TX MADISONVILLE JANE DOE: F, 2-6, found in suitcase in Madisonville, TX - 17 Sept 2016 - feeding tube

Demographics
Sex: Female
Race / Ethnicity: Uncertain
Estimated Age Group: PreAdolescent
Estimated Age Range (Years): 2-6
Estimated Year of Death: 2016
Estimated PMI: 4 Months

Circumstances
Type: Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found: September 17, 2016

Location Found Map
Location: Madisonville, Texas 77864
County: Madison County
Circumstances of Recovery: Remains of a female child with a feeding tube found inside a suitcase in a pasture next to highway. Child may be from Texas, Mexico, Arizona, Mew Mexico, or possibly California.

Details of Recovery
Inventory of Remains: All parts recovered
Condition of Remains: Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton

Physical Description
Hair Color: Black
Head Hair Description: Hair color could also be brown, past shoulders in length

Distinctive Physical Features
Deformity: The lower jaw would have been smaller than the rest of her face, causing a receded chin and was most likely unable to close her mouth. The skull was deformed and flattened on one side. The girl's head and face would have been asymmetrical. The left side of her face would have been more prominent.

Clothing and Accessories
Accessories: military issued camo shirt (desert digital pattern) ; Silver child's bedspread ; Grey adult sweatshirt ; Small green blanket - Near the Body
Clothing: Pink dress (size 4T, Brand "Mon Petit)) with colorfully embroidered butterflies and the words "Follow Your Dreams" ; Size 4 Diaper - "Parent's Choice" brand - On the Body

3 Missing Person Exclusions
Myrisha Campbell - Age 3 - Goliad, TX - 1958
Shelby Roberts
Amaya Arretta-Lopez

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Baby #JaneDoe with a feeding tube found inside a suitcase in a pasture next to highway in Madisonville, Texas in 2016

The lower jaw would have been smaller than the rest of her face, causing a receded chin and was most likely unable to close her mouth. The skull was deformed and flattened on one side. The girl's head and face would have been asymmetrical. The...

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[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

New clue helps in murder of young girl found in suitcase along interstate

According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children , Sept. 17, 2019 marks 3 years since the remains of a young girl were found along a Texas Interstate.

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According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children , Sept. 17, 2019 marks 3 years since the remains of a young girl were found along a Texas Interstate.

The homicide investigation has haunted Madison County Sheriff, Travis Neeley since the discovery.

"It sends all sorts of chills through your mind, how in the world are we going to go about figuring out this case,” Neeley said.

The sheriff said authorities responded to the area off Interstate 45 after someone called to reports skeletal remains.

"I get out there and it's all in a little container, a suitcase and some bags and from observation of the suitcase, it's not an adult. this is going to be a child,” Neeley said.

In the suitcase with the remains of a girl believed to be between the ages of 2 and 6, was a pink dress with hearts and butterflies reading "Follow Your Dreams."

Along with the shirt, a more promising clue, a feeding tube that would have been surgically implanted to help the young girl with her medical condition called Micrognathia which is where the jaw is too small effecting the way you eat.

"It has a number on it so, we thought 'Yes, okay, we are going to get something off of this.’ The problem is, we found out it's a standard manufactured number and they send out thousands of those around the world," Neeley said.

Once the tube turned up no leads, authorities were only left with an image created by a CT scan of the girl's skull.

"What's going through my mind is 'Oh my god, what happened to this child? How did this child wind up over here," Neeley said.

As the case reaches its three-year mark, researches are still finding more clues linking the girl believed to be Caucasian or Hispanic with thick-dark hair to the Southwest United States through pollen analysis.

Authorities believe the child had been left along the stretch of highway between Dallas and Houston for 3 to 5 months before being found.

The cause of her death was never determined, though it was ruled a homicide.

To learn more about the case, check out the 9/17/2019 episode of this podcast, “Inside Crime with Angeline Hartmann” at http://bit.ly/MadisonvilleJaneDoe.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Inside Crime podcast - https://www.insidecrime.org/wix-podcast-player/episode/1b8d42c0/bonus-madisonville-jane-doe

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

No new exclusions have been added to the list since posting this almost a year and a half ago.

military issued camo shirt (desert digital pattern)

Could this child have a parent in the military? Perhaps one who went on deployment and wouldn't have anyone asking about their child?
Also possible it was picked up second-hand, though.

Some doctor/nurse/specialist KNOWS this girl. Yet another child with special needs being thrown away like garbage.

 

[kdg411]

 

[RoundPeg]

I tried to lighten the bag photo to read that label on the bottom. It looks numbers in it?

Also, it looks like Mon Petit is a pretty common kids brand.

Also, a size 4 diaper is not huge more like a small 2 year old or younger, but a 4T dress?

 

[Kimster]

I tried to lighten the bag photo to read that label on the bottom. It looks numbers in it?

Also, it looks like Mon Petit is a pretty common kids brand.

Also, a size 4 diaper is not huge more like a small 2 year old or younger, but a 4T dress?

Was it a hand-me-down?

 

[RoundPeg]

Was it a hand-me-down?

I dont get this at all. With her medical condition plus feeding tube, she had to spend some time in an NICU. Not to mention, regular care.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I tried to lighten the bag photo to read that label on the bottom. It looks numbers in it?

Also, it looks like Mon Petit is a pretty common kids brand.

Also, a size 4 diaper is not huge more like a small 2 year old or younger, but a 4T dress?

I wonder if they mean like a 4T diaper like the dress even though it is probably not the way packages are numbered/sized?

 

[GrandmaBear]

The things with her like the military issue camo shirt makes one wonder. It doesn't say it is a child's shirt or adult?

The thought I have is if this girl had issues and a feeding tube, etc. since birth and was a few years old, at least three or more, I would imagine someone managed and took care of her in her early years... Could for instance her mother have died or been deployed and a stepfather then had care of her and did this...? Or even vice versa...? But the parent would eventually come back and report the child missing one would think... Of course I guess there is no way to know--the child may well have been abused through her life and a parent eventually lost it...

She is special needs, are there any foster or adopted children unaccounted for or who even may have been in some type of children's home...

I see they excluded a child from 1958, that must have been automatic basically because I doubt that dress would have been around in 1958 nor the diaper.

Only three have been excluded? Are there no more missing children unaccounted for to check for a match in the US? I mean good if not but hard to believe...

One last thing I noticed is her full on facial reconstruction does not look as deformed or disfigured as they seem to say she was so it could lend to someone not recognizing her easily from that sketch.

I also wonder how they determined southwest and perhaps Arizona...

 

[RoundPeg]

The things with her like the military issue camo shirt makes one wonder. It doesn't say it is a child's shirt or adult?

The thought I have is if this girl had issues and a feeding tube, etc. since birth and was a few years old, at least three or more, I would imagine someone managed and took care of her in her early years... Could for instance her mother have died or been deployed and a stepfather then had care of her and did this...? Or even vice versa...? But the parent would eventually come back and report the child missing one would think... Of course I guess there is no way to know--the child may well have been abused through her life and a parent eventually lost it...

She is special needs, are there any foster or adopted children unaccounted for or who even may have been in some type of children's home...

I see they excluded a child from 1958, that must have been automatic basically because I doubt that dress would have been around in 1958 nor the diaper.

Only three have been excluded? Are there no more missing children unaccounted for to check for a match in the US? I mean good if not but hard to believe...

One last thing I noticed is her full on facial reconstruction does not look as deformed or disfigured as they seem to say she was so it could lend to someone not recognizing her easily from that sketch.

I also wonder how they determined southwest and perhaps Arizona...

Her health and being a tubie would really cut down the possibilities quickly as far as missing children.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Her health and being a tubie would really cut down the possibilities quickly as far as missing children.

That's true unless she came into someone's care before getting a tube, like say foster care, they never reported her missing but maybe bio relatives did but are unaware she had a tube?

That's why I wonder if it was likely she had one since birth? I am guessing she did though... So that would make that thought of mine unlikely.

It's too bad they can't get all records of children with tubes in the right time frame put in medically in the US and with her deformities but I suppose that's not possible. Maybe they could circulate the health conditions to all hospitals... Probably unrealistic, unfortunately word does not spread nor things get done like that...

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Officials seek help identifying girl with possible Arizona ties whose remains were found

The five-year anniversary of a child's remains left by a Texas roadside renews interest in Arizona connections.

www.azcentral.com

Officials seek help identifying girl with possible Arizona ties whose remains were found​

Five years ago, the bones of an unidentified female child known simply as the "Madisonville Jane Doe" were found in a suitcase near an interstate in Madisonville, Texas.

Investigators are asking Arizonans for help identifying the child because evidence found after 2016 suggests that the unnamed child might have ties to areas of southeast Arizona.

Investigations of the body found pollen that is normally found in the southwest United States, particularly southeast Arizona, or northern parts of Mexico.


"Someone knows something and we need to continue to work to give this young child her name again," the news release said.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Officials seek help identifying girl with possible Arizona ties whose remains were found

The five-year anniversary of a child's remains left by a Texas roadside renews interest in Arizona connections.

www.azcentral.com

Officials seek help identifying girl with possible Arizona ties whose remains were found​

Five years ago, the bones of an unidentified female child known simply as the "Madisonville Jane Doe" were found in a suitcase near an interstate in Madisonville, Texas.

Investigators are asking Arizonans for help identifying the child because evidence found after 2016 suggests that the unnamed child might have ties to areas of southeast Arizona.

Investigations of the body found pollen that is normally found in the southwest United States, particularly southeast Arizona, or northern parts of Mexico.


"Someone knows something and we need to continue to work to give this young child her name again," the news release said.

It's interesting that it is also found in northern parts of Mexico as well and that she was found in Texas. Maybe AZ is more likely but if she came with her family or something from Mexico, it might explain no one who knew them or her identifying her as who knows how much if at all this has circulated in those areas of Mexico... Just a thought.

 

[Guess Who]

I see they excluded a child from 1958, that must have been automatic basically because I doubt that dress would have been around in 1958 nor the diaper.



I also wonder how they determined southwest and perhaps Arizona...

the digital camo would have automatically excluded the one from 1958, I would think.

isotopes could be how they got an idea of where she was from.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

This child (Amanda Corbett) has been officially ruled out, per NamUs.

 

[RoundPeg]

True desert digital is a Marine Corps issue. Is there a Marine base in that area?

Also, just my opinion that the largest retailer of Parent's Choice diapers would be Walmart.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

True desert digital is a Marine Corps issue. Is there a Marine base in that area?

Also, just my opinion that the largest retailer of Parent's Choice diapers would be Walmart.

Looks like there are a few possibilities within a few hours of Madisonville, per Google. There's a Marines Reserves training center in Waco (about 100 miles northwest), a Reserves center in Austin (about 140 miles southwest), a Reserves base in Galveston (about 145 miles southeast), and a full base(?) in Grand Prairie (Dallas/Fort Worth - about 155 miles northwest). Fort Hood, an Army base, is also close - 135 miles west of Madisonville.

 

[Mel70]

Maybe they were military at one point. But after getting out is when they adopted. I say this because I would think at least a few people would know if someone has a disabled child like that. Being a base there are so many people.