Salina teenager identified as 1966 Texas Jane Doe
A teenager from Salina was identified Tuesday as a Jane Doe who drowned in 1966 in Pecos, Texas.
Jolaine Hemmy, who was 17 at the time of her death, was discovered on July 5, 1966, in the swimming pool of the Roper Motel in Pecos.
During a news conference, Lisa Tarango, the Pecos chief of police, said in research using local newspaper clippings, it appeared Hemmy and an unknown man checked into the motel under the names Mr. and Mrs. Russell Battuon, or Batuon, appearing to be a young, married couple.
According to reports, Hemmy was in the pool area while the unknown man was in the motel room at the time of the incident.
Jolaine Hemmy was only 17-years-old when she went missing 55 years ago. Just last week, police in Pecos, Texas notified her family about what happened.
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Woman who drowned in Texas in 1966 identified as Kansan
January 19, 2021 GMT
PECOS, Texas. (AP) Police in western Texas have identified a girl who drowned in a hotel pool in 1966 as a 17-year-old native of Kansas.
Jolaine Hemmy, of Salina, Kansas, drowned on July 5, 1966 at the Ropers Motel in Pecos, police said Tuesday.
She was staying with a man at the hotel when her body was found. The man, who police did not identify, was in the couple’s room when she drowned but left while emergency responders were trying to revive her, Pecos police said.
Police reopened the cold case last year and her body was exhumed in August 2019, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Pecos is about 400 miles west of Fort Worth.