And there were no missing child reports that fit. He determined that there was no evidence to support that foul play was or was not involved in the child's death. The anthropologist stated that the child was probably a Caucasian female, from three to five years of age, who had been dead anywhere from one to 13 years at the time of discovery. Head hair was medium brown in color and measured approximately 7 inches in length. The remains had miscellaneous shards of unidentifiable clothing of off-white coarse weave cotton and possibly a dark blue or gray loose weave blanket.
Cause of death is undetermined.
It was determined that the child suffered a possible broken neck after she died. The photo above was taken from a reconstruction of the skull recently completed by Charlie Hodges, a former Phoenix Police Homicide Detective and now a criminal investigator for the Maricopa County Attorney's office. Hodges has reconstructed 12 faces in the past eight years, and in half those cases the victims was identified. In several cases the killer was arrested. This case was reopened because the Tempe Police Department recently received a federal grant to pay for reexamining unsolved homicides.