Wisconsin Department of Justice
The victim was located on May 4, 1984 along Old Line Road, approximately 6 miles from Westby, Wisconsin.
Law enforcement recently received a credible lead that the victim likely lived in and may be from the states of Arizona or New Mexico.
The victim’s cause of death was ruled as severe head trauma. Both hands were severed at the wrist and have not been located. The victim was not murdered in the location where the body was found and there was no attempt to hide the body. For the past 34 years, attempts to identify the victim have been unsuccessful. The victim was wearing a plaid three-quarter length coat, brown and tan, black turquoise color with checkered pattern with a lining on the purple coat. The victim was also wearing a dress with a light blue turtle neck top; the dress has a black background with a large paisley pattern, which is blue and white. Victim was wearing nylons rolled just above the knees, a tan slip and brown shoes size 8 ½ B. The victim had full dentures with raised numbers inscribed in the dentures, ‘p85’ or ‘p8s’. The dentures also had the numbers inscribed of 289 or 682. The other number inscribed is either 420 or 4-20. A yellow two door compact vehicle was also seen in the vicinity where the victim’s body was located. The victim is described as a white female, approximate age of 50-63 years old at death in 1984, with brown graying hair, blue eyes, height 5’5” and weighing approximately 150 pounds. The victim also had an approximately a 4 inch abdominal surgical scar.
