Hennepin County Jane Doe "Susan Watkins" Identified Through Forensic Genetic Genealogy
*FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA / ACCESSWIRE / October 2, 2023 /* *Identifinders International is pleased to have assisted the Hennepin County Medical Examiner *to identify the remains of a 1996 Jane Doe formerly known as "Susan Watkins". "Susan" has been positively identified as Sally Green.
"Susan Watkins" was the name given by an unidentified woman who was killed after jumping off a parking ramp in Minneapolis, MN on August 23^rd 1996. Prior to her death she had checked into the Regency Plaza Hotel and claimed she was from Texas. She had no identification or photographs in her billfold at the time of death, and the name "Susan Watkins" that she used to check in proved to be false.
In 2022, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's office partnered with Identifinders International to find Susan's real identity. Through crowdfunding, Identifinders was able to raise enough funds through our Daniel Paul Armantrout Memorial Fund to extract and sequence her remains. In April of 2023, a lead was generated by Senior Forensic Genetic Genealogist Misty Gillis, that the true name of the decedent was Sally Green. Her identity was confirmed in September of 2023.
Sally Green was born in Daytona Beach, Florida and lost touch with her family at some point in the 1970's. Not much is known about her whereabouts up to the time of her death.
According to Alex Verdoorn of the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, "Our office has been working on this case for many years, and thanks to the great people at Identifinders, we were able to make a positive identification and locate her family".
"This was an intriguing case. Even though we have identified Sally Green, there is so much more that is still unknown about her and what led to her death," said Dr. Colleen Fitzpatrick, President of Identifinders. "We are pleased that we have been able to work with the Hennepin County Medical Examiner identify her".
To make a donation towards Identifinders International cold case work, please visit the Daniel Paul Armantrout Fund. Identifinders offers a fee-based forensic service to work with law enforcement agencies and medical examiners to apply forensic genetic genealogy to solving violent crime cold cases and to identify unidentified human remains. For more information, please visit www.identifinders.com. For Media Relations contact media@identifinders.com.
*Contact:* Misty Gillis
*Phone:* (312) 285-1578
*E-mail:* media@identifinders.com
*SOURCE: *Identifinders International LLC
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