Doe ID: Maria Telles-Gonzalez

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Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Episode 135 Doe ID: Maria Telles-Gonzalez

On May 24, 1995, the partially nude body of an unidentified woman was found by a highway worker in a drainage ditch on Cottonhall Road in Yemassee, South Carolina. Authorities believed that the woman, who was Hispanic, had been strangled to death. Police didn't have much to go on, but they scoured missing persons cases across SC and nearby states looking for a victim who might fit the description of their Jane Doe, but they could not find one. They theorized that she had been driven quite some distance before her remains were discarded. With no leads to go on her case went cold. In 2020, officials turned to the victim's DNA for help, and began the process of identifying her through genealogy. They hit pay dirt in 2022. The Yemassee Jane Doe was actually Maria Telles-Gonzalez, a 36 yr old woman who vanished from Kissimmee, Florida in May, 1995 after returning from a trip to Puerto Rico. She was last seen by her husband and children in the weeks before her body was found, but she wasn't reported missing. Due to the fact she wasn't reported missing, and a lack of complete cooperation from her husband, police consider him a person of interest. Police also want to ID a male associate of Maria's who may have been in a relationship with her. They don't know much about him other than he was Hispanic, and his name was Carlos. He stands about 5-foot-8 or 5-foot-10, speaks Spanish and English very well. He may be living in the Orlando or Kissimmee area, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Now police are working to find out who murdered Maria and dumped her body. Anyone with information about Maria Telles-Gonzalez’s disappearance and murder is urged to contact cold case investigator Bob Bromage at 843-816-8013 or by email at [email protected]

Maria Telles-Gonzalez now has her name back, and this is her story.

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2:05.6	It was May 24th, 1995. A South Carolina Highway Department employee was operating a mower to cut the grass on a remote, swampy stretch of Cotton Hall Road in Yemisee. This is State Road S-748 in Beaufort County, South Carolina, a remote two-lane road which runs between U.S. Highway 21
2:36.0	and Old Sheldon Church Road in plantation country. The surroundings are huge private plantations
2:42.0	where curated crops are grown, harvested, and sold. The stately homes populated in them are
2:47.1	valued at millions. It was the last place the highway worker expected to come across a
2:51.6	body, but there was one. A dead woman lay in a drainage ditch, cutting through the overgrown grass.
2:57.6	She wore only underpants. The finding of this woman's remains was fortuitous because she had only
3:03.8	very recently died. In this area of the country, with the summer heat, bodies decompose
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