'Jane Doe' body taken to Madison, Wisconsin
'Jane Doe' body taken to Madison The Reporter Staff • November 27, 2008 The body that's the focus of a Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department's "Jane Doe" homicide investigation has been moved to Madison. Sheriff Mick Fink said the woman's body was moved to Madison on Tuesday for study by forensic anthropologist Leslie E. Eisenberg, burial sites preservation program coordinator for the Wisconsin Historical Society. Sheriff's Department Detective Charles Sosinski will be in contact with Eisenberg regarding the investigation. The body was found by three hunters at 9:17 a.m. Sunday partially submerged in a frozen creek in a wooded area behind W4617 Skyline Drive in the town of Ashford. Fink said if studying the woman's skeleton reveals the cause of death, the information will be released to the media. He said he did not know when forensic odontologist Don Simley will look at the woman's teeth. Fond du Lac County Medical Examiner Douglas Kelley was at the crime scene Sunday and had the body in the Medical Examiner's Office office on Monday. "I have a lot of things in the works to fully investigate this death, and it will be a little while before I have any results," Kelley said in an e-mail to The Reporter. "Obviously, making an identification is a priority for us." Fink said the level of decomposition of the body was too great to draw immediate conclusions and likened Kelley's job to a physician sending a patient to specialists. "Yesterday, we had what we thought was a possibility (for an identity)," Fink said. "There was a runaway or missing female from the Hartford area. By the end of the day, we found out she was alive and well, which is a good thing." Despite the investigation depending on finding out the cause of death and identity of the woman, Fink said Lt. Bill Flood's detective bureau is following up on leads from other jurisdictions with missing women. Anyone with information on the death of the woman found Sunday in rural Fond du Lac County can call the Sheriff's Office Tip Line at (920) 906-4777. http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/20081127/FON0101/811270437/1295/FON010301

Sheriff: Wis. remains unlikely Stacy Peterson December 4, 2008 FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRES FOND DU LAC, Wis.---- The Fond du Lac County sheriff says the body found there by hunters nearly two weeks ago is probably not the remains of a suburban Chicago policeman's missing wife. Sheriff Mick Fink says the chances are very slim that the remains are 23-year-old Stacy Peterson of Bolingbrook, Illinois, who vanished about a year ago. But he says detectives from there have called to compare notes. Peterson's husband, 54-year-old Drew Peterson, a former Bolingbrook police sergeant, is a suspect in his wife's disappearance. He has not been charged and has repeatedly said he thinks his wife ran off with another man and is alive. Fink says at least 18 police agencies have contacted his department to inquire about the remains but there are no good leads on the woman's identity. http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1314619,wisconsin-body-unlikely-stacy-peterson-120408.article

No new leads on identity of body found in Wis. Associated Press - December 31, 2008 1:55 PM ET FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) - Ten days after authorities released new details about the partially decomposed remains of a woman found in a creek, her identity remains a mystery. Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Lt. Bill Flood said Wednesday the new details generated about 15 leads but none panned out. Hunters found the remains Nov. 23 in a creek 17 miles south of Fond du Lac. Investigators believe the woman was murdered because the body was found in an isolated area, but the cause of death is unknown. Flood says dental remains from the victim have been compared with those of 5 missing people but none matched. Authorities say the remains are those of a 15- to 21-year-old who was probably knock-kneed and pigeon-toed. http://www.wbay.com/global/story.asp?s=9601345