Posted on 11/28/2023 9:18:35 AM PST by Red Badger
A Texas company was able to build a DNA profile using genetic material from a blanket found with the body, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
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MILLEN, Ga. — A body found wrapped in plastic inside a Georgia dumpster 35 years ago has been identified as that of a South Korean woman, officials announced Monday.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said they used DNA analysis, paid for by donors, to determine that Chong Un Kim, 26, was the person whose body was discovered in rural Millen in February 1988.
Kim died from asphyxiation, but it’s unclear whether someone killed her or who dumped her body. She was wrapped with plastic and duct tape, naked inside a brown canvas suitcase that had been placed in a trash bin. A man trying to collect aluminum cans from the dumpster found the body. Investigators said Kim had been dead four to seven days when her body was found.
Kim had moved to the United States in 1981, investigators said. She had lived for several years in Hinesville, which adjoins Fort Stewart and is 70 miles south of Millen.
Chong Un Kim.Georgia Bureau of Investigations
Investigators were unable to identify Kim for decades, despite the use of fingerprints, dental records and a forensic sketch. DNA found at the time could not be matched. The body became known as “Jane Millen Doe” and “Jenkins County Jane Doe.”
“There were several people that were talked to and thought they might have seen something, but nothing ever really panned out,” Jenkins County Sheriff Robert Oglesby, who inherited the case from previous sheriffs, told WJBF-TV of Augusta.
Chong Un Kim.Georgia Bureau of Investigations Investigators were unable to identify Kim for decades, despite the use of fingerprints, dental records and a forensic sketch. DNA found at the time could not be matched. The body became known as “Jane Millen Doe” and “Jenkins County Jane Doe.”
“There were several people that were talked to and thought they might have seen something, but nothing ever really panned out,” Jenkins County Sheriff Robert Oglesby, who inherited the case from previous sheriffs, told WJBF-TV of Augusta.
Carrion Luggage Ping!...................
Samsonite?
The NBC News "staff reporter" is in a quandary. He or she wrote...
"Kim died from asphyxiation...she was wrapped with plastic and duct tape, naked inside a brown canvas suitcase that had been placed in a trash bin."But staff writer also wrote...
"...it’s unclear whether someone killed her"Mr. or Ms. Staff Writer is one sharp cookie.
However, there IS a possibility it was a suicide. As they say, "anything is possible."
I had a friend years ago whose demented roommate came up behind and stabbed him in the kidney killing him. Wrapped him up in a piece of carpet that he cut out from the wall to wall carpeting in the townhouse, and dumped him in a dumpster. The next morning a CAN COLLECTOR found the body wrapped in the carpet in the dumpster.
Interesting coincidence.
They have to have a ‘CYA’ sentence in there just in case.................😉🤷♂️🤦♂️
One would hope that, using the same technique used to identify her, maybe they could also pick up some DNA from the killer and bring him or her to justice.
Those Ancestory DNA tests come in handy
I used to be a can collector at one point in my life. I found all sorts of weird things, but never a body.............However I did run across other can collectors inside dumpsters!.............
They sure got “just in case” covered, didn’t they? LOL.
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I'm assuming that no one reported her as missing; I mean: How else could the police manage to not "put 2 and 2 together" and at least narrow down the list of possible identities to, at most, five or six persons.
Now that her identity has been established, it should be possible reconstruct at least some aspects of the crime, no?
Something is missing here.
Regards,
The GBI - (spit)
(Georgia Bureau of Investigation) - politicized corruption at its zenith among states.
Ever intern for "Morning Joe"?
What are odds she was trapped into prostitution and killed to keep her quiet?
My guess, and it’s just a guess, is that she was alone here in the US, having come here from South Korea with an Army soldier. They had a quarrel and he killed her, then he wrapped her up and drove her body 70 miles away and dumped her in a rural town dumpster. No one ever knew what happened to her and, if asked, he would just say she went back to Korea.......................
I was also thinking something along those lines. Sad to consider, but entirely plausible.
If the killer or killers are still alive... They’re worried. If they’re dead... They’ve gotten away with it.
South Korean women were sometimes eager to marry soldiers and get back to the states only to strike out on their own once here. I saw it several times in my career when it happened to my soldiers back from Korea. The women either ended up working at the PX or in bars along the strip outside the gate or worse in the sexy industry.
Yes, they just wanted that pass..................
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