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DEF670318 March 18, 1967; Bear, New Castle County
Topic Started: Jan 4 2011, 10:30 AM (1,858 Views)
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Unidentified White Female
•The victim was discovered on March 18, 1967 in Bear, New Castle County, Delaware
•Estimated Date of Death: Hours prior
•Died as a result of attempted abortion.
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Vital Statistics
•Estimated age: 20-25 years old
•Approximate Height and Weight: 5'5"; 115 lbs.
•Distinguishing Characteristics: Dark brown hair. Hair tied back with a 1/2" X 8" red ribbon. Brown eyes. Vaccination scar on front of the left thigh. No birth marks or surgical scars. Both ears pierced. Approximately three months pregnant. Fair complexion. Blood type International group O.
•Clothing: Clad in blue bikini style panties, manufacturers label removed.
•Dentals: Dental coding from limited dental charting done in 1967. No radiographs to confirm. Natural teeth in good dental repair, probably last seen by a dentist about six months to a year prior to death.
•Fingerprints: Available
•DNA: Pending
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Case History
The victim was located in a laundry bag on Saturday March 18, 1967 at CR 400, Porter Road, .3 miles east of Route 896.
Body was in a 24" X 36" white cloth Laundry bag which bears the following visible markings; Bag O - Storage. American Laundry. Dry Cleaning. EX4 5277.
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Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Delaware State Medical Examiners Office
302-577-3420
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

Agency Case Number:
67-N-170

http://doenetwork.org/cases/743ufde.html
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Delaware officials look to Trenton in attempt to solve 1967 cold case
By Alex Zdan/The Times
on April 10, 2013 at 5:00 AM, updated April 10, 2013 at 9:32 AM

BEAR, DELAWARE — Clad only in a pair of blue bikini panties and with a red ribbon tying back her hair, the body of the petite young woman was found half poking out of a canvas bag on the side of a rural road in New Castle County. Though there were no signs of trauma indicating a violent death, to the Delaware State Police, the find on a rural lane a few miles from Interstate 95 was an obvious dump job.

It was March 18, 1967. The woman, estimated to be in her late teens or early 20s, remains unidentified to this day. But authorities may be closer than ever to finally closing this cold case thanks to DNA technology — and an unusual clue that leads directly to the Trenton area.

The bag Jane Doe was found partially inside of was a laundry bag, marked as coming from American Laundry Dry Cleaning on 326 Perry Street, Trenton, New Jersey.

“That is the only piece of evidence we have to connect her to any geographic area other than Delaware,” said Hal Brown, Deputy Director of the Forensic Sciences Laboratory at Delaware’s state medical examiner’s office.

The woman’s connection to Trenton and the laundry, long since closed, remain unclear.

“Nobody’s ever reported her missing that we can find,” Brown said. “We’ve looked through all the files, throughout the nation, and some international connections.”

Brown, who reopened the case two and a half years ago, and his office are seeking help from the greater Trenton area, hoping someone can give them a more direct link between the deceased woman and the laundry that can lead to a name for her. They’re focusing much of their attention on Trenton’s senior citizen population: if she were alive, Jane Doe would be in her mid-60s at least.

Elizabeth Bullington, a Hamilton resident who volunteers with the medical examiner’s office, is trying to get the word out locally.

“We’re really trying to reach out and get some help on this case,” she said yesterday.

American Laundry’s owner is dead, but Bullington has tried contacting his next of kin to see if they remember a 5 foot, 2 inch woman of European, Italian, Greek, or Jewish descent with long, curly dark brown hair as a customer or living nearby. A fresh rendering of what she looked like in life was completed by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, based on 1967 autopsy photos.

The canvas laundry bag would have been used by customers to transport their dirty clothes to the business to be cleaned. Both private and commercial customers could have used the bag, Brown said.

American Laundry operated in a wide portion of the Mercer County area, meaning the connection to the bag might not be exclusive to Trenton.

Jane Doe’s body is buried in a potter’s field in Delaware, but her remains are still giving investigators valuable clues. That was possible thanks to a long-forgotten box of evidence stored at Delaware State Police Troop 2 in Bear — the place where the woman’s body was found decades ago.

In late 2011, Brown’s search for additional evidence was rewarded, when the box was taken out of an evidence room and he found it had a vial of the woman’s blood inside it.

“Well, I was extremely excited because to me this represented the possibility of developing a DNA profile,” he said.

Though the blood had dried, Brown was able to take cells from it and found success in recovering DNA. By matching the information with genealogy websites, some of which were complete with genetic profiles put up by people seeking lost relatives, the medical examiner was able to contact relatives in Virginia and North Carolina on the mother’s side of Jane Doe’s family.

“They don’t know how they’re related, but they’re related biologically,” Brown said.
So far, the family members have been no help in securing an ID.


More than four decades of technological advances have also given investigators new evidence about how Jane Doe died. Without any trauma, authorities never thought they were dealing with a homicide. A soap-like substance in the woman’s vaginal cavity initially led police to believe she died during a botched abortion to remove the 3-month-old fetus that was still inside her when she was discovered.

“It was thought at the time this was an illegal abortion, and that’s how it stood for 30 years,” Brown said.

Six years before the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion, some women went to back-alley abortionists to stop their pregnancies. Among the techniques was the insertion of a douche-like object into the vaginal cavity, carrying chemicals that would cause the fetus to die and the woman to miscarry, Brown said.

Though it’s still possible Jane Doe tried to get an abortion, it is not what killed her.

“She actually died of septicemia, of infection,” Brown said. “It may have had absolutely nothing to do with abortion. She didn’t die from an abortion, she died from lack of medical care.”

When Jane Doe got sick, whoever was with her did not find her the proper medical care, and she passed away. It’s likely whoever was with her was responsible for dumping her body in Delaware.

“When she died it would appear — and this is speculation on my part — people panicked,” Brown said.

Unfortunately, timely medical intervention would have likely saved the woman’s life.

“She died clearly from infection,” Brown said. “How she got infected, who knows? If she had medical treatment or some antibiotics she would have survived.”

With anyone involved likely dead or elderly, authorities are not focusing on gathering information to make a criminal case for wrongful death or negligence.

“The police worked on it for a long time and they’re not doing much of it at this point,” Brown said.

“I personally am not concerned about making a prosecutable case,” he said. “I would just like to identify this girl and solve some family’s mystery.”

Bullington, whose been trying to gather information in Mercer County for more than a year, agrees.

“The most important thing right now is we identify this lady and bring closure to her family,” she said.

And, with a little help from people in the local area, that might yet happen, turning a simple laundry bag into an ace in the hole for investigators.

“Everyone knows a cold case is a long shot,” Bullington said, “but what we have is the laundry bag.”

Anyone with information on this case can contact Brown at (302) 577-3420, ext.206 or by email at hal.brown@state.de.us, or contact the Delaware Medical Examiner & Forensic Science Laboratory on Facebook.

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On March 18, 1967, this unidentified, Caucasian female's body was found off the shoulder of Porter Road, a rural area in Bear, New Castle County, Delaware. This location is just a few miles away from Interstate 95 and US Highway 40. She was approximately 16-25 years old, with long, curly, dark brown hair, and brown eyes. She was petite in stature; height 5'2"; weight 110 lbs. With reasonable certainty, her bra size is estimated to be 34DD. Her ears were pierced, but it did not appear she had worn earrings in quite a while. She had a vaccination scar on the front of her left thigh; no other scars or distinguishing marks were observed. Her teeth contained several restorations, and were in very good repair, suggesting that she had seen a dentist within a year prior to her death. Recent ancestry testing suggests she may be of European, Italian, Greek, or Jewish descent. Her legs were stuffed inside a large cloth commercial laundry bag, which was determined to be from a laundry and dry cleaning company, located in Trenton, New Jersey. She was found wearing only a pair of blue bikini panties, and a red ribbon, which tied her hair back. She was transported in a vehicle from an unknown location, quite possibly from another state, and tragically dumped along the side of the road. It is estimated that she died March 17 – 18, 1967, within 24 hours of being found. The above image, suggestive of what she may have looked like in life, is a reconstruction prepared by a NCMEC Forensic Artist, based upon morgue and crime scene images.
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