Jane Doe March 31, 1982 Lake Erie shore, MN
Article published March 04, 2009 Police seek ID of body found along Lake Erie shore in '82 BLADE STAFF LaSALLE, Mich. - A body was exhumed from a Roselawn Memorial Park grave in an effort to solve a 27-year-old mystery: Whose remains were found March 31, 1982, on the Lake Erie shore? Modern DNA and facial reconstruction technology may hold the key, authorities said. As the remains were removed yesterday morning from the cemetery in LaSalle Township, Monroe County sheriff's detectives were joined by Michigan State Police and an FBI agent. The detectives are investigating. Troopers will do the DNA work and facial reconstruction. The FBI is involved because it's a missing person case, Sandra Berchtold, an FBI spokesman, said. The body could have been in the water for weeks, even months, before it was found on the grounds of the Detroit Edison Co. generating plant, Dr. David Lieberman, the late Monroe County medical examiner, told The Blade in 1982. He ruled the death a homicide by strangulation. He said the woman was in her early 20s with medium-length brown hair and pierced ears. She was 5-feet, 2-inches tall, weighed 110 pounds, and wore a multicolored plaid shirt with white buttons. Though investigators will employ modern science, sheriff's detectives yesterday made an old-fashioned request: Anyone with information about a missing white woman during the period of 1981 through March 31, 1982, should call the sheriff's office. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090304/NEWS02/903040364

Article published March 31, 2009 Michigan police hope sculpture reveals clues in '80s slaying Autopsy photos aided in sculpting a re-creation of the victim. By MARK REITER BLADE STAFF WRITER DETROIT - Almost a month after exhuming the remains of a murdered female from a Monroe County cemetery, authorities are hoping the three-dimensional clay reconstruction of her face will lead to her identification. The body, found 27 years ago today along the Lake Erie shoreline in Frenchtown Township, was taken this month from an unmarked grave in LaSalle Township's Roselawn Cemetery. Canton Township police in Wayne County asked for the exhumation to determine if the body that of was Kim Marie Larrow, a 15-year-old girl who vanished in 1981. Detective Jeff Pauli, of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, said an analysis of the skeletal remains conducted by a Michigan State University anthropologist concluded the victim was older, probably between 20 and 30. The remains are being compared to DNA of the Larrow family at the DNA Identity Lab at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth to get a definitive confirmation that they are not the teenager's, Detective Pauli said. Trooper Sarah Krebs, a forensic artist with Michigan State Police, formed a clay three-dimensional facial model of the victim, using skeletal remains and autopsy photos as guidance. She said officials hope that facial reconstruction and DNA testing - unavailable in 1982 when the badly decomposed body was found - will hold the clues to the woman's identification. "We are hoping that somebody - whether her family, friends from school, neighbors - is still looking for her, and they will come across this facial reconstruction and give us the tip we need," Trooper Krebs said. "Without her identification we cannot solve her homicide." Authorities said the facial reconstruction will be compared to Web sites of missing-person cases, including cases involving kidnapped children and runaways. The woman, who was wearing a multicolored plaid shirt from Kmart, died of manual strangulation. She stood between 4 feet, 10 inches, and 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed about 110 pounds. She had type O blood. Of the eight facial reconstructions that she has molded in clay since 2002, Trooper Krebs' forensic work has led to the identification of three bodies, including Steven Hudson, a missing Mississauga, Ont., man who washed ashore near the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in May, 2008. Contact Mark Reiter at: markreiter@theblade.com or 419-724-6199. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090331/NEWS24/903310369