NJ GALLOWAY JANE DOE: WF, 12-18, found in woods near Jim Leeds Road, NJ - 6 December 1971 *Identified*

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Three hunters found the skeletal remains of this teenaged girl in the woods off Jim Leeds Road, near milepost #42 of the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township, New Jersey.

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She also had a motel key that was found in her pocket, which belonged to an establishment nearby.

Rt. 30/White Horse Pike has many hotels, motels, restaurants, and fast food places in Galloway, because the location is close to the beach. Some of the hotels and motels are independent and some are chains. Many of them have been there since the 1970s.

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A person local to the Galloway area would have known about the construction site and how to negotiate through the woods next to the Parkway.
 
A trucker wouldn't have been able to drive his truck on the Garden State Parkway. Trucks aren't allowed on the Parkway. A trucker could have arrived in the area on the Atlantic City Expressway, though. This girl just doesn't sound like she was sexually assaulted.
 
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/n...ead12b0b3.html


An autopsy determined the girl might have been strangled. Police took the remains to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where an anthropologist studied them to help a composite artist come up with a sketch.

In 2013, police have received news that DNA from both the victim’s mother and father had been retrieved from the remains, according to the police Facebook posting.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has been assisting Galloway Police Lt. Donna Higbee as she has continued to try to solve the cold-case homicide for the past 6 years.

Along with their assistance in continuing to update their website with new information, Higbee has been working with anthropologist Donna Fontana from the New Jersey State Police Forensics Lab in Hamilton, Mercer County, in an attempt to successfully retrieve DNA from the woman’s skeletal remains.

Higbee finally received word from Fontana that nuclear DNA from both the victim’s mother and father was retrieved from the skeletal remains and uploaded into the National CODIS database.

This process took more than three years to conduct and many attempts at the retrieval had been unsuccessful because of how old the remains were, police said.

Higbee said the hope is that, as law enforcement retrieves additional DNA in the future through investigative and detention leads, police will be able to identify this female juvenile and solve the mystery of what happened to her over 43 years ago.
 
I didn't know you could retrieve parents' DNA from a person! Maybe I'm not reading this right. This means that my mom's "pure" DNA can be determined from my remains?
 
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I didn't know you could retrieve parents' DNA from a person! Maybe I'm not reading this right. This means that my mom's "pure" DNA can be determined from my remains?
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Mitochondrial DNA that can be found is strictly maternal DNA, so I know they can find the mother's DNA and find that lineage.

www.genome.gov

Mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondrial DNA is the small circular chromosome found inside mitochondria.
www.genome.gov www.genome.gov
 
I am hoping that someone will be able to match the DNA so this girl can finally have her name and hopefully, go home.
 
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