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The Akizona Republic TRAFFIC Sunday: History People Monday: Life Moments Tuesday: Life Remembered Wednesday: History People Thursday: Arizona Diary Friday: Traffic Alerts Saturday: Making a Difference Stacy Sullivan, city editor, 602-444-NEWS stacy.sullivanarizonarepublic.com azjcentralcom Get to work on time with Get real-time traffic 12 News On Map I area news, including lime Iranic GI.FNDAI accidents, alerts and weekdays closures, at starting at 5 a.m. trafflcazcentraLcom on 12 News Today. PHOENIX B2 FRIDAY, FF.HRUARY 25, 2005 tea ra 4- in; K17' li in i Thorjias Rd. -1-1 1- -t 1 Buckeye I Id. i -'r Salt River Mcdowell Rd.

1 v. I Van Buren St. Skyhlarbor International Airport Rainy weekends have stymied several freeway projects scheduled recently by the Arizona Department of Transportation, and if the weatherman's right, it could happen again. But just in ease, here's the upcoming work schedule. Northbound Interstate 17 will be closed between the 1 101 17 junction near Sky I larbor International Airport and the 1 10 Stack interchange south of McDowell Road from 9 tonight to 5 a.m.

Monday while crews prepare the pavement for rubberized-asphalt resurfacing in the spring. Traffic will be detoured on westbound 1 10 through central Phoenix to the northbound 1-17 ramp at the Stack. Northbound 1-17 also will be narrowed to two lanes between McDowell and Thomas Roads during the same time for pavement repair work. LOOP 101 27th to 51st avenues INTERSTATE 10 7th Avenue to the "Short stack" U.S. 0 67th to 75th avenues -I I Union Hills dr.

Bell Rd. 101 BUMPER TO BUMPER IWhat are the plans, if any, to add an additional lane on both the north and south sides of Loop 101 between Cave Creek Road and the Intersection with the Piestewa Freeway? This section Is terrible during the morning and afternoon drive times. Bruce Baudler The Arizona Department of Transportation says there are no immediate plans to add lanes along that section of the Loop 101. One of the restrictions that affects widening in the short term are the bridges carrying the freeway over the Central Arizona Project canal. Widening the bridges to accommodate more lanes will be costly, and plans call for that to happen at a later date.

2 With the reconstruction of the roundabouts at Interstate 17 and Happy Valley Road, are there plans for a pedestrian walkway bridge alongside the Happy Valley bridge crossing over 1-17? ADOT Spokesman Doug Nintzel says a pedestrian bridge at 1-17 and Happy Valley Road is not planned at this time. If and when funds are secured for a wider bridge to carry Happy Valley Road over the freeway, it would include sidewalks for pedestrians. 3 Does anybody at ADOT keep track of how many crashes there are on the freeways? ADOT's Motor Vehicle Crash Statistics Unit keeps track of how many crashes occur on Arizona freeways. The most recent numbers are for 1 17)- i ACTS OF KINDNESS A much-needed ride I drive into Scottsdale to drop my son off at school, then go to work nearby. On the morning of Jan.

25, I was headed west on the 202 when my son and I heard a knocking in the engine, then a loud pop. Smoke blanketed the air outside as well as the cabin of the car. As we were standing to the side of the off-ramp at Country Club Road, I realized I left my cellphone at home. Quickly, my son said he had it in his pocket; what a relief. However, in that very same moment, a cruiser from the Scottsdale Police Department rolled up.

After I explained the details to the officer, I boldly, yet nicely asked him if he could take my son to school and drop me at work. Without hesitation, he said, "Yes." His name is Officer Mike Riordan. His unselfishness was beneficial to us all. S. Andre Gilbert Dramatic gas cap return My arthritic thumb and forefinger prevents me from holding the gas nozzle in my car's gas tank.

Eddie's Union station always helps me fill my gas tank. The attendant forgot to put my gas cap back on one day. I was waiting at the traffic light. One young man hollered to me about the gas cap and moved forward in his lane. Another young man two lanes to the right of me jumped out of his car, put the gas cap back on and returned to his car.

I know he was my guardian angel because the traffic light waited until he was safely back in his i I Olive Ave. Jk J' rs mm "2j2SSJ NX Northern Ave. '-'I A I W- McDoweltRdl r' GlendaleAve. I- LVanftjrerjSli ts Sky Harbor International I Buckeye Rd. I kl Airport Ia 4 i BehanyHomeRd.

r.1- 1 1 I il "1 PHOfNIX I i I I 1 1 PHOfNIX Thunderbird Rd. Gl ENDALF Map area 60 PHOtNIX Restriction Restriction CZ3 Restriction Westbound traffic on the Agua Fria Freeway will be narrowed to one lane from 9 tonight to 5 a.m. Monday while crews pour concrete as part of the project to add a new merge lane to the freeway. Detour Drivers can exit Loop 101 ahead of the restriction and use the westbound frontage road before reentering the freeway at 51st Avenue. Eastbound 1-10 will be closed from 9 p.m.

Saturday to 5 a.m. Sunday for maintenance work in the Deck Park Tunnel. mmm DetOUr Drivers can use southbound 1-17 and reconnect with eastbound 1-10 near Sky Harbor Airport. Traffic that continues on eastbound 1-10 will need to exit at Seventh Avenue and use eastbound McDowell Road to the southbound Arizona 51eastbound 1-10 entrance ramp near 20th Street. Grand Avenue will be closed in both directions from 7 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday while crews construct concrete barrier walls on the 67th Avenue bridge being built over Grand Avenue. Detour Southeast Grand Avenue traffic can detour on southbound 75th Avenue and return to Grand on eastbound Northern Avenue. Access to Grand Avenue businesses between 75th and 67th avenues will be maintained. Northwest Grand Avenue traffic will be able to detour on northbound 67th Avenue and return to Grand Avenue on westbound Olive Avenue.

We'll try to answer your traffic-related questions each week in the Bumper to Bumper column. Send questions to bumperarizonarepublic.com or 200 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, 85004. car before it turned green. I had no chance to thank him.

I hope he sees this. Lucille Gearing Phoenix 2003 and show the number of reported crashes went down. There were 130,895 reported crashes in 2003, compared with 134,228 in 2002. The amount of people killed on freeways dropped 1 percent. Send questions to Bumper to Bumper, NM-19, The Arizona Republic, 200 E.

Van Buren Phoenix. AZ 85004 or e-mail Bumperarizonarepublic.com. REGIONAL OUTLOOK (01 ADOT is preparing to reopen Arizona 89A to two lanes of traffic about six miles north of Sedona as an ongoing rockfall-containment project near the Banjo Bill Campground in Oak Creek Canyon is suspended temporarily during the spotted owl nesting season. Traffic has been moving through the area one lane at a time. On 1-10 northwest of Tucson, drivers can still expect overnight lane restrictions Sundays through Thursdays because of a project to add a third lane to 1-10 between Cortaro and Tangerine roads.

Restrictions are in place from 6:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. each night. Drivers should use caution through the work zones. Send your Acts of Kindness of 200 Phoenix words or fewer to actsofkindness arizonarepublic.com or to Acts of Kindness, 200 E.

Van Buren Phoenix, AZ 85004. Include your full name, city and phone number. GOVERNOR MISSING 2 decades later, body identified ValueOptions gets warning From Page Bl partment of Health Services, announced her retirement. Eden, a respected department i head, had been under heavy fire for her department's oversight of ValueOptions' $1.3 bil lion state contract. Napolitano sent the letter to Dozoretz on Wednesday, the same day Eden's announce ment was made.

Last week, the Legislature's Government Reform and Gov From Page HI Jones-Finley took in Karen's son, who she says is "still scarred" by his mother's disappearance. Karen's daughter was taken in by the girl's father. Jones-Finley had all but abandoned hope of finding out what happened to her sister, but last year the 20-year-old Jane Doe case wound up on Kirkham's desk. All he really knew was that the victim was 20 to 30 years old, possibly of mixed race, about 5 feet 6 inches tall. "We'd done a lot of work trying to match her up with other missing-persons cases in Arizona and across the country," Kirkham said.

"We looked at the physical characteristics of her bones. We looked at dental films from all kinds of people. We just spent a lot of effort trying to do that and came up with nothing." This time through, Scottsdale detectives began working with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and the Department of Public Safety to create a clay reconstruction and sketch of the woman's face. Police had long ago used a clay rendering of the skull, but the technology wasn't as good as it is today. It didn't show the woman's teeth, and it didn't accurately approximate the width of her nose.

At the time, investigators weren't sure if the woman was Black or White she was listed as White on the 1985 medical examiner's report and the skull had deteriorated significantly during its eight months in the desert. This time, Kirkham teamed up with Maricopa County Sheriff's Office homicide Detective Bob Powers to produce a rough sketch of what the woman would look like today. "Forensic technology is better now, and it was able to establish the race of the remains," Kirkham said. "Then Powers was able to use that information to render a very good likeness of her. We had nothing to lose." They offered the rendering to The Arizona Republic, which ran a story on Aug.

20, 2004, under the headline, "Better sketch may help ID shot skeleton." Almost immediately, Kirkham got a phone call. It turned chipped front tooth. Detectives asked Pamela, Jones-Finley and a third surviving sister to submit DNA samples at the state Department of Public Safety's crime laboratory. They took samples from Karen's children as well. But there were problems with the samples.

Karen and her sisters had different fathers, and so did Karen's children. Over the next several months, analysts cleaned DNA extracted from Davis' bones and tried to resolve inconsistencies from the paternal differences. It worked. Earlier this month, DPS analyst Dan Me-rena was able to confirm a 100 percent match between Davis and one of her sisters, who shared the same father. "It was a long and stressful journey, but it was worth it," Merena said.

For Jones-Finley, the match put an end to two decades of scouring newspapers and watching TV news shows hoping to find a trace of her sister. Kirkham's initial call had come the day after her father died, and the family had been hoping for closure. Still, "It was a big emotional blow," she said. "Our mother had passed without knowing what had happened to her baby daughter. That just straight took my mother out.

"It was a relief, but when I got home, I fell apart," she said. "All these years when I was told she was murdered, that hurt me so bad. "She's someone's child. She had a family. But I just could not imagine someone treating her like that." For Kirkham, there's a certain amount of satisfaction that comes with solving a mystery.

"This was a case of a nameless person for 20 years," he said. "Suddenly, we know who she is." But there's still unfinished business. Karen's killer or killers may still be out there. Jones-Finley says she wants to know who killed her baby sister and why. "All these years," she said.

"Yes, I want to know. I don't hate anyone the Lord has blessed me, I know I just want to know why. Just for me. For those babies she left behind." Reach the reporter at holly.johnsonarizonarepublic.com or (602) 444-6849. ernment Finance Accountabil ity Committee passed a meas ure to have the state auditor general investigate if Value-Options and the health depart ment are doing their jobs.

At the committee meetmg, legislators heard from Doue Karen "Cricket" Davis, shown in this forensic sketch, disappeared in 1984 at the age of 22. Call with tips Anyone with more information about Karen Davis' death should call Scottsdale police Detective John Kirkham at (480) 312-5000. out to be the only one he needed. Another of Davis' sisters, Pamela Davis, saw the picture and said she thought it looked like Karen. In fact, she knew it was her, because Karen had a Frerichs, of Scottsdale, whose 22-year-old son Peter Hobkirk-Frerichs, killed himself.

Frerichs told legislators ValueOptions did little for Peter, who was enrolled with them for three months before he com mitted suicide in December in Fountain Hills. Frerichs also wrote to Na politano, saying, "ValueOp tions left Peter with dashed hopes and a pile of literature full of hollow promises for DPS lab 1st in U.S. to create good way to get DNA in bone treatment and recovery." Tim Nelson, Napolitano's, general counsel, said she wrote to Dozoretz because it was the first time she had received By Holly Johnson The Arizona Republic The Arizona Department of Public Safety crime lab was the first in the country to develop a sophisticated method of extracting DNA from bone, which is so dense it typically precludes accurate analysis. It was the latest in a series of developments in DNA analysis pioneered in Arizona. In 1990, DPS began working with three other state crime labs and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to develop the first DNA extraction process in the United States.

But the process was cumbersome, requiring large amounts of carefully pre served DNA. DNA is a stable molecule and can sustain extremely high temperatures or environmental assaults, even over decades. Analysts only need a trace amount the size of a pinpoint to make an accurate identification. scientists had a hard time extracting DNA from bone, and "in the desert, that's typically the sort of case we get," according to Tcdd Griffith, superintendent of the DPS Scientific Analysis Bureau. "The DNA in all the other parts of your body is in soft tissue, stuff that's easy to extract the DNA from," Griffith said.

"A bone is very hard and brittle, and DNA is bound in that bone matrix. It's hard to obtain." DPS analyst Dan Merena helped develop the process to successfully extract DNA from bone. "We've had almost a 100 percent success rate since we've done that," he said. letters directly from family members about their children committing suicide. "She is watching ValueOptions very carefully," Nelson said.

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