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Topic Started: Nov 21 2013, 07:19 PM (633 Views)
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By MARY LOU
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Posted Nov. 20, 2013 @ 10:42 pm


It has been more than two months since the body of a young woman was discovered along the banks of the Mississippi River just south of Hannibal.

Marion County Sheriff Jimmy Shinn said law enforcement is no closer to identifying who the woman is than they were on Thursday, Sept. 29, when he held a press conference in Hannibal asking for clues from the public.

“We have listed her on the National Registry of Missing Persons, her DNA is in every DNA data base, her profile is on missing person data bases,” Shinn said this week.

“No information whatsoever has come in, which is very strange.”

He doesn’t believe the woman was a transient, because she has had a recent medical procedure, has had work on her teeth, and her eyebrows were recently manicured.

He does believe, based upon information that has been gathered, that the woman toured the Mark Twain Cave two days before her body was found.

His department subpoenaed receipts from the cave, and law enforcement has reviewed bank statements and credit card receipts.

But so far, clues have not lead to an identity.

“Somebody is missing her, which leads us to believe she’s not from this area. There is a possibility of her being an illegal immigrant,” Shinn said.

He that the jeans she was wearing, size 13-14, were from a JC Penney store, but not necessarily the Hannibal store.

The body remains at the medical examiner’s office in Columbia, where they are doing a reconstruction of her face. “We will have a pretty good picture to get out to the media,” Shinn said.

In the meantime, a local cemetery has offered to donate a plot, and a service will be conducted at a later date.

“It is frustrating and sad,” Shinn said.


Read more: http://www.hannibal.net/article/20131120/N...5#ixzz2lKSJlTJB
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HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) - More than two months after a woman's body was found along the banks of the Mississippi River near the northeast Missouri town of Hannibal, her identity remains a mystery.

Marion County Sheriff Jimmy Shinn told the Hannibal Courier-Post that police are no closer to identifying the woman than they were when the body was found in September.

Shinn believes the woman was not from the Hannibal area. He says one possibility is that she was in the country illegally.

There was some evidence that she toured the Mark Twain Cave two days before the body was found. The cave is south of Hannibal, not far from where the body was discovered.
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Homicide victim still not identified


“I got to believe some family out there is missing this lady,” said Marion County Sheriff Jimmy Shinn about the woman’s body found in the Mississippi River two miles south of Hannibal on Sept. 15, 2013.


Composite drawing of woman found Sept. 15, 2013, in the Mississippi River near Hannibal. CONTRIBUTED

Composite drawing of woman found Sept. 15, 2013, in the Mississippi River near Hannibal. CONTRIBUTED



“I got to believe some family out there is missing this lady,” said Marion County Sheriff Jimmy Shinn about the woman’s body found in the Mississippi River two miles south of Hannibal on Sept. 15, 2013.


From the beginning her death investigation was treated as a homicide, according to Sgt. Brent Bernhardt of the Missouri State Highway Patrol.


A composite drawing of the victim has been completed, and Shinn hopes this will help to identify her. “We are hoping we will put this picture out and stir up some more interest,” he said. “We still believe that.”


Shinn explained that “after we got the composite drawing, we had a meeting recently with the Highway Patrol” but “we have nothing new.


“We are going over old leads we have had to see if we could turn up anything new,” he continued. “We have some other leads we are inquiring about, but nothing promising. We are just trying to spark the investigation.


Anyone with information is requested to contact the Marion County Sheriff’s Department at (573) 769-2077 or the Missouri State Highway Patrol at (660) 385-2132.
“We have had no missing people (reported),” Shinn said, although “her fingerprints and DNA is in every system in the U.S.”





Early description


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After the body was discovered in the river, Shinn reported on Sept. 20 that information gathered indicated she was between 15 and 30 years old. She had shoulder-length black hair, was 5-foot-3, and weighed about 135 pounds. She was wearing jeans, size 13-14.

The authorities were hampered in identifying her by the advanced stage of decomposition, Shinn said.


He reported that on Sept. 19, the Northeast Missouri Major Case Squad met in Hannibal, with officers from Macon and Moberly and Randolph counties joining with officials from Ralls and Marion counties, the Missouri Highway Patrol and Hannibal police.
On Nov. 21, Shinn had reported the women was still not identified. He reported that he did not believe the woman was a transient, because she had a recent medical procedure, has had work on her teeth, and her eyebrows were recently manicured.
Also on Nov. 21, Shinn said he did believe, based on information that has been gathered, that the woman toured the Mark Twain Cave two days before her body was found.
His department subpoenaed receipts from the cave, and law enforcement reviewed bank statements and credit card receipts, but clues did not lead to an identity.
On Wednesday, July 23, Shinn reported he still believes the woman toured the cave two days before her body was found.


“She was believed to be in the company of another female and a male,” he said.


“They would be the persons of interest. We have no credit card receipts. The clerk at the cave believes they did purchase something with cash.”


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MARION COUNTY, MO. -- Authorities pulled a young woman's body from the Mississippi River south of Hannibal in September 2013.

Almost two years later, investigators still don't know who she is or how she died.

She's now referred to as "Jane Doe".

An anthropologist helped create a sketch of what she would've looked like when she was alive.

She appeared to be in her 30s and had dark brown or black hair. She was about 5-foot-3-inches tall and weighed 135 pounds.

Authorities believe she was Hispanic.

"She was actually hung up on the banks of the river along some rocks," Marion County Sheriff Jimmy Shinn said. "The river apparently went down, and that's where the body was hung up on. That's where the fishermen had located her."

Marion County Sheriff Jimmy Shinn said the mysterious case of Jane Doe is frustrating because authorities don't know who she is and they don't know who killed her.

"One of the challenges for the investigators was of course trying to figure out whether the body was dumped there, whether it floated there, exactly where it came from," he said.

To learn more, investigators dropped a dummy off the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge to watch the water flow and to see where the dummy would end up in the waterway. Unfortunately, Shinn said the dummy did not float to the area where Jane Doe's body was found.

KHQA spoke with two women who swear they saw the victim alive at the Mark Twain Cave the Sunday before her body was found.

The women didn't want to be identified or go on camera, but they believe the man Jane Doe was with that day had something to do with her death.

They described him as a tall white man with sun blonde hair and a deep tan.

The witnesses said he was with the victim and another woman in the Mark Twain Cave gift shop. They told KHQA the three did not act like anything was wrong and went through the cave. The victim even bought two rings from this gift shop.

"We pulled surveillance tapes from there, which were to no prevail for us," Sheriff said. "We pulled credit card receipts from there. We've literally been all over this country, trailing credit card receipts, things of that nature, follow-up interviews with people that were at the Mark Twain Cave during this time period."

Shinn said authorities aren't sure if the woman was an American citizen or an illegal immigrant. He said her DNA has been entered into every national database in the country along with her fingerprints and dental records.

"We are not even able to do a victimology report on her because we can't get her identified," Sheriff Shinn said. "We don't know her family, friends, her social status, where she worked anything like that that would possibly give us leads or connections. Hopefully in the case, one day we get a family member, close friend, something like that, they come along and say, 'hey, this may be my friend or family member.'"

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is the lead investigator in the case of Jane Doe since her body was found in a waterway, however, KHQA's calls to the patrol about this case were not returned.

The woman's body was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Hannibal.

If you have any information about the woman, her identity or who she was with in the days leading up to her death, please call the Missouri Highway Patrol at 573-526-6178.
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Two sought in connection with unidentified woman's body found in 2013
Posted: Dec. 7, 2016 12:30 pm Updated: Dec. 7, 2016 12:57 pm

HANNIBAL, Mo. -- Two people are being sought in connection with the Sept. 15, 2013, discovery of the body of an unidentified woman, known only as Jane Doe, in the Mississippi River just south of Hannibal.

The Marion County Sheriff's Department said witnesses reported they saw the woman, who is Hispanic, on Sept. 8, 2013, at the Mark Twain Cave and Gift Shop with a white man and a white woman.

The man is described as very tall with tanned skin and blond hair. He was wearing an orange Iowa Rodeo cutoff T-shirt, shirts and work boots. The woman is described as short, between 18 and 22 years old, and with blonde hair with streaks. She was wearing a yellow shirt or tank top and gray shorts with yellow trim.

The body was clad in an extra-large pink, purple, navy and yellow-striped blouse and size 13/14 Ariya-brand jeans. She also was in possession of a ring. The woman, who is between 5 feet, 2 inches and 5 feet, 4 inches and 130 and 140 pounds, has brown hair and brown eyes.

The Sheriff's Department, along with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, released the information in an effort to identify the body.

They are asking the families of missing people who believe the Jane Doe may be the missing individual to do the following:

º Submit DNA samples to the agency that took the original missing person's report.

º File a missing person's report for those they think might by Jane Doe, whom they have not had contact with since late 2013.

º Include as much information they can, including scars, marks, tattoos, photos, associated financial information, dental records, etc.

Police also are asking that anyone who may have visited the Mark Twain Cave, the gift shop and/or the Mark Twain Dinette on Sept. 8, 2013, and paid with cash to come forward with any information they might have, including photos. Anyone who may have seen the individuals in the Hannibal area is also asked to come forward.

Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Marion County Sheriff's Department at 573-769-2077 or the Missouri State Highway Patrol at 660-385-2132.
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