page_title: List of unidentified murder victims in California
section_title: Tujunga Jane Doe (1994)
hierarchical_section_title: List of unidentified murder victims in California / Tujunga Jane Doe (1994)
caption_attribution_description: English: Artist sketch of what Tujunga Jane Doe may have looked like in life. Sketch by Marilyn Droz.
context_page_description: In California, there are many murder victims in the category of unidentified decedents, whose identities remain unknown. In most of these cases, their murderers have never been identified.
context_section_description: The victim, estimated to have been between 14-24 years old, was located on August 7, 1994 at 11:25 PM. She had been strangled and set on fire. She was found lying in a vacant dirt parking lot 60 feet north of La Tuna Canyon Road in the Sunland-Tujunga neighborhood in Los Angeles County, California. A passerby noticed what they thought was a pile of trash on fire, stopped to kick some dirt on it and realized it was actually a body. By the time firefighters arrived at the scene, her body was partially burned. She had been deceased for several hours prior to discovery. Detectives suspect that she was strangled somewhere else before her body was dumped and set on fire. The fire was an attempt to hide the identity of the victim.
  She is believed to have been Hispanic, possibly Asian (Filipina), White/Caucasian, or Admixed. She is estimated to have been 5’2” – 5’6” tall and weighed approximately 133 pounds. She had black, shoulder-length hair that was tied back with a rubber band. She was wearing a medium-length dark brown “New Born Free” wig. She had brown eyes. She had a ¾” horizontal scar on her forehead, just above her right eyebrow. She had small moles across the entirety of her forehead. She had extensive dental work, with at least ten fillings and restorations. She had a gap between her two front teeth, gaps between other teeth and some teeth were crooked.
  She was wearing tan/brown Levi's slacks (size small), a black and red flower-print blouse or dress (size medium), a white bra (possibly an “A-cup”), white panties, two yellow metal hoop earrings (one in each ear), a yellow metal chain necklace with a medallion depicting Jesus Christ in a crown of thorns, a yellow metal ring on her right pinky finger, and a v-shaped yellow metal ring with a small white stone on her left ring finger. A math book and LA Gear tennis shoes were also found with the remains. It is likely that the victim was Catholic. She is sometimes referred to as Jane Doe #41.
  The case is handled by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner. Her dental charts and fingerprints are available for comparison to missing persons. There is insufficient DNA for profiling.
caption: Artist sketch of what Tujunga Jane Doe may have looked like in life. Sketch by Marilyn Droz.
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