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OKF060427; April 27 2006 Muskogee County
Topic Started: Aug 3 2006, 06:41 AM (506 Views)
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Muskogee County Sheriff's Office Seeks To Identify Dead Woman
KOTV - 8/2/2006 10:18 AM - Updated: 8/2/2006 4:54 PM
Muskogee County investigators have a mystery on their hands. They need the public’s help identifying a woman who bled to death after a miscarriage. Someone left her in a ditch, near a busy interstate.

Sheriff’s deputies don't want to bury her until they find her family, but time is running out.

The News on 6 has a policy not to show pictures of the dead, however, in this case, it's the only way to help identify this woman.

News on 6 crime reporter Lori Fullbright says deputies found the woman's body about a mile south of I-40, on a county road, near Webber's Falls on April 27th. She'd been dead about 12 hours and had no identification; not even any socks or shoes. She was wearing a long sleeve white top and dark pants.

Muskogee County Sheriff Charles Pearson: "The thing is, we're going to have to bury her pretty soon and it'd be nice to identify her and get her back to her family before we do so."

She's between 25 and 40 years old, possibly Hispanic and had a well kept appearance. They can tell from stretch marks that she was probably a mother, with children out there somewhere. They thought she might be an illegal immigrant, but then noticed a vaccination mark on her arm, so believe she grew up in America. "Maybe she was riding with illegals. Maybe she was with somebody who'd had run-ins with the law and they were afraid they'd be held for homicide. But, the truth is, it's not a homicide, it's a natural death."

Investigators put the woman's information in the national crime computer and listed her picture on missing person’s forums. They've had no hits on her fingerprints or DNA.

If she's not identified, she'll soon have to be buried, in a pauper's grave with no marker, just a number. "She belongs to somebody and we need to find out who they are."

Sheriff’s deputies hope someone saw her at a gas station, truck stop or restaurant along I-40 and can give them a hint of who she is so they let her rest in peace.

The woman's fetus was not found with her body.

If anyone has information about this case, they can call the Muskogee County Sheriff's office at 918-687-0202.
http://www.kotv.com/news/?108688
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Officials haunted by cold cases
New network could help discover identities

By Elizabeth Ridenour
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Jane Doe was buried in 2006 under a large oak tree in a very peaceful spot in New Hope Cemetery near Hulbert. Her true identity may be a mouse click away for someone.

Doe was discovered April 27, 2006.

Muskogee County Sheriff Charles Pearson hopes the Doe Network, a network of people on the Internet, can help discover the unknown woman’s identity.

“I think it’s a heck of a deal,” Pearson said. “There’s another sister site to it, and we’re going to put it on both of them.”

The Doe Network, the International Center for Unidentified and Missing Persons, “is a volunteer organization devoted to assisting law enforcement in solving cold cases concerning unexplained disappearances and unidentified victims from North America, Australia and Europe,” according to the Web site.

“It is our mission to give the nameless back their names and return the missing to their families. We hope to accomplish this mission in three ways; by giving the cases exposure on our Web site, by having our volunteers search for clues on these cases, as well as making possible matches between missing and unidentified persons, and lastly, through attempting to get media exposure for these cases that need and deserve it.”

Pearson hopes someone will recognize Muskogee County’s Jane Doe.

“We’re going to get the information on there as soon as possible,” Pearson said.

Jane Doe was found in Muskogee County in a ditch about one-half mile west of Ross Road, two miles south of Interstate 40 near Webbers Falls by a motorist. She was barefoot and clutching a bloody towel across her lower abdomen. Another bloody towel was on the ground beside her. The only noticeable sign of trauma was a tremendous amount of vaginal bleeding. The medical examiner's office determined that the woman was pregnant, and the cause of her death was massive loss of blood, and was estimated to be 25 to 35 years old and of American Indian, Hispanic or Asian descent. She was about 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighed from 135 to 140 pounds, and had collar-length, dark hair. She had a scar on her right shin that showed suture marks. Although she was wearing no jewelry, both ears had been pierced twice.

She was wearing a long-sleeved, white, turtleneck shirt and dark blue running pants with white stripes on the pants leg.

Tim Brown, who was an investigator with the sheriff’s department at the time, believes the woman may have been an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Brown is now the Webbers Falls chief of police. He lives near I-40 and on Monday was surprised to find a pickup loaded with 19 illegal immigrants in his driveway. Now, he’s wondering if Jane Doe may not have died during a cross-country trip similar to that of the 19 people jailed this week.

Three other cases from the area have had investigators scratching their heads for years.

One of those is the case of Daisy Doe, whose body was found floating 20 years ago near Fort Gibson Dam in Cherokee County.

http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/local/local..._138230844.html
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Fay Banks is Chief Investigator at 918-687-0202. I called looking for more info but she will not be in until Tuesday. Will call again then
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http://doenetwork.org/cases/617ufok.html

From the Doe Network:
Unidentified White Or Native Female


The victim was discovered on April 27, 2006 in Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma
Estimated Date of Death: About 12 hours
Cause of Death: Uterine hemorrahage


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Vital Statistics


Estimated age: 20-40 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'3"; 149 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair; brown eyes. Both ears pierced at least twice. She could be of Creek descent.
Distinguishing Marks: Scar below umbilicus. One scar on right shin that shows suture marks.
Clothing: A white turtleneck sweater and blue running pants with a white stripe, no shoes or socks, no jewelry.
Fingerprints: Available.
Dentals: Available.
DNA: Available.


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Case History
A passerby traveling down a county road about a half-mile west of Ross Road on the morning of April 27 discovered the woman's body in a ditch alongside the gravel road. No identification was found on or around the woman's body.

The medical examiner's office has determined that the woman was pregnant and the cause of the woman's death was massive loss of blood.

There were no signs of injuries, a sexual assaulted, or struggle. She was dead when she was placed in the ditch and estimated that she was placed there at about midnight.
Fingerprints search of State and Federal law enforcement databases indicated she had no criminal history.



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Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Muskogee County Sheriff's Office
Investigator Coletta Peyton
1-918-687-0202
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

Agency Case Number:
12-042706-1

NCIC Number:
N/A
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

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Muskogee County Sheriff's Office
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The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office needs help identifying a murder victim.

It's a case that has haunted them for more than two decades. The only clues are a daisy tattoo and what is believed to be a wedding band.

Former Cherokee County Undersheriff Jack Goss was the first detective to investigate this case. Even though he's been retired for 10 years, Goss says he won't rest until the case is solved.

"I think about it quite often," said the former law enforcement officer.

For two decades, he’s been looking over his evidence in search of a new lead.

"I just never want to give up on it," Goss said.

The 73-year-old and other members of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations drew up a sketch of what the woman, who is believed to have been in her mid to late 20’s at the time of her death, would have looked like.

She was named "Daisy Doe" because of a tattoo on her back shoulder.

"I don't want to forget it," Goss told FOX23.

Goss says she was found tied to a cement block in the Grand River just south of the Fort Gibson dam. He believes she was underwater for 7 to 10 days before her body floated up.

Early tips from night clubs in Tulsa and Muskogee led deputies to think she might've been an exotic dancer.

"It’s bothersome in the fact that she was found the way she was and we haven't been able to identify her," said Cherokee County Undersheriff Jason Chennault.

The Sheriff's office searched through hundreds of missing women through the National Crime Information Center but none of the matches matched "Daisy's" dental records.

"This girl had perfect teeth,” said Goss. “Never had a filling, never had a tooth missing or a tooth that wasn't perfect."

Now they're hoping the sketch and this tattoo will help someone remember something.

"The likelihood that we're going to find who ever did this to her and get them prosecuted is very slim but I think we can still get her identified," said Chennault.

"When someone goes missing there's loved ones they leave behind," Goss said.

"America's Most Wanted" aired a segment on the "Daisy Doe" case in the 1990's. A tattoo artist recognized the tattoo saying it was his work but investigators were never able to find that tattoo-artist again.

If you recognize the sketch or tattoo you are asked to call the Cherokee county sheriff's office at (918) 456-2583.
http://www.fox23.com/content/crime/story/d...AenTzjarEg.cspx
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Investigator recalls ‘Daisy Doe’ case

By Elizabeth Ridenour


It may have been 20 years ago, but Jack Goss remembers Daisy Doe as if it were only yesterday.

The body of the unidentified woman was found floating on the Grand River on May 7, 1988, in Cherokee County.

“Love is like a butterfly. It goes wherever it pleases and pleases wherever it goes,” was printed on the T-shirt the woman was wearing, recalled Goss, who spent 28 years with the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and District Attorney’s Office.

Police believed her body had been in the water two or three weeks before fishermen discovered it. A 28-pound cement block was tied with a cable around her waist.

Officials believed her to be in her mid-20s, white, with shoulder-length reddish-brown hair. She was 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed 188 pounds. She had two small scars on her right knee. She was dubbed Daisy Doe because of a tattoo of a yellow flower with four green leaves on her left shoulder.

She was wearing three rings, one believed to be a wedding band. Two other rings had bits of turquoise and coral. Her pierced ears were not adorned with earrings. The only clothing she was wearing was anklet socks, a bra and the T-shirt.

“It had three-quarter sleeves,” Goss said. “We finally tracked it to Dollywood. That was the only place we could ever find that sold them.”

Daisy was buried in Potter’s Field at Tahlequah City Cemetery. In 1994, prosecutors obtained a court order to have her body exhumed in a last-ditch effort to identify her.

The exhumation was financed by the national television show, “America’s Most Wanted.”

“America’s Most Wanted wouldn’t give up. They just kept airing it,” Goss said.

The show contracted with a forensic sculptor from Oklahoma City to reconstruct Daisy’s face.

At that time, at least 300 missing females with physical characteristics similar to Daisy Doe were listed with the National Crime Information Center, but had been ruled out by investigators.

“We spent absolutely hundreds of hours on that case,” Goss said.

But, it was very simple to determine that none of the missing women were Daisy Doe through use of dental records.

“She (Daisy) absolutely had perfect teeth — none pulled and none filled,” he said.

Some of the leads investigators followed led them to clubs in Muskogee and Tulsa after investigators learned she may have been an exotic dancer. Club owners were interviewed, but the leads went cold there.

“We always felt she was from Texas,” Goss said. “We interviewed so may people during those interviews, and somebody described the tattoo as the ‘Yellow Rose of Texas,’ and told us she was a dancer.”

The investigation had other unusual results, Goss said.

“We found a lot of missing women during those investigations,” he said. “Some of them had run off and didn’t want to be found.”
http://muskogeephoenix.com/local/x21289958...-Daisy-Doe-case
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