APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. - The Apache Junction Police Department in Arizona 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."Could this cold case get solved soon?For the last four years, the Apache Junction Police Department and the DNA Doe Project (DDP) 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 this case, investigators finally made contact with an immediate relative of Apache Junction Jane.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.If it wasn't for a man walking his dog, who knows how long Jane Doe would have been left alone in the remote area.
It's believed she had been dead for five weeks and that amount of time made a significant impact on her autopsy results.Her cause of death is still undetermined, but here's what we do know about her.She's believed to be half Hispanic, a quarter African American and a quarter white.