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The Woman with No Name

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Amateur internet investigators, new DNA technology and a dogged investigator help police find a killer – and identify a victim for years known only as "Lavender Doe." Keith Morrison reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Two guys we saw they thought was a mannequin.

0:05.0

She had wood piled on top of her.

0:08.0

No identification.

0:11.0

We were thinking maybe she's not from around here

0:14.0

because nobody's missing her here.

0:17.0

We all came together by becoming volunteers to identify Jane Does and John Does.

0:23.0

There's a passion trying to find out who our dough is.

0:28.0

It's not that law enforcement has not tried.

0:31.0

Most of the cases that come to us were kind of the last resort.

0:36.0

I said I think I know how we can do it.

0:39.0

All of these people share some amount of DNA with our unknown person.

0:45.0

If I can figure out Jane Doe's parents will know who Jane Doe was.

0:51.0

We thought this is the family, this is it.

0:54.0

You think what if this is your family?

0:58.0

You want to give them closure?

1:00.0

It's a real.

1:02.0

If I like somebody just punch me, it's something.

1:16.0

Here is where they put her. Her permanent home.

1:20.0

Nobody really knew anything about her.

1:23.0

This little cemetery in East Texas.

1:26.0

One simple marker on her grave.

1:29.0

And the name that wasn't a name, Jane Doe.

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