Caledonia Jane Doe confirmed as Tammy Jo Alexander

[neognosis]

caledonia jane doe confirmed as Tammy Jo Alexander!

hopefully Dana Point Jane doe will get her name

[DanCart]

Originally Posted by neognosis

caledonia jane doe confirmed as Tammy Jo Alexander!

Wow Is this just breaking news ?

[neognosis]

Originally Posted by DanCart

Wow Is this just breaking news ?

yep it was just verified today

it is officially confirmed that after 35 years, she has been named Tammy Jo Alexander. She was 16. forensic pollen stated she was from 3 places, and she was from Florida.

[DanCart]

Originally Posted by neognosis

yep it was just verified today

it is officially confirmed that after 35 years, she has been named Tammy Jo Alexander. She was 16. forensic pollen stated she was from 3 places, and she was from Florida.

Yeah & I`m also reading that she was shot after midnight .....

[Zoneboy]

Girl found dead near Rochester in 1979 identified as missing Florida teen Tammy Jo Alexander: cops

The body of Tammy Jo Alexander was found in a field 18 miles southwest of Rochester in 1979. She had been shot twice, but heavy rain washed away most evidence on the scene. Thanks to new leads last year, she has finally been named, but police are still searching for her killer.

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A teenage girl found dead in an upstate New York field in 1979 has finally been identified.

The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office identified the girl as Tammy Jo Alexander, who was a teenager from Brooksville, Fla., according to a release on Monday from the department.

Police are still investigating who killed Alexander and how she ended up in a field in the town of Caledonia, about 18 miles southwest of Rochester.

Alexander was born in Atlanta, Ga. in 1963 and attended high school in Brooksville. She went missing from Brooksville sometime between 1977 and 1979, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Her body was found after midnight on Nov. 10, 1979, about half a mile from the highway. Police said Alexander was shot in the head with a .38-caliber handgun, dragged into a cornfield and then shot in the back.

Police investigated the murder, commonly called the “Caledonia Jane Doe case,” over the past 36 years. They interviewed thousands of leads worldwide, including convicted serial killers, the Democrat and Chronicle reports.

Former Livingston County Sheriff John York told the Democrat and Chronicle in 1999 that heavy rain washed away much of evidence from the crime scene. Alexander was found with no identification on her. York said it was as if Alexander “just dropped there from nowhere.”

Livingston County Sheriff Thomas Dougherty said the office worked with the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office in Florida to follow up on new leads that emerged last year. A friend of Alexander filed a missing persons report, and police interviewed several family members. DNA results from one of Alexander’s sisters confirmed the identity of the girl found 36 years ago.

The two sheriff's offices are collaborating with the FBI on solving the murder.

[neognosis]

I wonder if she will dug up, transported, then be re-buried alongside her parents in Brooksville, Florida.

i find it highly suspicious her parents apparently did not report her missing.

i cannot help but wonder if the man at diner she was last seen with was her dad or uncle or male relative, or a friend of his dad.

i wonder if any of them
1- drives a tan stationwagon with wood panelling
2- owns a 0.38 gun
3- resembles the sketch
4- was in Caledonia NY

i'm surprised no one at school, no teachers, friends, expressed concern she was missing

i wonder if for example, the school did inquire with her parents and her parents lied and said she moved.

[yasdnil]

Sister of 'Caledonia Jane Doe': Missing persons report was filed, our family did care
Updated: 01/26/2015 11:20 PM
Created: 01/26/2015 10:40 PM WHEC.com
By: Lynette Adams - @whec_ladams

Monday night, we spoke with the sister of a young girl found shot to death more than three decades ago.

Until now, no one knew who that young girl was. We wanted to know why it took so long to identify her.

The girl is named Tammy Jo Alexander of Florida. Her body was found in a cornfield in Caledonia in back in 1979. Investigators say they did not know who she was because no one ever filed a missing persons report. But Alexander's sister Pamela Dyson says a police report was filed. She told News10NBC without hesitation her parents did file a report with the police.

However, it was at a time when police didn't have a DNA database, the internet or any of tools they have today. Still, Dyson can't help but wonder if police in her hometown dropped the ball.

Former Livingston County Sheriff John York said, "It's hard to imagine that someone could just throw a child away. It's a great day to give her a name."

Dyson says, "I am outraged by his comment. First of all there was a police report filed. The family does care."

Dyson could not believe the comment from retired Sheriff John York. She is the younger sister of Tammy Jo Alexander known as the "Caledonia Jane Doe."

"We have always cared," says Dyson. "We love her and we have missed her. We are truly grateful that after 35 years that there has been closure."

Dyson says her sister had run away before. She thinks this history may have prompted police not to pursue an investigation -- thinking Alexander would turn up. Monday afternoon at a news conference in Geneseo, Livingston County Sheriff Thomas Dougherty talked about this challenging case.

"One of the biggest parts to solving a case is knowing your victim," said Dougherty. "Once you know your victim, you know 10 times more about the case."

Dyson hopes police won't stop here, but that they will find her sister's killer.

"I'm truly glad for the closure," says Dyson. "But it hurts to know she died that way. It's terrible, nobody should have to be shot and dragged out into the woods. It's not right, it's not right."

Alexander would be 51-years-old now. A high school friend who heard about her disappearance began searching for her and that's how this all began. Police wouldn't say how this identification will affect the search for a killer. Police did say it is still an open and active investigation.

http://www.whec.com/article/stories/s3688486.shtml

[yasdnil]

Tammy Jo’s Portrait Artist Sheds Light on Solving Mystery
26 Jan, 2015 - CONRAD BAKER

LIVINGSTON COUNTY –

The California man who painted a widely circulated facial reconstruction of mysteriously murdered ‘Caledonia Jane Doe,’ now known to be Tammy Jo Alexander, 16, says he instantly recognized her as the subject of his reconstructions and, with the support of others, contacted the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office.

Carl Koppelman, 52, moderator for websleuth.com, an online crime sleuthing community, and portrait artist for missing persons, has recently been in contact with other curious and driven online communities across the country. He says he instantly recognized the face he had studied for over 5 years when he saw the missing person report from Florida in the summer of 2014.

“I look through daily pulls of missing persons listings,” said Koppelman, 52. “As soon as I saw her photo in the Florida listings I commented ‘Bingo! I think that’s Cali!’ It’s the face that I’ve studied for five or six years.

Koppelman explained that the missing person report that was finally filed in August 2014 came as a result of a classmate of Alexander’s, named Laurel, who lived in Brooksville and knew she was a notorious runanway. After going to school with Tammy until their sophomore year of high school, Laurel asked her friends years later about what happened to the rogue Alexander girl.

The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office had never heard of Tammy Jo Alexander, and issued a missing persons report 35 years late.

After recognizing the subject of his rendering in the report online, Koppelman contacted a driven, internet-savvy woman whose own sister went missing years ago. She then got in touch with the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office, and passed along their findings.

At a press conference announcing the identification of ‘Caledonia Jane Doe,’ Sheriff Thomas Dougherty said that just as he was confident that they would identify this victim, he is confident that the Sheriff’s Office will now be able to identify the killer.

PHOTO CAPTION: Top – Koppelman holding his chillingly accurate rendering of ‘Caledonia Jane Doe.’ Bottom – His portrait.

http://www.geneseesun.com/2015/01/26...troubled-girl/