After 41 years, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department has identified Jane Doe as Maritza Glean Grimmett. Discovered in 1983 in Lake Forest, CA, Maritza was a 20-year-old Panamanian native who went missing in 1979.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has identified a Jane Doe homicide victim whose remains were discovered over 41 years ago.In April 1983, children playing near the area of Canada and Old Trabuco roads in what is now Lake Forest found a human skull in a culvert. An excavation followed, recovering approximately 70 percent of a female's human remains.
In late 2023, investigators contacted a distant genetic relative of the victim, who suggested sharing Jane Doe’s forensic renderings on a Facebook group dedicated to Jane Does and missing women from the 1970s and 1980s. About a month after the posting, a woman reached out to investigators, believing the Lake Forest Jane Doe might be her missing mother.Maritza Glean Grimmett, a Panamanian native, married a U.S. Marine in the summer of 1978 and gave birth to a daughter. The family moved to the U.
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