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Podcast: DNA: ID
Episode: DOE ID 'Christmas Tree Jane Doe' Joyce Marilyn Meyer Sommers
Description: Episode 60 DOE ID 'Christmas Tree Jane Doe' Joyce Marilyn Meyer Sommers Just before Christmas, 1996, a groundskeeper at Pleasant Valley Memorial Park Cemetery in Annandale, Virginia discovered a woman's lifeless body. Police were summoned, and it quickly became clear to investigators that the deceased woman had taken her own life. Letters from the dead woman asked for an autopsy to not be performed on her and for her remains to be cremated. She also had gone out of her way to make it hard for investigators to determine who she was. With no identification, police respected her wishes, and...