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Woman whose body was found 35 years ago in a suitcase in a Georgia dumpster is identified
NBC News ^ | Oct. 24, 2023, 9:26 AM CDT | Staff

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.


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1 posted on 11/28/2023 9:18:35 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Carrion Luggage Ping!...................


2 posted on 11/28/2023 9:19:00 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Samsonite?


3 posted on 11/28/2023 9:21:59 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Red Badger
It's good for the family to finally get closure. I hope they find the killer.

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."

4 posted on 11/28/2023 9:27:03 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Red Badger

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.


5 posted on 11/28/2023 9:29:12 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

They have to have a ‘CYA’ sentence in there just in case.................😉🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️


6 posted on 11/28/2023 9:29:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
May she rest in peace.

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.

7 posted on 11/28/2023 9:29:47 AM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: Red Badger

Those Ancestory DNA tests come in handy


8 posted on 11/28/2023 9:30:39 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Clutch Martin

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!.............


9 posted on 11/28/2023 9:31:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

They sure got “just in case” covered, didn’t they? LOL.


10 posted on 11/28/2023 9:35:40 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️👍.......................


11 posted on 11/28/2023 9:36:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
The body must have already been in a highly decomposed state if police couldn't even say that she was "Asian" in appearance - assuming that she had (Asian) relatives in the vicinity who reported her missing.

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,

12 posted on 11/28/2023 9:38:15 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Red Badger

The GBI - (spit)

(Georgia Bureau of Investigation) - politicized corruption at its zenith among states.


13 posted on 11/28/2023 9:40:29 AM PST by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: Red Badger

Ever intern for "Morning Joe"?

14 posted on 11/28/2023 9:41:45 AM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: alexander_busek

What are odds she was trapped into prostitution and killed to keep her quiet?


15 posted on 11/28/2023 9:42:34 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: alexander_busek

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.......................


16 posted on 11/28/2023 9:45:35 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I was also thinking something along those lines. Sad to consider, but entirely plausible.


17 posted on 11/28/2023 10:02:36 AM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: Red Badger

If the killer or killers are still alive... They’re worried. If they’re dead... They’ve gotten away with it.


18 posted on 11/28/2023 10:09:01 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Red Badger

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.


19 posted on 11/28/2023 10:26:34 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53

Yes, they just wanted that pass..................


20 posted on 11/28/2023 10:31:47 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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