In April 1995, the remains of a young woman were discovered in a shallow grave by a group of children. The discovery was made behind a vacant house in the 300 block of Atwood Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Investigators suspected the woman died only days before the discovery, but were unable to determine her cause of death. They suspect that she may have died of an overdose, as the house that she was discovered behind had been used for the manufacture of illicit narcotics. Investigators suspect that she may have been from the Adamsville area in Atlanta, and that she reportedly frequented the Ashby, Dill and Beecher Street areas.
Investigators believe that the unknown woman went by the name “Wanda” in the days and weeks prior to her death. They also determined that she was likely 5’7” tall and weighed 140 pounds at the time of her death. Additionally, they noted that she had brown eyes and black hair, which she wore in tight cornrows. She also had a mole on her right foot, a noticeable gap between her upper front teeth, and had her ears single pierced. At the time of the discovery, the young woman was wearing a light blue button-up short-sleeve shirt, a pair of faded Bugle Boy jeans with an elastic waistband and a draw string, and a pair of size 6.5 black Adidas Dynaprene sneakers, as well as multi-color underwear with a Tweety Bird manufacturer’s label.
For almost three decades, law enforcement diligently pursued various leads about the woman’s identity. In November 2007, her case was entered into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) as UP650. Despite the exhaustive efforts of law enforcement, the woman’s identity remained a mystery. With few leads for investigators to pursue, the case eventually went cold…