Doe ID SHIRLEY SOOSAY AND MARICELA ROCHA PARGA

DNA: ID

AbJack Entertainment

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Episode 189 Doe ID Shirley Soosay and Maricela Rocha Parga

You are not going to want to miss this DOE: ID episode! Jane Does found days apart in Kern and Ventura Counties were linked by DNA and their killer prosecuted – even though no one knew their names. IGG analyses took years, scores of volunteers, and one of the largest family trees ever constructed by the DNA Doe Project. The women were finally identified as Shirley Soosay and Maricela Rocha Parga. The episode also features an exclusive interview with DDP team leader Rebecca Somerhalder.

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0:00.0	You're listening to DNAID.
0:03.8	Brought to you by Abject Entertainment, be sure to check out some of the other great true crime
0:08.8	podcasts from this network, including The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons,
0:14.5	Scene of the Crime, Zodiac Speaking, Beyond Bizarre True Crime, Campus, Campus Killings,
0:20.7	below the surface, and killer communications.
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0:30.2	Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The
0:57.0	The On July 15, 1980, Irrigation workers were working in an almond orchard at Merced Avenue and Zerker Road, near Delano in Kern County, California.
1:34.8	Walking between the neatly planted, shady rows of almond trees, they found a woman's body lying right out in the open, 13 almond tree rows from the roadway on a muddy tract between the rows.
1:45.9	The workers called the local authorities, the Kern County Sheriff's Office. When deputies
1:50.1	arrived, they found a woman lying on the ground with visible stab wounds in her chest. She was
1:54.4	clothed, wearing a pink blouse, blue denim pants, size 28, blue socks, and size six white keds-style tennis shoes.
2:03.2	Tire tracks were found five feet from the body, but no footprints. The murder victim had been
2:07.7	driven to the almond orchard after being killed elsewhere. A michelope beer bottle on the ground was
2:12.1	collected in case the killer had discarded it. An autopsy determined that the woman, who had no identification
2:18.5	on her and no prints on record, had been stabbed 29 times in the chest and upper abdomen.
2:24.0	She had nine defensive wounds to her lower arms and hands, indicating she fought back,
2:27.9	and had thrown her arms up to protect her face. She also had human tissue under her nails,
2:33.3	and she had been raped. Jane Doe had been dead for about a day when she was found, and she had not been killed in the almond orchard.
2:42.4	The forensic pathologist seeking clues to Jane Doe's identity concluded that she had Hispanic or Native American heritage. She was 30 to 35 years old, five foot four inches tall,
2:52.1	and 115 pounds. She had brown eyes and black or dark brown hair with a few grays. More
2:59.3	distinctive features were that she had previously been pregnant with at least one live birth. She was
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