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| MDF050727 July 27 2005; Anne Arundel County | |
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| Ell | Jul 6 2007, 01:31 PM Post #1 |
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Heart of Gold
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Help sought in identifying woman's remains Remains found in '05 in Arundel park believed to be of 19- to 23-year-old By a Sun reporter Originally published July 6, 2007, 9:25 AM EDT Anne Arundel County police are turning to the public for help in identifying the remains of a woman found in a county park two years ago. In July 2005, two boys were walking through the woods near basketball courts in a park in the 700 block of Cross St. about 3 p.m. when they saw what appeared to be a leg sticking out of a blanket, police said. The two also saw a skull, pants and a pair of shoes near the blanket, and left the park and called police. According to police, witnesses reported seeing homeless people in the area where the remains were found. Officers determined that the remains were human, and they were taken to the state medical examiner's office in Baltimore for an autopsy. No signs of trauma were apparent, police said. Police believe that the remains belong to a female between the ages of 19 and 23 and that the woman was about 115 pounds. Police have not been able to identify the woman using her fingerprints. Anyone with information regarding this case is urged to contact the police at 410-222-3453 or 410-222-8610. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/ann...local-headlines |
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Ell Only after the last tree has been cut down; Only after the last fish has been caught; Only after the last river has been poisoned; Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. | |
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| monkalup | Jul 7 2007, 07:30 PM Post #2 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/ann...local-headlines Help sought in identifying woman's remains Remains found in '05 in Arundel park believed to be of 19- to 23-year-old By a Sun reporter Originally published July 6, 2007, 9:25 AM EDT Anne Arundel County police are turning to the public for help in identifying the remains of a woman found in a county park two years ago. In July 2005, two boys were walking through the woods near basketball courts in a park in the 700 block of Cross St. about 3 p.m. when they saw what appeared to be a leg sticking out of a blanket, police said. The two also saw a skull, pants and a pair of shoes near the blanket, and left the park and called police. According to police, witnesses reported seeing homeless people in the area where the remains were found. Officers determined that the remains were human, and they were taken to the state medical examiner's office in Baltimore for an autopsy. No signs of trauma were apparent, police said. Police believe that the remains belong to a female between the ages of 19 and 23 and that the woman was about 115 pounds. Police have not been able to identify the woman using her fingerprints. Anyone with information regarding this case is urged to contact the police at 410-222-3453 or 410-222-8610. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Jul 7 2007, 07:32 PM Post #3 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| Ell | Mar 15 2011, 04:59 AM Post #4 |
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Heart of Gold
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By Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun 10:00 p.m. EDT, March 14, 2011 E-mail Print Share Text Size bs-md-ar-body-20110314 She has no name. She's known only as 05-730560. "This is everything we've got," said Anne Arundel County Police Detective John Gajda, plunking down a plastic box that holds folders of what's known about the young woman with reddish brown hair — which isn't much — and her investigation. Gajda keeps the box at his desk in Crownsville, 17 miles from where children found her decomposing body at the northern tip of the county five and a half years ago. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tournament Tweetup: Join Baltimore Sun staff, college hoops fans and St. Patrick's Day revelers for a March Madness viewing party Thursday at Hightopps Backstage Grille in Timonium. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The woman's remains are kept in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore. What's left of her mud-caked clothing is packed in a cardboard carton in a police evidence room in Millersville. Gajda and his cold-case partner, Detective Scott Seegers, are renewing the investigation into the unknown young woman. After looking through files, they found her case and thought they could make progress. They hope to learn her identity and how she came to be dead under a pink bedspread off a wooded path in Brooklyn Park, not even 100 yards from the city line. They've got a little more information than police had in the past — full dental information, a broadened description of her, and are waiting for DNA. Was she a runaway? Why were her shoes off? Did she die of an overdose? Where were her belongings? What of her family? The early investigation, which included neighborhood canvasses, turned up nothing. The 2007 flier of an FBI clay model and sketch, which depicted a woman with a thin nose and hair just covering her ears, also failed to produce results. An autopsy was inconclusive because of lack of a wound and sufficient tissue. "It's a mystery," Seegers said. The case illustrates the challenges police face in trying to lay to rest an old case with nameless, faceless remains and an unknown cause of death. They hope to bring a sense of closure to families and finality to a case. By reopening the case last month, and putting it in the public eye, they hope somebody who knew or recognizes the woman will come forward. Even a nickname would give them a starting point. Of the 8,000 cases the state medical examiner's office handles annually, hundreds start out as nameless corpses, but most remains are soon identified. For others, dental records and DNA are needed. "We wind up with about 10 to 12 a year that are not identified," said Dr. David Fowler, the chief medical examiner. A database shows that there are 246 unidentified bodies in Maryland, at least one dating to the Eisenhower Administration. "By the time we are finished, they are fairly rare, yes. They are still unidentified, which is sad," Fowler said. "This is a human being, this is somebody's friend, somebody's daughter." His office stores nameless remains while they still have the potential to yield clues, such as DNA. Then, the remains are sent to the state Anatomy Board, where a month later, and only after officials get a go-ahead from Fowler's office, planning is begun for cremation. The Anatomy Board's schedule for cremation and burial leaves between one and two more years for a family to step forward, said Ronn Wade, director. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, a Department of Justice website, shows 7,328 open cases of unidentified bodies nationwide. And a 2007 report said about 1,000 bodies nationally remain unidentified a year after they are discovered. Mike Sullivan, program manager for the cold case homicide unit of the Naval Criminal Investigative Unit and a former president of the Mid-Atlantic Cold Case Homicide Investigators Association, said putting a name to human remains is "critical" to any next step in a cold case. "If you have no determination of a cause or manner of death, that makes it worse," Sullivan said. "You work to try to figure that out." But it can be difficult. The recent growth of databases — fingerprint, DNA, identifying features — and advances in technology encourages investigators, Sullivan said, but, as the many nameless remains indicate, matches are hard to come by. Gajda and Seegers are sifting through an inch-thick stack of potential matches to women reported missing nationwide. None of the reports of missing women from Maryland and Washington have panned out, but they're not finished looking through reports from the rest of the country. Still, detectives don't know whether she was ever reported missing by anyone. Fingerprints have yielded nothing. The investigators are awaiting an FBI profile of mitochondrial DNA extracted from a bone.Once it's available, it can be compared directly to the DNA of someone believed related to the unidentified person. In the FBI's computerized DNA database, it can be compared to the DNA of missing people, convicted offenders and relatives of missing people. Meanwhile, the detectives plan to add this woman to the department's cold case website. They may present the case at meetings of cold-case investigators and will consider approaching television shows for publicity for the case. National searches aside, the detectives still suspect she's local. "I'll be very surprised if she is not from the Baltimore area," Gajda said. No belongings were found near her, leading the investigators to guess that she wasn't homeless. "My thoughts are, and I have nothing to prove it, she may have been a prostitute to support a drug habit in the Pennington Avenue-Curtis Bay area," Gajda said. Drug paraphernalia near the body has led police to suspect she may have used heroin and may have died of an overdose. Police describe her as a white woman with wavy reddish-brown hair long enough to cover her ears. In January, the medical examiner's office expanded the ranges for age, height and weight from the early parameters. She is believed to have been 15 to 30 years old, between 5 feet and 5 feet 8 inches tall, and weighed between 100 and 140 lbs. She was dead a month or so when, just before 3 p.m. on July 27, 2005, children at the basketball court at a park at Cross Street and Wasena Avenue spotted a bedspread with a leg poking out by a wooded path. The path runs from Kansas Court in the city, through the trees and into the park in the county. They ran for an adult, who called police. Scuffed and well-worn white K-Swiss athletic shoes, size 91/2, were found nearby. The shoes have metal hooks instead of grommets and an adhesive bandage is on the back of one. "I'm wondering if the shoes fit her," Gajda said. She was wearing dark blue jeans, size 9, with a red Paris Blues label and glass studs on the back, and a red tank top, and had a black hair scrunchy. A Coast black fanny pack with green trim held cosmetics. The detectives hope to use all of this information to revive the case from its "cold" designation. A case is considered cold after investigators hit a wall and have run out of leads. The police department restarted its cold-case homicide unit about two years ago with the two veteran detectives and a civilian investigator. Since then, they've reviewed open cases, contacted families, re-interviewed people, presented cases at law enforcement meetings and resubmitted evidence to take advantage of scientific and technological advances. And they've solved two cases. In one, they put a name to the unidentified remains of a man found in 1985 in Severn Danza Park. He was identified through updated fingerprint databases as Curtis Jones, a convicted offender. The cause of death was undetermined and he had not been reported missing. Late last year, Gajda wrapped up work on the 2006 killing of dentist Albert Woonho Ro — two people are now awaiting trial — while Seegers was immersed in another old homicide. In their current investigation, Gajda explained, "I noticed this file and I said, 'You know, with just a few hours' work, we can do something' about this unidentified woman. " 'With not a whole lot of resources, we can get this case moved forward.'" Anne Arundel police ask that anyone who may have information on this woman call 410-222-3460. andrea.siegel@baltsun.com Online resources on missing persons •Namus.gov is a national database of missing people and unidentified remains. •Marylandmissing.com is a privately maintained site of missing people and nameless remains. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/...7377,full.story |
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| monkalup | Jul 31 2011, 03:11 PM Post #5 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Unidentified White Female * The victim was discovered in July 27, 2005 in Brooklyn, Anne Arundel County, Maryland * Estimated Date of Death: Months prior * No signs of trauma were apparent * Partial Skeletal Remains Vital Statistics * Estimated age: 19-23 years old * Approximate Height and Weight: 5'5"; 115 lbs. * Distinguishing Characteristics: Red and brown, curly hair, approximately 8 inches in length. * Clothing: Red and light colored tank top with "NIKE" on front; red lace, under wire bra, size 34B; light color bikini style underwear. White "NIKE" sock, white tennis shoes. * Skeletal Findings: Healed nose fracture, healed left cheek fracture. * Fingerprints: Available searches with fingerprints had no findings. * Dentals: Available. Tooth #30 has root canal treatment. * DNA: Available in FBI NMPDD. Case History The victim was located in a wooded area in the 700 block of Cross Street and Wasena Avenue, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland on July 27, 2005. Two boys saw what appeared to be a leg sticking out of a blanket and called authorities. According to police, witnesses reported seeing homeless people in the area where the remains were found. Investigators If you have any information about this case please contact: Anne Arundel County Police Department Detective Cremen 410-222-3453 410-222-8610 -- Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Dr C Allan 410-333-3250 You may remain anonymous when submitting information. Agency Case #: 05-05076 http://doenetwork.org/cases/21ufmd.html |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Jul 31 2011, 03:15 PM Post #6 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| tatertot | Apr 10 2018, 09:51 PM Post #7 |
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http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/for_the_record/ac-cn-brooklyn-park-body-20180314-story.html Anne Arundel police seek new leads in death of woman found in Brooklyn Park in 2005 Phil Davis Anne Arundel County police are looking for new leads in the case of an unidentified woman found dead in Brooklyn Park in 2005. Police released an approximation of her physical appearance Wednesday, saying officers worked with Parabon labs to use a DNA analysis tool to recreate her looks. The woman’s body was discovered July 27, 2005, by two minors playing in a wooded area off Cross Street near Wasena Avenue. The location is a few blocks from the Baltimore city line. Police said she was white, between 19 and 23 years old. She is described as between 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 8 inches tall with either dark red or brown curly hair. Police have yet to identify the woman, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner could not determine the cause of death. Anyone with information is asked to call 410-222-4731 or leave an anonymous tip at 410-222-4700. |
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