Doe ID: Wynona Michele

DNA: ID

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Episode 161 Doe ID: Wynona Michele

In 1990, Madison County IL authorities recovered the remains of a nude young woman in a soybean field. She had some articles of clothing and jewelry with her, but no identification. Investigators could not identify her, and she was buried in a church cemetery with a headstone that called her Jane Doe. But they had the foresight to retain some physical evidence, and with the advent of IGG, were able to use that evidence to locate living relatives of Jane Doe. She was Wynona Nadine Michel – but her identity is just part of the mystery. She is now the subject of an active homicide investigation. Who killed Wendy Michel?

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0:00.0	You're listening to DNAID.
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0:41.3	I'm The On July 20, 1990 at 1.25 p.m., a county road worker driving along a rural roadway noticed something
1:31.2	in a soybean field, abutting the road he was traveling. Getting out of his vehicle, he walked over to
1:36.2	the bundle, and I'm sure he was horrified and revolted to find human remains with full maggot infestation.
1:42.7	He summoned law enforcement to the location, which was 40 feet
1:45.9	north of Lebanon Road and one tenth of a mile west of Troy O'Fallon Road in Troy, Madison County, Illinois.
1:53.3	This is about 20 miles east of the major metropolis of St. Louis, Missouri.
1:58.5	Madison County investigators responded to the scene and found the remains of a severely
2:02.5	decomposed female.
2:04.4	It was July in the Midwest U.S.
2:06.2	bodies do not last long out in the baking heat, and the insects were doing their thing.
2:10.9	The woman was estimated to have been dead for anywhere from three to seven days.
2:15.1	She had two recognizable features, Auburn hair tied back in a ponytail,
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