Behind every face and every action, there’s a name. The search for those names is where the journey begins.
Fox 4 senior reporter Kaitlin Knapp is on a mission to get to know the names we know, and perhaps find the ones we don’t, along with the detectives working in the same communities you call home.
In Fox 4’s new series called “Sunshine Crimes,” we begin with a woman that has no name. She’s only known as the York Island Jane Doe.
York Island is just south of St. James City on Pine Island. That’s where nearly 30 years ago, four fishermen made a gruesome discovery on October 7, 1995.
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno says the anglers pulled up to a red sleeping bag where they found a decomposed body inside.
“Jane Doe. 35 to 45-years-old, 115 pounds approximately, with blonde, brown hair,” Marceno described the woman.
LCSO While technology wasn’t as advance, medical examiners did an autopsy. Marceno says she had been in the water for about three or four weeks.
They could not tell how she died, only that someone killed her.