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Renewed efforts seek to ID 83 homicide victim
JAN 30, 2021 Eric Tichy
For more than 37 years a marker at Sunset Hill Cemetery near Lakewood has noted the final resting place of a woman found slain along old Route 17 in the town of Ellery.
The bronze plate states Jane Doe 1983, a simple, yet painful reminder that the womans identity and the puzzling events leading up to her murder remain a mystery to this day.
Youd think something would have come up by now, said Randy Vanderschaaff, a retired criminal investigator with the Chautauqua County Sheriffs Office.
Efforts have been renewed to solve the decades-old homicide by the Sheriffs Office with the help of a powerful tool unavailable to police in the early 80s social media.
The story of Jane Doe begins on the morning of Dec. 6, 1983, when a truck driver with Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. discovered a body between 8:30-9 a.m. in a drainage ditch along the Southern Tier Expressway, between the Chautauqua Lake bridge and Westman Road in Ellery.
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https://www.observertoday.com/news/page-one/2021/01/renewed-efforts-seek-to-id-83-homicide-victim/
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