Today's episode examines a crime involving a child under the age of 12.

Some details are disturbing.

Listener discretion is advised.

In late February of 1983, two men scavenging the basement of an abandoned building in St. Louis

made a grisly discovery.

In the cold dark laid the lifeless body of a young black girl, dressed only in a blood-stained

yellow sweater with her hands bound behind her back.

Her body was nude from the waist down and in a final insult and desecration of her body,

her killer had decapitated her.

Investigators were shocked by the harrid nature of the crime, an extremely young age of the victim

determined to have been no more than 12 years old.

Despite their efforts, the child's head could never be located, making identification

much more difficult.

Over the next 36 years, multiple investigators were dedicate their lives to trying to solve

this hideous crime. Without a name, the victim was referred to as the St. Louis Jane Doe,

or in some cases, Little Jane Doe.

She was buried in a poppers grave in Washington Park Cemetery, and for decades,

her location was lost. In 2013, Little Jane Doe was found, exhumed, and her remains were sent

for additional testing in hopes of discovering her point of origin.

To this day, not a single missing person's report has ever been found, believed to be linked to

Little Jane Doe. Investigators struggled to determine whether or not the child was from St. Louis,

or even Missouri, and her past remains as unknown as her name.

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