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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Unknown Marlaina "Chicago Jane Doe" Reed Killer
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Race: Unknown |
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Height: unknown |
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Weight: unknown |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Unknown
There is no known description of the killer.
There is no known description of the killer. |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Unknown |
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Other Physical Characteristics: There are no known physical traits of the killer. |
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Wanted for :
Murder, Chicago, IL;
Jan 21, 2007
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Chicago, IL
Jane Doe was found in the box in an alley behind 1645 North Francisco in Chicago. |
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Possible Location : Eastern Europe
India
Indiana
Missouri
National
Illinois
Iowa
Kentucky
Michigan
Wisconsin
Chicago, IL
Jane Doe's remains were found in the Windy City.
However, cops have no reports of missing women in Chicago that match Jane's description.
They think there is a good chance that Jane is not from the Chicago Land area.
She may be from elsewhere in Illinois, or from one of the bordering states: Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Kentucky or Missouri.
Jane Doe's blouse was manufactured by a company in India.
The shirt is not sold through stores in the United States, only through businesses in India and Eastern Europe.
Jane Doe may be from another country. |
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Last Known : Chicago, IL
Jane Doe's remains were recovered in an alley in Chicago, Illinois.
Cops do not think that her body had been in the alley very long.
They estimate that she died 3-4 days before the discovery. |
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Traits |
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Jane Doe was 5'4" tall. |
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Jane was 130 lbs. |
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Jane was a white female with reddish-brown hair in a ponytail. |
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Jane was found in a black blouse made by India-based clothing company Monte Carlo. |
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Jane was found in black capri-style pants, her right knee had a black knee brace. |
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Jane was murdered, asphyxiated then placed in a large keyboard box in an alley in Chicago, Illinois. |
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Jane was roughly between the ages of 18-25 years old when she was killed. |
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Jane previously had braces.
They were removed shortly before her death, likely not by an orthodontist.
Her teeth still had dental glue and metal bands. |
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A navy blue bandana was found with Jane's remains. |
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Jane's hair was pulled back in a ponytail with a tri-color band that was turquoise, pink and purple. |
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Jane Doe was murdered somewhere around the middle of January 2007. |
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Case Story |
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Homeless Men Find More Than They Were Looking For |
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It was a cold and snowy night on January 21, 2007 in Chicago, Ill. For two homeless men wandering a quiet neighborhood, all they wanted was a warm bed. They were rooting through the trash in a nice Windy City area looking for anything they could sell or use to get food or shelter when they stumbled on to something that might be of value.
The men found a large box, about 52 inches in length. The box was labeled for a Casio WK-1800 keyboard worth about $400. The homeless men thought they may have found a keyboard, but when they reached for the box, a foot fell out.
Summoned to the scene by the men's 9-1-1 call, cops could tell several things about the box. They knew the remains inside were human, likely an adult female's, and the box had not been in the alley long. The snow coming down would normally have deteriorated the box, but since it was still in good condition, they knew the remains had not been put there recently. Police could also tell that a murder had not occurred in the alley and that someone had brought the box with the foot to the street. |
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Box Gets Analyzed At The Morgue |
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Authorities on the scene made the decision to transport the whole box to the Cook County Medical Examiner's. The box, which was tied with cables, was heavy -- more than 100 pounds -- and awkward since it was so long.
At the morgue, cops slid the contents out of the box. They found not just a foot, but a whole woman.
The Medical Examiner ruled she had been murdered by asphyxiation and blunt force trauma. Forensics showed she had likely been dead 3-4 days before her discovery. The woman was the perfect size for the box: 5'4" tall and about 130 lbs. Cops say she didn't really need to be folded or packed into the big keyboard box. Her knees were bent, and the box fit her fine.
The woman was not dressed for a cold Chicago winter. She was wearing shorter Capri-style pants with a thin black blouse. Cops say she also had a knee brace on her right knee, but the autopsy did not find any broken bones or previous surgeries.
The body had no identification on it. Because of the way she was in the box and the natural process of decay, her face was unrecognizable. Investigators could determine a few things. She was clearly a white woman with long reddish-brown hair in a pony tail. The M.E. told the detectives that she was likely between the ages of 18 and 25 years old when she was killed.
Police ran her prints and DNA through police databases, but nothing came back to identify the woman that they were now calling Jane Doe. Jane had never been arrested and therefor wasn't in any of the law enforcement databases. Next, police cross-referenced what they knew about Jane with the missing persons cases in Chicago and Illinois. Again, no hits on any of the databases.
A Chicago police officer drew a sketch of Jane, with the little details he had to go on. Detectives put the sketch out in the local Chicago Land media, but no one called recognizing the murdered woman.
Frustrated, cops began to think maybe Jane was not from the Windy City. They contacted national databases associated with missing persons and unidentified victims. Still, no one came forward and Jane remained nameless and faceless.
Police knew the sketch they had was simple, and gone off the limited resources of the disfigured face in the keyboard box. It was time to call in the big guns and get an accomplished forensic artist on-board the investigation. And who better to try to bring Jane Doe to life than the woman who literally wrote the book on Forensic Illustration? |
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Jane Doe Gets A Face.
But Will She Get A Name? |
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Karen Taylor is no stranger to AMW. Over our more than 20 years on the air, we have repeatedly turned to her for faces and names for the unidentified. She has delivered time and time again and now, authorities are counting on her skill and expertise to get them some much-needed answers.
The Cook County morgue sent Karen Jane Doe's skull, a hair sample and several autopsy photos. Karen began work on the case as soon as everything arrived at her Texas studio and plugged away at the project for many weeks before her job was finally completed.
First, Karen assembled the skull on a stand, so that she could easily work with it. Next, following anthropological guidelines, she put tiny white markers all over the front facade of the skull. Those were tissue depth markers and provided a 3-D outline for Karen of how Jane Doe's face would form.
The first thing Karen noticed on the skull was Jane Doe's dentition -- the makeup of her teeth. Karen immediately noticed the presence of glue and even metal bands on the teeth. It meant, as the forensic odontologist had mentioned in the autopsy, that Jane Doe was a recent wearer of braces and had had extensive orthodontic repair. Karen knew she would have to include this important clue in her artwork. The braces hadn't been removed properly, so the Medical Examiner's staff assumes that Jane removed the braces herself or someone other than her orthodontist did it. Karen also noticed a chip in Jane's front right incisor.
Karen took photographs of the skull with the tissue depth markers and used the pictures as a basis for her facial sketches. In the sketches, she represented the chipped tooth and did versions both with braces and without. Next, using her sketches and the skull, Karen began to construct the bust of Jane Doe.
Laying strips of clay onto the skull, Karen filled out the facial form for Jane Doe. She used the same kind of prosthetic eyes that doctors use when a living patient loses an eye and she made sure the color matched up with the morgue photos that had been sent to her.
Lastly, Karen added Jane Doe's features one by one and she hopes each of the tiny details she incorporated will help to create the bigger picture of Jane Doe's face and remind someone out there of someone they once knew.
Some important details to consider include the clue about Jane's orthodontic work. Also, Jane Doe has very forward-set cheeks and high, full eyebrows. Both ears were pierced once. Jane's reddish brown hair was long and pulled into a high ponytail on the back of her head with a pink, turquoise and purple hair band.
As AMW aired a segment on Jane Doe, Chicago Police sent sketches to a local dental publication. The sketches, published in the December 2007 issue, caught the eye of a dentist and his receptionist. They worked with police and identified Jane as one of their patients: Marlaina Reed.
Marlaina, who was just 17-years-old at the time of her murder, was originally from southern Illinois. But, Marlaina was living in Chicago when she was killed.
Cops say Marlaina's identification is a big step forward for their investigation. Now, they are working to catch her killer. |
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