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TXF060530; Red Oak May 30 2006
Topic Started: Jun 6 2006, 03:11 PM (285 Views)
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Texas Missing Persons Clearinghouse Online Bulletin
Unidentified Person's Details
No Picture Available Case Number: U0606001
Agency: Red Oak Police Department
Date Found: 5/30/2006
Estimated Date of Death: 5-30-2006
Cause of Death: Auto/Pedestrian Accident
Race: White
Sex: Female
Age: 20 - 30
Height: 5' 5 " - 5' 9 "
Weight: 118 lbs. - 130 lbs.
Eye Color: Unknown
Hair Color: Brown
State Found: Texas
Country Found: USA
Clothing: Blue T-shirt with "Cracker Jack" logo in white letters, blue jeans, yellow/blue striped panties, tan bra and brown flip-flops.
Miscellaneous: The victim was hit by several vehicles on I-35 East in Red Oak. She has large 1/4" piercing in each ear; long brown curly hair.



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Phone: (512) 424-5074
Helpline: (800) 346-3243
Ell

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Ell,Jun 6
2006 - 03:11 PM
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http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/mpch/Unidenti...asp?id=U0606001
Missing Persons Home Page
View Printable Poster
Texas Missing Persons Clearinghouse Online Bulletin
Unidentified Person's Details
No Picture Available Case Number: U0606001
Agency: Red Oak Police Department
Date Found: 5/30/2006
Estimated Date of Death: 5-30-2006
Cause of Death: Auto/Pedestrian Accident
Race: White
Sex: Female
Age: 20 - 30
Height: 5' 5 " - 5' 9 "
Weight: 118 lbs. - 130 lbs.
Eye Color: Unknown
Hair Color: Brown
State Found: Texas
Country Found: USA
Clothing: Blue T-shirt with "Cracker Jack" logo in white letters, blue jeans, yellow/blue striped panties, tan bra and brown flip-flops.
Miscellaneous: The victim was hit by several vehicles on I-35 East in Red Oak. She has large 1/4" piercing in each ear; long brown curly hair.



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You can contact the Missing Persons Clearinghouse at :

Missing Persons Clearinghouse
Texas Department of Public Safety
P O Box 4087
Austin, Texas 78773-0422
Phone: (512) 424-5074
Helpline: (800) 346-3243

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Police consider forensic method
Procedure requires artist to imitate life
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer



REDLANDS - Police are considering using a forensic artist to reconstruct the face of a suspected homicide victim whose skeletal remains were found late last month scattered across a field on the eastern edge of the city.
Police spokesman Carl Baker said investigators are pushing to have the facial reconstruction completed this week.

"I think we've gotten someone recommended to us," he said.

Forensic facial reconstruction is the process of recreating the face of an unidentified person from skeletal remains. Artists use modeling clay to sculpt the likeness of the person, using parts of the skull to help them gauge soft-tissue thicknesses. It is often done as a last resort by law enforcement, and some forensic scientists have criticized the method due to low number of successful identifications.

As of Friday, coroner's officials had not been informed by police of such an endeavor. Although voicing reservations, they were not completely opposed to the idea.

"The facial-reconstruction process for identification is not the common route to take for identification since it has not been widely successful in this county," said Sandy Fatland, spokeswoman for the Coroner's Office. "However, if an individual who is recognized by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences should be contracted in this case, this division would be open to assisting in any way possible."

Regardless of how close a facial reconstruction gets to the likeness of the person, it doesn't preclude the need to obtain dental records, fingerprints and DNA - which are the most reliable methods to confirm identification, Fatland said.

The remains, determined to be that of a 5-foot-3, 120-pound woman between 20 and 46, were found by a work crew about noon Aug. 30 on a grassy slope near Ford Street and Sunset Drive. The remains, which had decomposed on the slope over a period of months, were scattered by animals, police said.

Using some strands of hair, coroner investigators determined the mystery woman was black and had short hair with braided extensions.

That is all police have had to go on so far.

Investigators continue searching local, state and federal missing-persons databases trying to find someone matching the physical characteristics of the suspected victim with few results, Baker said.

"We're pretty sure she's not from around here. We've already gone through our local missing persons, and she doesn't match up to any of them," Baker said. He said it is still unclear if the woman's body was brought to Redlands from another area and dumped. Her remains were found near Interstate 10 and the Ford Street on-ramp and off-ramp.

Police have notified the state Department of Justice and law-enforcement agencies nationwide,


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Baker said.

Despite the criticisms of facial reconstruction, the technique has aided law enforcement in some noteworthy cases.

In summer 2005, facial reconstruction was responsible for helping police in Fort Worth, Texas, crack a 42-year-old homicide case.

A forensic anthropologist who contracts with the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office came across a 1963 victim who was identified as a woman. But Dr. Dana Austin quickly noticed something was wrong - the skeleton was that of a man, not a woman. Somehow, the remains were not identified correctly, said Suzanne Baldon the forensic artist Austin called upon to do a facial reconstruction of the victim.

Using the victim's skull, Baldon quickly had a sculpted image of the man, who strongly resembled a man who was reported missing out of Fort Worth in 1963, Baldon said.

"We published photographs of the sculpture, and immediately we started getting calls. And the people that called said, 'We think it could be Kenneth Glaze,' " Baldon said.

Austin found a surviving cousin of Glaze's in southeast Texas and obtained a mitochondrial DNA sample. It was a positive match for Glaze, said Baldon, who is also a part-time lecturer in anthropology at the University of Texas at Arlington.

The reason authorities misidentified the remains in 1963, Baldon said, was likely due to an assumption. Glaze, who was shot in the back of the head, was wearing a woman's raincoat and blue socks that appeared to be those of a teenager, Baldon said.

Baldon continues doing facial reconstructions for law-enforcement agencies throughout Texas, the most recent being that of a woman whose skeletal remains were found near Interstate 30 in Waco in April. It might be helping McLennan County sheriff's detectives more than they had imagined.

"They're telling me they haven't positively identified the person, but they have an idea of who it may be," Baldon said.

She said forensic facial reconstruction is an effective law-enforcement tool, despite what critics say.

"We've solved several cases by this means. As far as I'm concerned, whether there are people who agree with it or not, if it helps a family find closure or it helps a case get closed, that's great. And if it doesn't, well, at least we tried."
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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