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PRINCESS BLUE: F, 15-19, found in Brazoria County, TX - 10 Sept 1990 - Robert E. Lee High School class ring

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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:40 pm

Princess Blue's body was found under a pile of brush and a tire by a man who stopped to relieve himself. She wore several rings, including the class ring that was found. She was likely deceased for around a year, which indicated that the ring did not belong to her originally.

She was thought to be Hispanic, but was later found to be White with African-American heritage, most likely having at least one Black grandparent. Because of this, the sketches may not be accurate.
http://unidentified.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_Blue


Because of her African-American genetics, I think we should look at Lydia Ellis or Evelyn Miller. Evelyn Miller appears to be heavier than the other girls.


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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:41 pm

It was our understanding that the ring was estimated to have been resized twice to upsize it. For this reason, we are looking for a female who would have worn an estimated size 9 1/2 ring. 9 1/2 is a large ring size for a young woman.(http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/137uftx.html).
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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:42 pm

This is Lydia Ellis from Robert E. Lee High School. The photographs from the family records and the high school yearbook match. According to these records, Lydia Doris Ellis was born on July 12, 1956 and she died Feb 29, 1980.

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Name: Lydia Doris Ellis [Lydia Ellis]
SSN:465944994
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Birth Date: 12 Jul 1956
Birth Place: Houston Harr, Texas
Death Date: Feb 1980
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: May 1968: Name listed as LYDIA DORIS ELLIS; 04 Jan 1988: Name listed as LYDIA ELLIS



Name: Lydia Ellis
SSN: 465-94-4994
BORN: 12 Jul 1956
Last Benefit: 77008, Houston, Harris, Texas, United States of America
Died: Feb 1980
State (Year) SSN issued: Texas (1968)


NAME: Lydia Doris Ellis
BIRTH DATE: 12 Jul 1956
DEATH DATE: 29 Feb 1980
CEMETERY: Riceville Cemetery
BURIAL OR CREMATION PLACE: Harris County, Texas, USA
HAS BIO?: N
MOTHER: Lillie B Ellis

Name: Lydia Doris Ellis
Date of Birth: 12 Jul 1956
Gender: Female
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: George Quinn Ellis
Mother's name: Lillie Bell Flix
Roll Number: 1956_0005

Name: Lydia Ellis
Birth Date: 12 Jul 1956
Birth Place: Texas
Gender: Female
Race: Negro(Black)
Residence: Houston, Harris, Texas
Father: George Ellis
Mother:Lillie Flix
Age at Death: 23
Death Date: 29 Feb 1980
Death Place: Houston, Harris, Texas, USA
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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:43 pm

This marriage record shows that Lydia Ellis married Howard G. Green on May 30, 1975. This would have been a week or so after her high school graduation. It shows her death date as February 29, 1980, which is the same as the record above for Lydia Doris Ellis.


Name: Lydia Ellis
Death Date: 29 Feb 1980
Death County: Harris
Name: Lydia D Ellis
Gender: Female
Birth Year: abt 1957
Age: 18
Marriage Date: 30 May 1975
Marriage Place: Harris, Texas, USA
Spouse: Howard G Green Jr
Spouse Gender: Male
Spouse Age: 19
Source: Texas Marriage Index, 1966-2002


These two birth records show two daughters born to Lydia Ellis and Howard Green. One daughter was born in September of 1975 and the second daughter was born in October of 1981. This would be the correct age for Princess Blue, except the parents of this daughter couldn't be Lydia Ellis and Howard Green because Lydia died on February 29, 1980. In these records, Lydia Ellis, wife of Howard Green, is using the name Lydia Darlene Ellis instead of Lydia Doris Ellis. This Lydia's parents names are different and her death date is also different. I just don't think it's plausible that Howard Green could be married to two women named Lydia D. Ellis who are the same age, but have different birth and death dates. Something is wrong with these Texas records. I think it's possible that La'Vera Janette Green could be Princess Blue. Her birthdate of October 8, 1981 would be the correct age.

Name:Tamishea Lanette Green
Date of Birth:30 Sep 1975
Gender:Female
Birth County:Harris
Father's name:Howard Gus Green Jr
Mother's name:Lydia Darlene Ellis
Roll Number:1975_0006


Name:La'Vera Janette Green
Date of Birth:8 Oct 1981
Gender:Female
Birth County:Harris
Father's name:Howard Gus Green
Mother's name:Lydia Darlene Ellis
Roll Number:1981_0008


Name: Lydia Darlene Ellis
Date of Birth: 10 Nov 1956
Gender: Female
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: Rudolph Frankie Ellis
Mother's name: Vera Lois Burleson
Roll Number: 1956_0005
Name: Lydia Ellis
Death Date: 25 Sep 1989
Death County: Harris
Gender: Female

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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:43 pm

Well, I doubt that LaVera Green could be Princess Blue, because LaVera is in a Texas prison.

http://www.hotshotinmates.com/la-vera-green

Honey complexion, with deep, sincere brown eyes, and a smile that will brighten any room. I'm intelligent, bright in various aspects, and I love laughter.

My goals are to obtain my degree in Business Management and finish my real estate classes/exam. I consider myself one that will help anyone, no direct given cause, and I'm nurturing to all. I love music and concerts (all types). I love the outdoors, swimming at the beach is my favorite past time. I love Karaoki, if I can get a listener! Smile

Dancing is another of my favorite things to do. I can really move my body. Although I am a very exciting and loveable lady, I enjoy relaxing moments. I cherish quiet moments at home. I don't have any kids, with one exception, a mini shi-tzu name Whitney Houston. Smile

I'm seeking a sincere friendship with an open-mind to much, much more. This is me, plus I have so much more. Would you like to get to know me?

Please respond from the heart. Looks and age are unimportant.



Race: Black
Date of Birth: 10-08-1981
Incarcerated since: -
Convicted of: Will explain
Release Date: 12-09-2018
Height: 5' 3"
Weight: 120
Gender: Female
Religion: Christian
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Education: College
Occupation before prison: Student/Real Estate
Activities in prison: -
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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:45 pm

Evelyn Miller

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Name:
Evelyn Joyce Miller
[Evelyn Joyce Gordon]
[E Gordon]

SSN:
449136796

Gender:
Female

Race:
Black

Birth Date:
23 Aug 1957

Birth Place:
Houston, Texas
[Houston Harris, Texas]

Death Date:
15 Apr 1992
Death Certificate Number:
045940

Type of Claim:
Original SSN.

Notes:
Feb 1972: Name listed as EVELYN JOYCE MILLER;
12 Apr 1976: Name listed as EVELYN JOYCE GORDON;
22 May 1998: Name listed as E J GORDON



Name: Evelyn Miller
Birth Year: abt 1957
School: Robert E. Lee High School
School Location: Houston, Texas
Year: 1973
Yearbook Title: Saber
Name: Evelyn Joyce Gordon
Birth Date: 23 Aug 1957
Birth Place: Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Death Date: 25 Apr 1992
Death Place: Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Cemetery: Houston Memorial Gardens
Burial or Cremation Place: Pearland, Brazoria County, Texas, USA
Has Bio?: N
Father: Ike G Miller
URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-...

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Name: Evelyn J Gordon
Birth Date: 23 Aug 1957
Address: 9215 Monsey Dr, Houston, TX, 77063-4024 (1986)

Evelyn Gordon
Birth: 23 Aug 1957 - Harris, USA
Death: 25 Apr 1992 - Houston, Harris, Texas, USA

Evelyn Gordon was born on August 23, 1957, in Houston, Texas.
Evelyn Gordon died on April 25, 1992, in Houston, Texas, when she was 34 years old.

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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:46 pm

Ike G. Miller is the father of Evelyn Miller Gordon

Name: Ike G Miller
Birth Date: 27 Aug 1932
Death Date: 30 May 2010
Cemetery: Houston Memorial Gardens
Burial or Cremation Place: Pearland, Brazoria County, Texas, USA
Has Bio?: N
Father: Johnny Miller Sr
Mother: Charlean Miller
Children: Evelyn Joyce Gordon
URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-...
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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:47 pm

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When Lydia Doris Ellis was born on July 12, 1956, her father, George, was 25 and her mother, Lillie, was 24. She had three brothers and four sisters. She died on February 29, 1980, in Houston, Texas, at the age of 23, and was buried in Harris County, Texas.

Lydia Doris Ellis was born on July 12, 1956, to Lillie Bell Flix, age 24, and George Quinn Ellis, age 25.

Lydia Doris Ellis died on February 29, 1980, in Houston, Texas, when she was 23 years old.




I don't think Lydia Doris Ellis had children. I think there are errors on the Texas documents.
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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:49 pm

Lydia Darlene Ellis is a real person & not the same as Lydia Doris. She was married to Howard Green for 19 yrs.
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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:50 pm

Name: Lydia Ellis
Death Date: 29 Feb 1980
Death County: Harris
Name: Lydia D Ellis
Gender: Female
Birth Year: abt 1957
Age: 18
Marriage Date: 30 May 1975
Marriage Place: Harris, Texas, USA
Spouse: Howard G Green Jr
Spouse Gender: Male
Spouse Age: 19
Source: Texas Marriage Index, 1966-2002

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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:50 pm

Name: Lydia Darlene Ellis
Date of Birth: 10 Nov 1956
Gender: Female
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: Rudolph Frankie Ellis
Mother's name: Vera Lois Burleson
Roll Number: 1956_0005


Name: Lydia Doris Ellis
Date of Birth: 12 Jul 1956
Gender: Female
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: George Quinn Ellis
Mother's name: Lillie Bell Flix
Roll Number: 1956_0005


Lydia Darlene Ellis and Howard G. Green have had three children

Name:Tamishea Lanette Green
Date of Birth:30 Sep 1975
Gender:Female
Birth County:Harris
Father's name:Howard Gus Green Jr
Mother's name:Lydia Darlene Ellis
Roll Number:1975_0006

Name:La'Vera Janette Green
Date of Birth:8 Oct 1981
Gender:Female
Birth County:Harris
Father's name:Howard Gus Green
Mother's name:Lydia Darlene Ellis
Roll Number:1981_0008

Name: Ja'Marcus Theodore Green
Date of Birth: 1 Oct 1986
Gender: Male
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: Howard Gus Green
Mother's name: Lydia Darlene Ellis
Roll Number: 1986_0008


And one more...

Name: Ashey Nicole Taylor (no paternity named)
Date of Birth: 18 Jun 1991
Gender: Female
Birth County: Harris
Mother's name: Lydia Darlene Ellis
Roll Number: 1991_0020


There is no record of Lydia Doris Ellis giving birth to a child in any county in the State of Texas.
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Evelyn Joyce Miller Gordon
8/23/57 - 4/25/92


Name: Latara Deshun Gordon
Date of Birth: 14 Oct 1977
Gender: Female
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: Roy Curtis Gordon
Mother's name: Evelyn Joyce Miller
Roll Number: 1977_0006

Name: Roy Curtis Gordon
Date of Birth: 3 May 1979
Gender: Male
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: Roy Curtis Gordon Sr
Mother's name: Evelyn Joyce Miller
Roll Number: 1979_0007

Name: Lothia Lasha Foster
Date of Birth: 24 Sep 1980
Gender: Female
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: Willie James Foster
Mother's name: Evelyn Joyce Miller
Roll Number: 1980_0006

Name: Roydrick Curtis Miller
Date of Birth: 23 Feb 1974
Gender: Male
Birth County: Harris
Mother's name: Evelyn Joyce Miller
Roll Number: 1974_0010

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http://brazoriacoghost.weebly.com/princess-blue.html

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Princess Blue
What was left of her was found in a mound of dead vegetation and trash. Her tombstone was a tire; that's where the skull lay. Beyond it, her skeleton.

Princess Blue's autopsy report:

Here is a copy of the original autopsy report done on Princess Blue in 1990. A Houston reporter, Craig Malisow, was gracious enough to provide this for us. Please note that a complete forensics work-up was completed in March of 2007; however, we have not yet been able to obtain a copy of it. There is much updated information in the report, and if we are able to obtain it we will post it on this thread:


History: These skeletal remains of a Hispanic female were found under a trash pile at the dead end of County Road 101, east of Hwy 288, Manvel, Brazoria County, Texas at 5 pm on Sept. 10, 1990. Some property (jewelry) was recovered at the scene with the skeletal remains.

Autopsy: The autopsy was performed in the [HCME's office] by forensic pathologist Eduardo Bellas, MD, at the request of and upon the written authorization of the Hon. Bill Todd, Justice of the Peace, Precinct 8, Brazoria County, Texas, beginning at 2 pm on Sept. 11, 1990.

Extrernal Appearance: The body was that of a totally skeletonized human remains which consisted of the entire skull with nonprominant frontal ridges or mastoid process. The nasal aperture were those of a caucasion configuration and the upper arch was U-shaped, resembling mongoloid character. The cheek bones were not prominent. The orbital sockets were rather square. The right and left sides of the upper jaw were not still fused as was not the transversal suture of the hard palate.

The foramen magnum and the configuration of the base of the skull and the outside of the skull showed no abnormalities. Upon removal of the calvarium, it was found that the clivus was almost totally obliterated and the endocranium appeared to be not remarkable. Natural teeth in good condition in part and some in bad condition were observed. According with the Universal System, teeth 1, 17 and 32 (wisdom teeth) were present and unerupted. Tooth 16 was absent. The corresponding alveolar spavce was totally obliterated by mature bone tissue.

There was a large caries on the buccal aspect in tooth 2 and tooth 5 was missing postmortem. Teeth 3 and 4 were in good condition as well as tooth 14 which had a minute occlusal amalgam. Tooth 6 (upper right canine) had extensive caries at the mesial surface extending to the buccal surface as well as toward the lingual area. Tooth 9 (left upper central incisor) had a recent occlusal postmortem fracture at the tip. Tooth 10 was surgically absent and the corresponding alveolar space partially obliterated by mature bone. In the lower arch, tooth 17 was unerupted and tooth 18 had a minute round buccal amalgam. Tooth 19 had a large occlusal caries extending to buccal, mesial and distal aspects with only 1/3 of the crown surface left. Teeth 2o-29 were present. A large caries on the mesial and buccal surgace of tooth 20 was observed. A small lateral caries was noticed in tghe lateral aspect of tooth 29. Teeth 30 and 31 were in good condition, however, the lateral aspect of tooth 30 was observed with black discoloration of the crown area and conssitent with a distal caries.

The lower jaw was intact. The two scapula as well as the hip bones were submitted and the fusion between the first sacral vertebra with the sacrum was incomplete in the anterior portion. the configuration of the three bones of the pelvbis were consistent with female-type and the symphysis pubis with numerous pits alternating with the elevations which suggested a very young person. The fusion of the iliac crests of the hip bones was partial in some areas. The sternum was submitted in two pieces and was not remarkable. 22 ribs were submitted. The right first rib aliong with the second right rib showed a hairline fracture measuring 1-3/4 inches in length in the first right rib and 1-1/4 inches in the second right rib. In addition, 1-1/4 inches before the anterior tip of the second rib there was a transveral compression.

The two humeri with the two cubitus and radii were submitted and not remarkable. Similarly, both femurs, both tibias and fibulas were also submitted. The bones of the extremities showed no abnormalities except for a defect in the distal portion of the left tibia extending up to the articular surface and measured one inch in the virtucal dimension and 1-1/4 inches anteroposteriorly. The length of the humeri was 11-1/2 inches each. The length of both femurs was 16-1/2 inches. The length of the tibia was 13-3/4 inches. Also submitted were the seven cervical vertebrae, the five lumbar vertebrae and the eleven thoracic vertebrae. None of the certebrae submitted showed any abnormalities. In addition, multiple bones of the hands and feet were submitted and were not remarkable. The central portion and the two wings of the hyoid bone were identified and intact.

Lab results: Opiate -- bone marrow=negative

Opinion: It is my opinion that the cause and manner of death of the decedent, unidentified skeletal remains of a Hispanic female, is undetermined.


Case File:

A few years back, I became involved in trying to give an unidentified woman her name back. The Houston Press did an article on her case based on the efforts of some wonderful people and myself. She was found off of a service road in Brazoria County, Texas. There were many murdered women who were dumped in and around this area in Brazoria County. When a local pulled off of the road to relieve himself, he found the remains which were skeletal. According to the medical examiner, her remains had been there for a few years. No one knew who she was, and to this day she remains unidentified . What intrigued me about this particular case was the Class of 1975 Robert E. Lee High School class ring that was on her finger. The school was located in Houston, Texas, and has since been renamed “Lee High School”. One would think that this would be a great clue and would make the chore of identifying her very easy. Not so. My former admin at someoneknowsme.com, myself and others used the Robert E. Lee High School 1975 yearbook that we purchased to harvest names of students who might have owned that class ring and lost it somewhere, or maybe someone had given the ring as a gift. We had hope that we might find the owner of that ring. After many hundreds of letters were sent out, and countless telephone calls to the investigators in Brazoria County, Texas she still has no name. Out of respect for her, and the desire to give her a real name, we called her Princess Blue. It has been over 20 years since Princess Blue’s remains were discovered. To date if your caught driving in this area of Brazoria Co on foggy nights you will see the spirit of a young woman walking down the side of the road. They say at times she is hitchhiking and there has been at least one account where she got in the car with a concerned stranger and 2 minutes down the road she vanished
right out of the front seat.

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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:54 pm

Possibilities

Name: Chaka Kahn Nicole Stoot
Date of Birth: 16 Dec 1975
Gender: Female
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: Jewel Wayne Stoot
Mother's name: Sheryl Denise Kelly
Roll Number: 1975_0014

Name: Crystal Renee Ewing
Date of Birth: 6 Mar 1983
Gender: Female
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: Roland Jay Ewing
Mother's name: Shirley Ann Jones
Roll Number: 1983_0006

Name: Leah Rose Marino
Date of Birth: 22 May 1978
Gender: Female
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: Joseph John Marino
Mother's name: Regina Maxine Hunter
Roll Number: 1978_0010

Name: Latara Deshun Gordon
Date of Birth: 14 Oct 1977
Gender: Female
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: Roy Curtis Gordon
Mother's name: Evelyn Joyce Miller
Roll Number: 1977_0006

Name:Krystal Avelia Mechon Wise
Date of Birth:9 Apr 1984
Gender:Female
Birth County:Harris
Father's name:John Wise III
Mother's name Paula Dene Freeman
Roll Number:1984_0021

Name:Alphise Washington
Date of Birth:28 Sep 1978
Gender:Female
Birth County:Harris
Mother's name:Alfrida Marie Washington
Roll Number:1978_0016
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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:56 pm

There does seem to be a lot of uncertainty about whether it is a male or female ring. There's no way to know for certain without seeing the ring. I did read one account where the ring manufacturer identified it as a female ring. I am most interested in the size and resizing. The ring could have been given to a male and that could have been a reason for upsizing. The ring size was increased twice. Ultimately, it would mean that since Princess Blue was wearing the ring when she was found, her fingers were larger than the fingers of the original owner of the ring. I tend to think the ring was probably upsized for Princess Blue because she was wearing it when she was found. We don't know how much Princess Blue weighed or how large or fingers were.

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Case History
The victim was located on a pile of debris at the end of a Brazoria County road (101) just east of Highway 288 inside the Manvel city limits on September 10, 1990.
The skeleton was found by a man who had pulled off the highway to relieve himself. He stepped behind a barricade and saw a skull in an old tire.
No purse, wallet, clothing or hair were located around the skeleton, six rings were on the fingers, and a bracelet around her wrist.


There were no articles of clothing found with Princess Blue, so we have no idea of her body type, except for her approximate height which was 4'11" - 5'3"; with a slight to medium build. By the time Princess Blue was found, her remains were skeletal. Her build could have been medium, but she could have had excessive weight on her medium frame.

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http://www.houstonpress.com/news/cold-case-6540443

Cold Case
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2007 AT 4 A.M.
BY CRAIG MALISOW

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Photos of the rings appeared years after the body was found.
Sue Birdwell for the Texas Rangers

What was left of her was found in a mound of dead vegetation and trash. Her tombstone was a tire; that's where the skull lay. Beyond it, her skeleton.

The man had pulled over to relieve himself. Standing by a low-slung barbed-wire fence at the end of the road, he thought he spotted an old bottle. He wound up nearly stumbling into bones.

It was September 10, 1990, about 5 p.m. About 30 yards away, cars flew down Highway 288 — drivers like him, leaving their jobs in Houston, returning to the peace of rural Brazoria County.

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He had been on his way home to Alvin when the need hit outside Manvel, and he scanned the roadside for a private place. At County Road 101, a mostly unpaved and minor trail between two major exits, he had swung left, across the median, through northbound traffic, and driven to where 101 dead-ended on the east side of 288. Here he was surrounded by pasture ringed with tall trees, with nothing to disturb him except the dragonflies overhead, big as buzzards.

Once home, he told his wife about the bones. They decided to call the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office, which notified the Manvel Police Department, a small unit working out of a trailer behind City Hall. The case wound up in the hands of Chief Tommie Tolson.

At the scene, Tolson found no purse, wallet, clothing or hair around the skeleton, but there, on her finger bones, were the rings, and a bracelet around her wrist. Whoever she was, she liked to wear a lot of jewelry: a silver-colored ring with a turquoise horse or unicorn; a silver-colored band with a scroll design; two plain silver-colored bands; a gold-colored ring with six clear stones; a beaded pearl bracelet; and the biggest ring, a silver band crowned with a sapphire stone. He removed the jewelry and placed it in an evidence envelope.

Since Brazoria County has no medical examiner, the autopsy was conducted by Dr. Eduardo Bellas with the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office. The autopsy, performed the day after the bones were discovered, did not reveal much: an upper left front tooth that had been surgically removed; two fractured ribs; and a "defect" on a bone beneath her left knee. No traces of opiates were found in her bone marrow.


Bellas concluded she was Hispanic, estimated her age to be between 15 and 19, her height at 4'8" to 5'2". He could not determine the cause or manner of her death.

When the report was finalized a week later, the rings and bracelet got a brief mention: "Some property (jewelry) was recovered at the scene with the skeletal remains."

According to a brief Houston Chronicle article that ran three days later, Tolson characterized the girl as Hispanic or white. He said she had knee problems. He said she wore a silver ring with a turquoise unicorn on her right hand and a beaded bracelet on her right arm.

The article did not mention the biggest ring, the silver one with the sapphire stone. Along with the other jewelry, it would vanish from the public's eye until August 2006, when the case was reopened and investigators found an incredible clue in that evidence envelope. Surrounding the sapphire stone on the big ring were the words "Robert E. Lee H.S., Houston." Below, on the band itself, was the date 1975, and a portrait of the school's namesake. Before long, investigators would tell the media that the girl probably died six months to a year before the remains were found. This estimated time of death does not appear in the original medical examiner's report, and authorities have not made a subsequent forensic report available to the public.

With that crucial yet unexplained time frame in mind, investigators needed to figure out exactly how a ring belonging to a student from the class of 1975 wound up on the skeleton's finger.

Tolson was out of law enforcement by the time the existence of the ring was released to the public, but a new breed of detective instantly adopted the case. In the 16 years since the remains were discovered, true-crime buffs were chattering online, spending their free time researching missing and unidentified persons. And amateur sleuths across the country were drawn to this unidentified Texas girl, to her sapphire ring. It didn't take long before they gave her a name: Princess Blue. She died with a different name, but this was the one that would keep her case alive.

The new investigation was sparked in August 2006 by a phone call from California.

An online sleuth — a true-crime writer — called the Angleton Public Library seeking information about Princess Blue, known then only as Texas Department of Public Safety Case Number U0310014. The reference librarian who took the call found it strange. Why was this woman in California interested in a Brazoria County cold case? It just didn't sit right. So the librarian called the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office, and her suspicion was delivered to the desk of investigator Richard Rosser.

Rosser was curious, too. The woman had left her phone number with the librarian, but Rosser could only get her answering machine. He left his name and number and called authorities in California to see if they could check her out. But before any police knocked on her door, Rosser got a call back. The woman had been on vacation. No, she had nothing to do with the case. Just a natural interest.

"That kind of set it off," Rosser recalls. He pulled what little information was with the sheriff's office. At some point before this, the sheriff's Criminal Identification Division had trucked at least some of Princess Blue's remains to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification in Fort Worth. There, the remains waited in line for an examination by forensic pathologists.

Meanwhile, the sheriff's office had no investigative notes to work with. Rosser called Manvel PD to see what they had. He was directed to Sergeant Jay Coffman, who had reviewed the case on and off since 2000. He was retired but, based on this renewed interest, would come back to work the case full-time.

The first order of business was to take a closer look at the class ring. A jeweler confirmed that it was a woman's ring, size 9.5. It had been upsized twice, from an original 7.5, and this would have wiped out any markings, like initials or school activities, that might have been inside the band.

Balfour, the ring's Austin-based manufacturer, did not have records from 1975. And that year's graduating class of Robert E. Lee High was about 650 students, meaning at least 300 girls. Students could choose from several colored stones that year. Rosser and Coffman faced the possibility of having to track down 300 female graduates to see who bought a blue stone, and how many of those women parted with their rings prior to 1990. Coffman and Rosser released the information about the ring to the media in late August or early September 2006.

That's when the online detectives really took notice. A handful of members of Websleuths.com created a new forum devoted to Princess Blue, and it attracted colleagues from other sites. They combed through missing-persons sites, trolling for possible matches. They bounced ideas off each other. They decided that one of the most important orders of business was to contact the members of the Robert E. Lee High class of 1975. They got that year's yearbook, created a spreadsheet and tracked down addresses and phone numbers. They wrote a form letter seeking information about the ring, divvied up the mailing and sent around 200 letters. They waited. And waited.

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When it became her turn, Princess Blue's remains were lifted from a shelf at the Center for Human Identification, and for the first time in 17 years, she had visitors.

Armed with nearly two decades' worth of advances in forensic pathology, the specialists studied her, and they came to a new set of parameters: She was no longer Hispanic. She was white, but with some African-American ancestry. A black parent, maybe, or grandparent. She grew older, too; she was now 17-21 years old; and then she just grew. She was now at least 4'11". But they wanted to give Princess Blue something that had been erased a long time ago. They wanted to give her a face.

Sue Birdwell, a forensic artist with the Texas Rangers, put pencil to paper. She drew big eyes framing a pronounced yet somehow still delicate nose. She drew a pair of full lips placed atop a sharply defined chin. She drew thick, dark, wavy hair adorning a slightly squarish head, parted down the middle. Princess Blue wore it pulled back in one rendering, collected in a ponytail or maybe up in a bun. In the other picture, her hair hung straight down, the waves more obvious now, spilling straight down somewhere below the bottom frame. Whoever she was, she was pretty. And now that she had a face, she was ready for the camera.

In June 2007, Princess Blue made news again.

The sketches were released to television stations and newspapers throughout Texas. But they probably had no greater impact than on the sleuthing sites. For months, sleuths had combed through hundreds of photographs of missing girls and young women, having no frame of reference except for words on a page. They didn't have any way to tell if the faces staring back at them actually looked like Princess Blue. So while it seemed likely that Princess Blue came from Harris or Brazoria counties, the drawings made it impossible for the sleuths to ignore those photos of the woman from Dallas.

launchedwww.SomeoneKnowsMe.com, a site devoted to finding the identity not only of Princess Blue but of other unidentified and missing persons.

"Somewhere, somebody has to know something about this ring," she says.

The sleuthing sites generate a lot of cross-traffic, because the sleuthing community believes in sharing information, something that is not always practiced among law enforcement agencies.

The only mention of Princess Blue's surgically removed upper left tooth is buried in the 1990 medical examiner's report; it was never released to the public as an investigative aid. If it had been, someone — sleuth or cop — might have taken a closer look at Babette Alberti.

Alberti was last seen in October 1983, in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, which comprises a large part of suburban New Orleans. Based on the information on the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Web site, Alberti seems an unlikely candidate for Princess Blue. The height is on, but the age, 31, is off. Alberti's photograph vaguely resembles the Princess Blue sketches, but certainly not more than Cheatham.

It's on the Web sites of the Doe Network and the Charley Project — privately established sites run by volunteers — that Alberti comes more into focus. A second photograph on those sites shows Alberti smiling, revealing what appears to be a gap in her upper teeth where a tooth might have been. Those sites also reveal that Alberti fractured her ribs as a child. Princess Blue's upper two ribs were fractured; the autopsy never established if that occurred post- or antemortem. The sites also state, "She may have been involved in drugs and prostitution."

Of course, the chances of Alberti being a match for Princess Blue would rise and fall dramatically on whether she was actually missing a tooth, and, if so, which one. But a call to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office proved a dead end.

"I cannot give any information out," said Captain Hilda Montecino of the JPSO. She said she would contact the Manvel Police Department, and any information would have to come from them. All she could disclose was that Alberti was last seen in St. Bernard Parish in September 1983, placing her last known whereabouts in a different parish and a different month than what's listed on the JPSO Web site.

Montecino offered to put the Houston Press in touch with the JPSO's public information officer, although he wouldn't be able to say anything, either. When the Press asked for the PIO's name and number, Montecino said he would be the one calling. That's because, when it comes to the name and number of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office's public information officer, "We just don't give that out to the public."

When Coffman and Rosser reopened the Princess Blue case, they knew they had to talk to Tommie Tolson, the original investigator.

By that time, the former Manvel police chief had moved to Hallettsville, where he works as a truck driver. Coffman and Rosser wanted to see if he might be able to tell them anything that had been left out of the original report. It was only a few paragraphs long and was never supplemented. If Tolson ever sketched or photographed the crime scene, that evidence has long disappeared. He did not appear to have interviewed anyone other than the motorist who found the remains.


Tolson didn't have much to tell them. Besides, he had another life now, and he had more important things to deal with than a bunch of bones dumped on a dead-end road nearly two decades earlier.

"He said he's not interested in saying nothing," his wife, Susan, told the Press. And even if he wanted to talk, what could he say about an unidentified body?

"Nothing came of it," Susan Tolson says of the original investigation. She laughs when she says it, just like she laughs when she adds, "They did what they could."

The bottom line: Tommie Tolson cannot be bothered with this stuff. He's out in his rig, trying to keep a schedule.

"He has to keep his mind on the road," she says.

So the reason he sat on the single most important clue in the case remains a mystery.

"I can't think of a reasonable explanation why the high school ring would not be put out there [to the public]," says Vernon Geberth, a consultant in homicide and forensic case investigations for authorities in the U.S. and Canada. Geberth was a member of the New York Police Department from 1965 to 1987, retiring as the commanding officer for the Bronx Homicide Task Force.

"It's been a traditional practice in law enforcement to withhold information about the case so only you and the actual killer know what has happened," Geberth says. "But if I have an unidentified body, my biggest quandary is the identification of the deceased. Because I don't have a base for my investigation unless I know who I'm investigating."

If he doesn't have a name, he doesn't have the victimology, which means he doesn't have an idea why she was chosen as a victim, which means there's nothing pointing to a suspect.

Or at least a new suspect. There was always an old standby.

Roy Alan Stuart had a knack for turning up in towns where young women went missing.

His talent came to fruition in 1971, when the body of Linda Kay Simmons was discovered in a pasture outside Amarillo. When investigators there followed the leads, they wound up at Stuart's front door. He was arrested on July 13, charged, released for want of proof and arrested again three weeks later when the bludgeoned body of 40-year-old Kay Sands was found in a field. This time, there would be a trial.

While he was out on bond, two women accused him of assault in separate incidents. He was charged for those assaults, which were dropped when the women refused to testify. Ultimately, a jury found him not guilty of Sands's murder.

Four years later, police would arrest him again, this time for aggravated sexual assault. And this time, Stuart pled guilty. He would be remanded to the Darrington Unit in Rosharon, Brazoria County. His sentence was 15 years; he served seven.

Some months before Stuart's release, Brazoria County Sheriff's Deputy Matt Wingo got a call from a sheriff in north Texas, up near Amarillo.

"He told me of the man named Roy Alan Stuart," Wingo wrote in a memoir for The Police News. "The Sheriff understood Stuart was to be released soon from TDC and our caseload may go up."

When Stuart was released, he didn't leave Brazoria County. He got a job as an auto mechanic and moved into a trailer near Clute with the woman he married while in prison. Wingo writes that his office and the Houston Police Department began a surveillance on Stuart, who proved less than a faithful husband.

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"He was found to have an affinity for Houston, Galveston and Bay City prostitutes," Wingo wrote. In Houston, his favorite haunt was the LaMonte Hotel.

In November 1985, the body of a prostitute who worked out of the LaMonte was found on Brazoria County Road 403, about five miles north of where Princess Blue would be discovered five years later. In March 1987, the body of another prostitute who worked out of the LaMonte turned up in Bastrop Bayou, still in Brazoria County, but considerably south of the Princess Blue site. In both cases, some LaMonte denizens said they saw the women step into Stuart's light-blue station wagon. (When the Press showed Mary Nava, a LaMonte desk clerk in the late 1980s, the sketches of Princess Blue, Nava said she didn't recognize her.)

Shortly after the second body was found, an officer working surveillance on Stuart saw him driving irregularly. Stuart was stopped and arrested for driving while intoxicated. When his car was towed and searched, investigators found fingerprints and hair from the second body. Stuart was charged in her murder, but the charges were later dropped. Reports differ on the reason behind the dropped charges; some say a judge ruled the search of Stuart's car invalid, thus eliminating the physical evidence; other reports say LaMonte regulars refused to testify. Either way, Stuart walked.

Stuart's career came to an end in May 1994, after he brought a Freeport woman to his trailer, bound her arms with rope and choked her. She managed to writhe free and escape. A jury found him guilty of aggravated kidnapping. He was sentenced to life.

In July 2007, Coffman and Rosser drove to the McConnell Unit in Beeville to have a talk with Stuart. They showed him the sketches; he showed them an "innocent" man.

"He denied any responsibility or any knowledge of anything — he didn't do any crimes, he never committed a crime ever," Coffman says. "And he doesn't know why he's locked up now...I told him, 'Just follow us, we're going to walk out in a minute; you just come out with us because you're innocent.'"

It wasn't the first time Stuart saw the renderings. About a week before Coffman and Rosser questioned him, Stuart opened an envelope from Ohio and found himself staring at Princess Blue. Accompanying the pictures was a note from online sleuth Alexandria Goddard. But if she was expecting a confession, she would be disappointed.

"I am going to tell you the same thing I told them," Stuart wrote to Goddard in early August. "I do not know who the person or persons are in the pictures. I have no idea why my name is brought up when something like this happens...The officers asked me where I was in 1990. I guess this is when this person was supposed to have been killed. I explained to them that I was in prison at the Ellis Unit in Huntsville in 1989 and 1990. I then asked them why they always come to me. They explained that it was because of my past troubles with the law. And they said that where [there] is so much smoke, there had to be some fire. I tried to explain to them that the only fire is the one started by them and other law enforcement agencies in Texas."

But either Stuart was mistaken about one detail or he lied: He was not in prison in 1989 or 1990. He was a free man.

Three hundred people is a lot to track down.

In the 17 years since Princess Blue's body was found, graduates of the 1975 class of Robert E. Lee High have moved, gotten divorced, remarried, fallen off the map.

Working from the sleuths' spreadsheet, the Press tried calling as many graduates as possible. Out of a handful reached, three said they lost blue-stoned class rings prior to 1990, in Harris and Galveston counties. But memories are hazy; the women can't recall exactly when they first realized the rings were gone, or where exactly they might have lost them.

Did Princess Blue find the ring somewhere? Did she see it in a pawn shop? Was it given to her by a relative who never saw the media coverage of the ring? Did she steal it?

"My theory is the [ring belongs] to possibly her mother, an aunt, you know, some relative," Coffman says. "It's impossible to know who it could have belonged to. But obviously the closest tie would be her mother."

Rosser was struck by the overlaid images of Princess Blue and Kimberly Cheatham, but until DNA or dental records are compared, there's no way of knowing.

"The problem with these cases — you can theorize forever and until you find out, you just don't know," he says "Anybody's theory is as good as anybody else's. Believe me, we've spent hours and hours...just talking it over, trying to think of something that makes sense. What really bothers me is, you know, we had all this publicity about the ring and Jay [Coffman] got some phone calls, I got a few...and none of them were really even slightly promising."

In July, one sleuth went on Goddard's Web site and proposed paying to have the remains buried, if authorities permitted.

"We could put 'Princess Blue' on her headstone and then later on down the road, if she is identified and no family claims her, then we could have the headstone changed to display her real name...She needs to be laid to rest."

For Goddard, it's the perfect idea.

"My dad told me a long, long time ago, the only thing that's ever truly yours is your name," she says. "And Princess Blue doesn't have one right now. And I'd like to see her get her name back."

craig.malisow@houstonpress.com

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The first order of business was to take a closer look at the class ring. A jeweler confirmed that it was a woman's ring, size 9.5. It had been upsized twice, from an original 7.5, and this would have wiped out any markings, like initials or school activities, that might have been inside the band.

Balfour, the ring's Austin-based manufacturer, did not have records from 1975. And that year's graduating class of Robert E. Lee High was about 650 students, meaning at least 300 girls. Students could choose from several colored stones that year. Rosser and Coffman faced the possibility of having to track down 300 female graduates to see who bought a blue stone, and how many of those women parted with their rings prior to 1990. Coffman and Rosser released the information about the ring to the media in late August or early September 2006.


http://www.houstonpress.com/news/cold-case-6540443


This is important information about the ring. It had been upsized from a 7.5 to a 9.5.

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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:09 pm

"Possibly the ring was owned by a person born in September - or even December"

There are three daughters of 1975 graduates who were born in September or December.

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Alfrida Marie Washington

Name:Alphise Washington
Date of Birth:28 Sep 1978
Gender:Female
Birth County:Harris
Mother's name:Alfrida Marie Washington
Roll Number:1978_0016

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Sheryl Denise Kelly

Name: Chaka Kahn Nicole Stoot
Date of Birth: 16 Dec 1975
Gender: Female
Birth County: Harris
Father's name: Jewel Wayne Stoot
Mother's name: Sheryl Denise Kelly
Roll Number: 1975_0014


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Naomi Mae Smith Haney

Daughter born prior to graduation. She was probably an adult student.

Name:Lacey Kirk Haney
Date of Birth:22 Dec 1973
Gender:Male
Birth County:Harris
Father's name:Lacey Kirk Haney Sr
Mother's name:Naomi Mae Charlotte Smith
Roll Number:1973_0006
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Post by Akoya Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:13 pm

I am starting to think that Princess Blue was not the daughter of a Robert E. Lee High School graduate.

The only connection that makes any sense would be Alphise Marie Washington, daughter of Alfrida Washington. Alphise lives in Brazoria County where Princess Blue was found. Alphise is 5' 9" and weighs 205 lbs. She could possibly wear a size 9.5 ring. It's possible Princess Blue obtained the ring from Alphise Washington, who could possibly be related to Princess Blue.

Balfour no longer has records for the class rings, so it's almost impossible to know who ordered a size 7.5 ring with a blue stone.

I think the blue stone in the ring Princess Blue was wearing is for September.

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