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‘Doe Network’ works to give names to the dead

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* Story Highlights
* Todd Matthews, 37, says identifying the "Does" is a "calling"
* The Doe Network has volunteers and chapters in every state.
* More than 40,000 unnamed bodies exist in the U.S., law enforcement reports say
* About 100,000 people are formally listed as missing, according to reports

LIVINGSTON, Tennessee (AP) — Their faces seem to float from Todd Matthews’ computer — morgue photographs, artist sketches, forensic reconstructions — thousands of dead eyes staring from endless Web sites as though crying out for recognition. John and Jane and Baby "Does" whose nameless bodies have never been identified.

His wife, Lori, complains that Matthews, a 37-year-old auto parts supplier, spends more time with the dead than he does with the living, including his two sons, Dillan, 16, and Devin, 6.

You need a hobby, she says, or a goal.

I have a goal, he replies, though he describes it as a "calling."

He wants to give "Does" back their names.

His obsession began two decades ago, when Lori told him about the unidentified young woman wrapped in canvas whose body her father had stumbled on in Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1968. She had reddish-brown hair and a gap-toothed smile. And no one knew her name.

So locals blessed her with one. They buried her under an apple tree with a pink granite tombstone engraved with the words "Tent Girl."

Tent Girl haunted him. Who were her siblings? What was her name?

Matthews began searching library records and police reports, not even sure what he was seeking. He scraped together the money to buy a computer. He started scouring message boards on the nascent Internet.

In the process, Matthews discovered something extraordinary. All over the country, people just like him were gingerly tapping into the new technology, creating a movement — a network of amateur sleuths as curious and impassioned as Matthews.

Today the Doe Network has volunteers and chapters in every state. Bank managers and waitresses, factory workers and farmers, computer technicians and grandmothers, all believing that with enough time and effort, modern technology can solve the mysteries of the missing dead.

Increasingly, they are succeeding.

The unnamed dead are everywhere — buried in unmarked graves, tagged in county morgues, dumped in rivers and under bridges, interred in potter’s fields and all manner of makeshift tombs. There are more than 40,000 unnamed bodies in the U.S., according to national law enforcement reports, and about 100,000 people formally listed as missing.

The premise of the Doe Network is simple. If the correct information — dental records, DNA, police reports, photographs — is properly entered into the right databases, many of the unidentified can be matched with the missing. Law enforcement agencies and medical examiners offices simply don’t have the time or manpower. Using the Internet and other tools, volunteers can do the job.

And so, in the suburbs of Chicago, bank executive Barbara Lamacki spends her nights searching for clues that might identify toddler Johnny "Dupage" Doe, whose body was wrapped in a blue laundry bag and dumped in the woods of rural Dupage County, Illinois, in 2005.

In Kettering, Ohio, Rocky Wells, a 47-year-old manager of a package delivery company, scoots his teenage daughters from the living room computer and scours the Internet for anything that might crack the case of the red-haired Jane Doe found strangled near Route 55 in 1981. "Buckskin Girl," she was called, because of the cowboy-style suede jacket she was wearing when she was found.

And in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, Nancy Monahan, 54, who creates floor displays for a discount chain, says her "real job" begins in the evening when she returns to her creaky yellow house and her black cat, Maxine, turns on her computer and starts sleuthing.

Monahan’s cases include that of "Beth Doe," a young pregnant woman strangled, shot and dismembered, her remains stuffed into three suitcases and flung off a bridge along Interstate 80 near White Haven in December 1976. And "Homestead Doe," whose mummified body was found in an abandoned railroad tunnel in Pittsburgh in 2000. Her toenails were painted silver.

Monahan was so moved that last year she sought out the tunnel, climbed down the embankment and offered a silent prayer for the young woman whose life ended in such a pitiful place.

"It’s like they become family," Monahan says. "You feel a responsibility to bring them home."

The stories of Doe Network members are as individual as the cases they are trying to solve. Bobby Lingoes got involved through his connection with law enforcement — he’s a civilian dispatcher with the Quincy, Massachusetts, police department. Traycie Sherwood of Richmond, Missouri, joined when her adoptive mother died and she went on line searching for her birth mother. Daphne Owings, a 45-year-old mother of two in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, needed something to take her mind off the war when her husband was sent to Iraq.

Matches can be triggered by a single detail — a tattoo, a piece of clothing, a broken bone. It’s just a question of the right person spotting the right piece of information and piecing together the puzzle. The process can be tedious and frustrating.

And it can take its toll. Lori Matthews once left her husband for six months because of his obsession with Tent Girl. "He didn’t talk about anything else," she said. "It wasn’t normal."

They reconciled after Matthews agreed to limit the amount of time — and money — he spent on "Does."

Still, Matthews and others say the rewards of cracking a case make the time worthwhile. The Doe Network claims to have assisted in solving more than 40 cases and ruling out hundreds more.

"They do God’s work," says Mark Czworniak, 50, a veteran homicide detective in Chicago.

He first encountered the Doe Network when he was approached by Lamacki, the Chicago bank executive, about potential matches. Unlike some officers, Czworniak has no hesitation about working with civilian volunteers, especially those willing to devote endless hours to cold cases that he cannot get to.

Czworniak says there are hundreds of "Does" in the department files. He is assigned five, including a tall, 30-something man found at the Navy Pier in 2003. Czworniak hopes that the man’s height will help Lamacki or another Network volunteer eventually make an identification.

"She’s like a little bloodhound," says Czworniak, who exchanges e-mails with Lamacki on cases every week and has introduced her to other detectives. "She has the wherewithal and interest and time and she searches these sites I’m not even aware of."

In another sign of the network’s influence, Matthews was asked to serve on a government task force involved in creating the first national online data bank for missing and unidentified.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, NamUS, launched last year, is made up of two databases, one for the missing and one for the unidentified. The goal is to have medical examiners and law enforcement agencies around the country constantly update information on both sites. Next year the sites will be linked and made available for public searching.

No one believes NamUS will put the Doe Network out of business — there will always be a need for people with their expertise to make the necessary connections.

And so, families of the missing will no doubt continue to rely on people like Todd Matthews.

At his house in Livingston, Matthews has built a little nook next to the living room — his "Doe office," he calls it. His desk is laden with pictures of dead bodies. He says he gets many e-mails about cases every week. Every night he scrolls down the lists, searching for new information:

Unidentified White Female. Wore a necklace of silver beads and three small turquoise stones, one resembling a bird. Found in a Calendonia cornfield in New York state in 1979. …

Unidentified White female. Strawberry-blonde hair and 12 infant teeth. Wearing a pink and white dress that buttoned in the back and a disposable diaper. Found Jackson County, Mississippi, 1982. …

Unidentified Black Female. Gunshot wound to the skull. Found next to highway ramp in Campbell County, Tennessee, in 1998…

The last case is close to Matthews’ heart. Sally, he named her, after a Campbell County police officer entrusted him with her skull in 2001.

The police didn’t have the time or means to pay for a clay reconstruction, and so — with the approval of the local coroner — Matthews took the skull to a Doe Network forensic artist. A picture of the reconstructed head was placed on the Network site. The skull sat on Matthews’ desk for over a year, and even Lori, who was at first so horrified she couldn’t look at it, grew fond of Sally. She remains unidentified.

But even Sally cannot take the place of the first Doe, the one who changed Matthews’ life. He still regularly drives to Kentucky, to a lonely plot in Georgetown to visit her.

"She’s family now," he says.

Standing by her grave, he tells of the night in 1998 when, scouring chat rooms for the missing, he stumbled upon a message from Rosemary Westbrook of Benton, Arkansas.

Westbrook sought information about her sister, Bobbie, who was 24 when she went missing 30 years earlier. Bobbie had married a man who worked in a carnival, and she was last seen in Lexington. She had reddish-brown hair and a gap-toothed smile.

Over and over Matthews stared at the message. And in his heart he knew.

Lori, he cried, racing into the bedroom and shaking awake his wife

"I’ve found her. I found Tent Girl."

Weeks later the remains were exhumed. The match was confirmed by DNA.

The family decided to re-inter her in the place that had been her resting spot for so many years. Beneath the stone etched "Tent Girl" they placed a small gray one engraved with her real name, the name that Matthews had restored.

She is Barbara Ann Hackmann, now and for eternity.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

‘Doe Network’ works to give names to the dead
www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/25/doe.network.ap/index.html

The Doenetwork
www.doenetwork.org/

Project EDAN – Everyone Deserves A Name
www.projectedan.us/

Raising the Dead – Wired
www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.08/matthews.html

Tent Girl – Barbara Ann Hackmann
www.angelfire.com/tn3/masterdetective2/

Sketches express softer side of missing women
www.missingpeople.net/sketches_express_softer_side_of.htm

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Sacramento County Child Death Review Team
5-Year Report – 1999-2003

Child abuse deaths plummet – Sacramento Bee
But officials in county can do more to protect kids, a report says.
By Cameron Jahn — Bee Staff Writer
Published April 27, 2005

Excerpt:

"For the first time, researchers plotted child deaths on a map to highlight the county’s areas of greatest need, namely poorer communities in south Sacramento, Rancho Cordova and Del Paso Heights."

HUNDREDS PAY TRIBUTE TO GIRL, LOOK FOR HOPE
May 7, 1997
Section: MAIN NEWS – Sacramento Bee
By Cynthia Hubert Bee Staff Writer

Excerpt:

"Rebecca’s death "can be a seed that can bring life" to others who are suffering, the Rev. Mike Mitchum told the congregation Tuesday.

Mitchum asked parents in the audience, some toting babies and others clutching the hands of toddlers Rebecca’s age, to renew their commitment as mothers and fathers. "We grieve because Rebecca suffered in the very place where she was supposed to find safety. God is grieving tonight as well.

"But I think of Rebecca as a casualty of war. I believe there is a war going on, and it is a battle for the hearts and the minds and the souls of our community." It is a fight against drugs and ignorance and apathy, he said."

"It’s a burden to try to make sense of something that seems so senseless," Mitchum said of Rebecca’s death and her shattered family. "But a lot of the right questions are being asked, and I pray that the commitment to find answers will not die."

I think it has, Reverend.

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KISSimmee or KisSIMMee…either way translates to “small”

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The second day of our vacation got off to a bit of a nerve wracking start. We took a taxi to the Kissimmee train station only to find out that the 91 to Tampa was running a 1/2 hour late. Then it was running an hour late. My nerves were additionally ratcheted up by the repeated warnings that we got that Gasparilla, the Tampa pirate festival, was going to make getting to the ship a nightmare.

Since we had arrived to the train station quite early, and then the train was gong to be quite late, we had quite a bit of time to kill. We walked down the main street of the sleepy Kissimmee downtown and wandered into a Comic Book shop. I picked up the 2nd Volume of the Buffy Season 8 comic and then we stopped at a local deli to pick up some sandwiches for the train.

The train eventually got there and we made it to Tampa only an hour late, but taking the train in Florida was quite interesting. There was this awful white trash woman at the train station talking really loudly and making all sorts of dramatic scenes – all in the course of hanging out with her boyfriend and another couple. Nothing drastic happened – she was just a loud, tacky person. I’ll admit it – nothing makes me more uncomfortable than white trash. I’m sure there are all sorts of reasons for this that probably indicate a need for therapy, but there you have it. So she was making the already nervous wait even more uncomfortable.

Then the Jehovah’s Witnesses showed up.

Luckily they only had time to attempt one conversion before a sedan rolled into the station parking lot and picked them up. And it wasn’t us.

Then on the train there was a loud trashy guy…unrelated to the loud trashy girl. But the really weird thing about him is that he was talking to this mom and little boy on the train and it sort of seemed like he didn’t really know them but was just playing with the little boy. Then he asks the boy (a toddler who could not have been more than 3) if he had seen the front of the train. When the boy responded "no," the guy said he would take him up there and asked the mom if it was okay.

So they disappear for like 20 minutes and the mom finally gets up to go find them. She comes back a few minutes later with them following her, though she’s carrying skittles and a bag of chips, so maybe she’s just gone to the dining car. And sure enough, the guy asks the mom for some skittles and then introduces himself to her. So she let her toddler go off with a complete stranger. Later the guy had the little boy sitting on his lap. Maybe I’m paranoid, but it just seemed creepy.

So, yeah, taking the train from Kissimmee to Tampa was a little different than taking the train down to San Diego!

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55/365 – Hero next door

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Digging, once again, through the 2yo’s toy box and shooting my tried and true new lightbox-ish setup (with a slight modification).
I can’t stand most toddler tv shows but Fireman Sam is one I can handle. I even like the theme song and the 2yo sometimes asks me to sing that to him for his nigh-nigh song. So we rock it.

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Question–: At 18 months old what was your toddler doing?
I am just wondering what my daughter should be doing at this stage.
Specific stuff please.Like was your toddler counting, asking questions about things….etc….
I am a stay at home mom and she is my first child, I have never really been around any other children so just wondering what I should be teaching her and what she should already know.Thanks!
So far she says 19 words
counts to 3
says ABCD
runs & kicks a ball
Understands when I tell her to close the door
puts on her shoes (but cant tie)
she asks where things are ( like,where the baby?)
and other things…..does that sound like she is on track?

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Answer by Melissa
My daughter is 18 months old and here’s what she does:

She walks and runs well. She has 20 words and has 4 signs that she uses (more, eat, please and all done). She feeds herself with a spoon. She understands the concept of “Go get” so if we says “go get your shoes” she listens. She can pretend play with a baby, such as feeding the baby. She can clean up her toys when she’s done playing, and put things back where they belong. She can identify 8 body parts.

I’m a developmental specialist and evaluate babies for a living and my daughter is right on target with what most children her age do, except her language is 3 months ahead. It’s a range of development, evry child is different. Your little one is doing really well.

Answer by Tam wam
well my little girl is 14 nearly 15 months and she walking am in the middle of potty training her witch she does go but only for a wee she say thing like mum, dad, tar, mine, good,drink and kissed she dont have a bottle or dummy no more because she gave them to santa because i told her if she gives santa her dummy and bottle she will get more prezzies ,so she gave it to some ramdom santa and she feeds her self and she under stands what am telling and am just in the middle of leanring her to count at the moment am only up to there but we will get there.
i go to school as well so when am at school my boyfriend has her and i wright down things what needs doing for him to do..

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It’s important to recognize signs of autism early so you can take a proactive stance. talk to a doctor

Answer by ♥Pamela♥
She’s on track.
But there is no normal when it comes to babies, so whatever yours is doing is normal for her.
Take her to mom and toddler groups, these are great places to compare children’s progress- but I go so that my daughter developes the social skills needed before nursery

Answer by julia
I have an 18 month old son and he says close to 30-40 words. He points to different parts of the body that I tell him. He lets us know when he’s pooped or peed. He is repeating a lot. He’s very independent the past couple weeks in trying to feed himself. He tries to say sentences like he’s say: Mama shoes calle <- that means street in spanish which means he wants to go out. He sings ABC's all the way up to G and then picks it up around Q. He counts to 5. He tell me "Up" and "Down" knows the differences and we play games with that... He attacks me with kisses and hugs. He said this week for the first time "I love you" but I am sure he doesn't know what that means... it's b/c I tell him that every morning. You give him a phone and he says "Hello" and starts trying to talk with the words he knows. If he sees Santa he says "hohoho" He know some animal sounds. He's dancing to music if we start dancing. He loves playing hide and seek. He asks for Juice or Leche (means milk in Spanish) or cookie or even more of something by saying "mas" <- spanish for more. I am studying Speech Language Pathology and the Professors noted that it's good to speak to them in as many languages as possible and we are bilingual and he's picking it up.
He's my first and only for now. I love being a mom. God Bless and enjoy

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