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

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

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.

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

Tempe Police Department
- Agency Case Number 02-067577
Maricopa Medical Examiner
- ME/C Case Number 02-1368
- Suzi Dodt
Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner
- Christen Eggers, Medicolegal Death Investigator
- (602) 506-3322
NamUs Regional Program Specialist
- Dustin Driscoll
- (817) 240-4106
- Dustin.Driscoll@unthsc.edu
- UP1987
NCIC Case Number:
- U250003069