AZ PHOENIX JANE DOE: N/HF, 19-30, found in a ditch near Ahwatukee, AZ - 15 Aug 1983 - Retainer on teeth *LORI LONG CHASE*

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796UFAZ - Unidentified Female​

Reconstructions of the victim by the Parabon Nanolabs and Stephen Missal.

Date of Discovery: August 15, 1983
Location of Discovery: Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
Estimated Date of Death: Days prior
State of Remains: Decomposed
Cause of Death: Homicide by suffocation

Physical Description​

Estimated Age: 19-30 years old
Race: Native American/Hispanic
Sex: Female
Height: 5'5", Measured
Weight: 140 lbs, Estimated
Hair: Brown, dark; short and wavy.
Eye Color: Brown or black.
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Likely had little or no freckles, according to DNA phenotyping.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Available. Had braces in the past, still had retainer in place.
Fingerprints: Available.
DNA: Available.

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Discovery​

This woman was found deceased in a ditch at 4300 East Williams Field Rd, in the desert south of Ahwatukee.

Her race was initially unknown until DNA phenotyping performed by the Parabon Nanolabs confirmed she was of mostly Native and Central American descent.

Investigating Agency(s)​

Agency Name: Maricopa County Medical Examiner
Agency Contact Person: Christen Eggers or Suzi Dodt
Agency Phone Number: 602-506-3322
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 83-1480

Agency Name: Phoenix Police Department
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 602-262-6151
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 83079312

NCIC Case Number: Unknown
NamUs Case Number: 984
Former Hot Case Number: 779

Information Source(s)​

NamUs
Maricopa County Unidentified
East Valley Tribune

796UFAZ

#JaneDoe was found deceased in a ditch at 4300 East Williams Field Rd, in the desert south of Ahwatukee, Arizona in 1983. She was wearing a retainer!

Her race was initially unknown until DNA phenotyping performed by the Parabon Nanolabs confirmed she was of mostly Native and Central American descent.

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Lori Megan Longchase – The Charley Project

• Missing Since07/21/1983
• Missing FromPhoenix, Arizona
• ClassificationEndangered Missing
• SexFemale
• RaceNative American
• Date of Birth10/01/1965 (57)
• Age17 years old
• Height and Weight5'5, 142 pounds
• Distinguishing CharacteristicsNative American female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Lori's date of birth is an approximation.

Details of Disappearance​

Lori was last seen in Phoenix, Arizona on July 21, 1983. She has never been heard from again. Few details are available in her case.

Investigators and Lori's family believe Lori could be an unidentified woman whose body was found on the banks of an irrigation ditch in the 4300 block of East Williams Field Road in the Ahwatukee Foothills neighborhood of Phoenix. This was around the same time Lori disappeared. DNA tests indicate the dead woman could have been a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe.

Lori was adopted, and authorities do not know the whereabouts of her biological family, so they cannot get a DNA sample from them to compare with the unidentified murder victim's. Lori's case remains unsolved.

 

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Located & Identified Persons

 

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‘I didn’t forget her’: Missing San Carlos Apache teen identified after 41 years - AZ Luminaria

Lori Long Chase disappeared in 1983, and so did much of her life story. Her body had been unknowingly found almost a month after she was last seen by family. But she remained nameless for decades and her homicide went unsolved. Now after 41 years, Lori is able to reclaim her name, as the...

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‘I didn’t forget her’: Missing San Carlos Apache teen identified after 41 years​

Lori Long Chase disappeared in 1983, and so did much of her life story.

Her body had been unknowingly found almost a month after she was last seen by family. But she remained nameless for decades and her homicide went unsolved.

Now after 41 years, Lori is able to reclaim her name, as the details of her life and death begin to unfold.

Lori was adopted out of the San Carlos Apache Reservation in about 1965 when she was only days old, her little sister, Memory Long Chase, says. Memory was also adopted 13 years later as a baby out of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. She’s now one of the last surviving people ever to know Lori.



Lori was just a few months shy of her 18th birthday when she went missing in Phoenix on about July 21, 1983. It was the same day she started a new job at a pizza restaurant, Memory and a spokesperson for the Phoenix Police Department told Arizona Luminaria. When her mom went to pick up Lori at the end of her shift, she was told her daughter had been fired because her boyfriend kept showing up and being disruptive.

That was the last time anyone in their family saw or heard from Lori, Memory says. At the memorial people around her quietly nibbled on slices of pizza, which Memory picked to signify the day Lori went missing.


Lori’s disappearance would go unsolved for the next four decades, though she wasn’t officially reported missing to the Phoenix Police Department until 2021. Memory says she doesn’t know if their mom, who died in 2016, ever tried to report Lori missing before then.

“My mom wouldn’t want to talk about it,” Memory says.

Four years ago, Memory contacted detectives because she believed an unidentified girl listed on the police department’s website could be Lori. The girl — known at the time only as Ahwatukee Jane Doe — was believed to be affiliated with the San Carlos Apache Tribe and had been found dead nearly a month after Lori disappeared.

“The first composite drawing has really tightly curly hair. I didn’t remember Lori having curly hair. But, page 2, that composite drawing is almost identical to that last picture that we have of her,” Memory says.

Because Memory wasn’t biologically related to Lori she couldn’t undergo DNA tests to help confirm the girl’s identity. Ahwatukee Jane Doe remained unnamed. Lori remained missing.


During the memorial service, Memory says Lori’s boyfriend is an alleged suspect in her homicide case. Responding to Arizona Luminaria’s inquiry about suspects, a Phoenix police department spokesperson said they would look into the case.

Memory also told the group that Phoenix police learned Lori had been hospitalized between the time her family last saw her and when her body was found. “Her boyfriend beat her severely enough to put her in the hospital for several days,” Memory says. “That was the last time anybody saw her alive.”

 

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Lori Megan Longchase – The Charley Project

• Missing Since07/21/1983
• Missing FromPhoenix, Arizona
• ClassificationEndangered Missing
• SexFemale
• RaceNative American
• Date of Birth10/01/1965 (57)
• Age17 years old
• Height and Weight5'5, 142 pounds
• Distinguishing CharacteristicsNative American female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Lori's date of birth is an approximation.

Details of Disappearance​

Lori was last seen in Phoenix, Arizona on July 21, 1983. She has never been heard from again. Few details are available in her case.

Investigators and Lori's family believe Lori could be an unidentified woman whose body was found on the banks of an irrigation ditch in the 4300 block of East Williams Field Road in the Ahwatukee Foothills neighborhood of Phoenix. This was around the same time Lori disappeared. DNA tests indicate the dead woman could have been a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe.

Lori was adopted, and authorities do not know the whereabouts of her biological family, so they cannot get a DNA sample from them to compare with the unidentified murder victim's. Lori's case remains unsolved.

Summer, were you guessing or did you hear that it might be her?