Talking Dateline: The Woman with No Name

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Josh Mankiewicz and Keith Morrison sit down to talk about Keith’s episode, “The Woman with No Name”. In 2006, two men out target shooting discovered the body of a woman in the woods of Kilgore, Texas. She had been murdered and her body had been set on fire. She had no ID and, despite their efforts, investigators were unable to identify her. The case caught the eye of internet sleuths drawn to the unidentified woman in the lavender shirt who still had some of her baby teeth. She became known as “Lavender Doe”. Members of an organization called the “DNA Doe Project” took up the cause and offered their help. Using genetic genealogy, they worked tirelessly to track down Lavender Doe’s family and give her back her name – Dana Lynn Dodd. Josh and Keith discuss the dedicated work of the DNA Doe Project and chat about the impact their fathers have had on their lives. Also, Dateline digital producer Veronica Mazaika shares details on some unsolved Doe cases Dateline has covered in our Cold Case Spotlight series. Plus, she asks Josh and Keith a question from a social media follower. Learn more about the John and Jane Doe cases covered in Dateline’s Cold Case Spotlight series : https://www.nbcnews.com/doe-cases Submit unsolved cold cases to Dateline here: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/have-story-share-dateline-submit-it-here-n1297196 Watch Keith read Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”: https://youtu.be/Ty_V5h12RHw?si=Z2HeHerNGxz2qak8

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Josh Mankiewicz, and we're talking Dateline today with Keith Morrison.
0:13.5	Hi, Keith.
0:14.0	Hello, Josh.
0:15.3	So this episode is called The Woman with No Name, and it's about the 2006 murder of an unidentified woman who was dubbed
0:23.0	Lavender Doe because of the lavender shirt she was found in after she had been murdered. And an
0:29.2	interesting team of people kind of banded together to help find her name, Identifier. Now, if you
0:34.5	have not listened to this episode yet, it's the one right below this one on the list of podcasts that you just chose from, so you can go there and listen to it. Or if you want to watch it, you can stream it on Peacock and then come back here. Now, when you come back, Keith has an extra clip that he wants to play for us from his interview with the co-founder of the DNA Doe Project. And then later, we're going to be joined by
0:56.0	a Dateline producer, Veronica Mazakia, to talk about what she's learned from her work,
1:01.6	reporting on other unsolved cases of Jane and John Doe. So stick around for that. Now, let's talk
1:07.9	Dayline. So this was an unusual episode of Dayline.
1:12.9	It unfolded differently than ones I'm used to.
1:17.1	Probably also ones the audience is used to.
1:20.0	It begins with something that usually doesn't come at the beginning of the episode, which
1:25.7	is the finding of a body.
1:27.7	Yeah.
1:28.4	Usually we meet the victim before we...
1:31.3	Usually we do.
1:32.6	But in this case, we were unable to meet the victim.
1:35.7	So tell us how this unfolds a little bit.
1:39.3	Well, in this case, we met the victim when she was, her body was actually on fire.
1:45.4	A really pretty awful scene that a couple of hundreds came across, and they of course called it in.
1:50.8	So the fire was put out.
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