Murder of Tammy Alexander

Tammy Alexander
School portrait, circa 1978
Born	Tammy Jo Alexander November 2, 1963
Disappeared	First half of 1979 Brooksville, Florida, United States
Died	November 9, 1979 (1979-11-10) (aged 16) Caledonia, New York, United States
Cause of death	Homicide (gunshot wounds to head and back)
Body discovered	Off U.S. Route 20 in Caledonia 42°55′03″N 77°46′35″W / 42.917363°N 77.776299°W / 42.917363; -77.776299Coordinates: 42°55′03″N 77°46′35″W / 42.917363°N 77.776299°W / 42.917363; -77.776299 (approximate)
Resting place	Greenmount Cemetery, Dansville, Livingston County, New York, US 42°32′48″N 77°41′05″W / 42.546588°N 77.684836°W / 42.546588; -77.684836 (approximate)
Other names	Caledonia Jane Doe, "Cali Doe"
Known for	Former unidentified victim of homicide
Height	5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) (approximate)
Weight	120 lb (54 kg) (approximate)

Tammy Jo Alexander (previously known as the Caledonia Jane Doe or "Cali Doe") was a homicide victim found in the town of Caledonia, in New York's Livingston County, on November 10, 1979. She had been shot twice sometime during the previous night and left in a field just off U.S. Route 20 near the Genesee River on the eastern end of town. Her body was discovered the next day, but she was not identified until 2015, over 35 years later.

Tan lines on her upper body led investigators to believe that she had come to the Caledonia area from a distant, warmer locale. While most evidence at the scene had been washed away by heavy rain that night, forensic palynology, or the analysis of pollen on her clothing, suggested she had spent time in Florida, southern California, Arizona or northern Mexico prior to her death. Later analysis of isotopes in her bones lent further support to this geographic clue.

During the years that she remained unidentified, her case was well publicized by the Livingston County Sheriff's Office, which continued to investigate the case, processing thousands of leads and tips from the public. John York, one of the first deputies to respond to the original crime scene, made the case a priority during his quarter-century tenure as sheriff.Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas at one point confessed to the crime, but like many other such high-profile crimes he claimed to be responsible for, the confession was not considered credible. Alexander was buried as Jane Doe in a cemetery in Dansville, a village on the southern part of the county.