308:. On December 23, 2014, her brother, Bill Gerow Jr., received a notification from police that the female in the picture could be his sister. Gerow hadn't been seen since 1980, when she was 20, after she left the state voluntarily with Kalhauser, whom she was in a relationship with. She had reportedly met Kalhauser while at a nightclub. She had never explained the reason for her departure, although her family did believe she had "run off." Her brother stated that she had called him around two to three weeks afterwards while residing in New Mexico. After this occasion, she was never heard from again, although her family continued efforts to locate her. Gerow could not have officially been reported missing due to being over the age of 18 and that she had apparently left on her own accord.
263:. While the FBI had been successful in getting fingerprints from the victim, they were not a match to any missing persons on file or to anyone arrested for a crime. The case was compared to several missing person cases but all were ruled out. To investigators, the style of some of her clothing suggested she could have been involved in the local county fair that had occurred at the time of her murder. Images of the victim's clothing have been featured on websites, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children posters, and in various news reports, in an effort to identify her. The victim had been walking or running through a wooded area before her death, as scratches on her body suggested.
243:. She had been severely beaten, in addition to being sexually assaulted. When found, her body was in an advanced state of decomposition rendering her facially unrecognizable and her eye color undetermined. The pathologist who examined her was able to determine she had a light skin complexion as well as long, light brown to blond hair. The victim also had a noticeable white spot on one of her upper front teeth. She was approximately 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) to 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) tall and weighed around 100–110 pounds (45–50 kg) at the time of her death. Additional evidence at the scene may have been blown away due to winds.
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her DNA. A DNA profile from another individual was extracted from her clothing in 2006, which allowed for a DNA profile of a potential suspect to be created after the sample analysis was completed in 2007. At the time the victim was found, authorities in Tucson were unable to obtain fingerprints. In an effort to obtain her fingerprints, the victim's hands were removed from the body and sent to the
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it to the public. The woman in the photo was stated to resemble the victim's reconstruction and her physical description. The photograph is believed to have been taken between 1979 and 1981, also fitting the time frame in which Jane Doe was found. Kalhauser refused requests from the authorities to identify the woman in the photograph.
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319:second-degree murder
190:Pima County Jane Doe
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