Doe ID: Roberta Mumma

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Episode 163 Doe ID: Roberta Mumma

In 1984, the decomposed remains of a woman wrapped in plastic were found in remote Wizard Wells, Jack County, TX. Experts posited that she was a young white woman, but without any identification, no fingerprints, and no corresponding missing persons reports, she could not be identified. Fast forward nearly 40 years – when IGG would be used on her bones to identify her as Roberta Mumma. Roberta hailed from the Lancaster, PA area and was believed to have died around age 25. Her death is considered a homicide, and the Jack County authorities and the Texas Rangers are seeking information about her case.

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0:41.3	I'm The On Saturday, December 1st, 1984, two deer hunters were stalking through a pasture in the remote and very thinly settled community of Wizard Wells, Texas.
1:33.3	At the edge of a pasture at the tree line, where a wooded area commenced, they noted some bones scattered around on the ground and nearby a plastic wrapped bundle.
1:41.9	That's never good. And it wasn't. Inside the plastic wrap were more
1:45.7	bones, and they were human. Jack County Sheriff's deputies responded to the scene and noted
1:51.3	that it appeared someone had wrapped a human body in plastic and dumped it where it was found.
1:56.6	Animals had gotten into it and moved the bones around, separating them from the rest of the remains.
2:01.7	A bra and woman's underwear pointed to the skeletal remains belonging to a female, but the deputies
2:06.6	were trained not to jump to any conclusions.
2:10.2	And indeed, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office, which also serviced sparsely populated
2:14.8	Jack County in North Texas, was unable to make an official
2:17.8	declaration as to the sex of the person the skeleton used to be. According to District Attorney
2:23.6	Brock Smith, the skull had female characteristics, but the rest of the skeleton appeared consistent
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