Holly Glynn

Holly Glynn
Name	Holly Jo Glynn
Sex	Female
Age	21
Missing from	Whittier, California
Discovered	September 20, 1987
Location	Dana Point, California
Identified	May 2015
Span	27 years
Cause of death	Suicide by jumping

Holly Jo Glynn (September 11, 1966 - September 20, 1987), previously known as the Dana Point Jane Doe was a young woman who jumped to her death in Dana Point, California in 1987. She was identified in May 2015.

Case

The Jane Doe was seen alive and took a cab to the location where she later killed herself. The young woman had a map with a cab company's phone number, a can of Coke, a pack of cigarettes and a purse with the name "Carol Pinkham," who was later found alive and stated her purse was stolen in 1975 by an unknown person.

The Jane Doe had very little money with her when she died. She had asked the cab driver to take her as far as $18 could take her and she had only coins in the purse. She also had second-hand clothing, which also suggested she was impoverished.

After she remained unidentified for a long period of time, she was later cremated and buried at sea.

Identification

Holly was identified through DNA after friends of hers were unable to find her years after they graduated. Unsolved Mysteries later confirmed that there was a match between the Dana Point Jane Doe and Holly Glynn.

No news sources confirmed Holly's identification, suggesting her family's efforts to withhold her identity.

Gallery

NCMEC reconstruction

Reconstruction by Marilyn Droz

Media

• Glynn's case was depicted on the season 7, episode 14 of Unsolved Mysteries in 1995, alongside Pamela Buckley, James Freund, and Andrea Kuiper.

Sources

• Holly Glynn on Wikipedia
• Holly Glynn at the Doe Network