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1993 Jane Doe case solved

 
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:57 pm    Post subject: 1993 Jane Doe case solved Reply with quote

Thank God another idiot off the street. Another woman disappears from Maryland and is dumped in the next state over. UGH

She was this case on the Doe Network

'Jane Doe' suspect nabbed


Natalia Andreevna Miller, was just 18 when she was raped, sodomized and murdered in December 1993.




By Tiffany Pakkala, December 4, 2004


For more than a decade, a photo collage of the pale, lifeless face of an 18-year-old woman known only as "Jane Doe" flanked the entrance to Cumberland County Coroner Mike Norris's office.

"I had to look at her every day when I went in," he says.

And every year on the anniversary of her Dec. 10, 1993, death, Norris issued press releases to remind the public that investigators were still trying to identify the woman found strangled to death in South Middleton Township.

This year, there will be no anniversary press release and the collage has been taken down.

Jane Doe finally has a name -- and the man accused of murdering her is behind bars.

Real-life 'Cold Case'

In what District Attorney Skip Ebert calls "a real life episode of 'Cold Case Files,'" police used the Combined DNA Index System to match male DNA samples found on Natalia Andreevna Miller's body to samples from a Rochester, N.Y., man registered in the system for sexual crimes he committed while living in Montgomery County, Md.

On Friday, Theodore John Solano, 46, was charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and abuse of a corpse.

Though he allegedly admitted to knowing her, "he made no outright confession and I'm not expecting one," Ebert says.

Solano is in a Monroe County, N.Y., prison facing child pornography charges. He will be extradited to Pennsylvania when that case concludes.

Police say Miller was killed sometime between 6 p.m. Dec. 9 and 8:15 a.m. Dec. 10, 1993. She was raped, sodomized, strangled and left face down with no clothing except a hooded sweater in a wooded area 178 feet off Whiskey Springs Road, less than 90 miles from Montgomery County, Md. Marks on her back indicated she was dragged there from the roadway.

An 11-year investigation began when hunters discovered her body, but police reported no leads year after year. When the matching DNA was uncovered at a Pennsylvania State Police DNA lab in Greensburg July 27, it took only months to make an arrest.

Tracked him down

Trooper Doug Howell and Cpl. George Cronin, both of the state police's Carlisle barracks, tracked Solano down in Canon City, Colo., and met him at the city's police station Sept. 1 for an interview.

Given a description of Miller, Solano allegedly said he met a Russian woman of that description in 1993 near Washington, D.C., and married her so she could stay in the country.

In an affidavit of probable cause, Howell says Solano told them Miller came to the United States hoping to marry an American man she met in Russia, but "this marriage arrangement did not work out and it left her in a terrible predicament."

A later search of marriage records indicated Solano did marry Miller on June 4, 1993, in Alexandria, Va., the court documents say.

The same day Solano was being questioned in Colorado, Trooper Gregory McCombs joined the Irondiquoit, N.Y., police department in a search of Solano's residence.

McCombs says he found an album that contained photographs of Miller.

Police will not yet reveal how they confirmed Miller's identity, but evidence in Solano's home led them to her name, court documents say.

Police tracked down a host family Miller had lived with near Washington, D.C., Howell says, and they provided the names of her parents, who live in Russia.

Andrew Miller and Olga Soloviova, who had been searching for their daughter there, provided DNA samples that confirmed Jane Doe was indeed Natalia Miller. She was born Feb. 22, 1975, in Leningrad.

May take body home

The parents are now deciding whether to leave her buried at the Drytown Cemetery off Claremont Road in Middlesex Township or have her body returned to Russia, Norris says. Although the move would be expensive, there may be some crime victim funding to ease the cost.

Miller's was the only unidentified body found in Cumberland County in more than 40 years.

Ebert says such unsolved cases "always gnaw at you." While killers in additional area murders remain uncaught, there is "hope" in DNA technology, he says.

Ebert commends new legislation passed last week in Pennsylvania, which requires everyone convicted of a felony in this state to submit samples to the DNA system.

"It has always been my belief that as DNA technology progressed and the number of criminal DNA profiles were cataloged ... this would become one of the most valuable tools to law enforcement," Ebert says.

The majority of crimes are committed by repeat offenders, he adds, so their DNA records will make them easier to catch.

http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2004/12...news/news01.txt

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great work to find this guy and solve another cold case. The grief done by one sicko is just so sad before they are finally put away for good.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just a FYI - this had nothing to do with the Doe Network. Just CODIS dna sampling.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

right, I meant Maryland law enforcement, and those dedicated guys described above who kept that case up on a poster until they solved it. The good news, they took a really sick person off the streets. Great work by Maryland, mm.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's certainly got a lot of agencies racing toward the CODIS door on their cases...
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