Mohave County Jane Doe (1954)

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Mohave County Jane Doe
Discovered	February 11, 1954
Unidentified for	70 years
Sex	Female
Location	Topock, Arizona
Age	30-35
Race	White
Height	5'
Postmortem interval	Years
Cause of death	Homicide

Mohave County Jane Doe was a woman whose remains were found floating in the Colorado River near Topock, Arizona on February 11, 1954. She was buried five days later at Mountain View Cemetery in Kingman, Arizona.

Case

The woman's dismembered remains were discovered in two rubber bags that were floating in the Colorado River. Quicklime was present on the body and Witnesses reported it floating in the water since July 1953. A Los Angeles newspaper dated August 1951 was found in one of the bags.

Clothing

• Remains of a nylon stocking.

Sources

• AZ Genealogy
• Arizona Daily Star:
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