she had wood piled on top of her. no identification! we all came together to have identification to identify jane doe. there s a passion to try and find out who our doe is. to try and think what if this is your family. you want to give them closure. two homicide detectives. it s way above our heads. and i said i think i know how we can do it. all of these people share some amount of dna with the unknown person. we thought, this is the family. this is it! surreal. it felt like someone just punched me in the stomach. it s a funny thing, isn t it? that it would be important to have a stone with your name on it. it is! written on stone. you re never forgotten. hello and welcome to dateline! in many cold cases, a grieving family is desperate to find their loved ones killer. but this mystery was not a whodunnit. the killer eventually confessed to the brutal crime. but who did the murder? that question haunted a small texas town for more than 12 years. un
find out who are doe is. to try and think this is your family. you want to give them closure. two homicide detectives. it s way above our heads. and i said i think i know how we can do it. all of these people share some amount of dna with the unknown person. we thought, this is the family. this is it! surreal. it felt like someone just punch me in the stomach. it s a funny thing, isn t it? that it would be important to have a stone with your name on it. it is! written on stone. you re never forgotten. hello and welcome to dateline! in many cold cases, a grieving family is desperate to find their loved ones keller. but this mystery was not a whodunnit. the killer eventually confessed to the brutal crime. but who did the murder? that question haunted a small texas town for more than 20 years. until a team of strangers put a name with a face. here s keith morrison with the woman with no name. here is where they put her. her permanent home. no one real
We all came together to have identification to identify jane doe. Theres a passion to try and find out who our doe is. To try and think what if this was your family. You want to give them closure. Two homicide detectives. Its way above our heads. And i said i think i know how we can do it. All of these people share some amount of dna with the unknown person. We thought, this is the family. This is it surreal. It felt like someone just punched me in the stomach. Its a funny thing, isnt it . That it would be important to have a stone with your name on it. It is written on stone. Youre never forgotten. Hello and welcome to dateline in many cold cases, a grieving family is desperate to find their loved ones killer. But this mystery was not a whodunnit. The killer eventually confessed to the brutal crime. But who did he murder . That question haunted a small texas town for more than 12 years. Until a team of tenatious strangers put a name to a face. Heres Keith Morrison with the woman with
trying to kind of flesh out the stories of some of these lesser known cases. his name is kevin lord. he is, well, many things. a former software developer, a t-shirt salesman, a passionate and loyal consumer of all things true crime. he wasn t an investigator or a law enforcement officer, just someone plagued by unanswered questions. i was looking for jane does in the area in texas. that might be a match to one of these missing girls. and that s how we came across hundreds of pages of online forms, about a mystery woman nicknamed lavender doe . could she be one of the missing woman he was trying to locate? and so, kevin called the great county sheriff s department. and found himself on the phone with a lead detective,
body? that really struck fear in people around here. lieutenant eddie hope was still a sergeant back then. grey county sheriff s department. she had wood piled beneath and on top of her. and there was a gas can lid there. so, it looked like somebody was trying to cover their tracks. she was meant to be part of one big bonfire and disappear forever? right. the officers who responded, noted every detail they could. that she was young, late teens early 20s. and she was little. maybe 54, 100 pounds. she was wearing jeans, a pale shirt. the color of lavender. $44 in her pocket. and this was unusual, baby teeth! she still had a few. she never lost them. they said that that was highly unusual. gives you something to work, with anyway. a little bit. other than that, the young woman was impossible to identify.