April 24, 1924 Valdosta, Georgia Jane Doe

 On April 24, 1924, a woman died from heart disease and kidney problems in Valdosta, Georgia. She had been in the city for around 20 days and was doing housework for a living.  She was buried in the Lowndes County Poor Farm Cemetery in Mineola.

On the death certificate, there is a name on there. The only thing I can make out is last name was Howell but next to that it is noted as Don't Know. So it may be the name she was using, but it's unknown if it was actually her name. She was a widow but don't know is also listed beside it.

Jane Doe is a black female and was around 50-years-old at the time. 

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

Unidentified Wiki

WANTED: Efran Cornejo Yanez

On April 15, 2006, 40-year-old Efran Cornejo Yanez allegedly shot three men with a handgun at Giddens Mobile Home Park in Enigma, Georgia. One of the men shot would die. The next day he was charged with murder in Berrin County and a state arrest warrant was issued. on December 12, 2006, a federal arrest warrant was issued by the United States District Court, Middle District of Georgia, Valdosta Division, Albany, Georgia. This was after he was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. He has ties to Mexico, Texas, and Florida. 

Efran was born in Mexico and is white hispanic. He may use the names Lazaro Benitez, Santiago Yanez Corne Jo, Efram Cornejo, Santiago Cornejo, Santiago Yanez Cornejo, Pedro Peralta, Efrin Yamez, Efren Yanez-Cornejo, Efren Yanez, Efrian Yanez, Efron Cornejo Yanez, Efroncornejo Yanez, Santiago Yanez, Efren Yanezcornejo. He may use the birthdays February 25, 1966, March 25, 1966, May 23, 1966, June 9, 1968. He is 5'6" and 150 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes. 

SOURCES:

FBI

February 27, 1991 Adel, Georgia Jane Doe

 On February 27, 1991 skeletal remains would be found in Adel, Georgia. It's believed that these may be historical remains. There is little information in this case.

Jane Doe was a female between 30 to 60 years old. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

January 27, 1991 Columbia County, Georgia John Doe

On January 27, 1991 skull was found by a hunter in a wooded area in Columbia County, Georgia. They carried it home and called the police. They however were unable to take the police to where it had been found. It is believed that he had died months before.

John Doe is a male between 20 to 50 years old. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Unidentified Wiki

Murder of Arlene Ivey

Around 10 a.m. on September  15, 2005, 78-year-old Arlene Ivey was found in Potato Creek near Hannah's Mill Road Bridge in Thomaston, Georgia. Almost around the same time Arlene's family reported her missing. It was found that Arlene's home that 17 miles away in South Upson County was ransacked. It's believed that she was murdered in her home and her body was dumped where she was found.

SOURCES:

Georgia Bureau of Investigation

WRBL July 29, 2016

WRBL September 7, 2022

Murder of Gloria Raines

On June 5, 1991, 41-year-old Gloria Raines's body was found inside a vacant house at 896 Westmont Rd. in Atlanta, Georgia. She had died from blunt force trauma to her head. Gloria had been missing since late May. The vacant house was not far from her home on Cascade Ave. 

SOURCES:

Atlanta Police Department

The Atlanta Constitution June 10, 1991

Disappearance of Brenda Lee Alexander Edmondson

 

On January 12, 1987, 22-year-old Brenda Edmondson was treated at the hospital for an epileptic seizure. She would then go and visit her mother afterward at her mother's home in Athens, Georgia. When she left that night she went to a convenience store to buy cigarettes but instead bought beer. Brenda was never seen again.

At the time of her disappearance she was living with her son and husband in a room they'd rented from her uncle. 

Brenda is a white female and was 22-years-old at the time. She's 5'0" to 5'4" and 125lbs to 140lbs. She has light brown hair and blue eyes. She suffered from epilepsy. She was wearing a t-shirt, blue jeans, and carrying a purse with a picture of her baby son inside. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

International Missing Persons Wiki

Murder of Thomas Blake Armstrong Jr.

 On March 5, 1976, 52-year-old Thomas Armstrong Jr. was working at his liquor store the Elm Street Liquor Store in Covington, Georgia. He was killed during a robbery at the store. 

It's suspected that the same people who robbed a different liquor store in Rockdale County may be involved in this murder. At this robbery, one perp went into the store while the other stayed in the vehicle.

SOURCES:

Georgia Bureau of Investigation

Find a Grave

Murder of Richard Bailey Jr.

 On Jan. 24, 1984, around 9:45 P.M. Richard Bailey Jr. was found dead on Lester Rd just off of Sigman Rd in Rockdale County, Georgia. He had been shot in his lower throat.

At the time he was a truck driver for Refrigerated Transport Company in Doraville, Georgia. 

SOURCES:

Georgia Bureau of Investigation

Murder of Faye Dollar

On  Saturday, November 29, 1980, 38-year-old Faye Dollar put her two children one 4-years-old and one 9-years-old to bed. She had told them both goodnight. The two noticed she was wearing a red dress before they went to sleep. The next morning Faye was nowhere and her 1972 gold Monte Carlo was missing. The two kids would then call their father and Faye's ex-husband, Donald Dollar.

By Monday Faye was still nowhere in sight. She did not show up at Feldwood high school in College Park where she worked as a math teacher. This was unusual for her to call in sick let alone to not show up and without reason. 

On December 1, 1980, Faye was reported missing by her family. On December 4th her car would be found in the parking lot of Admiral Benson Inn in Atlanta, Georgia. In the trunk of the car, Faye was curled up and nude. She was wearing a gold necklace. She had been struck behind the ear.

Faye was not registered at the Inn and the hotel believed that car was not there earlier in the day.

SOURCES:

Atlanta Police Department

The Criminal Journal

Philosophy of Crimes

The Atlanta Constitution December 7, 1980

The Possible Homicide of Roy

 A witness came forward stating when they were a child, around 6-years-old, witnessed the murder of a man named Roy. He had been beaten to death with a fire poker and buried in a wooded area behind the witness's home in one of 6 states they lived in. 

Roy was a white male. He was a caretaker of a farm for an older white woman possibly named Quincey. He would have died between 1975 to 1979. It could have happened in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.

SOURCES:

Georgia Bureau of Investigation

June 21, 1988 Savannah, Georgia Jane Doe

 

On June 21, 1988, the body of a woman found floating near marker 30 in the Wilmington River in Savannah, Georgia. It's believed that she may have accidentally drowned while fishing or crabbing.

Jane Doe was a black female and was 60 to 70-years-old. She's 5'2" and 130 lbs. She had grey or partially grey hair and blue eyes. She had several scars one was on her left ear to chin, a scar from her navel to the pubic area, and scars on both knees. She had permanent upper and lower metallic bridgework. She was wearing blue jeans, a dark red pullover, a button shirt with green, red, and beige stripes, a patterned red, black, and white headscarf, a multicolored belt. A pair of green sunglasses and a small mirror were found in her pocket. 

SOURCES:

Georgia Bureau of Investigation 

Doe Network

NamUs

Disappearance of Alejandra Nava

 

On October 12, 2003, the day after, 14-year-old Alejandra Nava's birthday she disappeared. It's believed that she may have run away. She was last seen in Morrow, Georgia, and may be in Guerrero, Mexico. 

Alejandro is a Hispanic female and was 14-year-old at the time. She was 5'1" and 99lbs at the time. She has black hair and brown eyes. Her ears are pierced.

SOURCES:

Charley Project

National Missing Person Directory

Missing and Exploited Children

January 31, 1991 Savannah, Georgia John Doe

 

On Jan. 31, 1991, a hunter found a skull, leg bone, and upper dentures off of Little Neck Road 2 miles south of  I-16 in Savannah, Georgia. There was no evidence of foul play and it is believed that the man had died up to 3-years. 

John Doe is an African American male between 50 and 70-years-old. He may have broken his ribs in the past and had a moderate degree of osteoarthritis in his spine. He wore upper dentures and it's believed that his upper teeth had been extracted years before death. 

SOURCES:

Doe Network

NamUs

Murder of Obediah Burgess Reaves

On April 26, 1971, 28-year-old Obediah Reaves went to his job as a security guard at the Star Loan Company on 227 Mitchell St. in Atlanta, Georgia. One article said that two men attempted to rob the Star Loan Company. Obediah tried to stop it During the robbery, Obediah tried to jump a gunman and was shot in the head. He did not automatically die and was sent to the hospital, but unfortunately, he died at the hospital.

One article states that there were two who were inside and one waiting inside a car. One suspect hopped inside of a 1966 blue Mustang and the driver drove off with him. The other suspect ducked into an ally and made an escape on foot.

SOURCES:

Atlanta Georgia Police Department

The Atlanta Constitution (This one had more information about crime)

The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution 

Murder of Carol Holman

On April 6, 1990, the body of 21-year-old Carol Holman was found inside of room 334 at the Holiday in at 1944 Piedmont Cir. in Atlanta, Georgia.  She had been attacked and strangled to death. 

SOURCES:

Atlanta Police Department

Midtown Writers

Murder of Owen Garmon

On March 14, 1985, 33-year-old Owen Garmon was found dead in his apartment at 1440 Middleton St. in Apartment #79 in Atlanta, Georgia. It was found that he had been beaten to death.

SOURCES:

Atlanta Police Department

Murder of Sherri Swalley

In December of 1973, John Swalley, the father of 8-year-old Sherri Swalley and her 5-year-old brother decided that they were going to Disneyland in Florida for Christmas. They were planning on driving from Ohio to Florida. On December 23, 1973, they had stopped in Atlanta, Georgia. They were visiting a friend at the Pace Setters apartments and spend the night.

Sherri and her brother played with other children from the apartment complex. Sherri was last seen when a lady who lived in the apartment complex had asked Sherri to go and invite her dad and those they were staying with to dinner. That was around 8 p.m. and was the last time anyone saw Sherri alive. It was possible she was last seen with a teenager that night.

Sherri was found the next morning around 10:30 a.m. in view of 150 apartments in front of the woods. It was obvious that she had been dragged into the woods where she was sexually assaulted and stabbed in the chest and her face was slashed. The weapon was a thin blade knife. After the attack, her killer dragged her out of the woods to where she was found the next morning.

SOURCES:
Atlanta Police Department 
The Marion Star
Dayton Daily News
The Greenville News
The Atlanta Voice