The technology could help forensic investigators crack the new Santa Cruz 16-year-old murder case.
For over a decade, the homicide detectives are investigating the death of a boy known only as Jane Pogonip of unidentified remains were found in Pogonip Park.
On 29 January 1994, two women – Monika Maier and Lauri Duncan – were hiking through Pogonip Park, when they found the remains.
Thursday ‘, the first after the discovery, Maier and Duncan returned to where they found the body.
“It ‘was the scariest thing. When I arrived at the site, simply could not believe it. It looked like a woman lying down. It seemed he had fallen, and I just came back and Lauri said:” I think I found one body, “he said Maier.
Investigators said they believe the woman was beaten to death six months before the discovery.
“I followed (Maier) back and only remember the visual of a woman,” said Duncan. “You could see her hair, see a tattoo and nail the lie, as if he had been running.”
Santa Cruz detective Butch Baker, who was the principal investigator for 16 years, says he remains close to the case.
“I think all the time, and I want to be able to tell someone that their daughter (s) found, but will not be back,” said Baker. “It ‘difficult. It’ difficult ‘.
Today, researchers are using technology to try to resolve the case Pogonip Jane.
A reconstruction was made with clay, which seemed likely Pogonip Jane when she died.
Reconstruction of the clay revealed that Pogonip Janes was aged between 15 and 18 years old when he died, and was 5 feet 4 inches.
He also had a small heart-shaped tattoo on the web of his left hand near the thumb, and within four months of his life was probably traveling between Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz.
“I do not want to be a portrait,” said Lauren Zephrr forensic anthropologist. “What I wanted to do is to arouse public interest and to benefit from features like hair and the basic characteristics, hoping to remember something.”
Years ago, a young man contacted police and said her sister was gone. The man described a tattoo on his hand, but I was told Jane Pogonip was too young to be her sister’s disappearance. But now researchers hope to find the man.
“It ‘been supposed that the young man who works at Baker’s Square, Los Gatos, California, who is now out of business and bankruptcy,” said Christopher Smith, a coordinator for the missing person. “We didn ‘have not been able to trace the records, but has worked locally, who probably lived locally in 1994. Therefore, it is not.”
The researchers also hope that through the advanced technology of forensic medicine, the remains of Jane Pogonip may now be able to provide answers to solving this cold case.
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