha Delta."
DNA: Available


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Case History
The victim was located in a black plastic trash bag in a vacant lot, near Tusculum Street, which parallels the railroad tracks, in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 8, 2006. Investigators suspect she had been dug up elsewhere and dumped in this lot at a later date. She was left haphazardly about 30 yards away from a set of old railroad tracks.



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Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Philadelphia Medical Examiner
Steve Olszewski
215-685-7445
Email
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

Agency Case Number:
06-5308

NCIC Number:
U-490018644
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
Philly.com 6/18/07
Unidentified Deceased Reporting System
Philadelphia Daily News 12/9/06

http://doenetwork.org/cases/486ufpa.html
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still listed
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