R121-01 Tempe, AZ -Tempe Jane Doe -Unidentified - April 27th, 2002

R121-021 is an Unidentifed Deceased Hispanic Female who was found on April 27, 2002 in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona



IDENTIFIERS

  • 15 - 19 y/o

  • 5 ft 1

  • 125 lbs

  • Brown, straight hair approximately 12.5 inches long

  • Several scars including;

    • Scar approximately 1" long on back of her hand extending from just below pinky and ring finger area toward wrist

    • Scar on the top of the left shoulder.

  • Estimated Year of Death - 2002/ Est. PMI - 24 Hours

  • All remains recovered w/ recognizable face

CIRCUMSTANCES OF RECOVERY

  • Died of a cocaine overdose in the 1800 block of East University Drive in Tempe behind a golf store.

  • Police said the girl, who they believe was 17, was near hitchhiking near 32nd Street and Greenway Road in Phoenix when she was picked up by a man.

  • Apart from the driver, a second person, a drug dealer, was in the vehicle.

  • She reportedly told the driver in Spanish that she was kicked out of a house for drug use.

  • The man told police he took her to Tempe, where she said she wanted to get tickets to a concert

  • The girl changed her mind and asked the man if he could get her drugs and he did.

  • Along the way, the female used cocaine and began to have a seizure and her body was left behind a strip mall.

  • The driver told the drug dealer to call police, but the body was not discovered until the next morning at 5:40 a.m.

  • The victim's death was not ruled as a homicide or accident due to the circumstaces described by the driver of the vehicle

  • The driver was linked to the victim through fingerprints by police.

  • She is possibly Hispanic, Native American, or biracial

  • She may have been a Spanish speaker.

  • Fingerprint information is available and entered

  • Dental information / charting is available and entered

  • DNA in CODIS

  • Police checked high schools and grade schools and found no matches.

CLOTHING/ACCESSORIES

  • Red tank top

  • Blue jeans with a zipper on side, round eyelets at waistband ("Watch LA" brand),

  • Blue underwear

  • Black slip on shoes with 3" wedge heels, size 6.5 ("Lower Eastside" brand)

  • Faded purple polish on her fingernails,

  • Purple bracelent

  • Elastic hair tie on her right wrist

AGENCY CONTACTS

  1. Tempe Police Department

    • Agency Case Number 02-067577

  2. Maricopa Medical Examiner

    • ME/C Case Number 02-1368

    • Suzi Dodt

  3. Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner

    • Christen Eggers, Medicolegal Death Investigator

    • (602) 506-3322

  4. NamUs Regional Program Specialist

    • Dustin Driscoll

    • (817) 240-4106

    • Dustin.Driscoll@unthsc.edu

    • UP1987

  5. NCIC Case Number:

    • U250003069

MISSING PERSON EXCLUSIONS

  1. MP1333 Alissa Turney 05/17/2001 ARIZONA

  2. MP6354 Veronica Martinez 03/29/2001 CALIFORNIA

  3. MP1066 Maria Mauricio 01/20/1997 Maricopa AZ

  4. UP1987 Florinda Lopez FLORIDA

  5. UP1987 Yuliana Escudero OREGON

  6. UP1987 Leanne Hausberg NEW YORK

LINKS

  • NamUs

    • https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/1987

  • NCMEC

    • http://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMU/1111241


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