OH SANDURSKY JANE DOE: WF, 20-30, found in shallow grave in Mud Creek, Ottawa Co, OH - 22 Oct 1975 - Love Knot ring

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Unidentified White Female
Found October 22, 1975 in Ottawa County, OH
Body Condition: Not recognizable - Decomposing/putrefaction
Probable year of death: 1975 (2 Days)

Vital Statistics
Estimated age: 20-30
Approximate Height: 64 estimate
Approximate Weight: 140 estimate.
Hair Color: She had medium-length brown or reddish hair
Eye Color: brown or hazel eyes
Scars and marks: She was a smoker and had given birth to at least one child, possibly in the year before she died.

Clothing & Accessories
Clothing: Nothing
Jewerly: Nothing.
Footwear: nothing
Accessories: The ring is described as a wire love knot; pierced ears

Case History: Two hunters found the woman's naked body floating in the water Oct. 22, 1975 at a tributary in Mud Creek four miles south and East of Oak Harbor, OH.

Other links

FBI hopes sketch will help solve 40 year old Ohio cold case

Investigators are hoping new technology and a piece of jewelry will help them solve a cold case involving a female whose body was found in the Sandusky, Ohio area more than forty years ago.

www.wfmj.com

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Unidentified: Suspicious death of Ottawa County’s Jane Doe still a mystery nearly 50 years later

Investigators haven’t given up hope on identifying Jane Doe. They believe she had a child who has spent a lifetime without answers.

www.cleveland19.com

By Sara Goldenberg
Published: Sep. 29, 2023 at 4:43 PM EDT|
Updated: 14 hours ago

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - It’s a mystery out of Ottawa County that’s nearly 50 years old.

The identity of a young woman found in a creek in a remote, rural area is still unknown.

Could she have been murdered and dumped there?

Investigators haven’t given up hope on identifying this woman.

They believe she had a child who has spent a lifetime without answers.

Somebody out there knows who this Jane Doe was and could help solve this case.

There are just over 100 unidentified remains of people across Ohio.

Detectives across the state have been checking missing persons cases and looking at new DNA technology to find new leads.

Investigator Sara Goldenberg profiles some of their cases in our series Unidentified, in hopes of finding answers for their families.

What we know

Creeks and rivers cut through patches of farmland in Ottawa County, not far from Sandusky Bay.

On October 22, 1975, duck hunters found a woman lying naked and lifeless on the banks of Muddy Creek in Oak Harbor.

Since then, investigators have been searching to find out how she died and why she wound up there.

Ottawa County Sheriff Steve Levorchick took us to the scene.

We battled biting mosquitos and tall brush to get to the spot where her body was found.

Houses now line the creek in Oak Harbor.

“At that time this was a traveled roadway, it was a stone drive, but yet a lot of the kids would come out here and hangout in the evenings and that,” Sheriff Levorchick said.

The evidence

Here’s a look at the clues left behind.

The coroner determined the woman hadn’t been dead long, maybe a week or so.

Investigators released a post-mortem photo to the newspaper, hoping someone would recognize her.

They took dental impressions and checked missing persons cases.

Ottawa County’s Jane Doe was white, 20 to 35 years old, about 5′3″ and 140 pounds.

She had brown or reddish shoulder-length hair and brown or hazel eyes.

She also had pierced ears and was a smoker.

Aaron Leist, Captain of Operations, is now working the case.

“She had some distinctive things that they were looking at-- a ring. That was a Celtic knot or a love knot ring style. She also had a gap in her front teeth and damage to her teeth,” Leist said.

The coroner also believed she had at least one child.

Investigators said it’s very possible she’s not from the Oak Harbor area.

“This is a very remote area of Ottawa County and these creeks all drain and rivers all drain into the Lake and Bay, so it’s just one of those where-- you wonder-- you wonder if this was you know, was she dropped here, was she dropped further upstream-- somebody that might have just been out driving and this is the perfect opportunity,” Leist said.

The big question they have is whether this was a murder.

They believe it was a suspicious death.

Investigators are re-examining her cause of death, listed as a drowning at the time.

“Obviously finding her completely nude in October, it’s pretty unlikely that was an accident,” Leist said.

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Ottawa County Sheriff's Office reopens case of Jane Doe whose body was found in 1975

Ottawa County Sheriff's Office reopens 1975 case of woman whose nude body was found in Muddy Creek near Oak Harbor.

www.thenews-messenger.com

Roger LaPointe
Fremont News-Messenger
December 2, 2023

PORT CLINTON - The case of an unidentified female body found in 1975 has been reopened by the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office.

Captain Aaron Leist said the nude body of a woman was found by duck hunters on Oct. 23, 1975 in Muddy Creek, near Oak Harbor, and has never been identified. He would like to find closure for the family of this missing person.

“I don’t like misses. I’d like to figure this out as soon as possible,” Leist said. “She was somebody’s daughter.”

He said the Jane Doe had a high-quality post-mortem photo taken, which was published in newspapers.

Then-acting Ottawa County coroner Dr. William Coon ruled the cause of death as due to drowning, and that the body was found within 48 hours after death.

The woman is described as a white female, between the ages of 30 and 35, five feet, five inches tall, with an estimated weight of 150 pounds, and medium length brown hair and hazel eyes.

He added that because of the very public initial searches and the one conducted in 2016 by Ottawa County Sheriff Office Sergeant Amy Gloor, the woman was probably not from this area.

He added that the drowning could have been accidental, but the fact that the body was unclothed makes it unlikely. He said that because of other the combined evidence, he’s “fairly certain,” it was probably a case of human trafficking or a drug-related incident.