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crime [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign was found July 15 1982 and Blairstown New Jersey
she was given the name of princess so she would not be just another Jane Doe next week will be 40 years
since her body was discovered and there are so many out there that still hope and pray that one day her
headstone will bear her real name after the gruesome discovery of her body and as time marched on in 1982.
princess doe remained unclaimed in the morgue for six months the good people of Blairstown pulled
together their financial resources for a proper burial for the girl today she lies in Eternal rest
in the Cedar Ridge Cemetery steps away from where her half-clothed body was found down a wooded embankment on that
muggy summer day to this day princess Doe's true identity Still Remains unknown her name forever imprinted in cyberspace
on the Warren County prosecutor's office cold case's website The Headstone placed at her current
resting spot was paid for by local donated funds The Headstone simply reads princess Doe
missing from home dead among strangers remembered by all born question mark found
July 15th 1982. this Mr Grand garage foreign there are several law enforcement agencies involved in the investigation
into figuring out who princess doe is who princess doe was and who is the perpetrator of her murder I will read
directly from the prosecutor's website so that we don't misconstrue any of the facts here
and from the Warren County prosecutor's website it states unidentified female known as Princess Doe a deceased female
was found on July 15 1982 in Warren County New Jersey her body was found behind Cedar Ridge Cemetery on Highway
94 located in Blairstown the female had been deceased for less than a week prior to being found
she is 15 to 20 years old she was petite standing approximately five foot two inches tall and weighing 110 pounds now
keep in mind those are both approximate numbers on the weight and the height her
left earlobe was double pierced but no earrings were found it is unknown if her right ear was pierced or not the female
had been treated by a dentist at one point in her life as a few Dental fillings were observed in her teeth
she was found wearing a red v-neck short sleeve shirt and a long red wrap-around
skirt that had peacocks pictured around the lower hem border she was also wearing a gold chain
necklace that had white beads along the chain and an ornate cross pendant images of the skirt and cross are
featured on the prosecutor's website and we will put that on our social media the
thing that we need to point out here too Captain is that facial reconstruction was completed by the national Center for
missing and exploited children forensic artist and depicts what the female or princess doe may have looked like in
life so we have those sketches we have those artist renderings of what they believe princess doe may have looked
like another interesting thing is that she had red nail polish on her right hand only and that she had no known
surgical scars or distinguished birthmarks or tattoos well at least this is what we know of her body we don't
know if there were scars or any marks on her face because she was so badly beaten
in the face I want to cite a wonderful story that was put together by a Natasha colons on the website medium.com and
Natasha titled her article about the princess doe case she titled it the woman who lies dead among strangers it's
a really good read I recommend that everybody check that out on medium.com I'll read a portion of it here which
gives a little more description on the discovery of the body of the remains and this is titled a brutal discovery which
it exactly that's exactly what it was and it reads Cedar Ridge Cemetery is a small Cemetery nestled in the forest of
Blairstown New Jersey off of Highway 94. Blairstown was a farming Community home
to just over 5 000 permanent residents in 1982 and was a quiet little town without many disturbances on July 15
1982 George creese a Gravedigger for Cedar Ridge Cemetery was walking through a wooded area towards the rear of the
cemetery when he came across a horrific discovery lying face up on the bank of a
creek bed was the decomposing body of a young woman she was wearing a red t-shirt and a red
peasant skirt was folded across her legs her face had been bludgeoned to the point that it was unrecognizable and a
gold cross necklace was Tangled in her hair crease notified the police immediately and an investigation began
no identifying possessions were found on the body of the woman and because of how
she was found the case was immediately considered a homicide an autopsy concluded that she had died of blunt
force trauma to her head but the weapon used could not be determined she was found without undergarments but no
evidence of sexual assault could be confirmed because of the state of the decomposition so the killer
unfortunately did not leave any collectible DNA behind at the crime scene there was no evidence of drugs in
Jane Doe's system but the medical examiner initially reported that there was alcohol in her system it was later
discovered that decomposition had made her blood ferment which made it impossible to determine if she was
intoxicated at the time of her death however it was clear that she wasn't incapacitated during the attack because
there were defensive wounds to her arms and hands she had fought back against whoever attacked her it was initially
estimated that Jane Doe later named princess doe had been in the graveyard for two weeks but later
investigators have changed this number to just a few days I guess the moist air around the creek likely sped up the
decomposition and as well as the hot muggy days making it appear as though she had been there for a longer period
of time what we have stated here in this article Captain is that July 11 July 11th is the
approximate date of Princess Doe's death although it is uncertain as to what the
exact day is the other thing that complicates this thing of coming up with the time of death or the date of death
here for princess doe is the article points out that moist air around the creek the location of the cemetery where
she's found plus it's hot muggy days it's July this all kinds of speeds up the process the decomposition process so
while we know that that would speed it up it gets difficult to even determine when
she was placed there so we don't know how much of the decomposition was actually sped up in her situation I mean
we could be talking about any number of situations going on here it's a real mystery and unfortunately there's not a
whole lot of breadcrumbs to lead us anywhere here in this case I mean we could be talking about think about what
we spent so much time talking about here in the garage recently the America's Highway serial killers
some of these victims were transported hundreds of miles if not a thousand miles away from where they were abducted
we don't know where she was killed but we do have investigators who have been on the record saying we believe she was
killed elsewhere and then eventually placed in the cemetery where she was found but
because it was such a remote location too we don't know if she was found within a day or so of being dumped there
or a week or more right and so I I think that I would be hesitant to put July 11
as the approximate date of death I think that it's interesting that they give us
one they provide us with one but I would if that were my job I would not be wanting to put my stamp on that I think
there's too many factors and variables to consider when trying to come up with that that
window and again I keep going back to our America Highway serial killer episodes and thinking she's found right
off of Highway 94. there's a chance that that's not a coincidence that somebody drove this
person drove this victim killed them elsewhere days before and then transported them and and placed her
there where she was ultimately found well the other problem in this case is going to be because she was so badly
beaten in the face that they're not able to figure out what her eye color would be so another
identifier that we just don't have the information for and weirdly enough man we have a situation here where she's
found in a cemetery and then later buried in the same Cemetery so the the townspeople of the good people of
Blairstown New Jersey they pulled together their funds and they decided to give her a proper burial with a
headstone but to me it's a little creepy she's being found in this cemetery and then later buried there as well
I'm guessing here captain that they're I don't know what this Creek is like in this location it's likely that it's
not big enough or powerful enough for her to have been deposited by the creek you know that she was dumped in a larger
body of water or and somehow the water carried her here it doesn't seem like any of the investigators believe that to
be a scenario worth considering so I'm gonna have to go off of the fact that they've never mentioned that plus there
would there should be more evidence of her being in a river or being in water for a considerable amount
of time before she's found in this location one item of concern to me and this would be very helpful to our little
armchair investigation here Captain our little garage investigation if you will I would like to know from this George
crease and I hope that I'm saying his name correctly he's a Gravedigger a caretaker for this Cedar Ridge Cemetery
he's the one that found her body on July 15 1982 I would like to know from him if he
could tell us when he believed the last time he was in that exact location of the cemetery right because then we could
probably narrow it down a little bit better as to when she was placed there and maybe that's information that the
medical examiner has and the investigators have and they are taking that into consideration when they
provide us with this date of approximate death of July 11. and if you look at the
Cedar Ridge Cemetery on a map an aerial view of the cemetery will show you that the location where she is found
is is rather on the fringes of the cemetery itself like I wouldn't even consider that to be
it's probably belongs to the cemetery but it's so close to the creek and in in the start of this wooded area
that I would like to know you know if George could recall one what days of the week is he there is
he there by appointment only it doesn't sound to me like this is a job that he's
there Monday through Friday every week but also take into Factor when were you in this location of the cemetery because
her body's found in a spot where you could be there you could be working you could be there visiting a past family
member and not see it wouldn't be obvious that there was a body there it was somewhat concealed to
concealed from State Route 94 anyway and there's several reconstruction images the the one that's in color
by the NC MEC to me she looks like Kat Von D remember that tattoo artist that had a
show a tattoo show I do not Kat Von D she also was famously uh dated Nikki Sixx I think she also dated
um Jesse James so but but looks very similar to to this uh artist rendering and there
are so many different agencies as we pointed out earlier that have been involved at times with this
investigation I've been told that the proper people to contact should you have any information would be the New Jersey
State Police but we also reference the Warren County prosecutor's office and Nick Mech they've worked with the
national Center for missing and exploited children as well and then we have the doe Network so there's a lot of
information on this case even though we don't know who she was or have very little clue as to who she could have
been but I do want to point out that depending on which Outlet you get your news from or your information from I
should say the information is a little different on each of these websites so if we're
looking at princessdot.org which is a very comprehensive right website it's it's
substantial there's a lot of stuff going on there a lot of good information I don't know when the last time it was
updated it looks like it may have been a couple years since it was last updated but on that website we get a little bit
of different information that we want to point out because the best chance of figuring out who she was would be to
crowdsource this thing and this is something that they've been trying to do since the 80s to crowdsource this to
figure out who she could have been and on the princessdo.org site it says the victim was found with red nail polish on
the right hand only as the captain pointed out but here it says both ears were pierced where on the Warren County
website it states that they could not determine this says both ears were pierced the left ear or twice
so some some differing information here well the information I found is that they found
two earrings in her left ear and then they go on to State this seems to be pretty hardcore fact here uh and
everybody seems to be agreeing on this information no known surgical scars birthmarks or tattoos were found on her
person scars or marks on the head face area would not be known due to the condition of the body it also goes on to
state that the the front two teeth are slightly darker than the other teeth dental records are available for
comparison so that's good they have some dental records which has come to help clear other potential persons that could
be princess doe that they've determined based off of dental records that the person is not princess dough well
another identifying factor is that this victim has never given birth nor been pregnant so she wasn't pregnant at the
time and she's never given birth before so this is when they start trying to age
her and that's they're putting her between you know 14 to 18 years old yeah that varies Again by website I've seen
14 to 18 that seems to be the majority consensus but I've also seen 15 to 20 on other
websites I think just to play it safe let's say 14 to 20 here based off of everybody's speculation what's really
frustrating to me again is these images you can find a lot of these if you just Google search princess Dough online but
to me a lot of the images just look like completely different people so it's kind
of throws you it'd be really hard to compare and contrast you know a photograph of somebody with
these drawings well and the other thing that we need to keep in mind and I want everybody to to remember this at all
times when you're when you're thinking of possible theories when we're going through some other situations here
trying to fill in the blanks keep in mind no one has come forward to identify her or to claim her
that's a big part of this mystery and to me I think that that is what likely holds the key the answer to this mystery
but let's go through some of the timeline here and this is based off of the timeline from
princessdoe.org July 15 1982 is when the unidentified body is found who she would
later be known as Princess doe she's laid to rest six months later so January 22nd 1983 is when she is laid
to rest in a grave not far from the location where her body was originally discovered at the Cedar Ridge Cemetery
now she's named princess Doe by the investigators and by the good people of Blairstown New Jersey because they
didn't want her to just be another Jane Doe so this is a way to distinguish her from other Jane does part of that being
her young age you know they believe that she could possibly be a child we said it
earlier as young as 14 maybe as old as 20 right but she was also somebody that was in good health and well taken care
of or took care of herself leading up to her death so this wasn't somebody that was malnourished or never been to the
dentist or anything like that some situations that we have covered in other cases
in 1983 HBO airs a special about unidentified human remains and features the princess doe case this is also the
same year when Princess doe becomes the first unidentified person case entered into the ncic computer database by the
FBI the next month in July of 83 is when we have the unveiling of a life-like bust
of Princess doe based off of the interpretations of the remains so as the captain pointed out over the years we
will have different sketches different computer Composites of the victim and also we have this lifelike bust that is
put together right now in 1985 something really interesting happens in this case
and and something that that really I think still we sit here and we're we're 40 years later we're one week from being
40 years to the date of when Princess doe was found but this is something that also
needs cleared up even though it took place in 1985 so starting in 1985 investigators in New Jersey became
convinced that princess doe was Diane die a teenager who went missing from San Jose California in 1979.
so Diane dye ran away from home there were problems at home and she decided to take off
now they are believing that three years later she's found unidentified Beat to Death bludgeoned to death in New Jersey
and she could be princess Doe now Diane dye was 13 at the time of her disappearance so she would have fallen
kind of perfectly into that age range and the height and weight range of Princess doe so this was a bit of a
debate right we had the dye family that says no we don't believe that that princess doe is our missing little girl
we believe that she's probably still alive and well and just doesn't want to come home we don't believe or have any
reason to suspect that she made it all the way to New Jersey but see then you have to argue
what we were just talking about earlier this is right next to Highway 94 right is it a possibility that she was killed
hundreds of miles away that she didn't make her own way to New Jersey the person responsible for her murder made
her way to New Jersey my big issue with this whole concept though is that Diane dye's family doesn't believe that
princess doe is her yes and there was as said a lot of debate there was not just
debate between the dye family and law enforcement there was debate Within law enforcement itself well law
enforcement made an announcement publicly I mean I I think that's very irresponsible well right and we should
point out that that was one person decided to do that that kind of went off on their own yeah one dumbass without
permission without proper evidence without anything kind of sealing the deal here because what we would later
learn in 2003 they were able to make a DNA comparison from the dye family to princess doe and
it was determined that the two were completely unrelated right so no chance that Diane dye is Princess doe what what
boggles my mind is that that was left open-ended for so long from 1985 to 2003 before
they could determine that it was in fact not Diane dye and as you stated Captain some someone
in law enforcement says publicly that princess doe was Diane dye it still remains to this day that there
are a lot of people out here and out there that once knew of this case and believed that at least the identity
portion of it is solved and still believe that princess doe is or was Diane dye and we're here to tell you
that is not the case at all this these are scientific facts that prove that die and die is not princess Doug
oh foreign Vegas yes we will be in Nashville this weekend at the wonderful fat bottom Brewing
Company yes drinking beers shaking hands talking to the people fun times a real quick thing too if you
want to check out that missing the HBO documentary fascinating information on this case but also on the Johnny Cash
case now that we've cleared up the whole Diane die angle of this investigation let's jump back in time two years prior
to 1983. this is when police released photos of the clothing that princess doe was wearing at the time of her death uh
and that she was found still wearing when her body was discovered this is because they believe that the clothing
was somewhat unique and hoping that somebody would recognize the clothing and then come forward with information
about who princess doe could have been now we should also point out that initially
and this makes sense anybody that's reviewed any murder case will know that initially the Blairstown police they
believed that it was going to be a local girl when she was first discovered but then very quickly after a couple of days
of nobody coming forward to identify her now they start going well we're going to
have to expand our our thoughts and considerations here on who this could be it could be somebody from a nearby Town
nearby City or even out of state I wish that they would have I understand holding on to this information I
understand not wanting to release it until you feel like you have to but I also look on these things with hindsight
and I say I think that you waited too long you know we we do in this case have people coming forward saying oh that
clothing well that that reminds me of something here's some information for you but I'm wondering what kind of
information and how much better could the information have been had You released these photographs earlier you
know people forget stuff things get lost in people's memories things get lost in
time but they do have people that come forward after they release the photos of this clothing that
princess doe is wearing one of the witnesses claimed that she had seen a woman the woman princess doe at a store
near the cemetery right another set of witnesses confirm this saying that they had seen a woman at a
grocery store two days before the murder so I'm guessing this is before July 11th
1982. they're saying that she was wearing her hair in a bun at the time and reportedly
had a stoic expression like him GK unfortunately none of these Witnesses said that they spoke with the woman but
they did they were all certain that it was Princess doe that they had seen based off of this unique clothing
now another witness revealed that she had seen very similar clothing to what Jane Doe
princess doe was wearing in a clothing store on Long Island the witness was certain that her
clothing had been bought in Long Island and so police began investigating disappearances in that area they also
checked school records for a girl matching the princess Doe's description but no further leads were found there
were some eyewitnesses that believe that princess doe was working at a motel yes
one of these Witnesses state that this was a motel near Blairstown New Jersey this witness said that they actually
spoke to the woman and said that they were told by her that she was a runaway from Florida
and that her father was a dentist and that she was looking for work and that she's also anti-dentite well and then we
have others that come forward from various motels over in New York also in New Jersey and in Maryland
that are coming forward saying that we think that we saw her working at motel over there if in fact this was Princess
doe it sounds to me Captain like she must have been living under some different aliases at the time because
this information while we only have bits and pieces of it I'm sure law enforcement have a significant amount
more and they've not been able to tie this information to an identification of Princess doe yeah we don't know for sure
if it was a hotel motel Holiday Yin well so it wasn't like there was no press or nobody talking
about this case but it had its Ebbs and flows but we're going to have some significant break or
at least some significant information in this case 17 years later in 1999. yeah so this is when we have an arrest that
that would seemingly be unrelated to our case and the arrests of a Donna crinlaw
and so she is arrested for fraud she's committing fraud and she's a bit of a career criminal well
her husband Arthur who's a few years older than her is a bit of a career criminal as well now from my
understanding here Captain Donna was picked up in California I believe but was originally from New Jersey or from
the New Jersey area and she stating that they had committed some crimes in that area before she left and was committing
fraud in California and they were running I say they her and her husband according to Donna were
running a sex trafficking operation or a sex ring where they had working girls sex workers that were
either employed by them or forced into working for them it's a little unclear and I think you'll understand why once
we start going through some of this information but Donna is telling law enforcement
that she believes that her husband is the one that killed princess doe that was responsible for her murder stating
that she was a [ __ ] princess at the time of her arrest she's stating that the couple was angered when the woman now
known as Princess doe refused to work for them as a prostitute and she said that her husband left with
the girl and didn't come back with her now why would she suspect that he had killed her well because she had
witnessed or been a part of her husband Arthur killing two other girls and now these other victims one is known
as Linda but again that's Linda with quotation marks so they don't know that Linda was her
actual first name and their other victim is believed to be Suffolk County Jane Doe so let's point
out something here Captain that's rather obvious first off we have this couple that confesses first
the wife confesses and then the husband confesses to being the the perpetrator of the murder of Princess Doe
this is going to be highly debated amongst law enforcement what is in their favor for them telling
the truth in this situation would be that their other victims still remain unidentified they were unidentified at
the time that they were found right and the other victims share similar injuries that we have with
Princess Doe so that is in their favor of them telling the truth however we have
investigators who are on the record that state that they don't believe that the crin laws killed princess doe based off
of the confession that they received it doesn't align with the facts of the case
the facts that they know about the case the other thing too that I want to point
out here as well is if our princess doe was killed by a stranger or somebody that wanted to harm her what I would
suspect I'm not saying it would have to happen or be 100 percent but I would suspect
that somebody that knew her that loved her or even once knew her or once loved her would have come forward by now and
said hey I think that that is my missing daughter or my missing niece or my missing right sister anybody like that I
think would have come forward and because we have no one coming forward to claim princess doe as being somebody
to me where I think the suspicion lies is that very likely somebody that was very close to her is responsible for her
murder and we've seen this with some other cases that we've reviewed here in the
garage where you get somebody that's estranged from their family and they're killed by a husband or a
boyfriend or a fiance right and placed out somewhere if they're not identified that
these family members aren't coming forward she may have already been estranged from her family maybe even a
runaway yeah or running from an abusive situation but we've reviewed plenty of cases where a husband boyfriend or
fiance who live states away from the victim's family will even contact the victim's family at some
point maybe months later and say hey yeah she uh she took off she started running around on me and she took off
last time I I was aware she was in Maryland or she was in Michigan and they start throwing out these different
states of where this person could be now I am in agreeance with the speculation against the crinlaws Arthur and Donna
because the the injuries to their other victims are damn near spot on to what we have with
Princess dough but again we have investigators saying that they don't know the facts of the case their
confessions don't align with the facts of the case their confessions only align with the publicly known knowledge the
publicly known information that has been released in her case and keep in mind too I think with Princess doe we're
probably talking about the likelihood of some kind of sexual assault is I would put it on the high
probability end of the spectrum here of our investigation based off of the fact that she's not
found with any undergarments on her person even though they could not determine that because of the
decomposition I think that that is probably the case and probably the situation here but Again difficult thing
here is because some people confess to crimes they don't commit and they have other victims that they don't have the
identities for so it's possible that this guy did kill somebody in the cemetery it's just not princess doe it's
possible the crinlaws killed more than just the two people that they are Donna crinlaw is out the last time I
checked she was she's out on the street she's a free woman at this point but the
Arthur crinlaw remains in prison to this day I'm guessing based off of the two murders that he's locked up for that
it's very likely that he has committed more murders and I think where we probably have some disconnect could be
that Donna crinlaw the wife could be confusing princess doe with another woman who her husband killed I think
with his confession the problem becomes you know did he kill some other girl somewhere in a cemetery
again the investigators are stating that they do not believe that she was killed
in the cemetery they believe she was killed elsewhere in the place there and then on top of that
we have him saying that I killed her and and placed her in that Blairstown Cemetery so it would be difficult to
believe that that he's confusing one victim with another here when we have this specificity of his statements of
that Blairstown Cemetery interestingly enough it's believed that it was the potential Fame
that they might have been seeking with being connected to the princess doe case that we already have a situation where
they've murdered where he's going to be locked up for at least two homicides and
their homicides are somewhat similar to what they've read coming out of New Jersey and that is if he's going to be
locked up for two anyway he might as well get some Fame and notoriety from being connected to what is a
famous victim with this princess doe yeah it's sad when these ship bags will confess to a crime that they might have
had nothing to do with just so it's it's almost like they're getting a trophy and
look at me look at me give me attention now some of the identifiers are possible
identifiers on princess dough are really interesting to me I'm wondering here like with the fingernail polish on one
hand but not on the other hand right is this something that was deliberate you know I've heard it suggested that well
maybe maybe the killer put nail polish on one hand for whatever weird reason or maybe she removed nail polish but I know
several women that will purposely wear nail polish it doesn't match you know maybe the the toenails are done
different than the fingernails or they'll do multiple colors on different fingernails and so I wonder if it was
just simply a style thing for this young woman that she preferred to paint only one hand if that was something that she
commonly did that would be a little unique that would be a way to potentially identify her if anybody was
friends with with a girl at one time that that was known to have done that only paint one hand well we know the
location that she was found I think this is definitely a case that if the True Crime Community got behind and shared
her picture enough that maybe we could could get somebody to come forward and say that that was my sister that was my
cousin or or or something well and we talk about possible identifiers and I know we've rolled out the Diane die
connection here but what's weird to me man if you look at the Diane die picture and one of the pictures that was
generated by Nick Mac the national Center for missing and exploited children of Princess doe
they're eerily similar they're eerily similar so I can see why somebody started to put that together but again
we know that to be not the case but you think with the advancements and technology for DNA that would be able to
at least link this princess doe back to a family right and you wonder if that's how we're going to end up solving this
thing because again I really think that I think that her not being all right she's not connected to any
missing person if she was we would be having a whole different conversation there is a chance that whoever she was
she was actually reported to be missing but on the flip side of that coin there's also the possibility that she's
never been reported missing to anyone and therefore if that ends up being the case I would have to strongly suspect
the person closest to her that being a father or a mother a brother a husband a boyfriend a fiance
fancy the person closest to her is probably responsible for her murder would be my belief now there
is some interesting things here though still and some potential leads with this isotope testing and we've seen this in
some other cases and the barrel doe cases that we've talked about where they do testing on the remains and based off
of chemicals and other sorts of things they can determine or take an educated guess as to where the person may have
lived for an extended period of time right and when they do the isotope testing on princess doe what they come
up with is that she likely lived for a considerable amount of time in the state of Arizona so that information that they
come up with actually puts her in multiple States but with them saying that the the strongly most suspected
state would be that she lived for an extended period of time in Arizona the other thing though too is I don't think
we can discount these possible sightings of her living in the area right we have multiple witnesses
that come forward after seeing the clothing saying that oh I spoke with a young woman that worked at a motel that
worked in the New Jersey area New York area Ocean City is strongly mentioned so is Long Island and those locations are
really interesting to me too for several reasons one part of the crinlaw's confession
states that they meet this woman that wanted some work and so they're going to try to make her a sex worker and she
threatens to rat them out to police and that is what pissed off Arthur to the point that he kills this young woman the
thing the thing that's interesting to me about the crinlaw confession though is that it does coincide with some of these
possible eyewitnesses who said that they saw and spoke with somebody leading up to the discovery of Princess Dove that
they may have spoke to princess Doe so that that story kind of goes along with it now
the strong suspicions to this day Captain are that the crin laws were not involved in Princess Doe's murder right
that princess doe likely lived for a considerable amount of time in the state of Arizona may have been a run away from
the state of Florida and her father may have been a dentist all based off of these eyewitness statements and some
information that they've collected over the years but we have law enforcement who are on record saying we don't
believe the crinlaw's confession however we believe and we have reason to believe
that princess doe may have lived or worked on Long Island in New York which does go along with part of crinlaw's
confession but again law enforcement stating everything in crinlaw's confession is based off of
public knowledge public information stuff they could have read in the newspapers
what is weird to me here Captain is 1982. you're weird to me still unidentified right
is this I like the idea of linking this to somebody else right like someone like
crinlaw who's killed other people in similar Fashions and disposed of the bodies in similar manners
I like connecting it to somebody else I also I I cannot shake the idea that it could be a trucker who was traveling the
region or even cross-country and that is the reason why we've we've got a disconnect between linking victim to who
she actually was right the unidentified remains to the missing person I think that's a strong possibility the other
thing that keeps nagging at me your mother is the Long Island serial killer Yes we
have Long Island serial killer victims that are still unidentified to this day the way that the remains were found
in the Long Island case would suggest that they were killed these victims were killed in a manner other than bludgeoned
to death from everything I read that would be the suspicion I don't think they've come right out and said how
exactly how these victims were killed but I find it interesting that this happens
in 82 we still have some unidentified persons in the Lisk case the Long Island serial killer case
Blairstown New Jersey not terribly far away they believe that there's a connection to Long Island or to Ocean
City I think Ocean City is in Maryland so in that general area there are people that have also suggested that maybe this
might be one of Joel rifkin's earlier kills that could make some sense Joel rifkin's
a weird one for me because he doesn't seem to he will confess to some things but I also believe that he's holding a
lot back I think there's other people that he has killed and has held back that information and
and chose not to confess to an extra murder or two than what we know him to be responsible for well it'll make sense
if this victim is as young as 14. right and he's not willing to confess to certain things so uh do we have a
situation where she's found in New Jersey and he doesn't want to be prosecuted or charged by a different
jurisdiction then his other crimes took place I have this I'm not saying that that I think that it's connected but I
have this nagging sneaky sneaking suspicion that that Long Island serial killer someone some type
of serial killer that was active in this general area in this region you said region at one point or another is
responsible for this princess doe it could be could be their first kill or could be one of their earlier kills
that's not been connected the other thought too is that and this is a strong theory in this case is that whoever is
responsible for this is already locked up for another crime potentially another murder
yeah the problem with Rifkin to his and and again he could have more more victims but it seems like he didn't
start killing until the late 80s and obviously princess doe is early 80s victim on the princess doe website the
website dedicated to her case into helping determine her identity they got a couple of interesting pages
on there Captain one is a theories page and one is a questions and answers page and I'm not going to go through
everything on both of those pages because we've kind of discussed some of those just in in our general discussion
here today but some of the unsubstantiated prevailing theories in this case are again that she's a a
possible runaway that was known to have worked in Ocean City Maryland again this is inconclusive but it's a
it's a a theory that remains strong to this day at least amongst some and there are other theories that she
was uh run away from Florida estranged from her family again this is based off of those eyewitness statements that came
forward in 1983. there is unsubstantiated claims that maybe she was a local sex worker that worked at
the truck stop uh or at local businesses again not confirmed just a theory this one seems
interesting to me though I I tend to believe that she's probably not does not have deep roots in this general area or
any general area nearby where she was eventually found I think if that were the case that we probably wouldn't be
sitting here almost 40 years later still wondering about the identity of our victim and one of the questions on
the website is who is currently handling this investigation and is it still active answer that they provide again
this would be from I believe 2017 so we're going a little bit back here but according to the information that they
have on their site Captain it says the Warren County prosecutor's office is currently handling this case and yes the
case is active and being investigated and pursued now that would still coincide with the information that we
found on the Warren County prosecutor's office website and then a great question that is asked
on this case what forensic evidence is available and the answer that they provide is hair fingernails fingerprints
DNA and teeth have all been collected into evidence the DNA has been entered into the Nationwide CODIS database one
of the other questions that's interesting to me here captain and I I referenced earlier that maybe this could
be tied to a person who has killed other female victims is the question that says does the
princess doe case have anything to do with the tiger lady question mark so the answer is the tiger
lady a is a woman who is unidentified a Bengal tattoo was found on her calf uh so that is how she gets this name of
the nickname of tiger lady she was found nearby uh I guess this is Knowlton Township
in 1991. now law enforcement has stated that they do not believe that the cases are related but there is this strong
suspicion because you have these two victims yes found mind you nine years apart but relatively close to one
another and the same county of Warren County New Jersey and we have two of them who are still unidentified
I think it's pretty simple to me again if we could do some DNA testing and connect her to a family because the
other problem too is the person that could identify her is possibly also the person responsible for
her death and that's why they haven't came forward to identify her and that is my strong belief my my strong suspicion
there and I think you're exactly right here captain let's get some DNA testing some familial
DNA genealogy work detective work going on this look there's there's several agencies out there there's several of
these Labs out there that that can do all of this work in-house from start to finish for you and we already referenced
that this case is well known you know it's it's a it was known Nationwide HBO covered it uh America's
Most Wanted cover several outlets have covered it over the years and if you want to get your name in the
papers for solving a big case and pointing out that hey this is a service and a technology that we offer that we
can sell to people this is a great way to get your name out there and I'm hoping that there are
these Labs that are coming forward and offering their services to the great state of New Jersey now from the Warren
County prosecutor's office website and I know that this is a problem in a lot of
counties we talked about this in our Sam little case we talked about it in our America's Highway serial killer
cases that we covered four-part series but for Warren County they seem to have a bit of a problem with unidentified
remains we know that they have princess doe who was found July 15 1982 in Warren
County New Jersey found behind the Cedar Ridge Cemetery on Highway 94 located in Blairstown New
Jersey we also referenced tiger lady who was recently identified and this is interesting too here Captain because
this is a laboratory that's more than capable of coming up with some answers in our princess doe case so in July of
2021 Bodie Laboratories in Virginia was able to locate family members of the deceased victim known as tiger lady
using genealogy the deceased female was positively identified as Wendy Luis Baker Wendy Baker traveled through
multiple States prior to being found in the gravel parking lot area along Route 94 in Knowlton Township Warren County I
would like to know what states she was known to have been traveling through because I I get it that it's nine years
later but is that the problem that we have in identifying princess doe was she from another state could she be from one
of the states that Wendy Baker was known to have traveled through and then in 2017 we had some human remains that were
discovered by law enforcement as well this was freaky stuff here man the police responded to a call that somebody had
discovered a shoe that still had a foot in it so this was a woman's size 7 Reebok sneaker that contained a gray
colored crew sock and exposed lower leg bones was recovered by the uh sorry recovered May
2017 and again there's additional information on the Warren County prosecutor's website
but what can we do other than shine some light on this case here in the garage what what we can do is share these
images with people on social media asking for help though there'll be images on our website at
truecrowngarage.com and also hopefully we can put some pressure on law enforcement to do these tests to
identify this victim and hopefully Bodhi or somebody like Bodhi Technologies Bodhi Laboratories will reach out to
Warren County and offer their services free of charge and the captain's exactly right we need
to we need to share we need to view and share the images of Princess doe but what's also very important is that we
view share and review and share the information in Princess Doe's case because again because of how badly this
victim was beaten we're they're kind of guessing as to what she looked like so that might be part of the problem too
just based off of uh off of looking at our victim or what she may have looked like nobody's connected any dots I think
that the information of the items the clothing that was found on her and where she was found the time frame
all of that is just as important if not might be more important in this case than the actual composite sketches of
Princess doe now if anybody does have any information out there again it's the Warren County who is actively pursuing
this case so you're going to want to get in touch with the Warren County prosecutor's office and their phone
number is 908-475-6275 or you can email at Cold Case co.warren.nj.us what is thank you so much for joining us here in
the garage we're excited to be heading down to Nashville and you can hear all about it if you're subscribed to off the
Record we'll be talking about it next week Colonel do we have any recommended reading for the beautiful listeners yes
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On July 15th, 1982 a grave digger at the Cedar Ridge Cemetery in Blairstown New Jersey made a gruesome discovery. On the very edge of the grounds near highway 94 in a wooded area near a creek he found the body of a young female. She had been bludgeoned to death and left there for an indeterminate amount of time. The good people of local law enforcement and the people of Blairstown named her “Princess Doe.” Unfortunately we are coming up on forty years since she was killed and we still do not know the true identity of Princess Doe. This topic led us to many other topics while exploring the theories surrounding the mystery of Princess Doe. Those topics include but were not limited to - The crimes of Arthur and Donna Kinlaw, The “Tiger Lady” who’s remains were found in 1991 along highway 94, The Long Island Serial Killer and Joel Rifkin. For more info go to PrincessDoe.org

If you have any information please help by contacting the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office. Call 908-475-6275 or email - Coldcase@co.warren.nj.us

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Brief Summary

The episode covers the unsolved murder of Princess Doe and the ongoing efforts to identify her and find her killer.

Key points

Community Support for Princess Doe. The townspeople of Blairstown provided funds for a proper burial for Princess Doe.
The Mystery of Princess Doe. Princess Doe, found in 1982, remains unidentified, sparking ongoing investigations.
The Brutal Discovery. The gruesome discovery of Princess Doe's body raises many questions about her identity.
The Mystery of Princess Doe. Investigators believe Princess Doe could be Diane Dye, missing since 1979, but the family disagrees.
Confessions and Doubts. Donna Crinlaw claims her husband killed Princess Doe, but investigators question the validity of their confessions.
Unidentified Victims. Many victims from the Long Island case remain unidentified to this day.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

She lies in eternal rest in the Cedar Ridge Cemetery.

Description of Princess Doe's burial.

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