Murder Victim
The woman's strangled body was found by a truck driver on a rainy Aug. 16, 1975, floating in a drainage ditch behind the former Bradlees department store on Frontage Road. She was wrapped in a canvas tarpaulin and she was gagged and bound by black antenna wire around her neck, waist and knees.The possibility that she had plastic surgery on her nose may also have thrown off anyone who knew her natural facial features. The absence of a driver's license solidified her anonymity. Police still ponder varied versions of how the 125-pound woman's 5-foot 6-inch body wound up in a 2-foot-deep open culvert Jane Doe died of asphyxiation by suffocation at least five days before the truck driver's chance encounter.
Burial service provided by East Haven Memorial Funeral Home. Her unmarked plot is located on the south side, east of the south gate.
*****UPDATE AS OF 4/17/2023*****
She has been identified by the East Haven Police Department as Patricia Melody Newsom determined by DNA after her remains were exhumed July 2022. She absconded from a boarding school in Monticello New York.
The woman's strangled body was found by a truck driver on a rainy Aug. 16, 1975, floating in a drainage ditch behind the former Bradlees department store on Frontage Road. She was wrapped in a canvas tarpaulin and she was gagged and bound by black antenna wire around her neck, waist and knees.The possibility that she had plastic surgery on her nose may also have thrown off anyone who knew her natural facial features. The absence of a driver's license solidified her anonymity. Police still ponder varied versions of how the 125-pound woman's 5-foot 6-inch body wound up in a 2-foot-deep open culvert Jane Doe died of asphyxiation by suffocation at least five days before the truck driver's chance encounter.
Burial service provided by East Haven Memorial Funeral Home. Her unmarked plot is located on the south side, east of the south gate.
*****UPDATE AS OF 4/17/2023*****
She has been identified by the East Haven Police Department as Patricia Melody Newsom determined by DNA after her remains were exhumed July 2022. She absconded from a boarding school in Monticello New York.
Murder Victim
The woman's strangled body was found by a truck driver on a rainy Aug. 16, 1975, floating in a drainage ditch behind the former Bradlees department store on Frontage Road. She was wrapped in a canvas tarpaulin and she was gagged and bound by black antenna wire around her neck, waist and knees.The possibility that she had plastic surgery on her nose may also have thrown off anyone who knew her natural facial features. The absence of a driver's license solidified her anonymity. Police still ponder varied versions of how the 125-pound woman's 5-foot 6-inch body wound up in a 2-foot-deep open culvert Jane Doe died of asphyxiation by suffocation at least five days before the truck driver's chance encounter.
Burial service provided by East Haven Memorial Funeral Home. Her unmarked plot is located on the south side, east of the south gate.
*****UPDATE AS OF 4/17/2023*****
She has been identified by the East Haven Police Department as Patricia Melody Newsom determined by DNA after her remains were exhumed July 2022. She absconded from a boarding school in Monticello New York.
The woman's strangled body was found by a truck driver on a rainy Aug. 16, 1975, floating in a drainage ditch behind the former Bradlees department store on Frontage Road. She was wrapped in a canvas tarpaulin and she was gagged and bound by black antenna wire around her neck, waist and knees.The possibility that she had plastic surgery on her nose may also have thrown off anyone who knew her natural facial features. The absence of a driver's license solidified her anonymity. Police still ponder varied versions of how the 125-pound woman's 5-foot 6-inch body wound up in a 2-foot-deep open culvert Jane Doe died of asphyxiation by suffocation at least five days before the truck driver's chance encounter.
Burial service provided by East Haven Memorial Funeral Home. Her unmarked plot is located on the south side, east of the south gate.
*****UPDATE AS OF 4/17/2023*****
She has been identified by the East Haven Police Department as Patricia Melody Newsom determined by DNA after her remains were exhumed July 2022. She absconded from a boarding school in Monticello New York.
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