"Wisconsin community buries its mystery ‘Jane Doe’ crime victim" December 09, 2011|By Carrie Antlfinger, Associated Press
WAUPUN, Wis. - Nobody here knows who she is, but everyone agreed on one thing: She deserved a proper burial.
Three years ago, a slain girl’s body was found partially submerged in a freezing creek. Despite years of investigative work, her identity is still a mystery, and sheriff’s deputies and staff in the medical examiner’s office have become a family of sorts.
They have tried to learn who she is. They have done research and tests to try to find who killed her. Unable to track down her real family and convinced they had done all they could with the body, public officials and some two dozen residents banded together to lay the town’s “Jane Doe’’ to rest Wednesday....
Law enforcement has looked at more than 200 leads, obtained and tried to match DNA, commissioned a computerized reconstruction of her face, started a Facebook page, and sought the help of forensic anthropologists, entomologists, and dentists.
They don’t know how she died, but Lieutenant Cameron McGee, who has been working the case from day one, said it was definitely a homicide. Why deputies think that is something he is keeping close to the vest for the sake of the investigation....
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