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Jackson County John Doe

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Of the thousands of people murdered every year in the United States, some remain unidentified. Many victims are not identified for years or even decades after they were killed—as in the case of Tammy Jo Alexander, who was murdered in 1979 and remained unidentified until 2015. Including both murder victims and those who died of other causes, about 40,000 bodies remain unidentified in the United States.

The body of a white female aged thirty-four to thirty-eight was found in Slaughter Creek, near the Sipsey River in Romulus, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama on April 18, 1982. The victim had been beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted. She was 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed approximately 110 to 115 pounds. She wore tennis shoes, knitted blue pants, a long-sleeved blue shirt, and white undergarments. It is possible that she was fishing at the area and was killed at the scene, as a disturbance of the earth was found at the location. She had a ruddy complexion (indicating that she regularly engaged in outdoor activity), wore an upper partial denture, may have given birth to a child in the past, and showed evidence of having done manual labor. She had dark-brown, shoulder-length hair and brown eyes. She also had a visible scar under her right eyebrow. Her remains were exhumed in 2013 for additional examination and to obtain a DNA sample.

On May 29, 1998, the skeletonized remains of a black male were found by fishermen in the Coosa River in Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama. There were multiple bullet wounds to the skull, and stab wounds to the sacrum and right hipbone. Evidence of burning was also present. He was aged between seventeen and twenty-one at the time of death, and had been five feet six to five feet eight inches tall. Although a forensic reconstruction of the skull was performed to aid identification, the jawline is only an approximation as the mandible was never found. The remaining maxillary teeth showed no evidence of fillings, possibly indicating a lack of dental care when alive. Some of the teeth had been fractured before death, possibly by using them to open a bottle. One or both hands and one or more limbs were not recovered.

The skull of a girl of African heritage was discovered on January 28, 2012 in Opelika, Alabama and several other bones were also recovered. The victim was concealed in the woods near a trailer park. Examiners concluded that she was between four and seven years old and had black hair. She was also presumed to have been "abused and malnourished" while alive and the death is presumed to be murder. Her height, weight and eye color could not be determined because of the state of her remains. The girl had likely died between 2011 and 2012. The victim has since been reconstructed by the FBI Victims Identification Project and currently has her DNA being processed to compare to potential matches.


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