Patricia Parker was a woman discovered along a roadside on September 28, 1981. Samuel Little confessed to her murder. He claimed to have met her in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The woman’s nude, decomposing body was found in a wooded area, near Interstate 24 and State Highway 299, in Hooker, Georgia.
In 2018, Samuel Little confessed to 93 murders. Enough confessions were verified to establish him as the most prolific serial killer in the United States.
Little’s stated he met a woman at a bar on 9th Street (later renamed MLK Boulevard) in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He claimed to have strangled the woman after driving her to a secluded area in Georgia and then rolled her corpse down a hillside. Police inferred the slope was steep, based on Little’s observation of the long distance the body stayed in motion.
Police were able to connect this confession to this Jane Doe, located in Hooker, Georgia. Although Little said he met the woman in Tennessee, authorities have also stated she was possibly from northeastern Alabama or northwestern Georgia.
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Patricia_Parker
“The Georgia Bureau of Investigation continued working on the case, even after it had been cold for decades. On March 19, 2019, GBI and the the Hamilton County District Attorney’s Cold Case Unit held a press conference to reveal a facial reconstruction of their Jane Doe. They asked for the public’s help identifying the woman, and Patricia Parker’s family came forward. The family offered DNA samples, which they used to compare to Jane Doe, leading to their definitive identification October 9, 2020, according to a GBI press release.”
Cheyenne Partridge was a young woman who was last seen on November 26, 2016. She was found deceased in a rural area near Maymont and was identified through DNA. Her death is still under investigation.
Cheyenne was last seen near 141 Avenue and 22 Street at 7:30 P.M. She may have also been seen at midnight, where she was taking a bus from the Jasper Place transit terminal to downtown. Before her disappearance, Cheyenne seemed upset and left her residence without a jacket or shoes.
Police said they located partial human remains in a remote rural area near Maymont, Sask. on July 24, 2018.
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Partridge
Phillip Peterson was a young man found deceased in the Little Muddy River in 1982. Foul play is not suspected in his death.
He was identified in August 2020 after a family member read an article about the case and recognized his tattoos. Law enforcement verified his identity through fingerprints.
He had never been reported missing as his family had thought he left on his own accord and didn’t want anything to do with them.
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Phillip_Peterson
Larry Joe Porter (1952 – April/May 1997) was a male who was found in the Great Miami River near Reigart Road in Fairfield, Ohio in 1997. He was likely the victim of a hit and run, or may have been thrown from the impact of the accident. His official cause of death was undetermined.
He was identified in August 2020, with assistance from the DNA Doe Project.
Larry was last seen in the fall of 1996. He often frequented the area where his remains were located. He had lost touch of his family and is believed to have died in April or May of 1997.
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Larry_Porter
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https://www.fox19.com/2020/09/14/coroner-confirms-identity-john-doe/
Anita Wiley left her home in 1987, Detroit to head to the store. Her son Antonio, then 13, said goodbye as he also left to spend the night at a cousin’s house.
“She kissed me, told me she loves me and would see me the next day,” said Antonio Wiley.
When family members brought Antonio home, his mom was gone. They filed a missing person’s report.
“Every day I hoped that would be the day that she would come home,” he said. “Days turned into weeks, to months, to years.”
Antonio says it became real to him on his birthday, which came a short time after she went missing. He knew his mom would never miss his birthday.
“A lot of people had a lot of opinions about what happened, but it didn’t give me answers. So one day I decided to start over,” Antonio said.
A few years ago he filed a new missing person’s report. It was a long shot after so many years, but Detroit police collected his DNA. Then last year Sgt. Shannon Jones launched Operation United, a one-of-a-kind partnership between Detroit police and the FBI to exhume bodies of Jane Does and John Does and collect DNA.
“Once the results start coming back giving us names and identifications, then we can start bringing closure to families,” said Sgt. Jones at the time.
“It took 33 years, but the time has come,” Antonio said.
On Wednesday, Antonio brought roses to his mom’s grave. She’s the first woman identified through Operation United. It didn’t just unite him with her remains, it united his family, as they came together to celebrate answers and her memory this year.
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