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Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Woman with No Name
So I was starting to catch up on my mystery novel reading. And one of my favorite authors was Sue Grafton, who wrote the Alphabet series. And I got up to Q is for Quarry. And I opened it up in February 1st, 2017. I remember the day. And she had an afterword that was startling because she said, this is the first time I've based a story on a real crime.
Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Woman with No Name
There was a Jane Doe found in Lompoc, California in, I believe, 1968. who had been thrown into a quarry and never identified. She had written the book 15 years earlier and had actually paid to have the skeleton exhumed so that a facial reconstruction could be done from the skull and DNA could be collected.
Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Woman with No Name
There was no hit because this Jane Doe had not previously been in the criminal justice system. So I read this and had an immediate epiphany. I've been helping adoptees find their birth parents. This is the same thing. If I can figure out Jane Doe's parents, we'll know who Jane Doe was. It's no different.