Unidentified homicide victim.The Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest in Missouri, which includes counties in both Missouri and Kansas. , Police Department seeks information regarding the identity of a child homicide victim. The child's headless body was found by officers on April 28, 2001, in and the severed head was found on May 1, 2001, in the same area. The child never was identified; the Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). community named the child Precious Doe. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Crime Scene On April 28, 2001, along a dirt road dirt road n (US) → camino sin firme dirt road n → chemin non macadamisé or non revêtu dirt road dirt n in a wooded area at 59th and Kensington in Kansas City, Missouri, officers found the nude, headless body of a young African-American female lying in weeds along the edge of the road. Two searches of the area with cadaver cadaver /ca·dav·er/ (kah-dav´er) a dead body; generally applied to a human body preserved for anatomical study.cadav´ericcadav´erous ca·dav·er n. dogs failed to turn up any related evidence. On May 1, 2001, the victim's severed head, wrapped in a trash bag, was found in the same wooded area. Subsequent forensic examination determined the victim to be a child between 3 and 4 years of age, 42" to 44" in height, and between 35 and 40 pounds. She had a light, crescent-shaped birthmark birthmark, pigmented maldevelopment of the skin that varies in size, either present at birth or developing later. Birthmarks may appear as moles (melanocytic nevi) that vary in color from light brown to blue, and are either flat or raised above the surface of the on her front, upper left shoulder. Alert to Law Enforcement The Kansas City Police Department contacted the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) and submitted a report about the child. The information was entered into the nationwide ViCAP database of murdered, missing, or unidentified found persons. Further, ViCAP conducted searches of its own and other databases for similar crimes. Based on photographs of the young child's head, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private, non-profit organization established in the United States in 1984 under United States government mandate. in Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 128,284. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) south of downtown Washington, DC. , produced the first computer-generated depiction of how the child may have looked in life. Release of this picture garnered national attention and produced numerous leads, none of which revealed her identity. Other attempts by forensic experts who produced drawings and a bust constructed from the actual face and skull received media and news publicity but have not resulted in identification of the child. Almost 1,000 leads have been logged in this case. A poster was released through Interpol to its over 180 member nations, and leads have been followed in Great Britain, Holland, and Jamaica. On July 15, 2003, the remains of Precious Doe were exhumed Exhumed may refer to:
The Kansas City Police Department asks any agency having information concerning the identity of the child homicide victim to use the following contact information: 1) Kansas City Police Department at 800-399-8517; 2) Sergeant David Bernard, Kansas City Police Department, Homicide Unit, 1125 Locust locust, in botany locust, in botany, any species of the genus Robinia, deciduous trees or shrubs of the family Leguminosae (pulse family) native to the United States and Mexico. , Kansas City, Missouri, 64106, at 816-234-5043 or via e-mail at dbernard@kcpd.org; 3) Crime Analyst Suzanne D. Stiltner, ViCAP, Quantico, Virginia, 22135, at 703-632-4173; or 4) Major Case Specialist Eric W. Witzig, ViCAP, Quantico, Virginia, 22135, at 703-632-4194 or via e-mail at vicap@fbi.gov. |
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