Prince George’s County police are asking the public to help identify a woman whose decomposed body was found at an Oxon Hill elementary school.
It has taken nearly three years for forensics experts to put together a composite drawing of the woman. Police are hoping someone will recognize her and help detectives find her family and her killer.
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“This is someone’s loved one — a mother or daughter or sister — we’re hoping that loved one is out there and sees the sketch and calls us,” said Prince George’s County police spokesman Evan Baxter.
A forensic anthropologist has determined that the body was that of a biracial female, black and white. She was about 26 years old and 5-feet-6.
On Oct. 9, 2007 — three years ago Friday — the woman’s body was discovered under a temporary building at Barnaby Manor Elementary School located in the 2400 block of Owens Road. A staff member found the body after noticing a strong odor near a trailer.
The body was in the advanced stages of decomposition and the ethnicity could not be determined at the time.
The corpse was taken to the medical examiner’s office in Baltimore for an autopsy, police said. Authorities have determined her death to be a homicide, but police would not release the cause of death.
Anyone with information about this case or the identity of Jane Doe is urged to call the Prince George’s County Police Department’s Cold Case Unit at 301-772-4927. Callers wishing to remain anonymous may call Crime Solvers at 866-411-TIPS (8477) or go to http://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/police/ and submit a tip online.
