The woman left typed notes signed 'Jane Doe' and defied police investigators for 25 years. New technology may end the mystery.
An unidentified child found dead in 1960 was dubbed ‘Little Miss Nobody.’ Authorities now know her name.
But Fairfax’s Jane Doe, who had no trauma on her body, made it pretty clear she had taken her own life.Sometime on the morning of Dec. 18, 1996, the woman entered the Pleasant Valley cemetery in the dark, laid a plastic sheet on the ground, propped up the small Christmas tree and then took off her backpack. She wore a teal Eddie Bauer jacket and two sweaters, a silk shirt and navy knit wool pants, all from the Classiques Entier brand, possibly from Nordstrom or Saks Fifth Avenue.
The woman chose a spot in the cemetery near children’s graves, though detectives could never establish a link between her and anyone buried there. The cemetery is across the street from the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College. A groundskeeper found her around 9 a.m. and called police. Fairfax homicide detectives Richard Perez and Mike Headley arrived about 40 minutes later and found the woman’s body still warm, meaning she hadn’t been there for too long. She had no identification, but she did have two envelopes in her pockets, one addressed to the cemetery and one to the coroner.
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