On Valentine’s Day of 1988, authorities were summoned to a dumpster located near the intersection of Kaiser Road and Old Perkins Road in Millen, Georgia. Three people had noticed a foul stench coming from inside the dumpster, and when police investigated, they soon found the source of the odor: inside was a large, nylon duffel bag, and inside the bag was the nude body of a woman wrapped in a sheet of plastic and secured with duct tape.
The victim was an Asian or half-Asian female between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five years old, standing approximately five-foot-five and weighing around one-hundred-forty pounds. She had long, dark brown hair and slightly crooked, though otherwise healthy, teeth. She had also had a molar removed not long before her death.
Christened Jenkins County Jane Doe, the young woman was thought to have been deposited in the dumpster four to seven days prior to her being found, and the state of decomposition of the body meant that neither her eye color nor a definite cause of death could be established, though it was believed she had been asphyxiated, perhaps by being smothered with a pillow.
Several other items assumed to belong to the victim were found alongside the remains, including a towel with a butterfly design, a maroon bedspread with a floral print, and a pale green pillow with a similar floral motif, which was thought to be part of the same bedding set. Authorities surmised that these items had come from the victim’s bedroom.
A rape kit was carried out, but produced negative results, though investigators have stated that they cannot rule out the possibility that other forms of more unusual sexual assault were perpetrated on the victim.
Jenkins County Jane Doe remains unidentified, and her case is still open.
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