An Arizona police department says it's closer to identifying a teen found dead nearly three decades ago after teaming up with genetic genealogists who have gathered new information in the case of 'Apache Junction Jane Doe.'
For the last four years, the Apache Junction Police Department and the DNA Doe Project have partnered to uncover the identity of the teen. DDP is an all-volunteer organization of genetic genealogists working to reunite John and Jane Does with their families.In Apache Junction, not much has changed in the desolate dirt lot since August 6, 1992, south of US-60 and West of Idaho Road where a body was discovered that summer day. A girl with no name.
Her hair was brown and in a ponytail. She wore blue denim cut-off shorts and her T-shirt had soccer balls on the front and back. The brand of the T-shirt is labeled "Team Gear." She also wore a yellow metal ring and was found with a Phoenix transit system token that read, "valid for one student fare."DNA evidence helps investigators make a major discovery
After getting in contact with Jane's cousin, investigators learn of Jane's half-aunt who learned she had a half-brother via a birth certificate left by her father. But, the challenge was finding her half-brother, Bernhard Lyon Neumann.
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