Roane County Jane Doe Identified: Betty L. Wisley
On August 29, 1987, a passerby found the burned remains of a woman next to a dumpster. After 36 years she was finally identified as Betty L. Wisley.
What happened to Betty?
On August 29, 1987, a passerby discovered a body beside a garbage dumpster in the 2600 block of Highway 58 in Kingston, Tennessee. The victim, a 30 to 50-year-old woman, had been burned after her death and left near the dumpster.
An initial autopsy revealed that the woman had an old gunshot wound to her third thoracic vertebrae with the bullet still lodged in her spine.
Despite investigators’ attempts to identify her, their efforts were unsuccessful. The woman was labeled as Jane Doe, and her case went unresolved.
Several years later, a forensic sketch of the woman was made public, but it failed to generate any leads.
In April 2009, the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Center submitted a sample of the woman’s remains to the FBI. Despite developing a DNA profile entered into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), no results emerged.
