Dee's Cold Case Files

1.  I can tell you why I feel a connection to this particular case. I'd been perusing unidentified victims' pages on the Doe Network for awhile when I stumbled onto this one. Now, most reconstructions at the time I was looking at the site (ca. 1999) were fairly unrealistic-looking, sculptures and sketches that hardly looked human. But this one -- this one reconstruction made me actually feel as though I could've KNOWN this person, could've talked with her, been friends with her, had her as a cousin, etc. Plus, hers is the only case I've seen wherein ovarian cysts have been described as something she suffered from. This is important to me because I've suffered from PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) ever since I was 14, and I felt like I could identify with the soreness and pain she must've experienced throughout her period of going through her own condition.

Most of the time when I look at cold cases that intrigue me, they just intrigue me. But there are some where I feel like I could either identify some little portion of myself in the individual, or I could've known this person, or I feel like it would just make my life if the individual were to be identified/found.

2.  How did I get interested in these? I was watching on the local news a story about a long-term missing persons investigation and found that I needed to know more about the case itself. (It was Nicholas Barclay, if you're curious.) I felt like I needed to learn more about this case, so I searched for more information online. I stumbled onto the NCMEC site, and then decided to use the search engine to locate other local missing persons. I then found out that there was a long-term missing persons case which I had never ever heard anything about before, for Samuel Ray Rawls. I then became interested in THAT case, and searched for more information there. That's how I got to the Doe Network. Looking at the Doe Network, I realized there were a heck of a lot of missing persons who had been missing for many years, or many decades even, which drew me in, and made me interested in not just missing persons but certain unidentified victims as well. I've spent many an hour at the site looking at those cold cases, wondering how many of them will get solved in my lifetime. Already there's been one instance of my being especially interested in a missing person and ending up seeing them being found (well, more like their body being found, but at least now the family and the investigators can move forward).

Hope this doesn't make me sound morbid or dark! Really, I'm not.

You know, I never knew that. That information could lead to a major break in this case. If prisons and jails kept good logs on who was locked up, and if all of the women's prisons and jails in FL could be asked to turn over logs on who was locked up there in a certain period, this could lead to a major break in this investigation.

I want to hear more.

s1utsky, I'll give you some Doe Network links to some other cases I think you should take a good look at if you want to know what especially interests me:

Samuel Ray Rawls (missing 1988, TX)

Unidentified Caucasian Male (i.e. The Boy in the Box) (1957, PA)

Julie Ann Moseley
Lisa Renee Wilson
Mary Rachel Trlica (all three missing 1974, TX)

Unidentified Caucasian Female (1990, OK) (this one is particularly sad)

No, m'dear. In fact, I think I'm going to stop for a bit there. Looking at the last thing I linked to has made me too sad to continue on this vein for awhile. Think I need to concentrate on other things now.

this was weird!

dee nuts