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==Case== |
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| − | '''Details:''' Outside of Warner, Oklahoma, on the |
+ | '''Details:''' Outside of Warner, Oklahoma, on the afternoon of November 12, 1991, a hunter was near Jake's Lake off Interstate 40 when he noticed a woman and a man on the other side of the lake. He heard the woman scream and then saw the man raise his hand and strike something. After the couple left the area, the hunter went over and found a trash bag. Inside the bag, he was horrified to discover the body of a newborn baby.<br /> |
The hunter then realized that he had witnessed the woman giving birth and the man beating the infant to death. Next to the bag was a towel and a brick, presumably the murder weapon. After getting over the initial shock, he called authorities. Police are searching for the identity of the baby girl in hopes of catching its killer. In the meantime, the community came together to hold a memorial service for the child.<br /> |
The hunter then realized that he had witnessed the woman giving birth and the man beating the infant to death. Next to the bag was a towel and a brick, presumably the murder weapon. After getting over the initial shock, he called authorities. Police are searching for the identity of the baby girl in hopes of catching its killer. In the meantime, the community came together to hold a memorial service for the child.<br /> |
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| − | '''Suspects:''' The man and woman were both Caucasian and fled in an unidentified car. Since the baby was mixed-race, the man is not believed to be the child's father.<br /> |
+ | '''Suspects:''' The man and woman were both Caucasian and fled in an unidentified car. At the time, the woman was in around twenty-years-old, had medium-length brown hair, was 5'5", with a slender build. The man was also around twenty-years-old, was 5'9"-6'0", with a slender build, black shoulder-length hair and a moustache. Since the baby was mixed-race, the man is not believed to be the child's father.<br /> |
| + | The couple fled the area in a mid-1970s white-on-red Chevrolet.<br /> |
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| − | '''Extra Notes:''' The case was featured as a part of the December 18, 1991 episode.<br /> |
+ | '''Extra Notes:''' The case was featured as a part of a Special Alert in the December 18, 1991 episode.<br /> |
[[File:Penny_anita_lowry.jpg|thumb|Penny Anita Lowry, the Jane Doe's mother]] |
[[File:Penny_anita_lowry.jpg|thumb|Penny Anita Lowry, the Jane Doe's mother]] |
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'''Results:''' Unresolved. In July of 2009, DNA testing identified the infant's mother as a thirty-seven-year-old Virginia woman named Penny Anita Lowry. She was nineteen at the time of the murder. She had been interviewed shortly after the murder, but denied being pregnant. DNA testing also identified the child's father; however, he is not a suspect because he is African-American (the male attacker was Caucasian).<br /> |
'''Results:''' Unresolved. In July of 2009, DNA testing identified the infant's mother as a thirty-seven-year-old Virginia woman named Penny Anita Lowry. She was nineteen at the time of the murder. She had been interviewed shortly after the murder, but denied being pregnant. DNA testing also identified the child's father; however, he is not a suspect because he is African-American (the male attacker was Caucasian).<br /> |
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Revision as of 15:07, 4 July 2018
Baby Jane Doe's headstone
Real Name: Unrevealed
Nicknames: Warner Jane Doe
Location: Warner, Oklahoma
Date: November 12, 1991
Case
Details: Outside of Warner, Oklahoma, on the afternoon of November 12, 1991, a hunter was near Jake's Lake off Interstate 40 when he noticed a woman and a man on the other side of the lake. He heard the woman scream and then saw the man raise his hand and strike something. After the couple left the area, the hunter went over and found a trash bag. Inside the bag, he was horrified to discover the body of a newborn baby.
The hunter then realized that he had witnessed the woman giving birth and the man beating the infant to death. Next to the bag was a towel and a brick, presumably the murder weapon. After getting over the initial shock, he called authorities. Police are searching for the identity of the baby girl in hopes of catching its killer. In the meantime, the community came together to hold a memorial service for the child.
Suspects: The man and woman were both Caucasian and fled in an unidentified car. At the time, the woman was in around twenty-years-old, had medium-length brown hair, was 5'5", with a slender build. The man was also around twenty-years-old, was 5'9"-6'0", with a slender build, black shoulder-length hair and a moustache. Since the baby was mixed-race, the man is not believed to be the child's father.
The couple fled the area in a mid-1970s white-on-red Chevrolet.
Extra Notes: The case was featured as a part of a Special Alert in the December 18, 1991 episode.
Penny Anita Lowry, the Jane Doe's mother
Results: Unresolved. In July of 2009, DNA testing identified the infant's mother as a thirty-seven-year-old Virginia woman named Penny Anita Lowry. She was nineteen at the time of the murder. She had been interviewed shortly after the murder, but denied being pregnant. DNA testing also identified the child's father; however, he is not a suspect because he is African-American (the male attacker was Caucasian).
After the DNA results came back, Lowry confessed to killing her child. In October of 2010, she pleaded guilty to being an accessory to the murder of her daughter. She was sentenced to forty five years in prison. She has refused to name the man who also took part in the murder.
Links:
- Officials haunted by cold cases
- 18 years later, Oklahoma woman faces charge in newborn’s killing
- Bizarre cold case solved
- Woman pleads guilty in baby's death
- Mother of baby killed in 1991 pleads guilty to accessory count
- Tulsa woman sentenced in 1991 death of her infant daughter
- Baby Jane Doe at Find a Grave