GA RISING FAWN JANE DOE: WF, 16-35, found east side of Interstate 59 in Fawn Rising, GA - 16 Dec 1988 *STACY LYN CHAHORSKI*

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26UFGA - Unidentified Female​

Reconstructions of the victim by Kelly and Marla Lawson.

Date of Discovery: December 16, 1988
Location of Discovery: Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia
Estimated Date of Death: 1988
State of Remains: Decomposed
Cause of Death: Homicide by strangulation

Physical Description​

Estimated Age: 16-35 years old
Race: White
Sex: Female
Height: 5'6" to 5'8"
Weight: 120 to 125 lbs.
Hair: Strawberry blond to auburn. Shoulder-length with frosted ends.
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Available. Crooked teeth. Three restorations, all very minor. Tooth 17 impacted.
Fingerprints: Available.
DNA: Available.

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: X-large, navy blue, thermaknit, long-sleeved pullover shirt; navy blue bra; Calvin Klein blue jeans and black, size 9, lace-up, ankle-high shoes.
Jewelry: Yellow gold chain around her neck and a white gold pinkie ring with a heart on the top. She wore the ring on her left pinkie finger.
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Discovery​

The victim was discovered on the east side of the northbound Interstate 59 lane. The victim was located approximately five miles from the Georgia / Alabama state line. She was killed at another location.

She had been sexually assaulted before her murder. Investigators feel like she is someone who might have been a hitchhiker traveling through the area.

Serial killer Samuel Little confessed to killing a woman in the area in 1980 or 1981, which matched a Jane Doe case in Dade County. However, he was excluded from this case through DNA testing.

Investigating Agency(s)​

Agency Name: Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Agency Contact Person: Joe Montgomery
Agency Phone Number: 770-624-1424 or 855-626-7600
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 01-0198-01-89

Agency Name: Dade County Coroner
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 706-657-4111
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: Unknown

NCIC Case Number: U500927633
NamUs Case Number: 4694

Information Source(s)​

NamUs
Georgia Bureau of Investigation (archived)
Times Free Press
WDEF
The Chattanoogan

26UFGA

#JaneDoe was located approximately five miles from the Georgia / Alabama state line in 1986 and still to this day, no one knows her name!

Clothing: X-large, navy blue, thermaknit, long-sleeved pullover shirt; navy blue bra; Calvin Klein blue jeans and black, size 9, lace-up, ankle-high shoes. Jewelry: Yellow gold chain around her neck and a white gold pinkie ring with a heart on...

www.crimewatchers.net

 

[Romulus]

Rising Fawn Jane Doe is Identified

GBI, FBI, and Dade County Sheriff’s Investigators Leverage Othram's FGGS Platform to Identify Rising Fawn Jane Doe

dnasolves.com

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GBI, FBI, and Dade County Sheriff’s Investigators Leverage Othram's FGGS Platform to Identify Rising Fawn Jane Doe​

After 33 years, Rising Fawn Jane Doe has been identified as Stacy Lyn Chahorski of Michigan.​

Stacy had been reported missing since September 15, 1988. It was reported that the last time Stacy spoke to her Mother by telephone she told her she was in North Carolina and was going to be traveling to Flint, Michigan and then to Muskegon, Michigan. She would have been 52 today.

Stacy was buried in a Dade County cemetery. Her body will be reunited with her family and now, through a joint investigation, the search for Stacy’s killer will continue. Anyone with information can submit anonymous tips by calling 1-800-597-TIPS(8477), online at Submit Tips Online.

 

[Kimster]

So glad she has her name back! She is more lovely than her recons.

 

[KareBear]

So glad she has her name back! She is more lovely than her recons.

Absolutely .
(This is probably a better comment for the side-by-side thread, but..)
Her canine tooth does not protrude like that, her teeth are pretty strait and within the confines of her lips, I might add. And, maybe they are hidden with make-up, but I don't see the freckles like the recon shows, nor the red hair .
At any rate, I'm so glad she's got her identity back!

 

[Guess Who]

Absolutely .
(This is probably a better comment for the side-by-side thread, but..)
Her canine tooth does not protrude like that, her teeth are pretty strait and within the confines of her lips, I might add. And, maybe they are hidden with make-up, but I don't see the freckles like the recon shows, nor the red hair .
At any rate, I'm so glad she's got her identity back!

If you look closely, it appears that the teeth could be enhanced in the actual pic of her? The two front, upper teeth have a different look to them than the other ones.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Glad to see an unidentified matched with a missing. I don't see much similar in the actual photo against the reconstruction although I'm sure it isn't always easy and they do their best on often not a lot to work with.

Still an unidentified identified and a family with some answers. Always a great thing.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Genealogy technology identifies killer of Michigan woman missing for 33 years

Investigators in Georgia have used genealogy technology to determine the killer of a Michigan woman who vanished more than 33 years ago.

abcnews.go.com

Genealogy technology identifies killer of Michigan woman missing for 33 years​

Investigators in Georgia have used genealogy DNA testing to determine the killer of a Michigan woman who vanished more than three decades ago.

Stacey Lyn Chahorski of Norton Shores, Michigan, was reported missing in January 1989. But it wasn't until earlier this year that authorities confirmed through a new type of genealogy investigation that a body found in Georgia's Dade County in December 1988 belonged to Chahorski. Now, that same technology has been used to identify her killer as Henry Fredrick "Hoss" Wise, officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday.

Wise, a stunt driver, was burned to death in a car accident at Myrtle Beach Speedway in South Carolina in 1999. He would have been 34 at the time of Chahorski's murder, according to a press release from the GBI.

"This case is key because it's the first time that we know of that investigative genealogy was used to identify both the victim and the killer in the same case," FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Field Office Keri Farley said at a press conference.

 

[Guess Who]

Absolutely .
(This is probably a better comment for the side-by-side thread, but..)
Her canine tooth does not protrude like that, her teeth are pretty strait and within the confines of her lips, I might add. And, maybe they are hidden with make-up, but I don't see the freckles like the recon shows, nor the red hair .
At any rate, I'm so glad she's got her identity back!

Not sure why the teeth are so different, but the freckles could easily be explained by make up and the hair by hair dye or sun damage or similar. The teeth could also be explained possibly by the way her lips are positioned vs the recon since her teeth had to be the way because they were in her skull that way. The two front teeth in the actual photo of her are different than the other teeth, so possibly a veneer or flapper or something on them in the pic vs after death.