1969 cold case advances after DNA links murdered teen to 9/11 victim's mother

Authorities person yet identified nan remains of a New York City teen coined "Midtown Jane Doe," aft her grisly execution spawned a decadeslong acold lawsuit investigation. A caller breakthrough owed to precocious forensics linked her DNA to nan mother of a female killed connected 9/11.

Jane Doe was identified arsenic Patricia Kathleen McGlone, who was conscionable 16 astatine nan clip of her decease and had antecedently lived and attended schoolhouse successful nan Sunset Park vicinity of Brooklyn. Investigators judge she was murdered during nan second half of 1969, or, potentially, astatine immoderate constituent successful early 1970, said Detective Ryan Glas of nan New York City Police Department. Glas has worked this lawsuit for overmuch of nan past 2 years.

The lawsuit drew an first activity of scary and intrigue successful 2003, erstwhile building workers discovered quality remains buried beneath a Manhattan building that was being taken down. That February, arsenic workers were breaking up nan level of nan building to hole it for demolition, a skull rolled retired from nether nan concrete. A hunt revealed nan skeleton of a young female who had been tied successful nan fetal position pinch an electrical cord. Her assemblage had been wrapped successful a carpet and encased successful concrete. The aesculapian examiner wished that she had died from strangulation.

The victim's skull astatine nan segment wherever her remains were primitively recovered successful 2003. NYPD

There was a golden signet ringing pinch nan initials "PMCG" recovered connected 1 of nan victim's fingers, and buried pinch her was a dime minted successful 1969 and a greenish integrative artifact soldier, but location was small other successful nan measurement of clues arsenic to who she was aliases what whitethorn person happened. The unfortunate was nicknamed "Midtown Jane Doe" because of nan location of nan building wherever she was found, successful nan Hell's Kitchen area of New York City. Between 1964 and 1969, nan building was a celebrated nightclub called Steve Paul's The Scene, which made a sanction for itself arsenic a rock-and-roll capacity venue wherever acts for illustration The Doors and Jimi Hendrix played.

New York City constabulary detectives reopened nan lawsuit for reappraisal successful 2017. They applied modern tests to nan forensic grounds primitively collected from nan crime segment and DNA lifted from nan victim's remains to yet create what Glas called "a suitable familial profile." The floor plan was past linked to imaginable relatives using investigative familial genealogy. 

Detectives learned first that Jane Doe was calved successful April 1953, but because some parents had died and she did not person siblings, uncovering a DNA sample that could definitively beryllium nan unfortunate was successful truth Patricia McGlone, nan kid of those 2 people, was not a straightforward process. Genetic experts said nan DNA of a circumstantial maternal relative would corroborate nan personality of Jane Doe, and aft conducting a bid of interviews pinch prospective relatives crossed nan United States and spanning aggregate generations, Glas was capable to find it. 

Although nan relative had already died, her boy told Glas that he remembered his mother submitting a DNA swab to nan aesculapian examiner successful New York City aft his sister died connected 9/11. Relatives of missing group submitted their DNA to thief place chartless victims successful nan aftermath of nan attacks. Glas retrieved nan cousin's familial accusation from nan aesculapian examiner's agency and, earlier this month, confirmed that nan remains of "Midtown Jane Doe" belonged to McGlone.

Detective Ryan Glas has worked nan New York City Police Department's "Midtown Jane Doe" lawsuit since 2022.  NYPD

Investigators wished that McGlone had been enrolled successful Catholic schoolhouse and a nationalist mediate schoolhouse successful Sunset Park, but her schoolhouse attendance grounds tapered disconnected successful 1968 and 1969, said Glas, who described her arsenic "a runaway and a truant" successful nan play starring up to her death. McGlone had gotten joined astir that clip and was nary longer successful touch pinch her family, said Glas, adding that constabulary person not recovered records of missing persons reports revenge aft her disappearance. 

An progressive homicide investigation is now underway to study much astir nan circumstances surrounding McGlone's death. Police person not named immoderate imaginable suspects but Glas said that her erstwhile hubby was connected to nan building wherever her remains were found. His squad is asking anyone who knew McGlone, her family aliases nan area astir Steve Paul's The Scene astir nan clip of her execution to interaction nan constabulary department.

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