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Episode 76 Leslie Perlov and Janet Taylor Part 1 of 2    In 1973, Leslie Perlov, Stanford graduate and Stanford Law Library clerk, was found slain in the hills overlooking the Stanford campus. In 1974, it happened again. Janet Taylor was found in a roadside ditch, after hitchhiking on the Stanford campus.   The similarities between the two cases were startling, down to the identical ages of the vi...

  Episode 75 Doe ID; Claudette Jean Zebolsky Powers On February 16, 1986, human remains were found in the northern San Diego, CA community of Warner Springs near a camp site on the Los Coyotes Indian reservation. The remains were found to belong to a woman who had no identification with her. Although decomposition, and scavenger activity had taken their toll and scattered her remains, police were...

Episode 74 Susan Negersmith In 1990, 20 year old college student Susan Negersmith went to beach town Wildwood, NJ with friends for Memorial Day weekend. Her body was found behind a local restaurant, half naked, shoeless, bloody, riddled with injuries, and with visible marks on her throat. Someone had taken pains to ensure she was obscured from view of passersby – yet her death was ruled an acciden...

Episode 73 DOE ID; 'Jasper County Doe' William Joseph 'Bill' Lewis On October 15, 1983, a trapper on a private tract of land outside of Rensselaer in Jasper County Indiana found the unidentified remains of a young man. An investigation revealed that the man had been the victim of a homicide. He was dubbed 'Jasper County Doe'. Based on similar murders of other young men in the area around the same...

Episode 72 Eve Wilkowitz 20 year old Eve Wilkowitz's life was all coming together during the first few days of spring, 1980. She had a job she loved and a new boyfriend. Her daily commute into Manhattan from Bay Shore, Long Island was long, but Eve had plans to move into the city. Someone took all that away from her. After boarding the last LIRR train from the city to Long Island, Eve vanished. He...

Episode 71 DOE ID 'The Lady In The Fridge' Amanda Deza In March, 1995, 2 scrap scavagers found an abandoned refrigerator in a canal area known as 'Whiskey Slew' in Holt, California. As they tried to remove the fridge, it opened revealing it's ghastly contents; the decomposed remains of a young woman. An investigation of the body revealed that the woman had been murdered; the victim of blunt force...

Episode 70 Lee Rotatori In June 1982, Lee Rotatori was excited for the new job that meant a move to Council Bluffs, Iowa. But when Lee was found murdered in the Best Western there, police were stumped. The only clue was floral foam on the floor, and there were no suspects. Lee knew only a few people in town, and her husband was over 600 miles away when she was raped and stabbed in Room 106. Her ca...

Episode 69 Doe ID 'Rosemount John Doe' James Everett On September 26,2014, the remains of an unidentified man were found in a decommissioned railroad switching shed located behind American Legion in Rosemount, Minnesota. Although the remains were mostly skeletonized and too decomposed to determine a cause of death, it appeared that he had died of natural causes. Items and belongings found with him...

Episode 68 Nancy Daugherty Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion of the Nancy Daugherty case. If you have not already listened to part 1, go back and listen to that part before this one. For all things DNA: ID, visit the show's homepage: DNAIDpodcast.com To Support DNA: ID on Patreon, visit this link: https://www.patreon.com/DNAID To buy DNA ID Merch, visit this link: https://www.customizedgirl.com/s...

Episode 68 Nancy Daugherty Part 1 of 2 Nancy Daugherty's life was in flux. She was facing a divorce, a relocation, a return to school. Her love life was complicated. But the 38 year old EMT was known by all as an incredibly caring, giving, and generous person, who loved to help others. That all came to an end when she was found naked, raped and strangled in her bed in July 1986. All signs pointed...

Episode 67 Heather Porter Heather Porter had a fight with her mother and walked out of her Baltimore County, Maryland house on a Tuesday night in September 1981. She hung out with some friends, but around 11:10 p.m., started the .4 mile walk home. It was a school night, and Heather was just 13. She never made it. Somewhere in that distance of less than a half mile, Heather was abducted. Her body w...

Episode 66 DOE ID 'Millie Doe' Ruth Waymire On June 20th, 1984, the dismembered body of a woman was found by a group of fishermen in the Spokane River in Spokane, Washington. It was clear to authorities that the woman had been murdered, and her killer went to great lengths to ensure she could not be identified removing her hands, feet, and head. Investigators had little to go on and few clues to w...

Episode 65 Viola Hagenkord Friendly, warm, and independent Viola Hagenkord, age 79, had moved to Anaheim, CA two years earlier to spend her golden years in a safe community near her family. Everyone in the apartment complex knew Viola, known as "Grandma" to some of her neighbors. It was a shock to everyone when the elderly lady was found raped and slain in her bed, having asphyxiated from a gag, h...

Episode 64 Doe ID 'Beth Doe' Evelyn Colon When a dismembered body was found in 3 suitcases along the Lehigh River in Carbon County in December, 1976, it began a decades long mystery. When investigators combed the area where the body had been found, they also discovered the body of a fetus; that of an almost full term baby girl. An ME concluded that the body belonged to a young woman who was in her...

Episode 63 Thomas and Alice Green In June 1981, the upscale town of Livermore, CA was shocked by the double murder of Thomas "Whitey" Green and his wife Alice in their posh home. Police had lots of avenues to investigate, since Whitey ran a very lucrative and very illegal sports betting business with real connections to organized crime, and there were rumors that he had piles of money buried in th...

Episode 62 DOE ID 'Fly Creek Jane Doe' Sandra 'Sandy' Morden In February, 1980, a father and son panning for Gold in the Fly Creek area near Amboy, Washington, found a human skull and alerted authorities to their find. Investigators confirmed the skull was human, and found other bones belonging to the same person. They identified the remains as belonging to a teenage female, and determined she was...

Episode 61 Tonya McKinley Part 1 of 2 On new year's day 1985, the body of a woman was found lying on the dirt shoulder of a residential street in Pensacola, Florida. She was battered, bloody, and partially undressed. Tonya had last been seen celebrating New Year's Eve at a local bar with friends – but no one knew when she left, or with whom. Multiple pieces of physical evidence, including semen an...

Episode 61 Tonya McKinley Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion of the Tonya McKinley case. If you have not listened to the first part, go back and listen to part 1 first. There is a Lifeline to help prevent suicide. Dial 988 for help For all things DNA: ID, visit the show's homepage: DNAIDpodcast.com To Support DNA: ID on Patreon, visit this link: https://www.patreon.com/DNAID To buy DNA ID Merch, v...

Episode 60 DOE ID 'Christmas Tree Jane Doe' Joyce Marilyn Meyer Sommers Just before Christmas, 1996, a groundskeeper at Pleasant Valley Memorial Park Cemetery in Annandale, Virginia discovered a woman's lifeless body. Police were summoned, and it quickly became clear to investigators that the deceased woman had taken her own life. Letters from the dead woman asked for an autopsy to not be performe...

Episode 59 Roxanne Wood Part 2 of 2 This is the conclusion of Episode 59; Roxanne Wood. If you have not listened to part 1, stop now and go back and listen to it. For all things DNA: ID, visit the show's homepage: DNAIDpodcast.com To Support DNA: ID on Patreon, visit this link: https://www.patreon.com/DNAID To buy DNA ID Merch, visit this link: https://www.customizedgirl.com/s/dnaidpodcast Follow...

Episode 59 Roxanne Wood Part 1 of 2 In 1987, Roxanne Wood's husband Terry found her lying on the kitchen floor in a huge pool of her own blood. She had been raped and her throat slit. An incredibly small window of time in which her murder could have occurred led police to suspect that her husband was lying – and that he had staged the scene to make it appear an intruder had killed Roxanne. Terry W...

Episode 58 DOE ID 'Opelika Jane Doe' Amore Joveah Wiggins In January, 2012, a resident in a trailer park located in Opelika, Alabama made a startling discovery when he found what he believed to be a small human skull. Police were called out to investigate, and upon further searching, found more human remains and hair in the woods nearby. Sadly, they determined that the remains belonged to a young...

Episode 57: Julie Fuller Julie Fuller had lived in Arlington, Texas for just three weeks when she was abducted, raped and murdered at the end of June, 1983. The 11 year old native of the UK was enamored of America – but her shattered family moved back to England after her death, without their beloved Julie. Not a single witness to Julie's abduction could assist the police investigation, and her bo...

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Episode 56 Doe ID 'The Boy In The Box' Joseph Augustus Zarelli On February 25, 1957, the badly beaten and naked dead body of a little boy was found discarded in a box on the side of Susquehanna Road, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His death was ruled a homicide, and police worked feverishly to ID him using all of the tools available to them at the time. Although some of the clues that they had to...