NJ TIGER LADY: WF, 17-21, found in Knowlton, NJ - 26 Oct 1991 - Bengal tiger tattoo *WENDY BAKER*

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TIGER LADY: WF, 17-21, found in Knowlton, NJ - 26 Oct 1991 - Bengal tiger tattoo V5phuqW



She was found in a wooded area near the "major interchange of I-80, US 46, and State Road 94. She had a large tattoo of a crouching Bengal tiger on the back of her left calf.


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Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number 21910208
Date found October 26, 1991 00:00
Date created April 01, 2008 00:00
Date last modified March 03, 2016 16:34
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed

Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency Warren Cnty Med Examiners Ofc
Phone 908-213-2800
Case Manager
Name Donna Fontana
Phone 609.584.5051 x 5656

Exclusions
The following people have been ruled out as being this decedent:
First Name Last Name Year of Birth State LKA
Julie Johnson 1961 Indiana
Deborah McCall 1963 Illinois
Francis Morales 1962 New Jersey
Karen Spencer 1972 Ohio
Darci Warde 1973 Washington
Heide Wilbur 1974 Vermont
Heide Wilbur 1974 Vermont
 

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NamUs UP # 1593

ME/C Case Number: 21910208
Warren County, New Jersey
17 to 19 year old White Female

Case Report - NamUs UP # 1593
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number 21910208
Date found October 26, 1991 00:00
Date created April 01, 2008 00:00
Date last modified March 03, 2016 16:34
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed

Local Contact (ME/C or Other)

Agency Warren Cnty Med Examiners Ofc
Phone 908-213-2800
Case Manager
Name Donna Fontana
Phone 609.584.5051 x 5656

Demographics
Estimated age Adult - Pre 30
Minimum age 17 years
Maximum age 19 years
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) 105, Estimated
Height (inches) 61, Estimated
Body Parts Inventory (Check all that apply)
All parts recovered
Head not recovered
Torso not recovered
One or more limbs not recovered
One or both hands not recovered
Body conditions
Not recognizable - Decomposing/putrefaction

Probable year of death 1991 to 1991
Estimated postmortem interval Days

State New Jersey
Zip code
County Warren
Circumstances
Composite sketch and computer generated facial reconstruction available.

State New Jersey
Zip code
County Warren
Circumstances
Composite sketch and computer generated facial reconstruction available.

Tattoos
tattoo of bengal tiger on rear of left calf

Fingerprints
Status: Fingerprint information is currently not available

Dental
Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered

DNA
Status: Sample submitted - Tests complete
 
http://www.nj.com/warren/index.ssf/...ears_but_nj_state_police_still_searching.html

Police release new sketch of 'Tiger Lady,' still unidentified 23 years after her body was found
November 14, 2014 at 3:27 PM

KNOWLTON — Investigators were confident, at first, that she would be identified. Somebody would have to know something about a dead teenager with the distinctive tattoo dumped near a rural New Jersey highway.

But 23 years later, the “Tiger Lady” remains unidentified – and the New Jersey State Police are releasing new sketches in the hope of bringing attention to the unsolved cold case.



TIGER LADY: WF, 17-21, found in Knowlton, NJ - 26 Oct 1991 - Bengal tiger tattoo V5phuqW
TIGER LADY: WF, 17-21, found in Knowlton, NJ - 26 Oct 1991 - Bengal tiger tattoo 2Ss3FCS
 
http://www.nj.com/warren/index.ssf/...ears_but_nj_state_police_still_searching.html

The “Tiger Lady” remains unidentified – and the New Jersey State Police are releasing new sketches in the hope of bringing attention to the unsolved cold case.

A sketch artist has drawn new renderings of what the young woman must have looked like in 1991, at the time she was apparently killed and abandoned.

“We can reach a half million people or more through social media. Please like and share this post. Someone knows something,” troopers said over a Facebook post.

The woman’s body was found partially decomposed by the side of I-80 in Knowlton Township on Oct. 26, 1991. She was white, age 17 to 19, and she was petite – somewhere between 4 feet 10 inches to 5 feet 1 inch, and weighing 95 to 110 pounds. She was stripped of clothes, jewelry and earrings from several piercings in her ears. But the most unique feature remained a tantalizing clue to investigators – a crouching Bengal tiger crawling down the calf of her left leg, authorities said.

Authorities dubbed her “the Tiger Lady,” and confidently followed leads, put out lines to find out who she was, using the tattoo as an important identifier. But the days, weeks, and then months dragged on, and nothing came back.

Investigators found that the "Tiger Lady's" namesake tattoo was not rare - and was probably done by someone who was not a professional artist, they said early in the investigation.NJ State Police

“For the first few months, we all were feeling good that there was such an identifier as the tattoo, and we thought it would be only a matter of days until we identified this person,'' Detective Richard Clayton, of the Warren County Prosecutor's Office, told The Star-Ledger at the time.

“We’re getting to a point now where we’re not getting a break,” said State Police Detective Christopher Andreychak, back in 1992.

The body was decomposed to the point that police were unsure of how the woman died, they said at the time.

The tattoo itself was a focus of the investigation – but didn’t lead anywhere. The detectives on the case found it wasn’t rare, and wasn’t of high quality, probably having been done by a nonprofessional, someone who was just learning the business, they told The Star-Ledger at the beginning of the investigation.

In 1993, authorities told the newspaper they suspected that the “Tiger Lady” might be connected to the infamous serial killer Joel Rifkin, who was eventually convicted of killing nine women in the New York area – but who is suspected in 17 or more murders.

The “Tiger Lady” is not alone in the Warren County area. In 1982, a girl was found bludgeoned to death in a Blairstown cemetery, and she came to be known as “Princess Doe.” In 1997, and less than a mile from where the Tiger Lady was found, the headless torso of a woman was found floating in Columbia Lake. However, that victim was later identified as Rosa Delgado, a Hartford, Conn. woman who was last seen heading to a store with her 4-year-old daughter to buy diapers. Her murder was never solved – and the girl was never found.

Seth Augenstein can be reached at [EMAIL]saugenstein@njadvancemedia.com[/EMAIL]. Follow him on Twitter @SethAugenstein. Find NJ.com on Facebook.
 
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TIGER LADY: WF, 17-21, found in Knowlton, NJ - 26 Oct 1991 - Bengal tiger tattoo QB5rjjG


WARREN COUNTY
Unidentified Deceased (Female - Caucasian)

CASE INFORMATION

On October 26, 1991, a white female was discovered in a wooded area off of Route 94, Knowlton Township, Warren County, NJ. This area is at an exit off Interstate 80 near the Delaware Water Gap.

NIC#
U525171945

Case Number

Date Body Found
October 26, 1991

Estimated Date of Death
Early October 1991

BIOLOGICAL PROFILE

Age
17- 19 years

Sex
Female

Race
Caucasian

Height
4'10" to 5'2"

Weight
95 - 110 lbs.

Hair
Light brown to dirty blonde (may have been bleached or dyed)

Eye
Unknown

DENTAL
Charts and x-rays available

TATTOOS
A Bengal tiger going down the lateral portion of the left calf

OTHER
Pierced ears, 4 holes in the left ear

If you have any information about this case or the identification of this individual, please contact:
The New Jersey State Police at 1-800-709-7090 or e-mail at missingp@gw.njsp.org

Warren County Prosecutor's Office - 908-475-6275
 
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The Doe Network:
Case File 47UFNJ


TIGER LADY: WF, 17-21, found in Knowlton, NJ - 26 Oct 1991 - Bengal tiger tattoo EqZ86JP


Unidentified White Female

Located on October 26, 1991 in Knowlton Township, Warren Co, New Jersey.
Manner of death is homicide.
Date of Death: Days
Her nickname is Tiger Lady, inspired by her tiger tattoo.

Vital Statistics

Estimated age: 17 - 19 years old
Approximate Height and Weight: 4'10 - 5'2"; 95 - 110 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Light brown to dirty blonde hair; possibly bleached or dyed. Brown eyes. Both of her ears were pierced; her left ear was pierced four times. The victim had a tattoo of a crouching Bengal tiger on rear of her left calf.
Clothing: No clothing was found with the victim.
Dentals: X-rays and dental charts are available; she had overbite of her upper left rear teeth.

Fingerprints: Not Available

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Case History
Her partially decomposed body was discovered in a wooded area in Warren County, Knowlton Township, New Jersey. The body was found near the major interchange of Interstate Route 80, US Route 46 and State Route 94.




Investigators
If you have any information concerning this woman's identity or the circumstances surrounding her death, please contact:
New Jersey State Police
800-709-7090
OR
Warren County Prosecutor's Office
908-475-6275
or
Isidore Mihalakis
Warren County Medical Examiner's Office
908-213-2800
Email
You may remain anonymous when submitting information to any agency.

Agency Case Number:
21910208

NCIC Number:
U525171945
Please refer to this number when contacting any organization with information related to this case.

Source Information:
New Jersey State Police
NamUs
 

http://whoistigerlady.org/index.html


Who is the Tiger Lady?

TIGER LADY: WF, 17-21, found in Knowlton, NJ - 26 Oct 1991 - Bengal tiger tattoo VSqrDS4


The Tiger Lady...
is the name given to a dead, unidentified
young woman that was discovered in the
woods in Knowlton Township, New Jersey
in October of 1991.

To this day, nobody has come forward to
identify the body. The victim was
discovered by hunters near the
intersections of state route 94, interstate
route 80 and US route 46.

One identifying mark and major clue in the
case is a tattoo found on the victim's
lower, left calf. The tattoo depicts a
bengal tiger that is ready to leap. The
detail is quite intricate and the color as
well.


Information

Found on: October 26, 1991
Location: Knowlton Township, NJ USA - Warren County
Height: 4'10" - 5'2"
Weight: 95 - 110 lbs
Age: 17-19 Years Old
Hair: Light brown or dirty blond

Dental X-Rays are available
DNA is available for comparison


NCIC Case Number: U-525171945
Doe Network Case ID: 47UFNJ


Contact

If you have any information or tips regarding this case
please contact Lt. Detective Stephen Speirs of the
Warren County Prosecutors Office at 908-475-6275

To e-mail tips about the case:
tips@whoistigerlady.com

All communications can be handled anonymously.


TIGER LADY: WF, 17-21, found in Knowlton, NJ - 26 Oct 1991 - Bengal tiger tattoo V4Y7OC2
 

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/19/nyregion/tattoo-and-sketch-only-clues-to-an-identity.html


Tattoo and Sketch Only Clues to an Identity

By IVER PETERSON,
Published: April 19, 1993

WARRINGTON, N.J., April 14— She gazes out of the picture, her eyes a little bored, maybe a little hostile, waiting.

She seems to be real, and yet is not. The face of the woman on homicide police bulletins being posted in truck stops and highway police barracks across the country is in fact a computer's best guess about the appearance of a young woman who was murdered, and her body dumped in a truck parking area off Interstate 80 here, 18 months ago.

When she was found by hunters, her face had so badly deteriorated that no reliable picture of her face could be drawn. The police know her today only by the striking animal tattoo on her left calf: Tiger Lady.

Hers is the first picture created for New Jersey detectives by the Metropolitan Toronto Police Department's Computer Assisted Recovery Enhancement System, a program that begins by scanning a victim's skull and then reconstructs the muscle and flesh of a human face. Corridor for Killers

The need to resort to the expensive process points up what is emerging as a particularly grim and troubling problem for state law-enforcement agencies across the country, the use of major highways as a dumping ground for murder victims. It is a criminal practice that greatly increases the difficulty of identifying anonymous victims and so of taking the first big step toward identifying the killer.

"We're getting so much more dumping on the interstates because the interstates system is a continuous, highly anonymous corridor that gives a killer a convenient avenue to get a body out of the area where he killed it," said Lieut. Robert Scott, supervisor of the Major Crimes Unit for the New Jersey State Police, in explaining why the big roads have become today's equivalent of the back alley of a half-century ago.

"A killer can drive for four or five hours and go through several states, and because of the lack of communication between state police agencies, if a New Jersey person is murdered and dumped in a pull-off in Pennsylvania, it could be days before we realize that that's our body they've got there," he said. "By then the killer could be anywhere in the country."

Witnesses are also quickly scattered on the interstates, Lieutenant Scott added, and besides, he asked, who pays attention to other people on an interstate?

"It's not like you're on your own street or even in your own town," he said. "When people get on an interstate, they just want to get to where they're going, and nobody gives a damn about what's going on around them."

Tiger Lady is the third body to be found along Interstate 80 in the last six years, according to state police and county prosecutors. The bodies of at least five women, presumed to have been prostitutes, have been left along the New Jersey Turnpike in recent years, Lieutenant Scott said. Last summer, the dismembered body of a Massachusetts businessman, Thomas Mulcahy, was dumped along the Garden State Parkway after he was murdered in New York City. Tattoo Leads Nowhere

The police say that when a body like Tiger Lady's is found, it is either identified fairly quickly, principally by matching it with a missing-persons report, or else the victim remains unknown to the police for years as is the case with "Baby Hope," a girl whose body was found in 1991 in a picnic cooler along the Henry Hudson Parkway in northern Manhattan.

At first, investigators for the Warren County prosecutor, John J. O'Reilly, assumed that Tiger Lady, who is about 20 years old, would be quickly identified because of the distinctive, seven-inch long tattoo that would be in plain view if she wore a skirt or shorts.

But detectives went through 400 missing-persons' reports to no avail. A police composite sketch was drawn up, based on the remains of the woman's face, but it too produced no leads.

Finally, in early March, Mr. O'Reilly turned to the Toronto Police, who using the woman's known weight, about 100 pounds, the tint of her skin and hair, drew a new skin over the skull, with its high cheekbones, strong jaw and narrow-set eyes. The results were strikingly different from the police artist's sketch. New Poster and Number

The state police made a second version of the Toronto picture, showing the woman with longer, darker hair, with eyes looking ahead and with thinner lips, because lips, along with eye color, are the most uncertain elements in reconstructing a face from a skull, said the Toronto Police Constable, David Sills, who created the original. Mr. Sills said experience with the computer-generated photographs has shown them to be 80 percent accurate.

The final cost of the Canadian police service is not yet known, Mr. O'Reilly said. "It's expensive, but worth it," he said.

Two weeks ago, a new poster with a special toll-free number, (800) 822-LADY, was released, and about 25 calls a day come in. The pictures are being shown on a cable program that is played at truck stops, along with the description of a tractor-trailer truck, with a white cab and a green-and-white trailer that was spotted near the place where the body was later found.

Meanwhile, Tiger Lady gazes impatiently from behind her computer-drawn eyes. Detective August Wistner of the state police was asked if the new picture made Tiger Lady more real to him, and the wish to find her real name more urgent. But Detective Wistner made it clear that the tangible evidence of Tiger Lady's murdered body was a stronger incentive to him than anything a computer can draw.

"She's been a real person to us since the minute she was found," he said. "So we'd really like to find out who she is."

Photos: Two computer-generated images of a woman whose body was found 18 months ago in a parking area off Interstate 80 in Warrington, N.J. (New Jersey State Police); A tattoo on the woman's left calf has given her the name by which the police know her: Tiger Lady.
 
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Warren New Jersey Jane Doe October 1991

TIGER LADY: WF, 17-21, found in Knowlton, NJ - 26 Oct 1991 - Bengal tiger tattoo VSqrDS4


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Doe Alias :
Tiger Lady
Date Found :
Saturday, October 26, 1991
Location Found:
In a truck parking area off Interstate 80 and Route 46 at intersection of Route 94 – in the woods in Knowlton Township, new Jersey.
County Found:
Warren
State Found:
New Jersey
Est Date of Death:
Days prior to discovery.
Sex:
Female
Race:
Caucasian
Age Minimum :
17
Age Maximum:
19
Height Minimum:
4'10"
Height Maximum:
5'2"
Weight Approximation:
95 to 110 lbs
Eye Color:
Brown
Hair Color:
Brown
Hair Style:
Possibly dyed light brown or ash blond
Piercings:
Pierced ears. Left ear pierced four times.
Tattoos:
Very intricate Bengal Tiger on left calf. 2015 Update: Investigators are looking for a link between this tattoo and an emblem on a Grateful Dead guitar. See image two.

DNA Available:
Yes
Fingerprints Available:
N/A
Contact Information:
New Jersey State Police Department (609) 882-2000/ Warren County Medical Examiners office 908-213-2800/ NCIC # U-525171915/ Case # 21910208
Narrative :
http://canyouidentifyme.blogspot.com/2009/10/they-call-me-tiger-lady.html
 
http://articles.mcall.com/1993-03-31/news/2895035_1_tiger-lady-young-woman-tattoo

`Tiger Lady' Murder Facts Expected

March 31, 1993|The Morning Call
The Warren County prosecutor and New Jersey state police officials have scheduled a press conference for 11 a.m today to release additional information on the unsolved "Tiger Lady" slaying of October 1991.

According to a statement from Prosecutor John J. O'Reilly, officials have succeeded in producing a computer-enhanced likeness of the young woman who was found dead off Route 94 in Knowlton Township on Oct. 26, 1991.

Other "significant" information is also set to be released, according to the statement. O'Reilly was unavailable yesterday for additional comment.

The victim's partly decomposed nude body was found by two hunters. The body was not concealed, and officials theorized the woman was carried a short distance from Route 94 to the spot where she was discovered.

Officials strongly suspect the woman was killed elsewhere and dumped in the area where she was found.

The "Tiger Lady" moniker comes from a tattoo of a crouching Bengal Tiger found on the slain woman's left calf.

Investigators thought the location of the tattoo in a very visible location meant the woman might have been a dancer, but that theory was unfounded. The tattoo is apparently very common.

At a press briefing in early November 1991, former Prosecutor Richard C. Hare said the woman was a white female, 17 to 19 years old, about 4 feet 10 inches to 5 feet 1 inch tall, 95 to 110 pounds with light brown to dirty blonde hair that may have been bleached or dyed.
 
http://www.camdencounty.com/sheriff/Missing Persons/janedoeWarren.htm

Missing Persons Unit

UNIDENTIFIED BODY


TIGER LADY: WF, 17-21, found in Knowlton, NJ - 26 Oct 1991 - Bengal tiger tattoo TIaJNXK


Unidentified Caucasian Female Located on October 26, 1991 in Warren City, New Jersey Approximately 17 - 19 years old by coroner's estimation Cause of death is unknown. The victim may have been deceased since early October 1991. Her nickname is Tiger Lady, inspired by her tiger tattoo.

Vital Statistics
The victim was approximately 4'10 - 5'2 and weighed 95 - 110 pounds. Her hair may have been dyed light brown or ash blonde. X-rays and dental charts are available.
The victim had a tattoo of a Bengal tiger on her left calf, inspiring the nickname Tiger Lady. Both of her ears were pierced; her left ear was pierced four times. No clothing was found with the victim.
Her partially decomposed body was discovered in a wooded area off of Route 94 in Knowlton Township, Warren City, New Jersey. This area is also the exit off of Interstate 80 near the Delaware Water Gap.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning this woman's identity or the circumstances surrounding her death, please contact:
New Jersey State Police Department
609-882-2000
You may remain anonymous when submitting information to any agency.

NCIC Number:
U-525171945
Please refer to this number when contacting any organization with information related to this case.

Source Information:
The Missing Children...HELP Center
APB On-Line
The Doe Network
 

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