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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 319: “Precious Jane Doe” Identified: Lisa Roberts

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 1977, the body of a young woman was found murdered in Everett, Washington. It didn’t take long for the killer to be identified, but the victim remained unidentified and only known as “Precious Jane Doe” for the next 43 years. Thanks to genetic geneaology, she now has her name back. CHECK OUT OUR NEW MERCH!! Head to https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ to get your own Keep It Human Merch! Click here to join our Patreon. Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group. To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman a true crime

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podcast. Oh, Welcome back everybody. Hello hello. Happy day. Whatever day you are listening to this. I hope you're having a good day, week, month, year, etc.

0:38.9

Before we get into today's episode, if you are listening to to this when this episode comes out on

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July 1st 2024 then we have merch we have a new limited edition line of

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1:10.3

Haley's announcement and the original announcement of the

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merch. We've been working on this design for a really long time.

1:18.1

Honestly years, but we just couldn't... I think since we started our podcast.

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So get it while it's hot. Yeah, so go check that out and with that let's get into this episode.

1:40.9

In the last 10 years we've seen many cold cases solve thanks to advanced DNA testing.

1:48.0

We've seen the success of genetic genealogy, but also just seen how simple advancements in forensic DNA technology has led to answers

1:55.9

for many victims.

1:59.2

In 2020, new developments in DNA hair sequencing allowed a victim from 1977 to finally get her name back.

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Wow.

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The victim's bones had been too deteriorated to successfully extract a complete DNA profile, leaving her without a name for years, and she became known as Precious Jane Doe.

2:22.0

In 2008, Detective Jim Sharf had come up with that name saying, quote,

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