The Arizona Republic Tuesday, April 27, 1971 Kingman has a Jane Doe buried without headstone in a county cemetery for the lonely and unknown. Her body, placed without tears in a pine box, has been unclaimed for three months. She's been dead for almost four. Her obituary was mimeographed on pink bulletin sheets by police. "Name unknown . . . DOB unknown . . . POB unknown." Jane Doe cannot rest in peace. : She is a murder victim. And Mohave County deputies, desperate to fill the blanks in a case that is mostly blanks, want-Arizonans to play detective and possibly give Jane Doe a name that could likely identify another Doe John Doe, her killer. "We've tried every method known to police work and then some," Mohave County Sheriff Floyd Cisney said. "We're Unknown murder victim still no closer to this woman's identity. But somebody in Arizona must have seen her, may even know her, or may remember a small something that could help us." Jane Doe received her unholy christening on Jan. 23. Three hunters found her body, frozen by winter yet partially decomposed, forced into a muslin deer sack. She had been strangled and dumped in game country, 3 miles east of U.S. 93 and 30 miles southeast of Kingman. Then began the police crochet work of which television series are made. Jane's physical description (white female, 5 feet 4, 125-140 pounds, 35-40 years old, brownish black hair with a caesarean 00 Page 19 Paul Dean Public can help uncover true identity of Jane Doe birth scar on her abdomen) was mated with her clothing (multicolored, size 14 blouse with five brass buttons and epaulets; orange, size 12 stretch pants; Pixie-type leather boots, size 5V2B) and mailed to 800 law enforcement agencies in the United States and Canada. Her fingerprints were sent to the FBI in Washington. Details of her expensive dentistry, including two missing molars and a $500 microband bridge, were reported in dental magazines and checked against 8,000 patient files in one Phoenix lab alone. A Flagstaff police artist sketched a portrait, which, like a passport photograph, was businesslike but unflattering. A pathologist reported that a bone indentation indicated Jane Doe was used to wearing a wedding ring and other signs indicated she had been the mother of three children. She also liked lima beans, probably didn't smoke, and was physically meticulous, down to her evenly manicured fingernails. But the depth of clues and width of distribution produced negative results. Sheriff Cisney, Sgt. Don Parrish and Detective Joe Chapin are down to playing hunches and presumptions. They believe Jane Doe was killed at the end of the Dec. 1 - 31 bow hunting season. Five thousand licenses were issued to archers for the season. Each applicant is being checked out. And every married bowman is being asked to produce his wife for questioning. Jane's clothes were quality wear, her hair had been handled by a beauty parlor and a dentist estimated she had spent at least $2,100 on her teeth. So hotels, motel and stores that cater to upper middle - class traffic still are being checked. Every missing person report for this Arizona - California - Nevada - Utah area, filed before or after the murder, has been chased down. Twenty - three previously missing women have been found. All were alive and obviously not Jane Doe. Veteran cop Cisney has his own guess about the case. He thinks it is probably a "momma - poppa" killing by an enraged husband. Somewhere, he believes, there are Jane Doe's three children, maybe at school or -married and away from home, who are being stalled by their father and have yet to worry about their mother. "But they'll start worrying before long," he said. "Time has a habit of solving murder mysteries." And placing names on headstones for Jane Does. cent be had of many were being
