The search for answers: Madera County Sheriff's Office looks to identify Jane Doe found in 1989

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- As autumn moved into Madera County successful 1989 a woman's assemblage was discovered successful a agrarian area.

Since September 24th of that year, her individuality has been unknown.

The lawsuit has haunted the Madera County Sheriff's Office for much than 35 years arsenic they wonderment who she is and wherever is the household that misses her.

In 2020, they exhumed her assemblage hoping DNA could supply answers, but nary lucifer was found.

This week, they released an artist's rendering of the pistillate showing acheronian hairsbreadth parted successful the mediate and a spread successful the beforehand of her smile.

"She's not missing a tooth. That bony hadn't travel in. So that's precise circumstantial to this Jane Doe," said Madera County Sheriff's Detective Luis Padgett.

The lawsuit has gone unsolved longer than the pistillate apt lived.

Detectives said she was astir apt betwixt 16 and 28 years aged and stood astatine 5'3 and 130 pounds.

"We person crushed to judge perchance this idiosyncratic was from Mexico due to the fact that we person nary missing idiosyncratic cases connected record that lucifer this peculiar female," said Lt. Ian Weaver with the Madera County Sheriff's Office.

"So, that's benignant of a origin of concern."

By releasing the images of her look and a ringing she was said to beryllium wearing detectives are hopeful idiosyncratic volition travel guardant with answers.

"The representation and the ringing should jog somebody's memory. Hopefully," said Padgett.

"It's bully small ringing that somebody, a household member, could person made, oregon thing peculiar to idiosyncratic that gave it to her."

At the aforesaid time, detectives began the DNA hunt for this Jane Doe, different Jane Doe recovered successful May 1987 was besides exhumed.

They had much occurrence with her DNA linking 24-year-old Christine Lester to a household subordinate successful Arizona.

Though grateful to cognize who she is, Padgett says the accusation is bittersweet.

"They privation to judge that their household subordinate is inactive live and blessed somewhere, but sometimes that's not the case," said Padgett.

The Madera County Sheriff's Office is not releasing details of the transgression cases to support their investigations.

Now, they're counting connected the nationalist for answers to assistance yet adjacent these cases.

If you person a missing household member, the Madera County Sheriff's Office is encouraging radical to taxable their DNA to the state's Missing Persons DNA Database.

It doesn't outgo anything.

They assertion the DNA is lone utilized to lucifer unidentified radical and that it is purged from the strategy erstwhile a lucifer is found.

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