Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours.

Right now there is no trace.

Investigators say evidence lead them to believe that she's dead.

Stick my nose back on the trail. That's all I can do.

This is already gone.

Already gone.

Already.

All right. In addition to working on the podcast, I'm a missing person's advocate with the missing

in Michigan organization.

We work with families and law enforcement on missing and unidentified cases in Michigan,

offering both support and direction.

Today's story started out as an unidentified person's case. Back in September of 2011,

the body of an unidentified woman was recovered from the Detroit River, down in the city of

Trenton. Mike Hawkins wasn in the city of Trenton.

Mike Hawkins wasn't the chief of police back then. He wasn't even a detective yet,

but the case stuck with him. The remains they recovered belonged to a murder victim. A black woman aged 20 to 37, weighing about 170 pounds. Trenton Police made some calls,

they asked around, but without a name or a crime scene to start with, they had little to go on.

They combed through missing persons reports from the city of Detroit and surrounding areas,

but it did not lead them closer to her identity.

Flash forward 11 years later, it's 22, and Mike Hawkins is a detective. He arranged for DNA

from the unidentified woman to be sent to Othram in Texas for further work and hopefully identification. This investigation led to the

identification of Wayne County Jane Doe as a 36-year-old Tanisha Marie Edison, who went by Denise,

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