Announcement from DNA Doe Project -- Julie Doe's getting her DNA extracted! [View all]

[moriah]

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2116668675258573&id=2011009255824516

Here is a rundown on where we are with cases in the pipeline or currently active. We don’t officially announce a case until it’s actually in or about to enter sequencing, or needs funding prior to DNA extraction. So if they’re in the extraction stage we consider them tentative since we have no idea whether we’ll get DNA:

Sheep Flat Jane Doe (NV) – pending confirmation
Belle in the Well (OH) – genealogical analysis still in progress
Mill Creek Shed Man (WA) – genealogical analysis still in progress
Beckler River Road Doe (WA) – stalled/ insufficient/contaminated DNA
Sultan Basin Road Doe (WA) – stalled/ insufficient/contaminated DNA
Annie Doe – in sequencing
Butler Co Jane Doe (OH) – at lab for extraction
Transgender Julie Doe (FL) – at lab for extraction
Alachua Co, Florida John Doe (Sheriff # 79-2219 ME # CAPHIL 2A79/78-79) – at lab for extraction
Kings Co, CA Jane Doe (woman in tarp) – at lab for extraction
Orange Socks Jane Doe (Williamson Co, TX) – at lab for extraction
Rebel Ray John (Williamson Co, TX) – at lab for extraction
Corona Girl (Williamson Co, TX) – at lab for extraction

A few others are about to head to the lab, and many others still under discussion.

Previous cases already identified:
Joseph Newton chandler III
Buckskin Girl
Lyle Stevik

PLEASE NOTE – we’re unable to reply to all your suggestions for new cases. Please hold onto them for now. We’ll be going live on our new website very soon, where you’ll find a partial list of suggestions so far. We’re looking into an easier way for people to add to the list. Please understand we cannot work on them all 😊 But your suggestions do help us for when agencies contact us. We’ll have a little background and idea of crowd-funding potential. Thank you for your support and interest!

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I'm the one maintaining the FB presence for Julie Doe, after Florida's retesting of all their unidentified decedents determined she was transgender. The entire time they worked the case in 1988 they thought they were looking for a woman who had given birth at least once, because of now-discredited "pelvic notches". The more likely explanation for them is hormonal therapy, not childbirth, in this case.

It also looks like instead of crowdfunding, like I was prepared to start the ball rolling on, Lake County is sponsoring the costs for this new technology themselves. I'd had communications with the detective working this case about being willing to help organize crowdfunding if necessary to get Julie's DNA tested in this unique way, but either they or the Florida Medical Examiner's office has decided to put the $2-3k it may cost in themselves.

With it coming up on 30 years since Julie was found hidden in weeds, after someone deliberately left her with her pantyhose down to rot, she deserves her name back. Her family deserves closure and the ability to bury their child's body. After this long Julie's family may regret whatever made them lose touch -- and even if they couldn't accept a daughter then, their hearts and minds may have changed with 30 or more years of not knowing where their child is.

And sadly so many people who didn't conform to society's norms in gender and sexuality were dying during that time from other things that people who religiously read obituaries for their friends might have totally ignored an apparent cis female death, not realizing she was their friend/relative.