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ONF050828; 8-28-2005, Guelph, Ontario
Topic Started: May 17 2006, 05:34 PM (1,039 Views)
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New OPP website has head sculpture of woman whose body was found near Rockwood

MAGDA KONIECZNA

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This head sculpture of a woman whose body was found near Rockwood last August is posted on a new OPP website dedicated to identifying bodies and missing persons.


GUELPH (May 17, 2006)

A body discovered near Rockwood last August is among more than 100 bodies found in Ontario since 1975 that have never been identified.

Yesterday, the Ontario Provincial Police and the chief coroner's office unveiled a new website they hope will lead to the public's assistance in identifying bodies and closing cases of missing persons.

The Resolve Initiative website, which can be reached through the OPP's homepage at www.opp.ca, contains information and photos about missing persons and unidentified bodies.

"We have unidentified human remains and missing persons and unfortunately some are going to overlap," said Detective Staff Sergeant Kim Peters, the OPP's manager of missing persons and unidentified bodies.

"By being together in one database, we're going to solve some of them.

"The more public exposure (police) get on this type of thing, the better," Peters said.

"There may be people who say, 'I know this missing person. I was never interviewed.' "

Along with yesterday's announcement in Toronto, the OPP released for the first time an artist's sculpted rendition of the face of the woman found west of Rockwood.

A pedestrian found the woman's body under a blanket in a picnic area last Aug. 28. Police immediately concluded her death was suspicious.

But despite a series of unusual steps to identify her -- including releasing photographs of her clothing, holding a special news conference in Montreal after being led to believe she might be from that area, and publishing pictures of her dental work in dentists' magazines -- they've come no closer to figuring out who she was.

Police were hopeful at Christmas that a relative who didn't hear from her might realize she's missing and contact police. But no one did.

Now, they hope the new website and the rendition of her face will lead someone to identify her.

It wouldn't be the first time a case was solved long after someone was found dead, said OPP Sergeant Dave Rektor.

Lynda Shaw, a 21-year-old university student, was found murdered near London in 1990. Her killer wasn't publicly identified until last year.

"We're very hopeful that we can bring these victims home to loved ones," Rektor said.

"Most people in this world have somebody who would recognize them or a likeness of them. We're very hopeful of that in this case and many others."

He added that unsolved deaths are tough for police.

"That's very frustrating to everybody. In any of these cases where we find a person who's met their demise and nobody claims them right away, it's upsetting to us," Rektor said.

The OPP hopes the website will provide plenty of tips that help them solve cases of unidentified bodies.

"Other jurisdictions have indicated that after each media event, there's a flurry of activity and calls," Peters said.

The police force in Las Vegas solved a dozen cases of missing people soon after starting a similar website in 2003, the province's chief coroner, Barry McLellan, told reporters in Toronto yesterday.

The new Ontario site, the first of its kind in Canada, is unique because it has autopsy photos of unidentified bodies, McLellan said.

That was something that required a lot of sensitivity, he added.

"We're aware that much of the information (on the site) is sensitive, specifically the images," the chief coroner said.

"(The photos) are presented in as respectful a way as we can.

The goal is to provide the best information we have in a sensitive way to help identify persons."

The site includes photos of a reconstruction of the face of the woman found near Rockwood, plus images of her dental plate and new versions of the clothing she was wearing when she was found.

The site says she was between 25 and 45 years old when she died. She was white and stood five-foot-three to five-foot-five.

She had a partial upper dental plate and brown hair.

It says she had been injured in the past, suffering a broken nose, an injured eye socket and a fractured rib.

The site says her partial dental plate probably replaces teeth that were knocked out at that time.

When the body was found, she was wearing a beige tank top, size 10/12, black size-nine corduroy shorts, thong-style underwear and a pink bra.

Missing people reported by other police services might be added to the website in the future, OPP Det. Sgt. Peters said.

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I visited this site today. I know a woman who has been missing since the end of the 70's and they don't have her there - OPP jurisdiction. The OPP are a pretty iffy police organization at the best of times but a site like this is long, long, long overdue. There are something like 761 missing women in the province of Ontario and you can't find anything on most of them.
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Is there no one to grieve over this dead woman?
Section: News, pg. A02

Privacy is a privilege rarely afforded the slain, the violently dead.

Already, a coroner and an anthropologist and a forensic dentist have probed and peeled, trepanned and weighed, sieved and scrutinized the remains of a woman whose body lies still in the Toronto morgue.

Lies still; still lies.

Six weeks after her unidentified remains were collected from a wooded picnic area near Guelph, just off Highway 7.

It is an invasive procedure, the forensic post-mortem: The Y incision along the chest and abdomen, scooping the brain, fingers digging at organs, prying into all the secret places of a human being.

The exhaustive examination has provided critical clues but not the most basic facts.

Who is she? How did she die? When?

To help answer those questions, an exercise in necessary voyeurism: Displaying intimate items of apparel on the OPP website.

A brassiere, originally pink but soiled to burnt rust, labelled "725 Originals," with the number 31 on the left cup.

Panties, of the thong variety, labelled "Rivage Intimate," with a small bow at the waist.

If you've seen these undergarments, call the cops.

But who would have seen this mystery woman's smalls? And, having done so, would have no knowledge that the woman is missing, dead? It defies logic that anyone familiar with these articles, to the point of recognizing them, would not already be aware of the woman's disappearance. Aware but not reporting it. Which makes it all the more likely that she was murdered. Not even that much can be stated, with certitude, at this point.

The remains were so decomposed that the coroner has been unable to determine cause of death, or whether a homicide occurred. It is, for the moment, a "criminally suspicious" death.

But this woman suffered, while alive. She had fractures on the left side of her face, about her nose, underneath the eye. These were old injuries that had mended badly, perhaps were never medically treated.

"It would have been painful," says Dr. Jim Cairns, Ontario deputy chief coroner, who has grown increasingly frustrated with the failure of both science and police investigation to identify this woman.

The injuries would also have been readily apparent, distorting the woman's face. They would have been memorable. "It's impossible that anyone who saw this woman would not have noticed the injuries and not have remembered them."

Says Detective Inspector Dave Truax of the OPP, lead investigator on the case: "This woman had been the victim of violence at some time before her death."

What's known: She was white, 5-foot-6, weighed 130 pounds, with brown hair, between 25 and 40 years old. She had a partial upper dental plate, the work not particularly expert and thus far unable to track.

Found wearing a tank-top, labelled "Atmosphere," with one-inch straps and a round neckline, size 10/12. Also, as posted on the OPP website, a pair of corduroy shorts, labelled "Illegal Jeanswear," with horizontal zipped front pockets, button-down flap pockets on the rear, size 9.

Police have traced some of these clothes to retailers in Quebec City and Montreal. "She is probably from Quebec," says Truax, who will, in the coming weeks, hold a press conference in that province to get the story out in Quebec media.

The body was found six weeks ago and was, for the briefest time, thought to be Alicia Ross, the pretty 25-year-old who'd vanished from her backyard earlier in the month. But it became quickly obvious, merely upon visual inspection - not tall enough - that this was yet another, and apparently undeclared, missing woman, as OPP investigators immediately informed York Region.

A city searched for Miss Ross and, when her killing was confirmed, mourned for her as well.

That is as it should be.

But nobody appears to be mourning the woman whose remains were recovered west of the town of Rockwood on Aug. 28, police responding to a 911 call from a pedestrian who'd made the gruesome discovery while walking around the area, just off into the woods.

The body was covered with a blanket but didn't otherwise seem to have been carefully secreted. The region in which the woman was found is not particularly secluded, thousands of motorists driving by daily, although the body would not have been visible from the picnic area itself. These circumstances did suggest, at least at the outset, that the body might not have arrived at the spot where it was found until shortly beforehand, even though the remains were severely degraded. With the results of entomology tests - insect activity on the remains - still pending, the time of death is woefully imprecise: Anywhere between two and six weeks before she was found.

Investigators immediately checked police databases for missing people, consulted with regional police forces.

Since April alone, 750 women had been reporting missing across Canada. Truax culled that list to 38 "possibles." After contacting families and studying dental records, none proved a match. On Oct. 1, back to the master list, 19 new ones on the manifest: One each from Alberta and B.C., three from Ontario, 14 logged on by Interpol, meaning those women were from around the world.

"We're still working our way through those," says Truax.

It is not, sadly, terribly unusual for individuals to die, naturally or otherwise, and leave no hole in the world - no one to miss them, no one to notice they're not here anymore.

Truax recalls a case he worked, way back, in northern Ontario, a man found dead by the side of the highway. It wasn't until seven years later that his family reported him missing and a match was made. "This was a fellow who used to hitchhike across the country a couple of times a year. His family had no way of knowing what had happened to him."

In other families, the missing reports aren't filed until Christmas, a time when even the distant and estranged get to thinking, wondering.

"Usually, in an investigation, we look at who, what, when, where, why," says Truax. "Here, we're still stuck on the who.

"It's very troubling. This is a human being, someone who lived and breathed and must have smiled. But there just aren't any answers.

"No name. No face."

Rosie DiManno usually appears Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

Copyright © 2005 Toronto Star, All Rights Reserved.


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Source: Toronto Star (Canada), Oct 12, 2005
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CASE #: 20050002
DATE Found: 8/28/2005
AGE (Estimated): 25-45
GENDER: Female
RACE: Caucasian
HEIGHT: 163 to 168 cm : 5 ft 4 to 5 ft 6 in
WEIGHT: 58 to kg : 130 to lbs
BUILD: Average
DENTAL: Partial upper dental plate consisting of 2 teeth, left incisor and canine
HAIR: Medium brown, Brown
EYES: N/A
UNIQUE FEATURES: Old facial trauma including a broken nose and left eye socket, resulting deformities were probable and the partial dental plate is due to this old facial trauma.
Previous fracture of the left 7th rib of the front rib cage.
HABITS: N/A
CLOTHING:
Shirt, Tank top, Beige, Size 10/12, 1 inch straps, round neck line
Shorts, Black, Size 9, Corduroy, 2 horizontal zippered front pockets and two back pockets with button down flaps
Underwear, Brassiere, Pink, Number "31" printed on left cup
Underwear, Thong style, White, Small bow at waist

PERSONAL EFFECTS: N/A
SUMMARY: The remains of this adult female were located by a pedestrian. This is being investigated as a suspicious death.
LOCATION Found: Guelph, Ontario, Wooded rest stop/picnic area on Highway 7, west of the Town of Rockwood, Ontario
POLICE SERVICE: Ontario Provincial Police-Wellington County Detachment

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Unidentified White Female


The victim was discovered on August 28, 2005 in Eramosa Township, east of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Estimated Date of Death: 2 to 6 weeks prior to discovery
This is being investigated as a suspicious death


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Vital Statistics


Estimated age: 25 - 45 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5' 4" - 5' 6" (163 - 168 cm); 130 lbs. (58 kg).
Distinguishing Characteristics: Medium-brown hair. The deceased had previous facial injury consisting of a broken nose and damage to the left eye socket. The victim also had a partial upper dental plate consisting of two teeth. The left eye socket injury corresponds to the two teeth on the dental plate. There is also evidence of a previous injury to the 7th rib on the left front of her rib cage.
Dentals: Available; partial upper dental plate consisting of two teeth.
Clothing: Pink brassiere, "31" located on the left cup, label "725 Originals"; thong-style panties with a small bow at the waist,"Rivage Intimate"; beige Atsmosphere tank top t-shirt with 1" straps and a round neck line, size 10/12; black corduroy "Illegal Jeanswear" shorts with two horizontal zippered front pockets, two back pockets with button down flaps, size 9.
DNA: Available


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Case History
The victim was located by a pedestrian at a wooded rest stop/picnic area on Highway 7 in Eramosa Township, east of Guelph, Ontario on August 28, 2005. Guelph is located approximately one hour west of Toronto, Ontario.



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If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Ontario Provincial Police
Guelph Detachment
Detective Constable Dave Beckon
519-822-7250
1-888-310-1122

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Crime Stoppers
1-800-222-TIPS (8477)
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

Agency Case Number: 20050002


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Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

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ROCKWOOD, Ont. (CP) - Ontario's deputy chief coroner says hope is fading that the identity of a woman whose body was found a near Rockwood in August will ever be known.

Dr. Jim Cairns says the body found beneath a blanket in a picnic area at a rest stop along Highway 7 likely belonged to a wandering homeless woman.

Police don't know how or when she died, but they do know foul play was involved.

Cairns says the woman suffered a severe fracture to her left cheekbone and never had the injury treated.

She also had a partial upper dental plate because she had lost some teeth.

Cairns fears she will remain one of 10 bodies without a name that are being stored in the morgue at the Office of the Chief Coroner in Toronto.

"If she was a hooker wandering from one place to another, it's possible she hasn't been reported missing," Cairns said Tuesday. "Without a missing person's report to compare her to, we don't have much to go on."

Still, police investigators are not giving up on the case.

In an attempt to find someone who knows the woman, provincial police investigators plan to have a composite sketch or a clay reconstruction done of the woman's face.

"We want something created that will give a visual replication of our victim's features," said Const. Jennifer Smith. "We have exhausted all other avenues and we are trying something else to find out her identity."

As soon as a composite sketch or clay reconstruction is completed, it will be released to the media, Smith said.

The woman found lying between the trees in the rest area just kilometres west of Rockwood is described as a white woman between 25 and 40 years of age.

She had brown hair, stood about five-feet, six-inches tall and weighed about 130 pounds, based on the summer clothing she was wearing at the time she was found.

Her body was found partially decomposed by a person walking through the rest stop on Aug. 28.

(Guelph Mercury)
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Police need help in identifying woman's remains
Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Ontario Provincial Police are seeking help from the public in identifying a woman whose decomposed body was found in a wooded picnic area near Rockwood on Sunday.

Coroners have compiled a sketchy description of the woman.

Investigators said she was a white woman between 25 and 45 years of age. She stood about five foot six and weighed about 130 pounds. The woman had a partial upper dental plate because she had lost some of her teeth, and she had sustained a fractured left cheekbone sometime before her death, police said.

Those are the few pieces of the puzzle investigators have managed to fit together, but there are still many missing.

"We are having trouble figuring out her identity," said Wellington County OPP Constable Jennifer Smith. "It's paramount we determine who this woman is and how she died in order to enable us to look at suspects."

The woman's partially decomposed remains were found covered by a blanket, lying between trees at a rest stop area along Highway 7. A person discovered her while walking in the area Sunday morning.

It is still not known how long her body had been there, what caused her death or what brought her to the spot just three kilometres west of Rockwood. But investigators do know her death is suspicious.

"Where she was found in the wooded area, the fact that at her age she likely didn't die from natural causes and the fact that we are unable to determine who she is or where she is from all make her death suspicious," Smith said.

With the hope that someone will step forward and identify her, investigators have released a detailed description of the mystery woman's clothing.

The woman was found wearing: a pink bra with the label '725 Originals' and the number '31' printed on the left cup; thong-style panties with the label 'Rivage Intimate' and a small bow at the waist; a tank top T-shirt, size 10-12 with the label 'Atmosphere,' one-inch straps and a round neck line; and corduroy shorts, size nine, with the label 'Illegal Jeanswear.' They had two horizontal zippered front pockets and two back pockets with button-down flaps.

"There must be a neighbour, acquaintance, friend or someone who saw a person wearing the clothing that matches this description," Smith said.

"The public is our biggest chance of finding out who this woman is and we want anyone who knows someone with this clothing to give us a call."

The body is still at the Office of the Chief Coroner in Toronto and further testing is being done to try and determine an identity and cause of death. Coroners are also conducting DNA tests and bone tests, Smith said.

"All of that takes time," said Smith.

Meanwhile, investigators continue to review missing persons reports from police services, but they have acknowledged the possibility that the woman may not have been reported missing.

"Often when people go missing, a loved one or family member will report them missing," Smith said. "But there are people out there who have no one else. People who have lost touch with their family or who are homeless or desolate and don't want to be found. People who aren't accounted for."

Police are asking anyone who recognizes the woman's clothing or has any information that would help in solving the case to contact OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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Seeking the Public’s Help to Identify a Young Female Victim




On Sunday August 28, 2005, the body of an unidentified person was found at the end of a footpath in a wooded area at a rest stop on Highway 7, west of the Town of Rockwood, Ontario. It is believed the body had been there for approximately one month.

The victim is described as an adult white female between the ages of 25-45 years with medium brown hair. She was approximately 5 foot 4 inches to 5 foot 6 inches tall, weighing approximately 130 pounds, with an average build. She had a partial upper dental plate consisting of two teeth, the left incisor and the canine. She had some old facial trauma including a broken nose and left eye socket. As a result of the facial trauma, it is probable that this female had facial deformities. The dental plate may have been associated to the facial trauma. She also had a fracture of the 7th rib of the front rib cage.

She was wearing a beige tank top, size 10/12 with one inch straps and a round neck line, a pair of black corduroy shorts, size 9 with zippered front pockets and two back pockets with button down flaps, a pink brassiere with the number “31” printed on the left cup and a pair of white thong underwear with a bow at the waist.



It is likely that the unknown female may have been on social assistance at one time or another in her short life span. The cause of death has not been ascertained but is considered to be suspicious.


Working with Project Resolve to Identify this Female Victim

The OPP Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB) is asking the public’s assistance in identifying this young female victim.

Michelle Humphries has completed a facial reconstruction of this victim in an effort to assist CIB in determining the victim’s identity.

Anyone with information about the possible identification of this victim or with tips that may assist with the investigation are encouraged to contact The Resolve Initiative at 1-877-9FIND (877-934-6363) or via email at opp.isb.resolve@ontario.ca.



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Who is she?
Five years after her discovery, police know a lot about a mystery woman but not her name
August 26, 2010
Greg Layson

GUELPH — Five years have passed since a woman’s remains were found in a wooded area near Rockwood, just off a rest stop along Highway 7, and who she is remains a mystery.

The province is now offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to her identity and information on the circumstances surrounding her death.

“It’s inconceivable to think we haven’t identified her,” OPP Det. Insp. Ian Maule said during a media conference Thursday at the Rockwood OPP detachment, almost to the day of the fifth anniversary of the discovery of the mystery woman.

“We have the means to identify her; many means to identify her.”

From the make and model of a sleeping bag found covering her body, to the size of the woman’s bra, police know many intimate personal details. But they’re stumped on who she is.

The remains were found by a passing biker. He came across them when he wandered into the woods to relieve himself.

Police know the woman was Caucasian and between 25 and 45. She was approximately 5-foot-6 and weighed 130 pounds. Her naturally dark brown hair had recently been lightened and appeared medium reddish brown.

Police obtained a sample of her DNA. They fingerprinted her. It hasn’t provided them with her name.

Because the body was found in a decomposing state, it was impossible for police to conduct toxicology tests. The woman was not sexually assaulted. While police lack a cause of her death, foul play is suspected. Someone dragged her 10 metres into the bush, covered her with a sleeping bag and left her and never reported having done so.

The identity of that person or people weighs on investigators.

“To get to that point, we need to know who she is,” Maule said. “We need the public to help us identify this woman so her family can know where she is and properly grieve.”

Investigators are also stumped on how the woman died.

They know she was found without shoes. Maule said “this is significant because it would indicate to investigators that she did not walk to this location.”

She had no obvious tattoos and no jewelry. And she still has no name — save the obvious and empty, Jane Doe.

Her clothing — a beige, size 10/12 ‘Atmosphere’ tank top, with a round neckline and one-inch straps, made in Quebec; and very short, black, size 9 ‘Illegal Jeanswear’ corduroy short, with a low waist manufactured in Bangladesh and distributed by Roadrunner Apparel Inc., of Lachine, Que. — “suggests that she dressed young for her age,” Maule said.

Police also know she was wearing a ‘725 Originals’ brand bra — size 34-B. They’re still trying to determine where her white, thong-style underwear — also made in Bangladesh — was distributed and sold.

She had seemingly unique identifying physical features. She would have had a noticeable facial deformity and she wore a dental plate.

She had a broken left cheek and eye socket and a broken nose. Police said the injuries were caused by “blunt impact trauma” and would have occurred after she turned 18, but could have been sustained as recently as six months prior to her death. She also had a broken rib, which was well healed.

She also wore a low-grade, temporary dental plate that replaced two missing upper teeth.

Placing a 2005 ad in oral health magazines distributed across the Canada, with photos of the woman’s denture plate, failed to shed light on her identity.

“The dental plate isn’t numbered and that’s a problem,” lead investigator Det. Insp. Paul Johnson said. “We don’t know if it’s North American or European.”

Because it’s not numbered, police can’t track the manufacturing or distribution of the plate.

“It’s frustrating in that until we identify her, we can’t establish how she died,” Johnson said.

The OPP has 188 unidentified bodies in its database. And there are 7,408 people listed as missing in the Canadian Information Centre database. None match the body found in 2005.

Maule said “it defies logic” as to why the unidentified woman hasn’t been reported as missing.

Police are now considering the woman may have been a recent immigrant from Europe or Asia, and they have expanded their investigation beyond Canada using INTERPOL.

Maule said the woman may have recently moved to the area between Guelph and Brantford.

“Highway 7 is a busy highway but not normally used by persons travelling long distances. I don’t believe she was travelling across country,” he said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the OPP, your local police service, Crime Stoppers, the Office of the Chief Coroner, or visit the Resolve Initiative website at www.missing-u.ca
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OPP Offering $50,000 Reward To Identify Victim And Find Killer Of Guelph Remains
Female Human Remains Found Five Years Ago Near Guelph
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Missing Guelph Woman $50,000 Reward
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(ROCKWOOD, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is now offering a 50-thousand dollar reward for information leading to identification of female human remains found five years ago near Guelph . The OPP investigators on this case are treating the circumstances of the victim’s death as suspicious and consider that foul play was involved.


Members of the OPP Unsolved Homicide Investigations Team (UHIT) and Missing Persons Unidentified Bodies Unit (MPUB), along with the Office of the Chief Coroner and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service, are confident that a reward will also lead to the apprehension of her killer.


On August 28, 2005, the remains of a white female, approximately 25 – 45 years old, approximately 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighed about 130 pounds with light brown hair were found in a wooded location at a picnic/rest area on Highway #7, west of Rockwood. It is believed the female had been dragged a short distance into the woods beside the picnic area and had been there for approximately one month before being discovered. A “Woods”-brand sleeping bag had been placed over the deceased covering her.


The autopsy revealed that the victim had no recent injuries, however, at some time in her life, she had experienced a broken left cheek, nose and left eye socket which had since healed. As of result of these injuries the deceased had lost one left front and two upper teeth for which she wore a two-tooth, partial plate. This type of injury would have left her with a visible facial deformity. No personal jewellery or identification was found with the deceased. Investigators have established that the clothing she was wearing at the time of her discovery was purchased in the Montreal area.


“In spite of the public information provided and the extensive media coverage at the time, the identity of this woman – and that of her potential killer – remains unknown,” said OPP Commissioner Chris Lewis. “The OPP are appealing to anyone -- family members, friends, former colleagues, or someone with knowledge of her past injuries -- to come forward to assist us to identify this victim and bring the person(s) responsible for her death to justice.”

Photos of the scene surroundings and other information that may help identify this person are available for the public to view at Missing-U.ca

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Thursday, August 26th, 2010 | Posted by Karen J. Mullins $50,000 reward for identity of Ontario Jane Doe



Who is she?
By Karen Mullins

GUELPH, ON ¨C For five years Guelph Police have been trying to figure out the identity of a woman whose remains were found in a wooded area at a rest stop on Highway No. 7.

Now the OPP is offering $50,000 for information leading to her identification.

On August 28, 2005 the remains of a white female with light brown hair were found just west of Rockwood.

The victim was 25 to 45 years of age, weighing 130 pounds and 5¡¯6¡å.

The autopsy report revealed the woman had been injured in the past- a broken cheek, nose and left eye socket had already healed at the time of her death. Her previous injuries had resulted in one of her front left teeth and two upper teeth being knocked out. ¡®Jane Doe¡¯ had a two-tooth partial plate. She would have had facial deformities because of these injuries.

While ¡®Jane Doe¡¯ had no personal jewelry or ID on her investigators discovered that her clothing had been purchased in the Montreal area.

Jane Doe had been dragged a short distance into the woods from the rest stop about a month before she was found. Someone had covered her with a ¡°Woods¡±-brand sleeping bag. OPP investigators believe the circumstances of her death are suspicious and consider foul play for this ¡°body dump.¡±

¡°In spite of the public information provided and the extensive media coverage at the time, the identity of this woman ¨C and that of her potential killer ¨C remains unknown,¡± said OPP Commissioner Chris Lewis.

¡°The OPP are appealing to anyone ¡ª family members, friends, former colleagues, or someone with knowledge of her past injuries ¡ª to come forward to assist us to identify this victim and bring the person(s) responsible for her death to justice.¡±

Should you wish to remain anonymous, you may call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), where you may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2,000.
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