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Unidentified Person Colorado / Independence Pass John Doe

7/30/2018

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unidentified missing person colorado
Male, White / Caucasian
Date Found June 19, 1970
Location Found Colorado
Estimated Age Range 18-30 Years
​Newspaper stated Tattered Sweatshirt, Gray Trousers, Three Pairs of Socks and Tennis or Hiking Shoes (Could possibly be Jungle Boots?) with an unworn sock over the left shoe. Sheriff's report states he was wearing a pair of light colored wash and wear pants, a sweat shirt and a pair of black loafers along with having seven dollars and a razor in his pocket.

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/10738/details
Independence Pass John Doe
Can this John Doe be identified?
Marcia Martinek, Herald Editor | Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 3:43 pm

This is the grave marker at Evergreen Cemetery that marks the final resting place of an unidentified man whose body was discovered on Independence Pass in 1970. Although the body currently is at Bailey-Kent Funeral Home in Leadville, it will soon be returned to this grave.

Two young men walking east from the summit of Independence Pass on June 19, 1970, discovered the decomposed body of a white male lying in a ditch on the north side of the road about 2 miles from the top of the pass. It was partially covered with rocks that had fallen from the slope above.

There was no identification on the body, and to this day, the Independence Pass John Doe remains nameless. Yet it is more likely now than ever before that his family might be found, thanks to DNA.


Read more of this article: ​​http://www.leadvilleherald.com/free_content/article_4259a4f6-f140-11e5-aca1-d3c184426a84.html
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Unidentified Person Colorado - Missing Canadian? Identified!

9/13/2017

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Unidentified Person Colorado
Rebecca "Becky" Ann Redecker was a young woman found murdered in a campsite in 1993. While she remained unidentified, she was known as by the nickname "Rainbow Falls Jane Doe".

She was identified in August 2020.

​https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Becky_Redecker
13 to 20 year old White Female

Date found June 15, 1993 Douglas County, Colorado

The victim's body was found within days of a nearby convention of the Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club that met June 12-13, at the Horse Creek campground south of Deckers. Investigators said they have not been able to determine if the victim had any association to that group. 

​https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/2703
Isotope testing suggests she is from Alaska or the following areas in Canada: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and less likely eastern Quebec.
Unsolved: Woman's identity still a mystery decades after body found near campsite
The woman's identity remains a mystery nearly 25 years after her body was found near a campsite north of Colorado Springs.


https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/unsolved-womans-identity-still-a-mystery-decades-after-body-found-near-campsite/73-548015697

Author: Corey Rose
Published: 10:52 AM MDT May 2, 2018
Updated: 8:11 AM MDT May 8, 2018
Editor's note: 9NEWS is looking at Colorado cold cases and where these unsolved murders stand today this week at 6 a.m. on Ch. 9.

DOUGLAS COUNTY - A young woman’s body was found in an unmarked campsite in Rainbow Falls, northwest of Colorado Springs on June 15, 1993.

She had injuries to her head and was half-naked wearing only a Harley Davidson T-shirt and some jewelry. She had no belongings or identification.

The shirt Jane Doe was wearing when her body was found in June of 1993.
“I think as an investigator you never know you’re going to have a Jane Doe right off the bat. You find a body, you believe you’re going to find out in one or two days who that person is," said Douglas County Undersheriff Holly Nicholson Kluth. "So I never imagined that after 25 years we would still not know who she is.”


It’s not for lack for trying. This cold case has been looked at numerous times over the years.

“I think we reopened it in ‘98, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012,” Nicholson-Kluth said.

Jane Doe was buried in Cedar Hills Cemetery in Castle Rock in what’s called a "paupers grave," a grave paid for at public expense. The only marker is a small plaque with "Jane Doe" on it.

The Douglas County Coroner's Office in 2012 decided to exhume her remains to get more DNA.

Sean Curtis is the Superintendent at Cedar Hills Cemetery. He was there the day they exhumed her remains.

“I helped in the process of getting her out of the ground, and so it was very intense and difficult,” Curtis said.

Jane Doe’s femur was sent to the Smithsonian for isotope testing. The results may be one reason no one has come forward to identify the young woman.

“I started my employment in 1999, and I ran the fingerprints through our AFIS System, which is the Automated Fingerprint Identification System for the state of Colorado, and didn’t get a hit," said Andi Smith, crime scene investigator with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. "So what I did was I wrote a letter to every AFIS in every state in the United States except for Hawaii and Alaska."

The results of the isotope test showed Jane Doe was very likely from Alaska or Canada. Detectives are now working to send her DNA and fingerprints to both places.

Some other technology detectives have used over the years to identify Jane Doe are clay composites. Two artists, several years apart, used her skull to come up with clay renderings of what they believe she looked like. Investigators believe she was somewhere between 13 and 20 years old when she died. Both images were released to the public, but no tips panned out.

Now the case rests in the hands of Cold Case Detective Jason Cirbo.

“In September, I have a meeting set up in Virginia to meet with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, I believe the FBI will be there as well, and we are going to round table this case and we're going to see what we can do to further this case to identify her and her cause of death and if anyone was involved to hopefully prosecute them,” Cirbo said.

In addition, Douglas County has recently obtained a machine called the M-VAC. It works like an upholstery cleaner, but with technology that can get the smallest particles out of evidence.

Smith said she plans to use that soon to extract any DNA evidence that may exist on the shirt. It could not only identify her, but her killer if he or she was in contact with the shirt. They're hopeful they can still find viable DNA, even after all these years.

If you know anything about this case or were in the area of Rainbow Falls Campground in June 1993, call the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office at 303-660-7500.
​https://www.douglas.co.us/coroner/unidentified-bodies/

June 15, 1993, a teenage girl was discovered in southwest Douglas County near the Rainbow Falls Campground.
She was found wearing only a black Harley-Davidson T-shirt and a few pieces of jewelry. She appears to be between 16 and 19 years old and weighed approximately 140 pounds.  Authorities believe that she died after being struck on the head and that she may have been a runaway.  In 2003 a facial reconstruction of her skull was completed. The following photographs depict the reconstruction and include photos of the tee-shirt and jewelry she was found wearing.
Jane Doe is the only individual who died in Douglas County and remains unidentified, according to available records.  The Douglas County Coroner’s Office is committed to identifying her and has undertaken steps to finally reunite her with her family.
Her remains were exhumed from her grave in the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Castle Rock, Colorado on October 12, 2012.  Bone samples have been sent to the University of North Texas in order to obtain more complete DNA analysis.
Step 2 involved sending Jane Doe’s skull to Samantha Steinberg, a phenomenal forensic artist at the Miami-Dade Police Department.  Samantha has developed these forensic drawings of what Jane Doe looked like in 1993.  Do you recognize her?
The Douglas County Coroner’s Office will continue on its quest to identify Jane Doe – if you recognize this drawing or have any information that would help identify Jane Doe, please contact the Douglas County Coroner’s Office at 303-814-7150 or at coroner@douglas.co.us
New Clue Released About Douglas County’s ‘Jane Doe’ – CBS 4 News

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