On July 17, 1982, hikers near Lake Tahoe discovered the body of a young woman who would become known as the Sheep’s Flat Jane Doe. After almost 37 years, investigators publicly identified both the Sheep’s Flat Jane Doe and her killer. Listen now for all the details.
The photos discussed in this episode can be found below.
All images are from the Doe Network, the Detroit Free Press, and the DNA Doe Project.
- Slide 1: shoe found with Mary
- Slide 2: swimsuit found with Mary
- Slides 3-8: forensic reconstructions
- Slides 9-11: Mary Silvani
Sources:
- https://www.washoesheriff.com/outreach/archive/1500084.php
- https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/156ufnv.html
- https://dnadoeproject.org/case/sheep-flat-jane/
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Richard_Curry
- https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-uid-nv-up842/31438402/
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_Doe_Project
- https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/06/07/jane-doe-dna-sheeps-flat-lake-tahoe-mary-savila/1361068001/
- https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-to-know-smallpox-vaccination-scar
- https://web.archive.org/web/20141016144331/https://identifyus.org/en/cases/8427
- https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/07/us/nevada-dna-solves-decades-old-cold-case/index.html
- https://nypost.com/2019/05/08/genealogy-site-dna-help-solve-decades-old-murder-of-mary-silvani/
- https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-jane-doe-lake-tahoe-murder-cold-case-20190508-story.html
- https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2019/05/06/sheep-flat-jane-doe-timeline-investigation/1123726001/
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