Snohomish County Jane Doe

Watcha think on this one? Sounds like she was a runaway, and while only 5'6" at age 14, she still could of grew taller in the next year and half. SHERLOCK.... Since you already are in contact, if you like this match, please feel free to submit it.


Washington Doe

and Maria Anjiras:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1032dfct.html



Left: Anjiras, circa 1976; Right: Age progression to age 41 (circa 2002)
Maria Florence Anjiras
Missing since February 12, 1976 from Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Classification: Endangered Runaway

Vital Statistics

• Date Of Birth: August 10, 1961
• Age at Time of Disappearance: 14 years old
• Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5' 6" - 168 cm; 120 lbs - 54 kg
• Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; blue eyes.

Circumstances of Disappearance
Anjiras was last seen on February 12, 1976 leaving her home on a blue English race bike. The bike was later found approximately one mile from Anjiras' home. She took some clothes and money with her when she vanished.
She has not been heard from since.

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THE SEATTLE TIMES
July 18, 1991
Edition: FINAL
Section: SNOHOMISH
Page: B1

Topics:
Index Terms:
MISSING PERSONS
MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS
EVERETT
SHOOTINGS
PRISONS AND PRISONERS
IDENTITY (PERSONAL)

FOURTEEN YEARS WAITING FOR A NAME
KILLER LONG IN JAIL, BUT VICTIM STILL UNIDENTIFIED

Author: KATE SHATZKIN

Dateline: EVERETT

Article Text:
EVERETT - Her killer went to prison, but neither her family nor her friends were in court to see him sentenced. Her body lies in an Everett cemetery, but no relatives witnessed the burial.
The man who picked her up by the side of the road strangled her with an elastic cord and shot her in the head seven times when she refused to have sex with him. He never got her name.
Fourteen years later, the Snohomish County medical examiner's office is still trying to discover her identity. "There still might be next of kin," said chief medical investigator Ken Stensrud. "It would be nice to tell somebody whose daughter has been missing for years that we know where she is."
In a county grappling with 33 unsolved murders and now a spate of dismemberments that make identification especially difficult, the case has a certain irony. This Jane Doe's killer has been caught and prosecuted, but there may never be a name on her gravestone.
There are few clues to go on.
Blackberry pickers searching through woods near Paine Field found the woman's partially decomposed body Aug. 14, 1977. She had been dead about five days.
The woman wore cut-off denim shorts, a striped shirt, tennis shoes and a brown leather watchband with a gold-face watch. She had no purse or identifying papers in her pockets. She was about 5 feet 8, weighed 155 pounds, and had no unusual scars or tattoos.
Her teeth were in good condition, with only one tiny filling, making it harder to trace her dental records. Investigators speculated she might have grown up on the East Coast, where the mineral balance in water could have kept her teeth so white.
Her hands were too decomposed to obtain fingerprints .
As the body was discovered, 22-year-old David Marvin Roth was picked up by Gold Bar police on a weapons charge. An informant told police Roth had described picking up a hitchhiker days before and drinking beer with her. She told him she lived with two men. They went into the woods. She resisted his advances, and he killed her.
Police matched slugs found in the woman's head to Roth's .22-caliber rifle. He was convicted in 1979 and sentenced to life in prison.
His victim's skull languished in a courthouse evidence room until recently, when it was forwarded to the medical examiner to be destroyed. Instead, Dr. Eric Kiesel, medical examiner, decided to try again for an identity.
The case is one of the oldest active Jane or John Doe cases in the region, according to Bill Haglund, King County chief medical investigator.
Haglund's oldest unidentified body goes back to the early 1980s, including three probable victims of the Green River killer.
The Pierce County medical examiner has four active John and Jane Doe cases going back to 1987.
Haglund said the Snohomish County case is the only one he has heard of in which the killer has been convicted.
"In her case, justice still hasn't been done because she's not identified, and the family doesn't know," Haglund said. "Part of justice is resolving grief."
The killer or killers responsible for the Snohomish County morgue's other unidentified bodies may never be found. Some are believed victims of a serial killer who, Sheriff Jim Scharf speculates, is dumping body parts around the southeastern part of the county to keep his victims from being identified.
Besides the 1977 Jane Doe, there is a man who appeared to be Native American, found in Bryant in the early '80s; a dismembered man whose parts were scattered from Ebey Slough to Gold Bar; an unidentified teenage girl found just over the county line near Canyon Park on New Year's Day 1988; and a leg and pieces of scalp found this year that may belong to the same man.
Scharf can't get more money for staff, so Kiesel is looking for an anthropologist or forensics student to do a free-clay reconstruction of the 1977 victim's head. The case is too old for them to ask for money in the medical examiner's budget, Kiesel said.
"In the meantime, we're just hoping for somebody to come forward before we bury her skull," Kiesel said.

Caption:
TERI HARRIS / SEATTLE TIMES: THIS IS THE SKULL OF A WOMAN WHO STILL REMAINS UNIDENTIFIED AFTER HER BODY WAS DISCOVERED 14 YEARS AGO NEAR PAINE FIELD. HER KILLER WAS CONVICTED IN 1979 AND SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON
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Daily Herald (Everett, WA)
May 4, 2008
Section: Letters
Detectives doing right by victim

Article Text:
Families and Friends of Missing Persons and Violent Crime Victims wishes to acknowledge and commend the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office, and in particular, Cold Case Detectives' David Heitzman and Jim Scharf for "doing the right thing" in re-opening the murder case of "Jane Doe" whose body was found in August of 1977. (Friday article, "Detectives hope to ID homicide victim after decades.")
Unlike most cold cases that are opened, where identity of the victim is known, but the perpetrator has not been caught, this case focuses on the victim. The killer, David Martin Roth was convicted of first-degree murder in 1979, served his sentence, and has been released from prison. With DNA and other new technology, it is hoped that the female victim can be identified and her remains returned to her family for proper burial.
This young woman has family and friends who undoubtedly have mourned her disappearance for over 30 years. Their pain is unimaginable. It is our hope "Jane Doe" can be identified, so her family can begin to piece together what happened and no longer wonder each day if their daughter is alive or dead.
Over the 30 years we have worked with the families of missing persons, we have heard the pain in their voices of not knowing the fate of their loved one who is missing because foul play is suspected.
Our organization thanks these hard working detectives who care about the victims and those left behind.
Jenny Wieland
Executive Director
Families and Friends of Missing Persons and Violent Crime Victims
Everett

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THE SEATTLE TIMES
December 30, 1988
Edition: ZONE
Section: NORTH
Page: E3

Topics:
Index Terms:
UNIDENTIFIED BODIES
INTERVIEW
MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS
SNOHOMISH COUNTY
INVESTIGATIONS
PROFESSIONS
IDENTITY (PERSONAL)

INVESTIGATOR BAFFLED BY 4 NAMELESS SLAYING VICTIMS
HE WON'T QUIT ON THE CASES OF 3 WOMEN, 1 MAN

Author: LIZ BROWN

Dateline: EVERETT

Article Text:
EVERETT
On a shelf in the Snohomish County medical examiner's office sit thick folders stuffed with fingerprint cards, sketches and correspondence about four people. Every few weeks, investigator Rick Balam opens the folders and tries to identify them
The three women and one man are unidentified homicide victims.
The killer of one woman - found shot in 1977 near Mariner High School, south of Everett - was convicted of her death, but even he didn't know her.
Balam successfully identifies hundreds of bodies each year, but the unresolved lives of the Jane and John Does gnaw at him. Somewhere, someone is missing a family member. Balam, whose specialty is identifying the nameless dead, won't be satisfied until he solves the mystery.
``It's challenging,'' said Balam, whose office is in the Snohomish County Courthouse. ``I don't enjoy dead bodies, but what I do find interesting is finding out what happened to those people and who they are.''
It isn't a pretty job. In some cases, Balam and four other investigators work with decomposing bodies or skeletons as they gather evidence at the scene of natural and accidental deaths, suicides and homicides.
The four unidentified bodies include female skeletal remains found last Jan. 1 in Canyon Park near Bothell. Balam said such remains are the most challenging and difficult to work with, especially if animals scatter the bones and prevent recovery of teeth and a complete skeleton.
Another woman was found May 8 in woods east of Gold Bar within hours of her death. She was about 40 years old.
``I think she was a hitchhiker who hitchhiked from the Tacoma area to the Bellingham area,'' said Balam, who nicknamed the woman ``Mary.'' He took sketches of her to local homeless shelters, but no one could identify her.
The unidentified man was found east of Gold Bar in June 1987.
Balam said the man had extensive dental work and easily could be identified if he had been reported missing and if his dental records had been entered into state and national computer identification networks.
Balam sends descriptions, sketches, skeletal and dental X-rays and fingerprints of the unidentified bodies to dozens of agencies in Washington, the United States and Canada. A central agency to coordinate all the data would make identifying people easier, he said.
Fingerprints are the best tool for identification but aren't helpful if the missing person had never been arrested or applied for a gun permit. Fingerprints taken for other reasons often aren't entered into computer systems such as the state Automated Fingerprint Identification System.
``The worst problem you have is street people,'' Balam said.
``The families finally give up on these people and don't list them as missing persons.''
In those cases, Balam often relies on the news media to print or broadcast descriptions of unidentified bodies. A Seattle woman found dead in October near Index recently was identified by a friend who recognized a sketch of her on a TV news program. The woman, a transient, had not been reported missing by her family.
Nothing matches the relief Balam feels when remains of an unidentified body - always buried, never cremated - are returned to the family.
``It's a never-ending battle,'' he said. ``You've just got to keep working on them. You have to look at it from the standpoint that you're there to work for the family.'

Caption:
ERIC DRAPER / SEATTLE TIMES: RICK BALAM, AN INVESTIGATOR AT THE SNOHOMISH COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE, STUDIES THE DENTAL X- RAYS OF AN UNIDENTIFIED MALE FOUND IN GOLD BAR IN JUNE 1987. THE CASE IS ONE OF FOUR INVESTIGATIONS THAT REMAIN UNSOLVED
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA)
May 2, 2008
Edition: Final
Section: News
Page: B1

Topics:
Index Terms:
HOMICIDE

DO YOU KNOW THIS WOMAN'S NAME?
POLICE TRYING TO ID '77 MURDER VICTIM
Author: SCOTT GUTIERREZ P-I reporter
Article Text:
Unlike most cold cases involving unidentified victims, Snohomish County sheriff's detectives actually know who killed the young woman whose remains were found about 30 years ago in blackberry brush south of Everett.
The evidence pointed to David M. Roth, then 20, who was convicted of first-degree murder in 1979 and sentenced to prison. Despite Roth's confession to a detective, he swore he never knew the name of the hitchhiker he picked up, then strangled and shot several times after she refused to have sex with him one day in August 1977.
The girl's identity still eludes sheriff's investigators, who Thursday released a new composite sketch of "Jane Doe." They hope someone will recognize their murder victim - maybe a family member who reported her missing. And they hope to bring both cases some closure.
"In essence, he took her life and he took her identity away from her because she's been a `Jane Doe' now for 30 years - that's probably twice as long as she was known by her real name," said Detective Jim Scharf, who, along with his partner, has 62 unsolved homicides and missing-person cases. Some date back to the 1960s.
Investigators think they might have a better estimate now of the girl's age and have more accurately depicted how she might have looked as she was thumbing for cars along the Bothell-Everett Highway on the day she was killed.
In 1992, Detective John Hinds produced a plaster reconstruction of the face of the victim, then thought to be in her 20s or 30s. It was shown to the media but never produced solid leads.
"We had someone in Canada wondering if it was someone who was 50 years old. That's why we wanted to get the forensic artist to do a new likeness of her," Scharf said.
Last month, in hopes of reviving the investigation, cold-case detectives working with the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office exhumed the woman's remains from an unmarked grave at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Everett to extract DNA samples to enter into a nationwide database.
The remains were examined by King County forensic anthropologist Kathy Taylor, who concluded the victim was probably between 15 and 21, and likely 16 to 19. That is younger than the initial estimate of 17 to 37.
Hinds, an FBI-trained forensic artist who has since retired, created a new forensic sketch of the girl's face, based on photographs of the plaster reconstruction and new estimates of her age.
Roth was paroled in May 2005 after serving 25 years in prison under the state's former sentencing laws. He now lives in Everett and has cooperated with detectives, even pointing out that they initially had picked the wrong hairstyle for the composite sketch, Scharf said.
But he never knew her name and only recalled her talking about living with a couple of guys and that she had hitchhiked in the Midwest, Scharf said.
Roth had picked up the girl near Silver Lake, where he had been swimming. They got some beer and drove to the woods south of Everett, near Mariner High School.
Blackberry pickers found her body Aug. 14, 1977. Two beer cans were found nearby.
Within days, Roth's friend reported to police that Roth had talked about the murder and wanted help moving the body. Police later matched the fatal bullets to a rifle and ammunition in Roth's vehicle.
Roth, who was living in Lynnwood, temporarily fled the state. He was arrested in January 1979 after police found him in Port Orchard, Scharf said.
The girl was white, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and 155 pounds. She had short, light brown or brown hair, which was her natural color. She appeared to have a suntan and was wearing a tank top with pastel stripes, cut-off jeans and blue and white tennis shoes. She may have been from out of state.
She wore a Timex watch with a brown leather band on her left wrist and had dental restorations on her two front teeth, according to Sheriff's Office reports.
Anyone who might recognize the sketch or who reported missing girls in the late 1970s is asked to call the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office tip line at 425-388-3845.
Sheriff's investigators ask that anyone who reported a missing girl provide the girl's first name, middle initial, last name and birth date, so that authorities can ensure that the information is present in state and national databases, Snohomish County sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said.
P-I reporter Scott Gutierrez can be reached at 206-903-5396 or scottgutierrez@seattlepi. com.
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Daily Herald (Everett, WA)
May 2, 2008
Section: Local News
Detectives hope to ID homicide victim after decades

Article Text:
EVERETT -- Snohomish County sheriff's cold case detectives know who killed the young woman more than 30 years ago.
They recently produced a sketch of what she might have looked like in 1977.
Now, they want to know her name.
Detectives on Thursday released a new sketch of the unidentified victim, and aim to distribute it as widely as possible so somebody might recognize her.
The sketch, done by a retired sheriff's detective, was drawn after her remains were exhumed April 1, and a King County anthropologist determined the victim, between 15 and 21 years old, was younger than officials thought years ago.
The deputies also had her DNA sent to the FBI for comparison and to be included in a national database.
"We want to give some answers to her family," detective Jim Scharf said Thursday. "We want to return her identity to her. She's been Jane Doe to us for longer than she was alive."
The victim was described as white and was tall, standing about 5 feet 10 inches. She weighed around 155 pounds, had short brown or light brown hair. Her hair showed no sign of color treatments. The victim appeared to have a suntan at the time of her death.
She was wearing a tank top with pastel stripes, cutoff jeans and blue and white tennis shoes. She also had a Timex watch with a brown leather band on her left wrist. Her upper two front teeth had extensive dental work.
Although nobody knew who she was, David Marvin Roth was held responsible for her August 1977 strangling and shooting. He dumped her body in some bushes in south Everett near 112th Street SW and Fourth Avenue W. Blackberry pickers later found her partially decomposed remains.
Roth was charged in January 1978 after bullets from his .22-caliber rifle matched those found in the victim. He was convicted of first-degree murder in 1979 and stayed in prison until May 2005.
After his release, Roth cooperated with deputies, detective Dave Heitzman said.
This is the second time detectives have gone public with information about the victim in an attempt to identify her.
In 1992, now retired detective John Hinds used a plaster cast of the victim's skull to create a facial reconstruction. At the time, her age was pegged at between 17 and 35. Photos of the reconstruction were distributed widely without success.
Hinds, who now lives in Thurston County, spent several years after retirement on the East Coast doing forensic artist work in Maine and New Hampshire.
Information he had retained from her skull, plus new information from the Snohomish County medical examiner, enabled him to revise her likeness.
Although Roth doesn't know the victim's name, he told detectives what her hair style was like at the time of her death.
Roth also told detectives that he picked her up hitchhiking on the Bothell-Everett Highway on the east side of Silver Lake. According to court papers, he took her to an isolated spot, drank some beer and killed her when she refused him sex.
Detectives also released sketches of some of the victim's clothing and the watch on Thursday.
The case was reopened after a call from the Doe Network, a North American organization that keeps track of missing and unidentified people. The Doe Network wanted to know if someone missing from Eastern Washington could be the 1977 murder victim.
That person had already been ruled out years ago, but detectives learned that now-retired sheriff's detective Joe Ward already had started to reopen the case. Scharf and Heitzman continued the work Ward started and in March secured a court order to exhume the body.
"With a person of that age range, somebody is going to miss her," Heitzman said.
A lot of the missing person databases from that era are incomplete, Scharf said. Different jurisdictions handle things in different ways, and some police agencies used to eliminate people from reported runaway lists when they turned 18.
Heitzman and Scharf hope the new sketch and information will lead to a solid tip on the victim's identity.
If not, it may be the last chance to learn her name.
"This is the best we're going to get," Hinds said.
Reporter Jim Haley: 425-339-3447 or jhaley@heraldnet.com

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Sketch of homicide victim

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