Investigation Continues Into Orange County's Oldest 'Jane Doe' Cold-Case Murder
SANTA ANA (CBSLA.com) — Detectives continue to investigate Orange County's oldest "Jane Doe" cold-case murder.
Police on Thursday unveiled photographs of evidence -- loafers, a colorful top, purple pants and a silver ring with a blue stone -- that were found on the body of a never-identified woman found in a Huntington Beach field in 1968. The woman had her throat slit and had also been raped.
Police released a sketch of what they believe the woman looked like at the time of her killing. Police believe she was in her 20's and either white or Latina.
Her clothes were made in New York, suggesting to some detectives that she had come to Orange County from the East Coast.
"There was a lot of hitchhiking," Huntington Beach Police Chief Robert Handy said. "It was the free spirit era."
Still, nobody ever came forward to report her missing, and she was never identified posthumously.
Detectives ran a suspect's DNA that was found at the crime scene, but no matches were made in the national database.
The mysterious circumstances of the woman's death comprise just one of 1,000 cold cases in Orange County, KCAL9's Michele Gile reports.