for decades these murder cases faced a tough battle against the Unstoppable March of time
held back by a significant obstacle that made them unsolvable until recently but now let's
dive into four cases that have suddenly come alive with fresh possibilities for resolution
these victims spent decades without their names but they've recently been identified this not
only brings closure to their families but also Sparks hope of finding the culprits responsible
for these terrible crimes let's get into it case number four Wendy Stevens on March 21st 1984 the
manager of the Little League baseball field in Buran Washington was stunned when his dog returned
to him holding a human bone in his mouth the area which is now land utilized by the Seattle Tacoma
International Airport received heavy foot traffic and was especially popular in the summer months
after wrestling the bone from the dog's mouth the manager ran to his office and contacted the king's
County Sheriff's office within a matter of hours the field was teaming with forensic scientists and
other experts who were eager to locate the source of the remains their answers lay in a swampy area
of the baseball field that sat at South 146 Street and 16th Avenue South after a Long Day's
Work investigators had managed to uncover most of the remains which were in a skeletal state
at the autopsy the medical examiner determined The Remains belong to a white female between the
ages of 12 and 18 years old most likely around 15 years old who stood at 52 to 58 and was between
110 and 130 lb the medical examiner was also able to determine the girl had previously healed a
skull fracture and had likely been left-handed whiler remains were skeletal investigators
were still able to determine a cause of death strangulation the circumstances and the age
of the victim immediately shocked the police and the Greater Community there had been whisperings
of a serial killer for many years and this latest Discovery only added fuel to the fire the girl had
been deceased for around a year and the medical examiner and Anthropologist believed she had
lost her life some time the summer before one day after the skel remains of the girl were found the
Kings County Sheriff's Office found themselves setting up yet another crime scene according to
the Seattle Times whilst out with blood hounds the investigators came across the remains of another
young woman who would eventually be identified as 18-year-old Cheryl whims the pattern was
becoming too apparent to ignore and the King's County Sheriff's Office had yet another homicide
to add to their ever growing list as reported by The Seattle Times just 8 months before the
bodies of Cheryl and the skeletal remains were found the remains of 17-year-old Shonda Summers
was discovered half a mile from the the swampy baseball field Cheryl whims was identified within
a matter of days but the victim in the other case was not so lucky despite investigators spending
months scouring missing persons reports nothing ever came to light and she was dubbed Jane do B10
or bones 10 in 2001 the world was shocked as it watched as Gary Ridgeway was arrested and
eventually convicted in the Green River killings between 1982 and 199 eight although it's possible
he was active until his arrest Ridgeway is believed to have taken the lives of as many as
70 to 100 girls and young women Ridgeway was only convicted of killing 48 victims but he is readily
admitted to being responsible for many more rway was interviewed at length about the many crimes
believed to have been committed by him and within days he' given up knowledge about Jane do B10 he
told investigators that he remembered picking up a young white woman he believed to be in her
20s in Taquila a suburb of King's County in the spring or summer of 1983 he went on to add that
he picked her up near the Pacific Highway South and remembered her murder in detail as he quote
wanted to make sure she was dead because he had attempted to kill another woman nearby but she
had escaped unfortunately Ridgeway was not able to give investigators a name and the case of Jane
do B10 was added to his ever wrap sheet in 2020 the DNA do project obtained bone fragments from
Jane do B10 and sent them to a thirdparty lab arrea forensics for further testing asraa was
able to create a family tree for Jane Dopey 10 and after much searching they came across the possible
parents of the Jane Doe by late 2020 Cecil gasbar of Denver Colorado received a knock at the door
that she had never thought would come see Cecil agreed to submit a DNA test and weeks later she
finally learned the long awaited truth in August 1983 Cecil's daughter 14-year-old Wendy Stevens
disappeared from their Denver Colorado Home Wendy was a bright and intelligent young woman but in
the summer of 1983 she'd become rebellious and was hanging in the wrong crowds she would run away
from home for a few days at a time but in August 1983 would be the last Cecil tried to report her
daughter missing but was brushed off each time in a bizarre and painful twist CAD submitted her DNA
to An ancestry site in 2019 in a bid to find out what had become of her beloved daughter according
to the DNA do project quote early in 2019 one of Wendy's parents had taken a direct to Consumer DNA
test and uploaded the results to Jed match hoping to learn the fate of their daughter unbeknownst
to the parent Jed match had Chang the settings on that kit in May 2019 as part of their new policy
regarding law enforcement access to matches because the parents kit remained opted out
when DNA dope project uploaded Wendy Stevens data in September 2020 that important connecting lead
was not immediately available to the team there are still two unknown Ridgeway victims the last
two unknown victims are called Jane do B17 who was found in 1986 and Jane do B10 who was found with
the help of Ridgeway in 2003 authorities still hope to identify them authorities believe that
there's still more victims out there and we may never know the exact number Ridgeway killed Gary
Ridgeway is currently residing at the Washington State penitentiary in Wala because of his immunity
deal and assisting law enforcement to find all of his victims there'll be no charges related to
Wendy Steven's case but Gary Ridgeway will never be free free and he will die in prison case number
three Sarah tatham Abbot on April 20th 1979 the New Haven Water Company of New Haven Connecticut
received an unusual and rather morbid call on the other end of the line was the West Haven
Police Department requesting their presence near Route 34 on Derby Avenue they were informed that
skeletal remains had been located on the company's property and a full investigation would be taking
place managers of the water company raced to the scene and provided investigators with everything
they needed to carry out their investigation when law enforcement arrived they found partial
skeletal remains that were somewhat scattered across the land The Remains were taken into the
custody of the state's medical examiner who was tasked with identifying them due to the level of
decomposition that had taken place the medical examiner couldn't determine an exact cause of
death and a postmortem index is not listed in contemporary reports the medical examiner could
discern that the remains belong to a white female between the ages of 18 and 30 who stood around 5'1
to 5'3 it was determined that the young woman may have had some sort of congenital condition where
the lower part of her vertebra was missing and she may have suffered from arthritis and it was also
noted that the woman had been born without wisdom teeth the only items found with the remains were
a black lace bra and a wet clock's brand folding travel alarm clock in a red case without the cause
of death investigators found the investigation difficult her identifying features didn't match
any local missing persons cases and no one came forward to claim her remains 2 years after the
initial Discovery was made the woman's mandible or jaw was found in an undisclosed location due to
the scarce details available the case quickly went cold an interest in the case didn't pick up again
until 2022 when Michelle Clark a meteorological death investigator partnered with aam Labs aam
did what they do best and were able to obtain a DNA profile from the partial skeletal remains from
there genealogists scoured records and created a possible family tree which led them to one outcome
29-year-old Sarah or Sally tatham Abbott of New Haven Connecticut not much is known about Sally
other than the fact that she was born on August 3rd 1940 in Manhattan New York at some point in
her life Sarah moved from Manhattan to New Haven Connecticut and was last heard from in July of
1970 Sally had been divorced at the time of her disappearance her ex-husband hadn't been the one
to report her missing her siblings had done that Sally didn't have any children with her ex-husband
and it's unclear if he is a suspect at this time her cause of death remains unclear in 44 years
her family did not once stop searching for her anyone with information on zarah's case is asked
to contact the West Haven Police Department Investigative Services Division at 203-9937
3905 case number two Joseph Lee munz on October 29th 1993 two squirrel Hunters making their way
through a wooded area just off i59 in St tamine Parish Louisiana close to the Mississippi border
made the discovery that would haunt them forever as the hunters moved through the
area they came across skeletal remains of an adult male whilst The Remains had been there
for some time the hunters recognized one thing for sure a bullet lodged in the back of the skull the
hunters made their way to their vehicles and called the state tamon Paris Sheriff's Office
officers quickly made their way to the scene and began taking stock they too noticed the unknown
victim had been shot in the back of the head and the remains had clearly been scavenged by animals
making the identification process all the more difficult to aam Labs who would consult on this
case decades later only the skull and partial skeleton were covered due to animal activity
along with a few other items of evidence the St Tam Paris Sheriff's Office was not equipped to
take on such a large case and in November 1993 they made the decision to send the remains to
the Louisiana State University faces division or forensic anthropology and computer enhancement
services lab in Baton Rouge the LSU faces team was able to undertake a much more detailed examination
of the remains they determined that they belonged to a white male around the ages of 25 up to 38 who
stood at 5'6 to 5'8 the man had amalgam fillings on at least 11 teeth and a m period of other
health problems according to the D Network in aam the young man was possibly healing a broken right
hip and showed signs of remodeling to his right femur and fibula which may have affected his
gate and cause hip and back pain investigators also found another contributing factor to the
man's hypothesized back pain shl's depression or nodes on several of his vertebra shl's nodes
are defined as spinal disc herniations which caus soft tissue of the spinal diss to protrude
upward or downward to the adjacent vertebrae this condition often goes unnoticed however
it has been known to cause lower back pain in some patients these depressions paired with the
man's existing injuries would have likely caused the man some level of discomfort also with the
remains investigators found a distinctive pair of glasses and remnants of blue Wrangler jeans
and size 11 Nike Air running shoes despite all of the information that was readily available
to them the St tames Parish Sheriff's Office had a difficult time identifying The Remains or who
had killed him for many years the case fell silent with the stpso occasionally performing
DNA comparisons from time to time in 2020 the St Tam Paris Sheriff's Office partnered with atham
labs to perform more in-depth testing within a matter of weeks aam was able to uncover a list
of possible candidates after further screening they had potentially tracked down two siblings
of the John Doe who lived in floresent Missouri and Burnsville Minnesota according to aam these
two siblings were asked to provide DNA tests and further information about their brother a year
later in June 2023 aam in the St Tam Parish Sheriff's Office held a press conference in
which they identified the St Tam John Doe as 21-year-old Joseph Lee munes originally from
Burnsville Minnesota Joseph's siblings confirmed he had been living in Louisiana in 1993 and they
had last heard from him sometime in 1993 at this time additional details about the suspected killer
have not been made public but the coroner's office did say that they believe the person who killed
Joseph has since passed the investigation in Joseph murder is currently ongoing and anyone with
information is asked to contact detective Marco Dema of the St Tam Paris sheriff's office at 98564
32467 case number one Katherine Parker Johnson on August 21st 2001 a construction worker in property
developments in Redondo Beach California would make a discovery that would shut down operations
for the foreseeable future the discovery was so gruesome and troubling that it would go
on to haunt investigators for several decades and it was only thanks to genetic genealogist
and the kindness of strangers that this case was reopened on the day of the discovery construction
workers were working on a site at600 wott Street in Rondo Beach they were digging in the backyard
of a private residence when they made a chilling Discovery wrapped inside a plastic bag was a
headless skeleton operations immediately ceased the Rondo Beach Police Department were summoned
to the scene as the remains were skeletal and without a head investigators knew they were faced
with a near impossible task medical examiner charged with investigating the case found it
almost impossible to determine a cause of death the estimated postmortem index or PMI was said to
have been anywhere from 1 to 26 years meaning that the victim could have passed away any time between
1974 and 2001 an anthropologist was brought into the case and in their initial report they believe
that the remains belong to a white woman age 20 to 50 no clothing or personal items were found
with the skeleton so it was hard to discern anything about the woman without a face or a
skull investigators were left unable to create an approximation sketch significantly hindering their
investigation eventually the case went cold and wouldn't be picked up until 2019 when the Rodondo
Beach Police Department partnered with the DNA do project which mainly relies on donations to fund
their research in 2019 the DNA do project began exam mining the Rodondo Beach jino's DNA further
and made a vital Discovery she was determined to be of subsaharan African descent not Caucasian
as previously noted in 2001 this new information gave the Rodondo police a new jumping off point
and the DNA do project began scouring family trees eventually they came across two women who shared
a biological relationship with a possible match and after contacting the two women they provided
comperative DNA samples the DNA do Project work continued in June 2023 the DNA do project and the
rbpd announced that they had finally identified the Redondo Beach Jane do as 24-year-old Katherine
Parker Johnson of Lennox California the two women who had been identified as possible matches were
revealed to have been Catherine's daughter and Catherine's sister according to her sister she
last heard from Catherine in May 1981 and the date of official last contact being listed as
August 31st 1981 Catherine had not been reported missing although it's not known whether this was
due to the family failing to report her or the local police department's failure to make a
report as seen in so many missing persons cases it has been noted that sometime in
1980 or 1981 Catherine left home in Tennessee headed for Englewood California and ending up
in Lennox shortly thereafter all contacts ceased anyone with information on Katherine's murder is
asked to contact detective John Skipper or Rick Peterson of the Rondo Beach police department
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