New forensic testing has uncovered more clues that could lead to identifying a female whose body was found more than 45 years ago.
The female, who is believed to have been 14 to 25 years old, was found in 1971 near a campsite in Cave Junction, Oregon, but new forensic isotope testing results indicate that she may have spent time in the northeast corner of the United States, moving west into the Great Lakes, and even further west all the way to Washington State and Oregon.
She possibly lived or grew up anywhere north along the line between the United States and the Canadian Border.
She was white, with auburn hair, slightly buck-toothed and had four fillings in her molars.
She was wearing a pink and beige waist-length coat, a tan long-sleeved turtleneck blouse with a neckline zipper, a pair of Wrangler jeans (misses size 13-14 slim) and a pair of square-toed brown leather shoes with gold buckles.
Thirty-eight cents in coins were found in her left rear pocket, with the oldest coin dated 1970. A decomposed map of Northern California camping facilities was found in her right rear pocket.
Jewelry found with the body includes a Mother of Pearl ring with the letters “A L” scratched into the surface. Another ring, size 6 ½, was found near the body and is described as a regular silver “friendship” band with diagonal decorative chevron-like scoring along the band.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children created a facial reconstruction of what she may have looked like in life.
Anyone with information is asked to call the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678, the Josephine County, Ore. Sheriff’s Office at 541-474-5123 or the Oregon State Medical Examiner at 971-673-8300.
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