Her Name Was Tammy: Rockwood Jane Doe Identified after 19 Years
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
An unidentified body is found in August 2005, in the picnic area of a rest stop off of a highway between Guelph and Rockwood in the Canadian province of Ontario. At the time, authorities determined the remains belonged to a woman who was potentially as young as 25 or as old as 45 when she died. In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan sheds light on the remains known as Rockwood Jane Doe and how the scientists at Othram solved a missing person case that went unsolved for 18 years.
Transcribe Highlights
00:00.01 Introduction - Family DNA
04:57.36 Discussion of Rockwood Jane Doe found in 2005
09:47.82 Discussion of Remains
15:35.81 Talk about the science of aging
20:23.69 Discussion How teeth wear down is a clue
24:54.52 Discussion Broken Bones of victim, clues
30:14.10 Discussion Body Found in area under sleeping bag
34:11.55 Talk about suspicious death
42:13.81 Conclusion victim was Tammy Penner
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| 0:00.0 | Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:06.0 | You ever have family members that you lose contact with? |
| 0:11.0 | I know I do. You know know there are people that that when I was a child we actually played |
| 0:18.8 | together it would generally be around Thanksgiving or maybe Christmas or maybe a family reunion perhaps |
| 0:26.4 | And you would cross paths with them and you felt as though that with these folks in your life that you would always know them, |
| 0:34.3 | particularly when you're young. |
| 0:35.8 | You remember happy times and that sort of thing, running and playing. |
| 0:41.5 | And these are people generally that are not in your life |
| 0:44.5 | day after day but you know that you're related because your parents have told you |
| 0:48.3 | that. Sometimes I really long for that I would like to reconnect but you know as time goes by you don't and it seems as though |
| 1:01.5 | they just kind of vanish into the ether of life and you lose contact, |
| 1:10.5 | you lose any kind of frame or reference for them. All you have are these kind of |
| 1:14.6 | images in your mind that are blurred after all of these years. Today we're going to dig in to a case that was known to have been an unidentified lady that |
| 1:27.9 | was known to have been an unidentified lady that was found actually in Ontario, Canada, |
| 1:39.0 | in kind of an isolated area back in 2005 and as a result of the fine work of our friends |
| 1:49.2 | at Othram Labs in the Woodlands, Texas. They have resurrected her from the grave. |
| 1:57.0 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is bodybags. Dave, you're bound to have a cousin or two out there that you have not had contact with in some time, right? |
| 2:09.0 | Yeah, I'm sure. |
| 2:12.0 | I say that because you you know, as you were talking about that, I'm thinking of I have different friends who have cousins and what have you, that they grew up with like you were describing, and then they don't have contact anymore. |
| 2:24.2 | I didn't grow up that way. |
| 2:25.6 | Our family was really scattered early on so I didn't have those, but I always liked my friends |
| 2:30.8 | that had their cousins and would, you know, just when they had a family get together, |
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