Hi everyone, Mark here with an exciting announcement.
Courtney and I have teamed up with our friends from Three Sisters Paranormal to start a ghost
tour company called Appalachian Ghost Tours.
Our first ghost tour is almost here and we couldn't be more thrilled.
We will be investigating the historic Mayberry Mansion in Mayberry, West Virginia on September
13th for the first time ever.
This beautiful mansion with a tragic past will be explored.
So if you have nothing planned for Friday the 13th, come out and join us for an unforgettable
paranormal investigation.
To RSVP, click the link below.
We hope to see you there.
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I'm your host Mark and this is Mountain State Mysteries.
The case I have for you today is about a woman who to the state her identity is still unknown.
This is the case of the Wettell County Jane Doe.
On February 13th, 1983, a senior couple spotted what they thought was a mannequin, but what
they actually found was the body of a white female alongside Route 250 near Littleton,
West Virginia in Wettell County.
The body looked like it was placed here recently and the reason they thought this was due to
a snow that hit the area the night before.
The snow covered everything but the body of the unidentified woman.
From the investigation of the area where her body was found, it looked like tire tracks
and footprints indicated that she was killed in another area.
Police say that she was not a victim of sexual assault, although foul play was known to be
involved in her death.
Police believe that she was killed by a fictiation or strangulation, though it's never really
been confirmed.
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Authorities believe they have at least two possible suspects in the murder of Jane Doe.
One is a stocky white man in his 40s and is roughly 5'10 and 185-200 pounds.
This man was seen in the area and he could have been driving a 1978 or 1980 two-tone
brown Chevrolet pickup truck with a light-colored camper top on it.
The second suspect is a man in prison for multiple murders without the possibility of
parole, but police cannot prosecute him until Jane Doe's identity is known.
Some people actually believe that Jane Doe could really be a victim of the red-headed
murders, also known as the Bible Belt murders.
If you have no idea what the redhead murders case is, well you're in the right place.
The red-headed murders is the name given to a series of unsolved homicides of red-headed
females in the United States between October 1978 to 1992.
The man who committed these homicides is still unknown to this day.
The murders took place in six states, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Kentucky,
and West Virginia.
These are actually unsure how many people were responsible for the murders or if they
were all committed by the same person.
It's believed that there may be five to fourteen victims.
To top it off, the Wettel County Jane Doe isn't the only tie to West Virginia in the
red-headed murders.
On September 16th, 1984, the body of a woman who was identified as 28-year-old Lisa Nichols
who also used the last name Jarvis was found along Interstate 40 near West Memphis, Arkansas.
She only had a sweater on.
She was found to be a resident of West Virginia.
Authorities were not able to identify and contact her family members for some time, indicating
that Lisa was estranged from them.
She was not identified until June of 1985, nine months after she was murdered.
The Wettel County Jane Doe is estimated to have been around 30 years old, 5'5", and
135 pounds.
She was a white female who police believe to have been a frequenter of a bar or an employee
of a bar.
The bar locations include West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and possibly Ohio.
The characteristics of Jane Doe include Auburn hair, a possible caesarean scar on her abdomen,
a mole on her chest, a double pierced ear.
She hasn't officially been labeled a mother because her scars could actually mean that
she could have had surgeries regarding her uterus or her fallopian tubes.
Police also noticed that her toenails were painted orange and that her legs and armpits
were shaved.
This kind of ruled out her being a hitchhiker to them.
Another theory in the case of the Wettel County Jane Doe is the Harry Krishna involvement
in her death.
In the late 1960s, Kurtana Nanda, Swami, founded New Frenda Bond on the outskirts of
Moundsville, West Virginia, a community established a little over 30 miles from where the Wettel
County Jane Doe's body was found.
New Frenda Bond is known for the Palace of Gold, which I've actually been there and
it's absolutely beautiful.
The Palace of Gold is an iconic home for Pro Bullata, the founder of the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness, known in short as Harry Krishna.
The reason for the Harry Krishna involvement in the Wettel County Jane Doe's death stems
from Kurtana Nanda not too long after the community had established following.
Two retired devotees dropped a major bombshell.
They said that Kurtana Nanda and other teachers in New Frenda Bond were sexually abusing children,
experimenting and selling drugs and stealing money from the community.
Not too long after this came out, the two devotees were murdered.
Another devotee who was actually convicted of the murders alleged that he acted on the
order of Kurtana Nanda.
To me, this is just really far fetched that it goes with this case.
Like I've said, I've been to the Palace of Gold in the surrounding area.
You honestly feel nothing but peace, even though there's a lot of people there.
Personally, I think that at the time this was just a rumor that people started and it's
hard to even search this case and not talk about this without mentioning the Harry Krishna
Zena.
Hi everyone, Mark here with an exciting announcement.
Courtney and I have teamed up with our friends from Three Sisters Paranormal to start a ghost
tour company called Appalachian Ghost Tours.
Our first ghost tour is almost here and we couldn't be more thrilled.
We will be investigating the historic Mayberry Mansion in Mayberry, West Virginia on September
13th for the first time ever.
This beautiful mansion with a tragic past will be explored.
So if you have nothing planned for Friday the 13th, come out and join us for an unforgettable
paranormal investigation.
To RSVP, click the link below.
We hope to see you there.
Even though the Wetzel County Jane Doe may not have an identity in 2024, there is somewhat
a happy ending in her story.
When the Wetzel County Jane Doe was released from the medical examiner's office, she was
to be cremated.
However, a couple from Peyton County, West Virginia, decided that they couldn't let her
face such a fate.
The couple adopted the Wetzel County Jane Doe in 1993 and gave her the name Judy Beattie
Doe and she was buried in a donated family plot.
All of Judy's funeral services were donated and almost 30 people attended the burial for
a woman they never knew.
Judy now lays underneath a bronze marble stone that reads, quote, AKA Judy, 1983.
You are unknown to us, but you are known and loved by God, end quote.
As of September 2024, the identity of the Wetzel County Jane Doe is still unknown.
For me, I wish the state of West Virginia had the funding to test DNA like Judy's,
so we could finally get her name back.
If the state of West Virginia could use 23andMe, they could see who Judy is related to and
go from there.
I hope someday in the near future, Judy gets her real name back.
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