Coroner Hopes New Facial Reconstruction Will Help ID 2022 Jane Doe

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Image Credit: Joe Mullins, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

The County Medical Examiner’s Office is asking for the public’s help to identify a woman who drowned in the Tijuana River in 2022.

A forensic artist with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children created a facial reconstruction rendering based on the woman’s remains, Medical Examiner Investigator Jennifer Wright said.

The woman was found on April 26, 2022. Due to the condition of her remains, investigators were unable to determine her hair or eye color. She is believed to be Latina, in her early 20s, about 5 feet 4 inches tall and 123 pounds.

She had no identification with her, and fingerprint checks have not produced any matches.

Anyone who recognizes the woman from the rendering or her physical description is asked to call the Medical Examiner’s Office at 858-694-2905 regarding case number 2022-01456.

Republished courtesy of San Diego Communications Office



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