FC# 85-1
Date Remains Found: February 20, 1985
Location: Near Port Allen, LA on the riverbank. West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Profile:
Age: 25-33
Sex: female
Race: Caucasian
Stature: 5'2''-5'4''
Weight: unknown
Hair Color: dark brown
Dental: fillings

http://www.lsu.edu/faceslab/unidentified/1985.htm

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Unidentified White Female

Located on February 20, 1985 near Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
Estimated date of death is since at least November 1984
State of Remains: Skeletal


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Vital Statistics


Estimated age: 24 - 32 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 5'2 - 5'5"; 115 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Dark brown hair, 6-8" long. Petite build. Two ribs on the upper left side were deformed, probably the result of a birth defect.
Dentals: Available. She had fillings in her teeth.
Clothing: Four turquoise & silver rings and a bracelet were found with the remains. The bracelet was on the left arm.


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Case History
The victim was found behind the levee on the banks of the Mississippi River in West Baton Rouge Parish. She had been placed under a pile of large rocks that weighed approximately 20 lbs. each and most likely had been there since at least November or so of the previous year. The pile of rocks covering her body had been arranged very carefully. Her body was directly across from a small church. No signs of injury were found on the skeleton.


Bracelet & rings found with remains




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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
LSU FACES Lab
225-578-4761
E-Mail
Or
West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office
Detective Hotard
225-382-5245

Agency Case Number:
FC# 85-10

NCIC Number:
N/A
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
LSU Faces Lab
The Slate

http://well-traveled.com/id/77558/entry/77808/

Mary Manhein

Thursday, March 23, 2000, at 6:00 PM PT
I think I have my days and nights mixed up. No dog baying, no raccoon—just woke up at 4 a.m. for no reason at all. It was downhill all the way from there. I wanted to work on my novel but was just not in the mood. I settled for a two-hour read on postmortem decomposition, the topic for my forensic anthropology lecture today.

I dressed in field clothes this morning for the river-victim search and carried "more formal" clothes with me for my afternoon class. We arrived at the sheriff's office around 9 to go over the details regarding the case and found out that the "victim" had been located … alive and well in another state. Good on the one hand; not so good on the other for the person who called in the false information.

However, as I thought about the river, I remembered one of those cases that have bothered me for years. It was not a river case, but it was associated with the river. In early 1985, a young white woman was found behind the levee on the banks of the Mississippi River in West Baton Rouge Parish. She had been placed under a pile of large rocks that weighed approximately 20 lbs. each and most likely had been there since at least November or so of the previous year. The pile of rocks covering her body had been arranged very carefully, as though the person may have cared about her. If you crawled up on the levee and looked across the road, her body was directly across from a small church, as though that same person had deliberately chosen that spot. No signs of injury were found on the skeleton. She was somewhere between the ages of 24 and 32 and was between 5-foot-3 and 5-foot-5. She was petite, had dental fillings in her mouth, and wore some silver and turquoise jewelry (rings and earrings). She had brown hair. She has never been identified. Over the years, we have compared dental X-rays that we made on her with X-rays that have been sent from across the country, but we have had no match. We also completed a facial reconstruction on her and have published the photo on our Web site and in my book, and still she remains unidentified. For a while, I kept the clay facial reconstruction in my laboratory. At first, when I would go in there at night, I would be startled to see her sitting there; she looked so lifelike. We have now removed the clay and she has joined the 30 or so others who remain unidentified from the hundreds of cases we have analyzed. We want to send her home; we just have to find out who she is and where she lived.

I think one of those cases that I most often wish we could identify is a case we never received. In the early 1970s a woman's body was found in the Mississippi River in north Louisiana. At that time there were very few forensic anthropologists working in this country. No forensic anthropologist looked at her body. Old photographs show that she is a white female. I could not tell how old she was from the photos, but I might suggest that she was over 30 and under 60. She wore wedding rings on her left hand. The sheriff's office in the little town still retains the jewelry. She is buried in a small cemetery and the hand-poured concrete slab that rests at the head of her grave reads: "Unidentified white female." Oh, that the powers that be would allow us to analyze her remains today and try to send her home!

I don't like it that I have cases that remain unidentified, and I hope that the database we are working on with several researchers across the country will provide a name for some of those who wait in our lab. Good night.

http://z10.invisionfree.com/usedtobedoe/in...topic=6732&st=0

Billboards give cold cases fresh publicity


By KIMBERLY VETTER
Advocate staff writer
Published: Feb 28, 2009 - Page: 2B - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.
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The words “Who Am I?” positioned next to an image of a missing person can be seen on a digital billboard at Interstate 10 and College Drive.

The billboard is part of a new partnership between Baton Rouge Crime Stoppers and the LSU Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services Lab, known as F.A.C.E.S., university officials said.

The partnership is aimed at publicizing some of Louisiana’s unidentified or missing person cases through features on news broadcasts, newspaper advertisements, Internet databases and billboards, LSU spokesman Ernie Ballard said.

The first missing person case to be publicized focuses on the body of a woman found in 1985 in Port Allen, Ballard said. The woman was between 25 and 33 years old and 5 feet 2 inches and 5 feet 4 inches tall.

A clay reconstruction of the woman’s face, created at the F.A.C.E.S. lab, is on the billboard at I-10 and College, Ballard said.

The reconstruction will soon be broadcast on other billboards in and around Baton Rouge.

People who recognize the woman can contact Baton Rouge Crime Stoppers at (225) 344-7867 or (800) 723-7867, Ballard said. The organization is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that leads to the arrest or indictment of the person responsible for her death.

Additional cases will be featured throughout the year in the media and on billboards across the state, said Mary Manhein, director of the F.A.C.E.S. lab.

“We are very excited about our new partnership with Crime Stoppers and believe they can help us to solve many of our cold cases, but the public can also help,” Manhein said.

Baton Rouge Crime Stoppers Executive Director Sid Newman said his organization has had a lot of success with the digital billboards in the past.

“They are powerful,” Newman said. “We’re hoping they can jog someone’s memory.”

Although an exact number of unidentified remains and missing people statewide is unknown, Manhein has said, it is definitely in the hundreds.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/police/40463787.html

New Recon

updated forensics

Unidentified White Female

* Located on February 20, 1985 near Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
* Estimated date of death is since at least November 1984
* State of Remains: Skeletal

Vital Statistics

* Estimated age: 24-33 years old
* Approximate Height and Weight: 5'2-5'5"; 115 lbs.
* Distinguishing Characteristics: Dark brown hair, 6-8" long. Petite build. Two ribs on the upper left side were deformed, probably the result of a birth defect.
* Dentals: Available. Amalgam fillings on teeth #2,3,14,15,19,30 and 31.
* Clothing: Four turquoise & silver rings and a bracelet were found with the remains. The bracelet was on the left arm.
* DNA: Available.

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Bracelet & 4 Rings

Case History
The victim was found behind the levee on the banks of the Mississippi River in West Baton Rouge Parish.
She had been placed under a pile of large rocks that weighed approximately 20 lbs. each and most likely had been there since at least November of the previous year.
The pile of rocks covering her body had been arranged very carefully.
Her body was directly across from a small church.
No signs of injury were found on the skeleton.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Mary Manhein
LSU FACES Lab
225-578-6084
225-578-4761
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West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office
Detective Hotard
225-382-5245

Agency Case Number:
LSU 85-01

http://doenetwork.org/cases/191ufla.html