Lieutenant Eddie Hope
Appearances
Dateline NBC
The Woman with No Name
You kind of get your hopes up, then you let down, but yet that had been happening for, you know, 12 years.
Dateline NBC
The Woman with No Name
Kind of haunts at you if you're coming out here and you're You can't put a closure to it. You know, you can't end the story yet.
Dateline NBC
The Woman with No Name
He said, last we had heard, she ran away from home, just like she just disappeared.
Dateline NBC
The Woman with No Name
Well, I talked to her several times, and she agreed to send Kevin their DNA kit.
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The Woman with No Name
You know, we have homicides just like the rest of the world, but, you know, it's going as far as trying to burn the body. It really struck fear in people around here.
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The Woman with No Name
It doesn't matter what walk of life you come from, everybody's a person.
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The Woman with No Name
She had wood piled beneath her and wood piled on top of her. And there was, I believe, a gas can lid there. Wow. So it looked like somebody was trying to cover their tracks.
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The Woman with No Name
She had wood piled on top of her. She was still burning when the deputies got there. She couldn't really be identified. We had no grounds to go on who this could be or where she came from.
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The Woman with No Name
Nothing. If we got tips, ran them down. Because, I mean, we had no grounds to go on who this could be or where she came from.
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The Woman with No Name
We would get people off the internet that would say, hey, I think this might be so-and-so, and we would follow up on that and eventually rule it out. What we were thinking at the time was maybe she's not from around here because nobody's missing her here.
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The Woman with No Name
Small headstone that just reads Jane Doe. There's no other information we knew on her.
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The Woman with No Name
A Texas Ranger who sometimes worked with them said maybe he could help. And he was able to fly in an artist to try to reconstruct what our victim looked like in real life.
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The Woman with No Name
I was impressed that people cared. Because we live in a world where everything's fast-paced and a lot of people are worried about themselves and not others.
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The Woman with No Name
We just flew together. You know, whatever he needed that he couldn't get that I could get law enforcement-wise, he would send it to me.
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The Woman with No Name
Genealogy, it's the way of the future. And to us homicide detectives, it's way above our heads, to be honest with you. So you welcomed their help?
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The Woman with No Name
He started talking about a girl that he killed and burned several years ago.
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The Woman with No Name
I just let him talk. He talked about this 12-year-old murder as if it happened yesterday. He left no detail out.
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The Woman with No Name
We had the confession and we still don't know who this person is and that just eats you up. Burnett said he didn't know who she was either.