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| Wilmer, Jennifer M. September 13,1993; California 21 YO | |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Aug 24 2006, 03:47 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/wilmer_jennifer.html Jennifer Marie Wilmer Above Images: Wilmer, circa 1993 Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: September 13, 1993 from Willow Creek, California Classification: Endangered Missing Date Of Birth: March 13, 1972 Age: 21 years old Height and Weight: 5'2, 100 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Wilmer had her hair styled in dreadlocks at the time of her 1993 disappearance, which she usually wore piled on top of her head. Her nickname is Jade. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A black t-shirt and jeans. Details of Disappearance Wilmer moved from Long Island, New York to California in 1993, and moved into a rented house with roommates. She had attended St. John's University in New York City. Wilmer was last seen in northern California on September 13, 1993. There are two conflicting accounts of her whereabouts on the day of her disappearance. One summary states that Wilmer was last seen leaving her residence in Willow Creek, California to go to a travel agency to retrieve an airplane ticket for a scheduled trip back to New York. She never arrived at the agency and has not been seen again. The second account states that Wilmer was last seen hitchhiking from the Hawkins Bar area of California to Willow Creek for a possible job opportunity at a farm on September 13. Wilmer has never been heard from again and her case remains unsolved. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance. Wilmer's mother assisted in creating federal legislation aimed at requiring states to report information concerning unidentified bodies into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database. This procedure provides easier cross-referencing of missing persons and unidentified victims in the US. The legislation, titled Jennifer's Law, was signed into effect in 2000. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Trinity County Sheriff's Office 916-623-2611 Source Information The National Center for Missing Adults John Mohon Investigations The KlaasKids Foundation The New York Daily News Office For Victims Of Crime Newsday Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004. Last updated April 17, 2006; details of disappearance updated. Charley Project Home |
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| monkalup | Nov 25 2006, 09:21 PM Post #2 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Jan 12 2009, 10:43 PM Post #3 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/26777...es__its_murder/ Unidentified Bodies Fill States' 'Cold Case' Files -- It's 'Murder Unpunished,' Says Mom of Long Missing Daughter Posted on: Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 12:00 CDT By Thomas Hargrove Scripps Howard News Service / Mark Watson contributed It's as if America fought a secret war and suffered tens of thousands of casualties, each an unknown soldier buried in an unmarked grave. Missing-person experts estimate that the bodies of 40,000 to 50,000 unidentified men, women and children have been found by police during the past 50 years. These John, Jane and Baby Does were sent to local coroners and medical examiners for examination and then anonymously buried or cremated. Slightly more than half are suspected murder victims. But in what one expert calls "a silent crisis," the vast majority of unidentified bodies go unreported to state or federal authorities, according to a Scripps Howard News Service study of confidential FBI records. Few states or local governments require that Doe cases be reported to any outside agency, and most coroners lack authority - or even the necessary computer links - to report directly to the FBI, the study found. As a result, homicide detectives increasingly are overwhelmed with growing backlogs of cold cases involving nameless victims. And thousands of anxious families will wonder for generations what became of their lost loved ones. "This is criminal," said Susan Wilmer of Long Island, N.Y., whose 21-year-old daughter vanished in 1993 in California. "We've taken steps so we won't need tombs for unknown soldiers in the future. But we civilians have been suffering in a kind of war, too. We are allowing murder to go unpunished." Wilmer unsuccessfully urged Congress during the 1990s to mandate the reporting of all Doe cases to federal authorities, a bill she wanted to call "Jennifer's Law" in honor of her still-missing daughter. Today, she's haunted by the belief that somewhere police know Jennifer's fate even if they don't know her name. Retired FBI executive Bill Hagmaier, now executive director of the International Homicide Investigators Association, said the failure to report tens of thousands of Doe cases to a national clearinghouse is contributing to the rising percentage of unsolved murder cases. In 2003, the latest year for which records are available, only 62 percent of homicides were resolved, a 30-year low. "We keep records on cars. We keep them on guns. But we don't keep records on unidentified people," Hagmaier said. "It's a national tragedy and a silent crisis." Scripps Howard obtained FBI National Crime Information Center computer files to study how often Doe cases go unreported. Federal officials refused to provide this information, but other agencies with access to NCIC records released files summarizing the number of Doe cases as of July 31, 2005. FBI records show 5,729 active Doe cases, only an eighth of what experts believe the actual number should be. Also, 42 percent of all unidentified bodies came from California, even though that state has only 12 percent of the nation's population. The reason? California has one of the nation's few laws requiring the reporting of Doe cases. The California Assembly first passed a mandatory Doe reporting law in 1978, requiring coroners to record unidentified bodies with state authorities. In most other states, only local police are empowered to report unidentified bodies to state and federal authorities. "Most states do not look at missing adults to be a crime or even a serious issue," said Jeannine Willie, administrator of the California Department of Justice's Missing Persons DNA program. No other state comes close to the 2,413 cases active in California. New York has 526 cases, Texas has 587 and Florida has 500. Other states with large populations have reported even fewer pending Doe cases, including Ohio with 28 and Pennsylvania with 64. Scripps Howard contacted local police departments and coroner's offices when the numbers of reported Doe cases seemed suspiciously low. In all cases in this study, local authorities admitted they have more human remains than were reported to state or federal authorities. "Most police jurisdictions view reporting to NCIC to be a good business practice, meaning they recommend it but don't require it," said Gerald Nance, the cold-case manager for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va. "And most medical examiners and coroners do not have access to NCIC. They must ask local police to enter the cases for them." It is not clear how many Doe cases are children. Experts will not even guess, although Nance said he's assembled a private database of 3,000 unidentified deceased children, of which "more than two- thirds" were not reported to the FBI. North Carolina had one of the nation's worst rates for reporting unidentified bodies, according to the Scripps Howard study, since it has only 11 active Doe cases in a state with a population of more than 8 million. South Carolina, in contrast, has half that population and 26 active cases. Scripps Howard asked North Carolina authorities to review two prominent cases involving unidentified children to determine if they'd been reported to the FBI. Neither was. Police in both cases seemed not to know how to enter Doe cases into the FBI's National Crime Information Center computer system. "Baby Michael definitely was not entered," conceded Debbie Tanna, public information officer for the Cumberland County, N.C., Sheriff's Department, when asked about a dramatic Baby Doe case that drew statewide attention six years ago. In that case, Cumberland County deputies recovered the body of an infant - whom police named after the patron saint of law enforcement - wrapped in a large plastic bag along a rural road. "We didn't have a definite birth date or even a first or last name. After all, we named him 'Baby Michael' ourselves. There were no identifiers that we could use to enter him into NCIC," Tanna said. The Granville County, N.C., Sheriff's Department gave a similar explanation when asked why a biracial teenage girl found during the winter of 2003 along Interstate 85 was also never reported to the FBI. "The State Bureau of Investigation would not enter her (into NCIC) because we did not have enough information," said sheriff's detective Danny Emory. "We were told they wouldn't make an entry because they didn't have enough marker information - name, date of birth, that kind of thing." Neither case has been solved. It might have been helpful, both sheriff's offices said, if the descriptions and circumstances of each juvenile's death had been reported nationally through the FBI since neither case appeared to involve local residents. But missing-person experts said the NCIC system includes an Unidentified Persons System for the reporting of Does and does allow such reporting no matter how scanty the information. "I don't understand," Willie said when told of the North Carolina cases. "The Unidentified Persons System doesn't even accept a name. It really only takes a few minutes or so to enter each case." Coroner's offices around the nation also complain they lack access to make Doe reports to the FBI. "We have 161 cases in our county that we are currently working on," said John Fudenberg, assistant coroner in Clark County, Nev., which includes Las Vegas. He said he was not surprised that FBI records show only 16 active Doe cases for the Las Vegas metro area and only 59 cases statewide. The failure of authorities to report unidentified bodies has forced amateur detectives and volunteers to form their own organization - the Doe Network - to help solve cases. "I simply had no idea there are so many unidentified bodies. Somebody has to be an advocate for the dead," said Todd Matthews, a Tennessee resident and amateur sleuth who drew nationwide praise after solving a 30-year-old Jane Doe case in Kentucky. Matthews is a founder of the Doe Network Internet site ( www.doenetwork.org ), which has documented 950 cases nationwide, including hundreds never reported to the FBI. It has become so successful at unraveling long-standing mysteries that even police often report Doe cases to the amateur network. Matthews said the six- year-old network has helped solve 35 Doe cases. "I don't think there was a really good resource for this until the Internet came along," Matthews said. "The public was more attuned to the potential of the Internet in these kinds of cases than were the police." Authorities agree they need to do a better job of reporting Doe cases and of matching them to missing-person reports. But no one knows what the costs could be, especially if coroners and medical examiners are required to obtain computer terminals and the training necessary to submit files to the FBI data system. Norris, Hagmaier and other Doe advocates have created a task force operating under a Justice Department grant seeking to build a national registry for unidentified, dead and missing persons. Their campaign wants to improve the performance of the NCIC's unidentified- and missing-persons databases. "This is a problem that has persisted for decades that needn't exist at all," said Hagmaier. "All of the parts of the puzzle are already in place. We just need to get people to use them." Contact Thomas Hargrove at HargroveT@shns.com. -------------------- Citizen detectives Advocates' net helps ID missing Amateur sleuths have played an increasing role in solving John, Jane and Baby Doe cases in recent years, often using the Internet to make links between reports of missing people and unidentified bodies that overwhelmed police departments failed to notice. Three examples Barbara Hackman-Taylor - An oil-well driller working near Georgetown, Ky., in 1968 spotted the canvas-wrapped, decomposed body of a young woman, estimated at 16 to 19 years old. Todd Matthews became obsessed with the 30-year mystery of the "Tent Girl" - as she'd been dubbed by Kentucky newspapers - and spent hundreds of late-night hours reviewing missing-person reports. In 1998, Matthews found an Internet message from the sister of 25-year-old Barbara Hackman-Taylor, who disappeared from Lexington in 1967. "Wake up," Matthews shouted at his sleeping wife. "I found her." Jennifer Landry - Volunteer detective Tracie Fleischhut in June began entering information about New York City resident Jennifer Landry, 19, onto her missing-persons Web site when she noticed that a description of one of Landry's tattoos sounded familiar. The teenager had been missing since 2002. Fleischhut linked the case to a Jane Doe reported Aug. 15, 2002, by Mount Rainer, Md., police. Police later confirmed the match through fingerprints. Tonya Gardner - This Reedsville, Pa., woman was reported missing from her home in 1996 but wasn't confirmed dead until 2003 by Kylen Johnson, a volunteer for the Doe Network. Johnson was reading a seven-year-old missing-person report on Gardner when he noticed similarities in her family's description of her surgical scars with those reported on a Jane Doe found along Interstate 70 in Lisbon, Md. Pennsylvania State Police confirmed the match through dental records in April 2004. - Thomas Hargrove Scripps Howard News Service -------------------- Mid-South numbers FBI reports show that Memphis had just five bodies awaiting identification as of July 31, but if Memphis had about the same number per million as, for example, California, the total would be 80. Here are the numbers reported to the FBI for the three Mid-South states: Arkansas: 15. Mississippi: 19. Tennessee: 41. Source: Scripps Howard News Service. - Mark Watson |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Mar 8 2010, 10:01 AM Post #4 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Trinity County Sheriff's Office 916-623-2611 Agency Case Number: 9356740 NCIC Number: M-683675512 |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Mar 8 2010, 10:03 AM Post #5 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Jennifer Marie Wilmer Missing since September 13, 1993 from Willow Creek, Humboldt County, California. Classification: Endangered Missing Vital Statistics * Date Of Birth: April 13, 1972 * Age at Time of Disappearance: 21 years old * Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'2; 100 lbs. * Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; blue eyes. Wilmer had her hair styled in dreadlocks at the time of her disappearance, which she usually wore piled on top of her head. Her nickname is "Jade." * Clothing: Blue jeans, black T-shirt. * Dentals: Available * DNA: Available Circumstances of Disappearance Wilmer was last seen in California on September 13, 1993. Wilmer was hitchhiking the nine miles from the Hawkins Bar area of California to Willow Creek for a possible job opportunity at a farm, on September 13. She never arrived at the farm. She left all her identification, clothes, address book, Bible, bankcard and sleeping bag at home. Wilmer led a counterculture hippie lifestyle. She span in the circles of the Deadheads. Originally from New York, Wilmer moved to the seaside town of Arcata, 200 miles north of San Francisco, at age 20. There she worked odd-jobs. She also suffered from bouts of depression. Her mother had purchased a return plane ticket to New York for her, which she could have picked up and activated at any travel agency. Wilmer then moved to Trinity County, CA. She moved in with her boyfriend in a rented house in Hawkin's Bar, which he shared with several friends. Foul play is suspected. Wilmer's mother, Susan, assisted in creating federal legislation aimed at requiring states to report information concerning unidentified bodies into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database. This procedure provides easier cross-referencing of missing persons and unidentified victims in the US. The legislation, titled Jennifer's Law, was signed into effect in 2000. She also founded FOCUS, a support group for the families of missing children. Investigators If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Trinity County Sheriff's Office 916-623-2611 Agency Case Number: 9356740 NCIC Number: M-683675512 Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case. Source Information: California Department of Justice NCMA http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/807dfca.html |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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