It’s Howard County Police’s oldest open homicide investigation.
And they’re missing some very vital information.
“Step one is definitely to find out who she is,” says cold case investigator and tech corporal Wade Zufall.
This Jane Doe was discovered by two young men back on July 17, 1971, at the corner of Rt. 99 and Woodstock Rd.
Police recently worked with law enforcement partners at NAMUS to create a new artificial intelligence rendering of the woman.
When the two men found her lying in a field on that Saturday, she was still alive, but unconscious.
“Immediately they called for medical services to have her transported to the hospital,” says Zufall. “When she got to the hospital she couldn’t communicate at all.”
She was semi-conscious for some of her hospital stay but she was never able to communicate.
She died from complications from a stroke at the hospital a couple of months later, on September 17, 1971.
Her death was …