UNIDENTIFIED: Sumter County Does

Jul 1, 2019

In August of 1976, the bodies of a young man and woman were found in rural Sumter County, South Carolina. Police would infer a lot from their belongings and the state of their bodies, but more than four decades later, their identities - as well as the identity of their killer - remain a mystery... BUT the Crime Junkies have a chance to change that. Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/unidentified-sumter-county-does/    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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hi crime junkies I'm your host Ashley flowers and I'm Britt and today I have a totally different type of story to tell you in 1976 it was the year of the American Bicentennial and all through the US events were being held in cities to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence now that summer fireworks lit up the night sky and it was hard to avoid the festive cheer the US had just gotten out of the Vietnam War and with

with Watergate scandal fresh in everyone's mind people were hoping for a return to some kind of normalcy then came 1976 and everywhere you looked you saw the American flag on everything t-shirts magazine covers even cigarette lighters and sneakers it was hard to escape the Patriotic optimism that was the Spirit of 76 but roughly one month after the bicentennial police in a quiet region in South Carolina would come face-to-face with one of the

perplexing Mysteries maybe ever it's a horrible double murder in which both of the victims as well as their killer remain unidentified to this day but it is the season of justice and Britt you me and our listeners actually have a chance to help solve a cold case this is the case of the Sumpter County doze

Our Story begins on August 9th 1976 a Monday and a trucker named Martin was traveling along Locklear Road in Northwest Sumter County South Carolina now this is a secluded dirt road about half a mile from Interstate 95 which just ran parallel to it around 620 that morning this trucker decided to pull over along the side of the road to rest and that's when he made a shocking Discovery two bodies one male

and one female had been abandoned on the side of the road and each had been shot multiple times Martin tried to forward this information to someone anyone and he was able to get in touch with a man named Charles Graham who worked at a store nearby wait this is in the 70s how did he get in touch with them I honestly don't know I can only assume that he called him via his CB radio because in some of the reporting on this story it says like in quotes he called him but clearly again like you said this is the age

aged before cell phones or any kind of mobile communication so that's kind of where my mind goes it has to be CB radio but he was able to forward this information to this Charles Graham and then Charles phoned the police not too long after officials with the Sumter County Sheriff's Department arrived on scene and they begin to look over the victims and there's actually a photo available of the crime scene and but I'd love to hear your thoughts on it oh wow so they were found pretty recently after their death and

they still have all their clothing on the bodies are pretty intact with no Decay that's a really good sign right like we have everything we need to really really figure out what's going on with the body's the cause of death everything right right I think everyone on scene that day thought this would be solvable it quickly became apparent to investigators that each of the victims had been shot three times with a 357 revolver both the male victim and the female victim had been shot

in nearly the exact same locations the chest the back and the throat oh that seems really methodical exactly this wasn't someone firing randomly and investigators theorize that this was actually a planned killing of some sort and each of the victims had likely been shot in the back and the chest first and then it was actually the shot to the neck right underneath the chin that were there final like kill shots if you will yeah that definitely is

but it kind of seems like Overkill doesn't it so that's actually what police thought at the time to it seemed like whoever wanted these two dead really wanted them dead for whatever reason now neither of the victims had any identification or money on them to investigators they appear to be just too normal looking young adults they looked well-groomed they look like you know there may be a couple but they were in their early 20s and as police learned later both of the victims had

actually showered within 24 hours of their murder they were non-smokers and from what they could tell from the autopsy neither one of them had done drugs recently or consumed any alcohol now fingerprints were taken for both of the victims and compared with local missing person cases but we wouldn't be calling them Sumter County doze and this would probably be a really short episode if they had any luck identifying them by their prints so they had to rely upon evidence found at the scene as well

as witness statements from the surrounding area to try and help identify these two during the autopsy investigators would learn that the victims had eaten either ice cream or fruit shortly before their murders and now to me those are wildly different things yeah but I guess maybe when it's all mashed up in like stomach acid emeth and gets broken down they look really similar yeah could be anything but they end up thinking that it's fruit because a witness would come forward who claim to have seen

in these two at a Fruit Stand along the nearby Florence Highway shortly before their murder was the witness able to provide anything that was helpful other than they ate fruit maybe yeah unfortunately no it seems like this witness didn't know anything else they couldn't even tell investigators whether they were at the Fruit Stand by themselves like where they driving their own car or whatever all that they knew was they were standing near the Fruit Stand the end but this was just one of multiple witnesses that came forward in the following days

weeks claiming to have personally encountered this young man and woman in the surrounding area now one of these other Witnesses was a guy that lived out in the boonies between Sumter and Florence South Carolina which really is in the middle of nowhere and he claimed to have heard the crime take place in the early morning hours of August 9th but he couldn't provide any specific details he just said that he heard a car pull along the side of the road which was followed by a series of gunshots and then he heard a vehicle speed

away wait this isn't a Boonies right hmm what was he doing all the way out there yeah it seems a little bit fishy I don't know whether they looked into this guy I would assume that they did and it really doesn't say and all the research I found I couldn't find out why he'd be out there but some of the sources seem to refer this guy's kind of a Hermit so I just assumed that he was living a little bit of an alternative lifestyle kind of out in the middle of nowhere and I don't know exactly how valid his series of events actually was but

was another witness that came forward a few months later who had a much more detailed story this eyewitness was a campground employee from Santee South Carolina which wasn't too far away from where police found these two bodies now he claimed to know the name of the male victim who he actually called jock like Jacques like the French name jockeys or like the athletic guy in high school so it's weird the police kind of heard him a shot

Qui so the witness actually spells the name ja Ock but for whatever reason police seem to have assumed that he was mistaken and they would apply the other spelling of the name the French names are cwi's to this unknown male victim moving forward and they actually end up nicknaming him Jacques dough but through the story I mean I'll still call him Jacques because the only person who had any kind of interaction with him calls him jock and how does this witness claimed to know him well this witness claims that

Jack had been staying at the campground that he worked at and apparently this guy like stayed there while enroute to Florida and at the time Jacque apparently did have a female companion with him who the witness believed to be our Jane Doe a short time later after his initial stay jock and this unknown young woman were actually traveling back through the same area and they stopped and stayed at the campground again now during the second stay the witness claims that he actually kind of beef

friended jock and they were shooting pool together they started hanging out for a bit and during their time together he said that jock apparently had talked about his father being a prominent Canadian doctor and he also mentioned that jock had once pursued a career as a school teacher which is family like did not like it all made them super mad they wanted him to pursue a life in medicine and he was eventually disowned by his family for his refusal to do so is that when he decided to just start traveling around the states or what

I mean yeah I guess this witness said that jock was just wandering around America at his leisure doing kind of whatever floated his boat at the moment but if you really was from Canada maybe that's why police are assuming that his name was French in origin and if the story is true it would explain why no one had reported him missing in the area if he was disowned by his family for being a school teacher then maybe they weren't even looking for him right which I mean as far as reasons to disown your kid goes to me seems like one of the apps

absolute worst 100% but let me just recap a bit police didn't know the victims full identities but they had their fingerprints multiple witness statements and a possible first name for the male victim and a bunch of personal details doesn't that seem like a good start to investigation so you would think so however this case would struggle to move forward because to this day more than 40 years later police have yet to identify the victims in fact one of the investigators whose

retired would later state that these two victims seem to have come from another planet that's how difficult this case would prove to be

now there are really two separate aspects to this story the identity of the victims and the identity of the Killer and in a case where you don't know the identity of either you've got to start with the victims and who they might have been because we know most victims know their killer so we need to know who they were and why someone would want to kill them the first thing that stands out is how peculiar this case is generally whenever you look into a doe case there's not much about the victim

you usually don't even have a physical description close I mean half the time we just get a pile of bones but in this case police were able to learn a lot about the victims from the items they had on them in addition to their physical features and clothes and everything so let's take a look at Jaques dough first or who are Camp guy called jock physically jock was about 6 1 and wait around a hundred and fifty pounds with shoulder-length brown hair

which was you know very fashionable at the time and he had olive skin brown eyes and brown eyebrows and I point them out because they're like thick eyebrows and the bodies hadn't been there very long at the time like you mentioned earlier so we aren't even working off of artists renderings we actually have pictures of them and Brett I'm going to actually send you one so you can see what I'm talking about yeah I mean you described him completely and it is a completely intact picture there's

nothing wrong with them honestly and from someone who also has thick eyebrows his eyebrows are definitely present there are super thick and super pushy I totally get that these are distinctive right so he also had an athletic build and originally in this investigation he was believed to be very young now the autopsy listed his estimated age somewhere between 18 and 22 but as will learn he might have been much older than that how could they be

that far off an age you'd think that an autopsy could really narrow it down I mean kinda it was speculated that due to his build and clothing he wore he looked younger than he really was it's you know it's not like humans have those bark Rings like trees do so if you know nothing about them and there's no ID like the only thing you have to go off of his physical fitness clothing and you just kind of piece the puzzle together little bits at a time but there's usually something about our bodies that give us away Artie

they got a forensic dentist named Doctor Charles be Hannah Junior to come in and look at the teeth of both victims and he stated that Jaques doe was older than police had originally theorize due to the dentition which actually is the development or arrangement of the teeth and he said due to the dentition he was likely older than 27 and he had apparently had his wisdom teeth pulled out years before the crime and they generally don't come in until you're in a

adult so it's believed that about a decade had passed since Jacquees had his wisdom teeth pulled now years later when Jacquees doze profile was created in nameís his age was listed anywhere between 18 and 30 which is a really wide range to me and really not super helpful at all when trying to like narrow down who this guy might be now in addition to having his wisdom teeth out the forensic dentist was also able to determine that this unknown young man

had received some pretty extensive dental work and he'd been in the middle of a total Dental restoration some of this work happened as recently as within a year of his passing but some of the work had been incredibly unique jock had apparently had a unique kind of root canal performed on a tooth and it was called a fluted root canal which is only performed by a small number of dentists in the United States at the time the house while a number of dentists are we talking about

out like less than a dozen or so at least that's what some of the reports have indicated so when investigators find this out there like Bingo this is how we're going to identify him and his dental records were actually published in the American Dental Association I know there was like a paper or magazine later that year but unfortunately no dentist would ever step forward with knowledge of who jock was okay was it not an option to be a little bit more proactive about that then like if they knew there were less than a dozen dentists who

I'm this operation isn't it kind of obvious that they could narrow those people down and start knocking on some doors I mean I'll go knock on doors good Lord I mean bright I assume that's like not how it worked though like from everything I could gather they were basically advised by other dentists that this type of work is super rare but I don't think they had like a directory for it or anything and of course jock had to go to like the one dentist that isn't keeping up on his monthly publication so other physical details about

out Jacquees dough that police would reveal to the Press included a 4-inch appendectomy scar on his lower right abdomen as well as him having various cars along his back and shoulders indicating some kind of participation in like a contact sport maybe football hockey something like that so we have a lot of physical information about jock like we said earlier more than we normally get on most doze it seems like this alone should be enough but we have even more

we have the items he had on him when he died and many people think that his belongings provide some of the most intriguing clues for his identity and I kinda agree this includes his clothing at the time that the two bodies were discovered jock was wearing sandals a faded Levi jeans and a red cores American light beer t-shirt and on the back of the t-shirt at red camel Challenger GT Sebring 75 which seems to have come directly from

Sebring Florida where an annual race was held and this race in particular seem to have taken place obviously in 75 and was sponsored by Coors so are we assuming that he was in Sebring in 75 and that's when I got the T-shirt or could have gotten it from someone else or maybe like a Goodwill I think either I tend to think from the research that I did police believe that he actually was in Florida again the timeline is so close to race happen in 75 he was found in 76 and also if you remember there was that story from

the campground employee who said that you know this jock guy had stayed there before heading to Florida and then also stayed there on his way back so we know this jock I was in Florida at some point now Jake doe was also wearing a few items of jewellery which seemed to raise even more questions he was wearing a gold wristwatch which had been manufactured by a company called Bulova I think is how you say the name and it was manufactured in 1974 or maybe as early as 1968 depending on which reports

you read is this expensive watch that maybe has a serial number that can be tracked or is it just something that he could have picked up at a department store no so it's actually something that would have had a serial number and that they could have tracked but unfortunately it seems like the watch manufacturer had downsize a few years before hand and in the process ended up shredding most if not all of their records this meant that it would be nearly impossible to track down

where or when the watch had been sold so the watch is out but he's also wearing a 14 karat gold ring that had a gray sapphire stone and on the inside of the band police were able to find one of the most unique Clues pointing to this young man's identity the ring had a set of initials J PF well if his name was Jock that would kind of make sense right well exactly but with no clues as to what the p and the F stood for

no missing persons report with those initials police weren't able to get anywhere with the ring either and it doesn't seem like police were able to match up those initials with any missing persons at the time with no luck tracking down jocks identity from his body or his personal effects police hope to have better luck with Jane Doe but she didn't have nearly as many of the belongings or definitive features as Jacque dead physically our Jane Doe stood about five five and weighed between a hundred and a hundred

hundred and ten pounds she had reddish brown hair that went down her shoulders bluish gray eyes that some sources list as being Hazel but you know I think that's kind of all the same and she had unusually long natural eyelashes which goals so surely she also had three very distinctive moles to on the left side of her face near her mouth and another one on the opposite side which Britt you can see if you go back to the picture I sent you of their faces and

also be posting them on the website if anyone wants to take a look and follow along but she had a slim build also had Olive complexion and pierced ears Jane Doe was examined by the forensic dentist who discovered that she had some dental work done in the past but not much her back teeth had a couple of fillings but other than that there was really nothing unique about her teeth other than the fact that they were straight she also had no surgical scars anywhere on her body or really scars of any kind there was no sign that she died

ever been pregnant or recently given birth and police also note that her legs were unshaven which really isn't that unusual yeah I mean it's a 70s that could have been either a feminist statement or just she's traveling and doesn't have a razor totally so investigators noted that Jane Doe appeared to be a few years younger than her male counterpart and she was originally estimated to be between 18 and 20 but when she was entered into nameís years later this

Emmett is amended and she is now listed as being between 18 and 25 years old now clothing-wise Jane Doe seem to have been wearing stuff that was very typical for the time she was wearing lavender and hot pink wedge sandal heels Daisy Duke cutoff jean shorts a pink halter top tied in the front and a white blouse unfortunately there was really nothing about these items that really made Jane Doe stand out or really pointed to her identity so police would end up leaning on a few

pieces of jewelry that she was wearing to get the most unique indicator of her identity now she had three very distinctive rings that she was wearing okay so you just sent me the pictures of some of the jewelry found and it looks really Southwestern a lot of silver and turquoise it looks like it could be you know something that is maybe Mexican or Native American yeah so investigators because of this jewelry theorize that at some point the

at least had come from the American southwest and they determined that they were authentic handmade pieces each ring was made of sterling silver and featured various designs with turquoise chips and stones and these are what police would use to try and find Jane Doe's identity hoping that somebody would recognize them as they were so unique again this isn't something you're picking up from like a general store yeah I feel like these would definitely stand out in South Carolina it's not at all the American southwest yeah like I mean

I used to live in Arizona this is exactly the kind of thing you see at like very small local Boutique shops and this actually plays a major focus in the investigation when trying to identify these two police had all of these unique pieces of evidence you know they're placing the man in Florida at some point with her she's got these rings from the southwest he's been told people he's in Canada it's like we have all of these little pieces and this huge unfinished puzzle so to make things more confusing we've got these pieces from everywhere police

discover a pack of matches inside the male victims pockets and the matches bore the logo of a chain of truck stops named grants is that like similar to a loves or a Flying J like a gas station exactly but because this was a chain it made it really hard for investigators to pin down where these matches might have actually been obtain grants truck stops were located in three states Idaho Nebraska and Arizona naturally you'd think matches had to have come from the Arizona location

I would explain the Rings and The Turquoise and everything right right and that's exactly what I thought but it seems like after the information of these two murder victims was distributed around the country a man in Nebraska actually contacted authorities and he told them that he was a mechanic at a grants truck stop in Nebraska and he had done some work on the young man and woman's car as they were driving through the state and he recalled them having either Oregon or Washington state license plates but didn't have any more information

about them so again police have all of these different Clues a racetrack and Florida a campsite in South Carolina jewelry from the southwest dental work that was unique and only could be performed by this like select group of dentists a father in Canada who's a well-known doctor a possible sighting in Nebraska with Pacific Northwest license plates like do you see what I mean this case is crazy there are so many pieces that seem like they should fit together but don't and that's what police

had to work with at the time as they tried to figure out the identity of these two victims and hopefully their killer

so with this information about their victims police start to put together theories and one of the theories the detectives floated early on was the idea that jock and Jane Doe might have been hitchhikers who were eventually killed by the person that was driving a guess that would explain why they are never links to a vehicle yeah but it doesn't really explain the Nebraska truck stop story and it's possible that the victims had been hijacked by the killer like maybe they had a car

maybe with someone they had stopped to pick up or someone that had been riding with them who you know got out of the car and shot them on the side of the road police assume that the victims had originally been shot in the back and that their killer followed that up with the shots to the chest and the neck so if you can imagine like whether they're driving or someone else is driving someone hijacked them like if they're being marched out of their car if someone has a gun to them the Killer's probably behind them would shoot them in their back and then shoot them again regardless though it's a very real possibility

that the victim's vehicle had been stolen by their killer but without knowing again either of the victims identities tracking down this vehicle would be pretty much impossible out of the two possibilities the victims either being hitchhikers or someone like hijacking their vehicle I tend to lean towards the hijacking yeah I think that makes the most sense to me too I mean both victims were well-groomed they were dressed well and they both showered really recently right totally like you would imagine that hitchhikers might look a little

too rough for the we're especially in the middle of South Carolina in the Summer where it's like humid there's bugs everywhere and on top of that the Jane Doe was wearing heels who would hitchhike in heels such a good point okay so to go a little off track here I have a quick question hmm is he sumption that these two were friends or dating or do we think they even knew each other at all actually for many years there was a theory that the two victims were related probably like even brother and sister because they looked kind of

like they the same olive skin tone the same you know dark hair dark eyebrows yeah I guess from their photos I could see that maybe they're related yeah so for a long time this was kind of the Assumption you know everyone had their theories however several years later DNA of the two was compared and it seemed to prove once and for all that the two were definitely not related so wait their DNA was tested yeah so actually several years ago back in 2007 or

so it was reported then that police were submitting the samples to a forensic database but it doesn't seem like it actually led to much other than you know just being able to say that they're not related officials repeatedly tried to match their identities with missing person and as far as I know reached out to officials in multiple States and counties to no avail okay so I assume that if we can't even get their identity through DNA we definitely don't know who the Killer is right I mean unfortunately no but not for lack of trying shockingly even without the

his identity's it seemed like police had a couple of really strong suspects that they looked into including a suspect that popped up on their radar a few months after the murder this suspect whose name was Lonnie George Henry was arrested in law to South Carolina in January of 1977 for drunk driving now this is just about two counties away from where the two bodies have been found in the prior August and Lonnie was even already on police's radar he was nearly 60 years old and didn't have

have much in the way of a police record however during his arrest police found a pistol inside his car and the guns serial number had been partially filed off well that's always a good sign that the gun was obtained illegally awesome right was it the murder weapon or did it have any of the same characteristic so it was the same type a 357 caliber revolver investigators actually test-fired it to try and match ballistics and according to reports it seemed to be a man

for the murder weapon okay and by match for the murder weapon you mean it was the murder weapon right it seemed like it might have been but I don't really know for sure because reports were never quite clear on that and Firearms tests are never a hundred percent accurate but police seemed to believe that this was the murder weapon and they had Lonnie submit to a polygraph test he told police that he had not murdered the two Sumpter County

doze and on that question they said he passed however when asked about when he had received the pistol he seemed really evasive and this is odd especially since a family member explained to police that they had given the guy a pistol as a birthday present a few years prior now police questioned him about this and Lonnie admitted to filing off the serial number himself but we can only really speculate if he knew anything about the murder or had any involvement

it seemed like you had an alibi for the day of the murder and that seemed to be that citing insufficient evidence police never pressed charges or pursued a case against him and to make matters even worse Lonnie passed away just a few years after the murders in 1982 whatever he might have known seemed to have died with him because of his age at the time which again he was like pushing 60 years old some believe that he might have loaned out the pistol to someone and later just refused to name names

okay but that would still make him confess it yeah but it's kind of a moot point now I mean again he passed away in 1982 and any potential involvement he may or may not have is just gone right did police ever have any other suspects they did and because this is an open case it's impossible to know everyone they may have looked into but one of the most infamous serial killers of all time actually ended up being a suspect for a little while really which one Henry Lee Lucas who

some of you may recognize as being one of the creepiest dudes ever he was known as a bit of a Drifter that committed violent crimes for over a decade oftentimes conspiring with another guy that was just as creepy as he was named Otis tool there could really be an entire podcast about their crimes but in short Henry Lee Lucas was an insanely creepy guy who did a lot of bad things and you guys can go down the Google rabbit hole for yourselves and you know maybe we'll do a future episode on him but in 1983

Mary Lee was arrested and he was eventually convicted for 11 murders but police believe that he was responsible for many many more and this is partially due to the fact that Lucas would confess not just to a handful of crimes but even dozens and literally hundreds of crimes hundreds yeah he confessed to quite literally hundreds of murders and eventually a little a Lucas task force was created to investigate the validity of his claims you see

it had been known as a proficient liar as well and it was later found that he would use information from the media and directly from police files to make his false confessions wait how did he have access to police files so police just gave them to him unfortunately a lot of police departments were so eager to close open cases that they were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and he ended up lying quite a bit in order to get special privileges in prison so to be clear and

addition to being a super creepy serial killer he's also a professional scammer as well yeah you got it okay so he is known to lie to police just to get out of his boring prison life for a few days and they would often take him to like restaurants he'd get better food or whatever and it's a way for him to break the monotonous nature of prison and police just kind of indulge him again because they were eager to solve these cold cases well when Lucas was going through his confession spree in the 80s he admitted to killing

do people in Sumter County South Carolina now this would later turn out to be an elderly woman he claimed to have murdered 1975 and a young man nearly a decade later in 1983 but he also specified that he had been in Sumter County in August of 1976 the same time that the Sumter County does were killed by an unknown individual so it could have been him but it's impossible to know for sure if you're asking me though

so I think it's not likely police don't really comment on open cases but when Henry Lee Lucas passed away in 2001 he had already been widely discredited as a rampant liar it's totally possible that he had just learned the day of the murder and tried to get police interested in him as a suspect now unfortunately there are many more suspects that police seem to have expressed interest in I'm sure they had random Persons of Interest here or there but other than those two the case seems to have hit a brick wall pretty

early on so sadly the case today is still completely open and unsolved police closed the murder investigation in 2009 because they wanted to focus entirely on identifying the victims but they're no closer even now to that than they were 40 years ago the bodies of jock and Jane Doe were held in a local funeral home for over a year after their murder in caskets that had see-through glass lids and they did this because they

they wanted people to come in and try to identify them and that was the best way they knew to do it at the time they also share their photos with Publications throughout the region hoping to raise some kind of interest and attract attention additionally they shared the victims fingerprints and dental records with experts and authorities in other regions around the nation multiple people contacted authorities in hopes of identifying the to wondering if either of them might be their lost loved one perhaps someone that had run away from home months or

years prior or had otherwise gone missing now this included people from all over the country and police even reached out to authorities in South America and attempt to find the dose names we're in South America namely Argentina where I guess a bunch of people had gone missing in like the mid to late 70s during a crisis known as the Dirty War and if you look up this case online you'll find a handful of discussion groups and threads talking about the possibilities of them matching people from Argentina but it doesn't seem like any of these potential matches have

if led to positive identifications or investigative leads in the years since so since that didn't lead anywhere like I said Jacque and Jane Doe would remain on display in the funeral home for more than a year but on August 14th 1977 they were finally buried in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery in South Carolina the memorial service was attended by hundreds of people from the region who had followed along with the story and had been hoping for a happier ending the graves of the two would read me

unknown and female unknown since they remained unidentified and neither of them nor their killer would ever be identified in the following decades now I had mentioned earlier we had DNA that's because in 2007 the bodies were exhumed from those Graves so that investigators could get DNA samples and this is where investigators confirmed that they weren't related this effort was actually led by longtime Sumter County coroner Verena more who had been the deputy coroner at the time of the murders back in

1976 and for more than three decades she had worked tirelessly in an effort to identify this Unknown man and woman and when she retired in 2009 she had to put the matter to rest now she ended up unfortunately passing away in 2017 at the age of 91 never receiving the answer she worked so hard for to this day as you guys know the identities of the Sumpter County doze jock and Jane remain unknown as does the identity of the

killer who has never been brought to justice but it doesn't have to stay that way for the first time ever we crime junkies have an opportunity to help solve a case and I get full-body chills just talking about this because it is so exciting to me so here's the Scoop Britt you know we have been seeing all these cases popping up right and left cases that are getting solved through genealogy right of course well there's this nonprofit that I am obsessed

obsessed with called DNA dough project their mission has been using this new technology to give doze their name back and I know we all know this and this case is the perfect example but it is so hard to solve a case and find a killer when you don't even know the names of the victims victims identities are the first step towards Justice and this organization is doing just that as of this recording they've already given names to 11 doze people that didn't have there

for decades and now we can help give more victims their names including the to in our story today I spoke with the folks over the DNA dough project and they have already reached out to law enforcement on this case and law enforcement is interested in having them work at the DNA doe project are currently waiting on the bones to be sent for DNA extraction and once they have them they'll need money to process the DNA so this is your chance to help solve a case and bonus you can get some crime drunk

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