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| Princess Doe & Sherry Eyerly 1482DFOR; Possible Match??? What do you think? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 4 2006, 07:07 AM (582 Views) | |
| Dianne | Jul 4 2006, 07:07 AM Post #1 |
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Anne first noticed that the new Princess Doe rendering on Missing Kids was very like Sherry Eyerly. Thought it would be good to discuss it because I think so too. http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/ser...earchLang=en_US http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/1482dfor.html I think that they look enough alike to take a closer look. Found on opposite sides of the country doesn't worry me. People who never 'go' anywhere think it's too far to dump a body so far away, but lots of people are very mobile (like truckdrivers). The timing is good. Age is good. Nose looks good to me. Shameful that no really important info on Sherry is listed as to height and weight, or clothes she had on. What is WRONG with people who don't fill these important areas out on the LE MP form?!! Interested to hear what you all think of this as a potential match? |
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| 100PercentFound | Jul 4 2006, 11:30 AM Post #2 |
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Dianne, Are you trying to clean up the books on missing again? LOL You and I both do that. I'm kidding of course!! I do see a resemblance, but Ill leave the REAL opinions to the ones that really do this well! ROF!
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| awagner | Jul 4 2006, 10:58 PM Post #3 |
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I emailed the contact on the princess doe case and havent heard anything but it was over a holiday so I didnt expect. Sherry Eyerly case seems to have suspects. But I firmly believe that if they were that sure the person wouldnt be a suspect but a defendant. There is also theories that princess doe was a runaway that worked in MD between 1979 and 1981. That could also be wrong but because of that missing persons after 1979 may not have been looked at closely. The other thing I noticed is that she worked in a Pizza place. Nancy Weber (the Psychic) who worked with NJ police on that case and another that she is creditited for solving, claimed to see "princess doe" eating pizza and someone watching her. WHich makes me wonder if she didnt have her signals crossed a bit and the pizza event was more PRIOR to her being killed. |
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| Dianne | Jul 5 2006, 06:03 AM Post #4 |
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LOL, Rita, you know me. If the nose matches then it's a match - case closed and on to the next one, LOL |
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| Dianne | Jul 5 2006, 06:11 AM Post #5 |
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Oh good, Anne, I hope you get a response soon. I think it helps to get fresh eyes on these cases. LE, being human after all, get a tendency to be convinced of a certain scenerio from which they have trouble budging. Tell you what struck me about the write up on Sherry. They said, quote: A nearby resident came across the delivery car, returning from a fireworks display with his two sons. The door was open, three boxes of pizza lay on the ground and her hat was nearby. Eyerly was gone. The neighbor called the police who later determined that the delivery address did not exist. The caller had given a fictictious name and the call had been placed from a Salem motel. Investigators say the crime appeared to be carefully orchestrated, ruling out simple rape and robbery. She was likely flagged down by someone she knew - she felt comfortable enough to set the parking brake and open the door. There were no signs of a struggle. Duh, her hat was on the ground, the door was left standing open, and 3 pizza's lay on the ground but there was no sign of a struggle?! Just because she set her parking brake (an automatic response) and opened her door doesn't mean she knew the person! She was a young girl, it was 1982 when we ALL opened our doors to strangers back in those days. I wonder if they ever actually followed up on the people who were staying in the motel from which the pizza was ordered. Was it a motel that truckers might use? |
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| awagner | Jul 5 2006, 11:40 PM Post #6 |
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For the length of time this case has been unsolved and the amount of publicity it has had I am really tending to think this one is a case where what it appears is not what is is. Ok..lets take the theory about Princess being a runaway that had worked in OC motels from 1979. The age that the princess was given is as young as 14, to 18 in 1982. That would have made her 11-12 ish to 15-16 ish in 1979 if she were the other girl. I honestly do not believe any beach hotel could have someone that young working for them for that many years without eyebrows being raised. So I am working on the probablity that this is not the same girl that met a similiar description. With Sherry, even if the automobile appeared to be as though she opened the car for someone she knew that doesnt mean she knew them well.. She could have met someone one time at the pizza place and recongized them somewhere else as being familiar. I have yet to hear from anyone in response to my email on this and the other possible matches I sent in. Is anyone here familiar with the detective working this case that would have a more direct line than the police general email tips address? |
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| awagner | Jul 5 2006, 11:44 PM Post #7 |
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http://www.vidocq.org/doe/doe2.html ( Dianes link) Princess Doe, an unidentified teen between 14 and 18 years old, was dumped in a ravine off Route 94 in the small New Jersey community just 15 minutes from Stroudsburg in July 1982. Despite the case still being open to this day, authorities do not know who the girl is or how she ended up bludgeoned beyond recognition in rural northern New Jersey. Kranz, who worked day and night on the case in its early years, said he met the suspect shortly after the girl was buried in January 1983. Citizens reported seeing him several times at her grave so Kranz went to the cemetery to see him. The man, who lived nearby, turned out to have a record of violence, being arrested for fighting with police and assaulting at least one family member before he moved to Blairstown. He traveled in his line of work, and he quite likely passed through Maryland — the girl's last known location before she died — at the time of her death, Kranz said. |
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| awagner | Jul 5 2006, 11:52 PM Post #8 |
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WAIT A SEC.. I just remembered This is a FRANK BENDER recon case... ELLEN? you want to contact him or should I? |
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| awagner | Jul 7 2006, 12:18 AM Post #9 |
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and if someone knows how to make the picture smaller so it fits better in here please feel free.. |
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| WebWeaver | Jul 7 2006, 06:57 AM Post #10 |
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Do you know anyone living in Memphis, TN? I need someone to go to the library and/or high school and look at a year book or two. I need to know if Melinda Bateman was present pre 1980-81. I can't get LA to let me in on what they have found out. I think that's really unfair, but, they helped get us this far. |
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| awagner | Jul 7 2006, 11:37 PM Post #11 |
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Did he say if he ever received my email? Because if he isnt getting them through that contact link provided and He is the one on the case that link information should be changed.. Thanks for contacting him. |
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| awagner | Jul 7 2006, 11:39 PM Post #12 |
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Oh and thanks for resizing the picture :):) WHen he emails you can you ask him which of those reconstructions he feels best resembles the princess? |
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| WebWeaver | Jul 9 2006, 11:17 PM Post #13 |
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I haven't heard back yet. Thought I'd give him a few days. He wanted to compare Mindy and P Doe because of the new computer enhanced composit. He thought they looked a lot alike. When he wrote to me for the first time, which was last week, he said he had a better composite of P Doe, so I guess that would mean he thought it had a better likeness to her. I sent some e-mails out to Domino's to see if there is any way to find out exactly what their uniform T-shirts looked in 1982 at that particular Domino's. They usually have name tags or badges on also, and mostly they are red t-shirts with dark blue trim on collar area from what I've seen in available on-line pics. They also incorporate yellow and black trims and stuff., kinda racey because they promote racers and racing stuff prizes. |
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| awagner | Jul 9 2006, 11:37 PM Post #14 |
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did you guys ever get an age progression of Mindy done? |
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| WebWeaver | Jul 10 2006, 10:17 PM Post #15 |
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Yes. I'll get it up on the site. Kristy from the chat board "fire-in-the-kitchen" that had a discussion mentioning Sherry Eyerly responded to my e-mail. She lived in Salem when Sherry disappeared, but only knew of her. She thinks Sherry went to North High School (maybe McNary?). In the e-mail Kristy said,"Sherry's killer seemed to know the Salem area very well, calling in a fake address to lure her to what he knew would be a dark and isolated road. I would wonder if anyone "passing through" would have the sort of nowledge to pick such an ideal location. Also, the location she was abducted from is quite near to the Willamette River and an isolated, dark, swampy park on the river called Minto Brown Island...the strongest suspect in her case committed suicide before the police had a chance to interrogate him." |
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| awagner | Jul 10 2006, 11:40 PM Post #16 |
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I know you said before you were told by LE to not contact Melissa B, but have you tried writing a letter to her and ask LE to give it to her for you? |
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| WebWeaver | Jul 11 2006, 08:33 PM Post #17 |
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Yes, a letter was sent and not returned, law enforcement has become involved in the contact process. She will not respond, which makes her look guilty of something to them. LE asked me not to proceed because of the privacy issue. Juvenile centers can only keep the kids so long then more permanent housing is sought out. Indiana shows no adoption history for her. Now I'm in the process of Memphis adoption history. If an adoption took place we have no rights in seeking her out. LE said they need a confession from her that she is who we are looking for. In chess I think this is check. BUT!! I got a picture of Bateman taken less than 3 years ago. I sent it to NCMEC this morning. They sent it to the senior forensic artist, who said, everything fits and she can not be eliminated from the search. LE can't share anything with us because it is pertaining to a case making it CONFIDENTIAL. We can ask a question, and if the answer is "no" they will reply to the e-mail, if the answer is yes, they do not reply. A great Aunt, to Bateman's son's father, ran across the site and we are conversing back and forth thru e-mail. That's how I got the picture and hopefully how I'll get some info to help us finally crack this thing. Mindy's brother is hesitant to act until he knows for sure. If it were me, knock-knock-knock, right on that front door. I can’t do it because it’s not my sister. Also, it's considered a frontal assault, which NCMEC says never works. They said there has to be an officer involved in the approach.
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| Dianne | Jul 15 2006, 09:12 AM Post #18 |
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Oh dear! Well, would it be wrong (morally, ethically, legally) to hire a PI to try to ascertain if she is Mindy or not? At least if she isn't, you can move forward. If she is you know she's alive. I would like to think that because she doesn't answer, that's a good sign that she is Mindy. But some people are just the type to throw the letter away and not bother to answer one way or the other. The mystery just keeps deepening doesn't it? I am so anxious - I can imagine how your family must be feeling! |
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| monkalup | Jul 18 2006, 10:12 PM Post #19 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Wow! This must be so difficult...for everybody concerned. sp tantalizing and so "just out of reach" still. My hopes are with you... |
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| WebWeaver | Jul 25 2006, 09:22 AM Post #20 |
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Several investigators have tried, but, even with her expanded history file, the question is still before us. My next step is to find out when Bateman entered into the Memphis school system. I’m working on that and TN adoption history now. |
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| 100PercentFound | Jul 25 2006, 05:50 PM Post #21 |
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How about Classmates.com if you have an idea of a couple of schools? I stay in touch with a few that I found on there after not hearing from them for years. They usually give you their email addy as soon as they learn you are who you say you are. Then you dont have to keep paying for Classmates. Just get the free thing for a month, I think it is and people will spread the word about what you are doing and the link to your website, some forums you visit, etc. |
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I do see a resemblance, but Ill leave the REAL opinions to the ones that really do this well! ROF!





I sent some e-mails out to Domino's to see if there is any way to find out exactly what their uniform T-shirts looked in 1982 at that particular Domino's. They usually have name tags or badges on also, and mostly they are red t-shirts with dark blue trim on collar area from what I've seen in available on-line pics. They also incorporate yellow and black trims and stuff., kinda racey because they promote racers and racing stuff prizes.

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