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| Ell | May 18 2014, 01:07 PM Post #1 |
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A 1982 homicide is again under investigation by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office. “We’re hoping that technology now will give us some help that the deputies and the detectives back in 1982 didn’t have back then,” said Sheriff Dennis Richards. A woman’s skeletal remains were found May 8, 1982, by a passer-by on a rural town of Caledonia road. Investigators determined she died from blunt force trauma to the head. She was found about 60 feet off Petra Road in the town of Caledonia, between Konkel and Blacklock roads near Highway 78, according to Richards. There were no reports of a missing woman in southern Wisconsin at the time. The location is close to the interstate system and is easily accessible to any one passing through. “They believed back in 1982 that it’s very possible that this person was just dumped there and not killed there,” Richards said. Investigators don’t know how long the woman had been there, but believe it was within a year of her being discovered. While a reconstruction of her face was done by experts at the time, they do not know the color of her hair, skin or eyes. “There are so many unknowns in this case,” said Detective Lt. Roger Brandner. A review at the time by an anthropologist determined that the woman was about 5 feet 6 inches tall, between 45 and 60 years old, and had likely given birth. There is an 80 percent likelihood that the woman was Caucasian. She was found wearing size 12 brown pants. An investigation at the time turned up no information about the woman. She was buried Sept. 1, 1987, in Wyocena, as a Jane Doe. “With everything that they did back then, nobody was able to identify her,” Richards said. With the case reopened, the woman’s body was exhumed April 21 for further examination. Her DNA was sent for analysis to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s laboratory in Quantico, Va., where they will compare the woman’s DNA with missing persons in the Combined DNA Index System. Brandner said they hope to have a report within about three months. Richards is hoping that anyone will call who has a mother, grandmother or great-grandmother missing since about 1981; she would today be 70 to 90 years old. http://www.wiscnews.com/portagedailyregist...95622f63b7.html |
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| tatertot | Dec 23 2014, 07:21 AM Post #2 |
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http://www.channel3000.com/news/descriptio...d-case/30300812 Description, images released in 32-year-old cold case Decomposed body of woman found on rural road in Columbia County Published On: Dec 18 2014 02:55:18 PM CST Updated On: Dec 18 2014 02:57:08 PM CST TOWN OF CALEDONIA, Wis. - The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office is hoping new DNA information, an approximate description and a facial approximation will help identify the remains of a woman found, according to a release. The body of a white woman was found badly decomposed along a rural Columbia County Road in the town of Caledonia back in 1982, officials said. She died from blunt force trauma to the head. Efforts back in the '80s turned up no information on who she was, so she was buried by Columbia County officials in 1987 as a Jane Doe. In 2014, Columbia County detectives reopened the cold case as a homicide. Over the summer, county officials worked with the FBI Crime Lab in Quantico, Virginia, in hopes of using DNA technology to compare her against missing people in the Combined DNA Index System. Officials said they were able to get a DNA profile, but it did not match any missing persons files. An anthropologist review of the remains was completed and determined that the woman was white, approximately 5 feet 5.5 inches tall, and was at least 45 years old but possibly up to 60 years old. They also determined that she probably had given birth. Columbia County Sheriff Dennis Richards is looking for information that will lead to identifying the woman. The sheriff’s office has followed up on more than 50 leads, but she still remains unidentified.
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