Case Update: Grundy County Jane Doe

The Vanished Podcast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

It has been nearly two years since we shared the story of Grundy County Jane Doe, whose remains were discovered in October 1976 by a farmer in rural Seneca, Illinois. When we initially researched her story, we learned that her case was reopened by ambitious Deputy Coroner Brandon Johnson, who works in Grundy County, Illinois. At that time, the coroner’s office had recently exhumed Jane Doe and had sent a bone to a lab for DNA testing, but results had not come back from the lab. The coroner’s office considered several possibilities for identifying Jane Doe if her DNA was not matched to a profile already in the CODIS database. We spoke to Brandon again recently to hear more about what has taken place in the effort to identify Jane Doe.

If you have any information about Jane Doe’s identity or her murder, please contact Grundy County Deputy Coroner Brandon Johnson at 815-941-3359 or email him at [email protected].

You can follow Jane Doe’s story on Facebook at facebook.com/grundycountycoldcase.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:15.0	This episode first aired on February 10th, 2019.
0:20.0	To refresh your memory, I will replay the original episode with an update at the end, featuring a new interview.
0:27.0	If you remember this story well, you can fast forward to around 1 hour and 24 minutes, where the update begins.
0:40.0	At this point, there's been live in this way without answers for so many years.
0:45.0	It's almost probably to the point to almost accept answers, just something that they've watched hopeless in time.
0:53.0	Things were different then.
0:57.0	Law enforcement wasn't as diligent with it as they are now.
1:02.0	Families weren't really coming forward either.
1:06.0	At the time, the reports aren't what they are now.
1:10.0	And I learned just from other tips that I spoke to with families that have approached me as being interested in this Jane Doe,
1:18.0	potentially being their missing children. The answers that I'm getting from them, they didn't report the missing to the police.
1:28.0	They did in other cases, and the police didn't follow up with it. They didn't go too far with the case.
1:36.0	But then again, it was back in 1976 time frame, where there wasn't much to go off of.
1:44.0	As I get these new leads, the media attention really reached out and got the phones ringing and speaking to the families,
1:54.0	you feel sympathy for all of them going through the same situation, winding closure.
1:59.0	Their loved ones have been missing for years, and they're just hoping that this is their daughter.
2:05.0	I've hit several conversations where I want to tell them, I want to help all of you.
2:10.0	I hope that you're able to come up with something. I hope that you're going to find a match somewhere with DNA.
2:15.0	If it's not with this one to open in within the system, it's going to work out.
2:20.0	Just outpouring support from them too. A lot of kind words, families are saying how much they appreciate the work we're doing.
2:28.0	And thanks for not giving up. I mean, it shows a lot.
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