Sketches of Victim
Unidentified Black Female
Vital Statistics
Case History
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Left: Victim's Shirt; Right: Victim's Pants
Skeletal remains were located by an Illinois Department of Transportation crew while cleaning trash along the highway. The remains were located in a creek bed on Route 3 near Gall Road.
The victim may be from the metropolitan St. Louis area.
She is thought be a victim of serial-killer Maury Troy Travis, who is also a suspect in the homicides of two other unidentified victims; 334UFIL and 327UFIL. Police believe the three were raped, tortured and killed by Travis, with some of the slayings videotaped. But Travis never identified the three women, and he hanged himself in a St. Louis jail cell three days after he was charged with three other killings.
Police searched the Internet for sports teams with the nickname and logo, but investigators haven't nailed down the source of the shirt.
A man who coached a Mavericks softball team that existed several years ago in south St. Louis County has talked with police, and the shirt looks ``very similar'' to shirts worn by that team. But the team was for girls in their early teens and none of those girls would have worn the extra-large size found on the body.
The shirt could have changed hands at thrift shops or yard sales.
A spokesman for the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team said the shirt doesn't resemble any shirts made for the basketball team.
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Columbia Police Department
Sergeant Joe Edwards
618-281-5151
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Illinois State Police