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S3 Ep345: Coffee and Community Cracks A Cold Case

Crime Weekly

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True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.89.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In 1992, the remains of a woman were discovered in north Houston, Texas. For 33 years, she was known only as a Jane Doe. Today, through forensic genetic genealogy, she has finally been identified as Joann Zamora, a mother of six.

With the help of Moxxy Forensic Investigations, Intermountain Forensics, Break Investigative Group, and supporters of Criminal Coffee Company like you, we were able to discover the identity of a Jane Doe left unknown for over three decades. Now, Joann has her name back, her family has some answers, and investigators can search for what happened to her.

If you have any information in the case of Joann Zamora, please contact the Houston Police Department Crime Stoppers at (713) 222-8477. Criminal Coffee Co. is offering $5,000 to anyone with information leading to an arrest of those responsible for her death.


Read more about the case here: https://www.forensicmag.com/3594-All-News/621319-Moxxy-IDs-1992-Jane-Doe-Case-is-Ongoing/

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek LaVaser.

0:17.3

And we are here to talk to you today about sort of a crossover because, yes, we are

0:21.9

Crime Weekly, but for anybody who doesn't know, we're also the owners of a criminal coffee

0:26.2

co, where we sell great coffee.

0:28.9

Personally, we think so.

0:29.9

A lot of other people think so as well.

0:31.9

Yeah.

0:32.9

And we also use a portion of the profits from criminal coffee to donate to helping solve cold cases.

0:41.4

We've done that before, and we are...

0:43.6

Albert Frost.

0:44.4

Yeah, that was our first one.

0:45.3

We're happily here to announce that we have done it again.

0:48.8

For more than three decades, a woman known only as Jane Doe lay buried in an unmarked

0:54.0

grave in Houston, Texas.

0:55.8

She had no name, no story, her life, and how she got there was a mystery.

1:00.4

But thanks to the power of forensic genealogy and the unlikely partnership between a nonprofit,

1:05.7

a coffee company, and a grieving daughter, she finally has her name back, and it is Joanne

1:10.6

Samora. This all started in

1:12.5

September 8th of 1992, when skeletal remains were discovered in a wooded area off West Rittenhouse

1:18.6

Road, north of Houston. Investigators believed that the woman, the victim, was white, in her 20s

1:25.0

with brown hair, and she had distinctive dental work. But despite efforts, she was never identified and she was buried as unknown in Harris County Cemetery.

1:33.3

For decades, she became another statistic, a Jane Doe lost in the system.

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