The U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has created facial reconstructions of a teenaged murder victim of Gary Ridgway, known in the 1980s and 1990s as the Green River Killer, hoping someone will be able to identify the nameless woman.
Testing has shown she may have spent several years in multiple Canadian provinces, along with the United States.
Notorious for abducting and killing dozens of women in Washington state, Ridgway was on the run for almost 20 years before DNA evidence led to his arrest in 2001.
Among the 49 women he pleaded guilty to murdering is a young woman believed to have been between the ages of 14 to 18 years at the time of her death. The Center said Jane Doe was between 5’4” and 5’8” tall.
Ridgway confessed to murdering her but didn’t know who she was or anything about her.
Chemical isotope testing on her teeth and bone samples was executed by the Center through the Smithsonian Institution.
Over time, when people drink the same type of water, isotopes from that water will get embedded in their teeth and bones, which can be isolated to different parts of the country or continent.
Results show she was either from or had spent time in Alaska, Montana, North Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming or several portions of southern Canada including: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ridgway is serving a life sentence without parole.
Anyone with information about Jane Doe is asked to call the King County Sheriff’s Office at 206-263-2090 or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).