17 Years Later, Cops Still Working Body-In-Fridge Case,Woman's Body Found In Mar 1995

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STOCKTON, Calif. (KCRA) -- Detectives on Wednesday said they have plenty of evidence in a 17-year-old cold case from Stockton, but they still can't identify the woman whose body was found in a refrigerator so many years ago.
The woman's body was discovered in March 1995, stuffed inside a refrigerator tied shut and laying in a canal.
"Her hands are taped, her mouth is taped with a sock in her mouth, and it's black electrician's tape," said San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office Assistant Sheriff John Huber.
The woman's cause of death was deemed blunt force trauma to the head, but unlike many bodies dumped in the Delta, detectives said they had a lot of evidence to work with.
"Socks with toes, hiking boots, shorts… She's got a T-shirt on covered by another T-shirt… Victoria's Secret bra on," Huber said.
There was even a 1/3 of a carat diamond ring and a unique necklace found on the body.
Detectives tracked down where everything inside the refrigerator was made and sold, but they still haven't been able to identify the strawberry-blonde woman who was killed and stuffed inside.
Even dental records didn't help, they said.
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After 30 years on the job, Huber said this is the case he wants to solve before he retires.
"I'll probably work on her after I leave, too," he said. "I know just about everything about the case by heart."
Despite checking thousands of names from missing persons lists and plenty of publicity through the years, the true identity of the Jane Doe, dubbed the "refrigerator lady," remains unknown.

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they still haven't been able to identify the strawberry-blonde woman who was killed and stuffed inside.
Even dental records didn't help, they said.

We-e-e-e-ell, they need someone to compare her to before that will work, unless of course the dental work is very unusual.



I am so often surprised at how easily missing persons from the next state over never get compared to the unidentified corpses found. Sometimes it is something as simple as the missing person not being sought until after the unidentified body was already found. Or some stupid mistake in the description, which makes the searchers rule out the missing person as a possible.