Huntington Beach hit-and-run victim remains Jane Doe after 25 years

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You’d think with so many clues, we’d know who this girl was.

But we don’t.

She was found dead just minutes after being struck by a car on the Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach. She had no ID on her.

According to news coverage that followed her death on April 1, 1990, there were at least two individuals who recognized the girl as “Andrea,” but they didn’t know her last name or birth date.
They recalled she mentioned being adopted, and that Virginia was her home. But despite significant efforts over the past 25 years, law enforcement has been unable to find out who she was.

Some of the clues Jane Doe left behind are unique. This is what was found with her that night:

A ring of human hair on her left pinky finger
An orange plastic hotel-like key tag imprinted with “218” in white with one gold key attached
A black rock, a leaf and a lock of human hair in her pocket
An Orange County bus route schedule for the 64 and 64A bus from Santa Ana to Seal Beach

Jane Doe had short, wavy brown hair and brown eyes. She had slight acne scarring on her face, her ears were each pierced and she had black polish on her toes.
All four wisdom teeth were missing and she had porcelain crowns on her top center four teeth.

She was found wearing a black dress, a red, long-sleeved top and a hot pink sweater. She had on black, fishnet stockings and hot pink pumps.

Investigators have chased down scores of leads, but nothing has panned out yet. Twenty-five years later and this girl still remains nameless. If you have any information regarding Jane Huntington Beach Doe, please call the Huntington Beach Police Department at 714-960-8811, the Orange County Coroner at 714-647-7400 or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).

The article above was released by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.



http://www.oc-breeze.com/2015/06/11/...fter-25-years/

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https://identifyus.org/en/cases/7672


Estimated age Adult
Minimum age 18 years
Maximum age 24 years
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Weight (pounds) 122, Measured
Height (inches) 64, Measured



Pedestrian vs. auto while crossing PCH in Huntington Beach.
Orange County Sheriff-Coroner website
http://ocsd.org/divisions/prof/coron...jane/9001853ly


Head hair Short & wavy
Hair color Brown
Eye color Brown

Slight acne scars, lower face
Ears pierced 1x each



Black dress size small label "ZZ",
Hot pink loose knit sweater,
Red long sleeve shirt size sm. "New Hero", Native American design,
Bra 40D,
Black fishnet stockings,


Hot pink pumps with decorative holes on toes (says Leather on inside bottom and a price tag on one is blurry but visible) size 6

Ring of human hair on left pinky finger
OCTD route 64 + 64A schedule (Santa Ana to Seal Beach)

Orange plastic large motel-like key ring/tag "218", with gold key # SC9












Exclusions:


Dixie Arensen 1948 California
Lynn Bandringa 1945 California
Kimberly Billy 1965 California
Cynthia Carmack 1971 Ohio
Michelle Duncan 1966 California
Andrea Durham 1976 Florida
Andrea Durham 1976 Florida
Christine Eastin 1952 California
Denise Fagot 1966 California
Wendy Felton 1971 Indiana
Nerissa Franklin 1974 Mississippi
Tebble Garrett 1970 South Carolina
Brenda Green 1972 Alabama
Amy Johnson 1961 California
Kimberlie Kantonen 1969 California
Hazel Klug 1962 Virginia
Mona Lincoln 1967 California
Sandra Lowe 1962 California
Gayle Marks 1969 California
Maria Medina 1970 California
Penelope Milbourn 1963 California
Shaliegh Phillips 1975 California
Dean Pyle 1966 Michigan
Patricia Schmidt 1964 Virginia
Mary Shondel 1959 Minnesota
Christina Smith 1964 California
Annette Vail 1965 Arizona
Joyce Walcott 1967 California
Sheree Warren 1960 Utah
Julie Weflen 1959 Washington

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Accident victim 4/1/1990 Pacific Coast Highway west of Newland, Huntington Beach CA







FEATURES: Black dress, fishnet stockings, pink sweater, black nail toe polish, 40D Bra, size 6 shoe size, human hair ring on left ring finger, acne scars/ face, restorations on back of top front 4 teeth. Her teeth showed signs of previous orthodontics and she had received dental care shortly before her death.

This unidentified young woman died around 10 pm on April 1, 1990 while crossing Pacific Coast Highway west of Newland, Huntington Beach, California. She died at the scene of a broken neck.

She was Caucasian and estimated to be between 18 to 30 with a closer estimate of 17-21.

She had brown hair and brown eyes, was 5'4" and 122 lbs. She had acne scars on her face, was well nourished and large breasted.


When found she was wearing a pink sweater, a red long-sleeved shirt, a black cotton dress, fishnet stockings, a 40D bra and size 6 pink shoes.

She had a ring made of human hair on her left ring finger.




Dental information: PFM jackets on back of #7-10. Restorations #2,15,19,20. Missing #6,11,21,28-spaces closed. Missing wisdom teeth. Porcelain dental work. Prior orthodontics.

After her sketch was published in a local newspaper, two men came forward saying they had met the victim a couple weeks before her death. Both said they only knew her by her first name, Andrea.

According to them Andrea said she was from the East Coast.

The first man said he had befriended her two weeks before the accident. Both had shared the same car while hitchhiking on Pacific Coast Highway.

He was 100% positive that was the same person. He said Andrea told him she was adopted and trying to find her real family.

He added that she told him she was from somewhere like Virginia but told a woman she was from New York. Though she claimed to be 25-26, he thought she appeared as young as 16.

The second man said Andrea spent one night at his house. He said she had no place to stay at and no money for food or clothing so he let her use one bed room, fed her and gave her some money.

Andrea then bought clothes at a Goodwill store, including a pair of shoes for $19.95 that she was wearing at the time of her death. He said she had told him her parents were pretty well-known but she didn't want to say who they were and that she had been adopted at a very young age.

He also said that the ring made of hair she had was of her own hair that she had cut in front of him and then placed on her finger.

Jane Doe Orange County CA 4/1/1990
https://www.facebook.com/AndreaJaneDoeCA

If you have any information concerning this woman's identity, please contact:
Orange County Coroner Division
(714) 647-7400
case# 90-01853-LY

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/40ufca.html
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/7672
http://ocsd.org/divisions/prof/coron...jane/9001853ly






Exclusions:

Dixie Arensen 1948 California
Tavia Bailey 1970 Florida
Lynn Bandringa 1945 California
Kimberly Billy 1965 California
Aundria Bowman 1974 Michigan
Cynthia Carmack 1971 Ohio
Michelle Duncan 1966 California
Andrea Durham 1976 Florida
Andrea Durham 1976 Florida
Christine Eastin 1952 California
Denise Fagot 1966 California
Wendy Felton 1971 Indiana
Wendy Felton 1971 Indiana
Nerissa Franklin 1974 Mississippi
Nerissa Franklin 1974 Mississippi
Tebble Garrett 1970 South Carolina
Rose Gayhart 1962 Florida
Brenda Green 1972 Alabama
Amy Johnson 1961 California
Kimberlie Kantonen 1969 California
Hazel Klug 1962 Virginia
Mona Lincoln 1967 California
Sandra Lowe 1962 California
Gayle Marks 1969 California
Maria Medina 1970 California
Penelope Milbourn 1963 California
Jennifer Pandos 1971 Virginia
Shaliegh Phillips 1975 California
Dean Pyle 1966 Michigan
Patricia Schmidt 1964 Virginia
Mary Shondel 1959 Minnesota
Christina Smith 1964 California
Annette Vail 1965 Arizona
Joyce Walcott 1967 California
Sheree Warren 1960 Utah
Julie Weflen 1959 Washington



Maybe they should check if Ilene Misheloff could be a match, although she was a bit younger. She looks like the sketch, had braces and also has missing teeth next to her 4 front teeth.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...off_ilene.html

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"He also said that the ring made of hair she had was of her own hair that she had cut in front of him and then placed on her finger."

Did forensic experts check if the ring of hair was made only from her own hair?

[Jace]

She is identified! No name given.

http://www.ocsd.org/gov/sheriff/divi.../9001853ly.asp

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Jane Doe case featured on Unsolved Mysteries is finally cracked after 27 years thanks to cutting edge FBI fingerprint analysis






A Jane Doe case that baffled investigators for 27 years and was featured on Unsolved Mysteries has finally been solved, thanks to cutting edge FBI fingerprint analysis.

Virginia woman Andrea Kuiper, 26, was the person struck and killed by two cars in Huntington Beach, California on April 1, 1990, officials with the Orange County Sheriff's Department revealed on Thursday.

'We are thankful to know what happened to our daughter after all these years,' Andrea's father, Richard Kuiper, said in a statement.

'Andrea was loved and respected. She was beautiful. But she was manic depressive, and therefore we had been through quite an adventure.'


The mystery that spanned decades began around 10pm on April 1, 1990, on a scenic stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway that runs next to a public beach.

A young woman trying to cross the road was struck by both a Mazda MX-6 and a Lincoln Continental, breaking her neck and killing her.


The fatal crash in the dark of night was ruled accidental, and neither driver was charged with her death.

The crash victim was wearing a black dress, pink sweater, fishnet stockings and pink heels.

She had only two possessions on her body: a hotel room key and a ring on her left ring finger made of human hair.

After local newspapers covered the case, two men came forward with information about the unidentified dead woman, whom they both knew only as 'Andrea'.

The first man said he and Andrea had both been hitchhiking along the Pacific Coast Highway two weeks prior to her death, and had shared a car along the way.


Andrea told him that she was originally from Virginia, but then he later heard her tell a woman she was from New York, he said.

She said she'd been adopted and had traveled to California in search of her biological parents.

The second man said Andrea had been penniless and hungry when he'd let her stay in a spare bedroom for one night and given her some food and money.

This time, Andrea's story was that she'd been adopted at a young age, but that her biological parents were a well-known celebrity couple, whom she didn't want to name.

The second man revealed that the ring of human hair on Andrea's left hand was her own hair, which she'd cut off and fashioned into the ring in front of him.

The man gave Andrea some money and took her shopping for clothes at a Goodwill thrift store, where she spent $19.95 and purchased the pink shoes she was wearing when she was killed.


Then the case went cold, and investigators were stumped as months turned to years, and years became decades.

'The investigators at the coroner’s office never stopped trying to figure out who she was,' Kelly Keyes, Orange County's supervising deputy coroner, said in a statement.

'We never forgot her and would regularly pull out her file to see if we could think of anything new to try,' Keyes said.

Investigators at the coroner's office tried running Andrea's information and fingerprints through new databases as they were created and expanded.

As recently as eight months ago, investigators revisited the case file after recieving information that Andrea may have had connections to Newport News, Virginia, but came up empty.

Then, in early 2017, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, a US Justice Department program, partnered with the FBI on a new fingerprint analysis project that more closely examines the fingerprints of unidentified bodies and compares them to an ever-expanding database of old prints from around the nation.

On May 4, the FBI notified the coroner in California that they had found a match: 26-year-old Andrea Kuiper of Fairfax, Virginia.

Nearly three decades after their daughter went missing, Andrea's family finally has closure.




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ea-Kuiper.html