This one is very scary and very famous:
It is a dead woman known under the name “Jane Doe” — one of the Sumter County Does. Until January 21, 2021 that is.
THE SUMTER COUNTY DOES
In the early morning of August 9, 1976 a trucker found the bodies of a man and a woman.
Further research and autopsies never lead to an identification:
The coroner noted that the young woman had "unusually long," natural eyelashes and that both victims were very clean and well-groomed. She had fillings in all of her back teeth, and her front teeth would have appeared straight even if she were to smile. She had no surgical scars, had never been pregnant, and her legs had not been shaved.
(“Her legs had not been shaved” seems a pretty macabre observation to me.)
Since the bodies were found in Sumter County, South Carolina, they were baptized the “Sumter County Does” — the man nicknamed “Jock Doe” and the woman “Jane Doe.”
LEAD THEORY
A man named Lonnie George Henry was arrested in 1977 due to him driving intoxicated, and a gun was found in his car.
Later it turned out (through test-firing) that the gun was the murder weapon, but due to insufficient evidence, he was never charged.
(He died in 1982).
Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas claimed to be in the neighborhood when the murders were committed, but Lucas was well known for fabricating stories, and he was not believed.
IDENTIFICATION
On January 21, 2021 at a press conference the true names of the murder victims was revealed.
Through the DNA Doe project — an organization which seeks to solve unidentified decedent cases —the Sumter County Does were known in the end.
After 45 years.
They were identified as Pamela Buckley and James Freund.
Finally the victims had a name.
But there never was a killer.
SOURCES: Wikipedia and Google images.
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