A fan of my Unsolved Mysteries page posted the following information about her case:

"This case was presented recently on a Greek TV show investigating missing persons cases. A woman called and said she identified the Jane Doe as a former classmate and friend. They were attending a prep school for legal migrants, located in Kifisia (suburb in Athens, Greece), teaching home economics and preparing the students to be sent off to the USA and Australia with a 2 year contract for work. This school was funded by the International Organization for Migration. The woman that called said that her classmate was called Konstantina and had a brother serving in the Navy near Lavrio. They lost contact when the caller was sent to Australia and Konstantina was sent to the USA for work."

Do you have any connections that would allow you to keep up with whether the lead was followed up on? This one of the cases I have always wanted to see solved.

Do you have any connections that would allow you to keep up with whether the lead was followed up on? This one of the cases I have always wanted to see solved.

I'm guessing the person who posted this on my page does, he is always finding information about her case.

Oh my god. Can you imagine if this was solved?

Oh my god. Can you imagine if this was solved?

It looks to be that way (almost). The next step would be to find surviving relatives of "Konstantina" and compare DNA from her family to the Jane Doe.

I would love to find out if the woman's relatives in Greece have been put in touch with FL authorities handling the case.

I would love to find out if the woman's relatives in Greece have been put in touch with FL authorities handling the case.

I'll keep everyone up to date once I get more information from sources associated with the case.

I went to the Websleuths thread about Little Miss Panasoffkee and found this link to her profile on the website for "Tunnel", the Greek TV show which featured the case (it looks like this page has gone through Google translate, so please excuse the grammatical and spelling errors).
http://www.anikolouli.gr/index.php?pathID=1_118_119_120_157&aid=2487

This link actually features a photo of Konstantina, the girl believed to be Little Miss P and you can definitely see a resemblance:
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8648118

Overall, this is potentially fantastic news! When I initially heard the theory that Little Miss P was from another country, it make a whole lot of sense to me and would explain why she hasn't been claimed all this time. Obviously, the family and friends of a Greek girl who went missing way back in 1971wouldn't have had the resources to look into UID Jane Does in Florida.

I went to the Websleuths thread about Little Miss Panasoffkee and found this link to her profile on the website for "Tunnel", the Greek TV show which featured the case (it looks like this page has gone through Google translate, so please excuse the grammatical and spelling errors).
http://www.anikolouli.gr/index.php?pathID=1_118_119_120_157&aid=2487

This link actually features a photo of Konstantina, the girl believed to be Little Miss P and you can definitely see a resemblance:
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8648118

Overall, this is potentially fantastic news! When I initially heard the theory that Little Miss P was from another country, it make a whole lot of sense to me and would explain why she hasn't been claimed all this time. Obviously, the family and friends of a Greek girl who went missing way back in 1971wouldn't have had the resources to look into UID Jane Does in Florida.

Thanks for the links

I went to the Websleuths thread about Little Miss Panasoffkee and found this link to her profile on the website for "Tunnel", the Greek TV show which featured the case (it looks like this page has gone through Google translate, so please excuse the grammatical and spelling errors).
http://www.anikolouli.gr/index.php?pathID=1_118_119_120_157&aid=2487

This link actually features a photo of Konstantina, the girl believed to be Little Miss P and you can definitely see a resemblance:
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8648118

Overall, this is potentially fantastic news! When I initially heard the theory that Little Miss P was from another country, it make a whole lot of sense to me and would explain why she hasn't been claimed all this time. Obviously, the family and friends of a Greek girl who went missing way back in 1971wouldn't have had the resources to look into UID Jane Does in Florida.

Picture is very similar.

Hopefully there are some records from this training program that can help identify her, since it sounds like it was legit. Also, this will help with a timeline and they can look at airline records from around the time she was flying to the U.S. to find her identity.

Very interesting and hopefully a resolution to the case.

Didn't the UM segment say that Little Miss Panasoffkee had a child as well?

Very interesting and hopefully a resolution to the case.

Didn't the UM segment say that Little Miss Panasoffkee had a child as well?

Yes, when I first heard the news that Little Miss P might have hailed from Greece, I started to formulate a theory that maybe she decided to flee the country after an unplanned pregnancy. I even started to speculate if she might have fled with the man who got her pregnant, but when things didn't work out between them, she was murdered.

Thus far, there doesn't seem to be anything in Konstantina's background that suggests she ever gave birth to a child and it seems like she was legally emigrating to the U.S. for work reasons. However, I just remembered that Little Miss P also had that very specific "Watson Jones" surgical technique on her ankle. If they can confirm that Konstantina had that ankle surgery at some point in her life, that would be a pretty convincing confirmation that her and Little Miss Panasoffkee are one and the same.

Very interesting. Thanks for the updates.

Fingers crossed. This case has haunted me for years.

I just posted this update on the other thread for her, I think we need to merge.

because i have been posting back and forth between websleuths and facebook, this is the picture of Little Miss P and Konstantina - there is a resemblance.

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/1509/panasoffkeekonstantinac.jpg

also the Greek show, "Light at the end of the Tunnel" is on every Friday night.. my parents watch it religiously, but I'm going to watch it and see if they talk about her on the show and if there are any updates.

What a wonderful lead. I hope they test out this possibility ASAP

To update everyone on this thread, there were two other classmates of Konstantina where a caller had sent in photos thinking the two other girls could have resembled the composite photo. One was ruled out when the daughter of this lady called into the show and she said her mother is alive and well...but was sleeping at the time of the broadcast. The daughter said she went to australia during that time and not to the USA.. but would try to have her call in at a later time.

in addition, there was a jewelry store in downtown Athens at that time before the 1970s that sold Baylor watches.

Also Aggeliki, the TV host is perplexed at the fact that they have been showing the picture of Konstantina for the last two weeks and no one has come forward to "claim" her, i.e. relatives or really close friends of her... and she is really starting to think that the composite photo is really her. Like the initial caller, Vasiliki who phoned in, Konstantina never mentioned about a family but would always speak highly of her brother Stelio, who was serving in the Navy at that time in Lavrio.

People from Lavrio have requested to see the two side by side photos again to see if they recognize either of them... a new episode will show on Jan 11th.

So was the lead that the young lady was wearing a Baylor watch miscommunicated? When I read that she was wearing a Baylor watch, there was speculation that it was connected to the university. Either a news article or someone's comments led me to believe that they thought they might be able to connect her to the school through that watch.

Until today, I never realized that there was actually a BRAND of watch called Baylor that had nothing to do with the school. It seems that so many unsolved cases have misinterpreted or misunderstood evidence involved.

Miss P's doenetwork page: http://doenetwork.org/cases/470uffl.html

I went to the Websleuths thread about Little Miss Panasoffkee and found this link to her profile on the website for "Tunnel", the Greek TV show which featured the case (it looks like this page has gone through Google translate, so please excuse the grammatical and spelling errors).
http://www.anikolouli.gr/index.php?pathID=1_118_119_120_157&aid=2487

This link actually features a photo of Konstantina, the girl believed to be Little Miss P and you can definitely see a resemblance:
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8648118

Overall, this is potentially fantastic news! When I initially heard the theory that Little Miss P was from another country, it make a whole lot of sense to me and would explain why she hasn't been claimed all this time. Obviously, the family and friends of a Greek girl who went missing way back in 1971wouldn't have had the resources to look into UID Jane Does in Florida.
No but you would think that they might have reported her missing to the authorities there.

So was the lead that the young lady was wearing a Baylor watch miscommunicated? When I read that she was wearing a Baylor watch, there was speculation that it was connected to the university. Either a news article or someone's comments led me to believe that they thought they might be able to connect her to the school through that watch.

Until today, I never realized that there was actually a BRAND of watch called Baylor that had nothing to do with the school. It seems that so many unsolved cases have misinterpreted or misunderstood evidence involved.

Miss P's doenetwork page: http://doenetwork.org/cases/470uffl.html

it must have been someone's comments because I think I read the same thing. But Baylor watches are a subsidiary to the ZALES brand. They don't make Baylor watches anymore I don't think, but they were popular around 1960s-1970s... and the fact that they found a store in Athens that sold those types of watches is a huge thing.

I went to the Websleuths thread about Little Miss Panasoffkee and found this link to her profile on the website for "Tunnel", the Greek TV show which featured the case (it looks like this page has gone through Google translate, so please excuse the grammatical and spelling errors).
http://www.anikolouli.gr/index.php?pathID=1_118_119_120_157&aid=2487

This link actually features a photo of Konstantina, the girl believed to be Little Miss P and you can definitely see a resemblance:
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8648118

Overall, this is potentially fantastic news! When I initially heard the theory that Little Miss P was from another country, it make a whole lot of sense to me and would explain why she hasn't been claimed all this time. Obviously, the family and friends of a Greek girl who went missing way back in 1971wouldn't have had the resources to look into UID Jane Does in Florida.

Wow! I always thought this case would never be solved since it was so old and so much time had passed with little information on the victim.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Little_Miss_Lake_Panasoffkee_facial_reconstruction.jpg

This is a newer rendition of what she would have looked like.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Little_Miss_Lake_Panasoffkee_facial_reconstruction.jpg

This is a newer rendition of what she would have looked like.


Was it ever confirmed to be here or just speculation?

that photo was taken from a website that recreates how people look like from a picture of their skulls. When I get back on the computer, I'll link the website. If you also check the WS forum we discuss all about it there as well.

Little Miss Panosofkee has been identified as. Her name is Cookie and her husband is a POI.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2025/10/28/one-of-floridas-strangest-cold-cases-may-have-just-broken-new-ground/

Little Miss Panasoffkee

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Little_Miss_Panasoffkee

In 2018, the police attempted to have forensic genetic genealogy done on the woman's DNA in hopes of identifying her. However, they were unable to get a viable profile. The police suspect that the embalming fluid used in preparing her body contributed to the degradation of her DNA. They also suspect that it led to the issues with the isotope testing.

In October 2025, the woman was finally identified as twenty-one-year-old Maureen L. "Cookie" (Minor) Rowan. Earlier in 2025, her fingerprints had been submitted to STORM, a new police biometric database. The prints were matched to those taken from Cookie during a 1970 arrest for passing a bad check. Unfortunately, the fingerprints from that arrest had not been uploaded to Florida's fingerprint database until 2013.

Cookie was born in Maine in March 1949. She had two young children and was last known to be living in Tampa, Florida. Interestingly, the police learned that a friend or family member had seen the broadcast and thought the victim could have been Cookie. However, they never called it in to the show. The police also identified a person of interest in her murder: her estranged husband, Charles Emory Rowan Sr. Their marriage was "tumultuous" and they had separated just prior to her disappearance. His actions and behavior leading up to the separation and following the discovery of her body were described by police as "suspicious." He reportedly told family members that she left voluntarily, which was why she was never reported missing. He died in 2015, and the police are continuing to investigate her death.

Sadly, on September 15, 2022, Sheriff Adams died at eighty-one without seeing the case solved.

Glad that she has been finally identified. 54 years is a long time for answers. Nobody may ever be charged with Maureen's murder, but at least her family can have her back.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox35orlando.com/news/little-miss-panasoffkee-cold-case-update-florida.amp

Didn't I tell you the whole "she's from Greece thing" was BS?

The ortho surgery she had always fascinated me.

"she had orthopedic surgery to her right ankle, which was done by drilling holes in the leg bone and then winding the tendon through them. This was called the Watson-Jones or modified Watson-Jones technique."

https://cdn.unsolved.com/wp-content/uploads/existing/mur_little_miss_p5.jpg?x36184

I had always wondered if they called ortho surgeons across the USA to ask any of them if they used the Watson-Jones technique to narrow down their search. Apparently, the Watson-Jones technique was a rare technique that was not utilized by all ortho surgeons.

Plus she had extensive dental work as well

I scarcely remember this case, but when I saw the composites, it came back to me. Unlike the criminal composites, Cookie's renderings inspire only sadness. They are even more disturbing to me in some ways than the criminal ones, because this is a missing person whose family did not have closure for so long. This is a murder victim. I hope the husband or whoever did it gets what they deserve.

Little Miss Panasoffkee

Interestingly, the police learned that a friend or family member had seen the broadcast and thought the victim could have been Cookie. However, they never called it in to the show.

I read that somewhere a few days ago and it makes me so mad. Her killer may have served prison time if they had called the tip in.

I'm so glad she was finally identified. This was a case I put in my top 3 of cases I really wanted solved. RIP Cookie.

This was one I thought would never be solved.

Wild that this was solved with fingerprints and not genetic genealogy.

This was one I thought would never be solved.

Wild that this was solved with fingerprints and not genetic genealogy.



Same here.

Was definitely on my top 5 list of "cases that will probably never be solved".

Glad to see this one finally resolved, to some extent anyway.

I never thought this one was impossible to solve, because it seemed like they had enough information to make a positive ID if a matching missing person candidate were brought forward. Wild that in the age of genetic genealogy it was solved by old fashioned fingerprints, however.

I wonder: how was it that Cookie had fingerprints to be compared to the remains?

A strange coincidence I never knew about until today: "Little Miss Panasoffkee" was discovered unidentified in Sumter County, FL - making this a second case of Sumter County unidentified persons featured on UM (the others being the couple who were found in Sumter County, South Carolina and only finally identified in 2021).

Never thought this one would ever be solved but I’m so glad it finally is.

I wish Sheriff Adams had lived to see this. It was Little Miss Panasoffkee that kicked off my interest in forensic facial reconstruction. I’m so glad she finally has her name back and can go home to her family. Her case and that of the Sumter Co. does just proves that these cases can still be solved, don’t give up.

We now have her picture and she has her name: Maureen Rowan.
I think Linda Galeneer did a pretty exceptional job. Very close.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/2025/10/29/little-miss-lake-panasoffkee-jane-doe-in-sumter-county-identified-after-nearly-55-years-as-21-year-old-mother-of-2/

We now have her picture and she has her name: Maureen Rowan.
I think Linda Galeneer did a pretty exceptional job. Very close.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/2025/10/29/little-miss-lake-panasoffkee-jane-doe-in-sumter-county-identified-after-nearly-55-years-as-21-year-old-mother-of-2/

How horrible for the family to live in torment all those years not knowing.

How horrible for the family to live in torment all those years not knowing.

Absolutely. It makes Robert Stack's closing line about the case that much more chilling: "Which means that someone, somewhere, may have grown up without ever knowing what happened to his or her mother."

A person who features cases twenty years old and older has a wonderful video up including pictures provided by Maureen Rowan's son but I'm not sure whether we are now allowed to mention the name of the Y-site or not. The video includes a number of facial reconstructions none of which look much like her. I was surprised how bad they were.

The rendering is very haunting. In a different way than the composites of suspects. There is a profound sadness to it.

The ortho surgery she had always fascinated me.

"she had orthopedic surgery to her right ankle, which was done by drilling holes in the leg bone and then winding the tendon through them. This was called the Watson-Jones or modified Watson-Jones technique."

https://cdn.unsolved.com/wp-content/uploads/existing/mur_little_miss_p5.jpg?x36184

I had always wondered if they called ortho surgeons across the USA to ask any of them if they used the Watson-Jones technique to narrow down their search. Apparently, the Watson-Jones technique was a rare technique that was not utilized by all ortho surgeons.

Plus she had extensive dental work as well

The nature of her ankle surgery was why I considered the case solvable. It may have taken 54 years to positively identify her, but I never believed she would remain unidentified forever.

I completely missed this update and just found out today that they identified her a few months ago! Amazing! 54 years later… it just goes to show, “Never give up!” ��