Tips Come in On Jane Doe, But No Clear Answers Yet

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 01:26 PM

Vancouver, B.C.- RCMP say they have received a number of tips from across the country since releasing the sketches of Jane Doe.

Twenty two tips have been received, and so far, 6 of the tips have been resolved either with people being located or the tips were found to be factually unrelated to Jane Doe.

Investigators continue to work on the tips they have received and are hopeful some of the information received will lead to the identification of Jane Doe.

“We are very pleased with the public interest and support that we got in the investigation into the identity of Jane Doe" says Sgt Dan Almas of the Missing Women Task Force " Although we have received a number of tips from the public that we continue to investigate, we don’t want people to refrain from calling us. We encourage anyone who has any information about the identity of Jane Doe to phone our tip line.”

Police are asking the public to have a look at the composite sketch of Jane Doe, keeping in mind that hair, nose, lips and jaw are an approximation. Anyone who has any information about her identify is asked to contact the Missing Women Task Force Tip Line at 1-800-687-3377.

Partial remains of Jane Doe ( partial skull and vertebrae) were discovered February 23, 1995 near a creek just south of Highway 7, approximately 800 metres east of the Ruskin bridge in Mission. The discovery was made by someone filling their water bottle from the creek.

In August 2002, bones recovered during the search of the farm associated to Robert Pickton were confirmed to be genetically linked to this partial skull.

Since the discovery, police have reached out across the world in an effort to identify her. Investigators worked with a forensic sketch artist with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to develop a composite drawing based on what was learned from her skull by all the subject matter experts who had examined it.

Here is what investigators have been able to determine about Jane Doe.

• Caucasian female
• between 20 to 40 years old
• death would have been sometime between about 1985 and 1995
• missing teeth in the upper right portion of her jaw
• may have worn dentures

It is possible that this woman’s family does not know that she is missing, or may be under the mistaken belief that she was reported missing and there is a file open.

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