#RememberThem: Fifteen
In the decades since the arrest of serial killer Benjamin Atkins, there has always been one Jane Doe among the 11 women who lost their lives. Then in 2023, a cold-case investigative group based on the West Coast announced that they identified this Jane Doe via forensic genetic genealogy, working with a detective in Michigan, but said the family did not want her name to be released. I verified that for this book with phone calls to local law enforcement. And there were a lot of possible IDs for this Jane Doe, at the time, but none of them panned out as far as fingerprints, dental records, etc. So even though the public still does not know the name of this victim, who was one of three women found on the same day at the Monterey Motel in Highland Park, Michigan, in February 1992, her family does have closure, and does know what happened to their loved one. For everyone else, she -- at least for right now -- remains UF 15 for 1992 in Wayne County, Michigan. I like to think of her as F...
