DOE: ID 'Mary Jane Doe' Tabetha Slain Murlin

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Episode 105 DOE: ID 'Mary Jane Doe' Tabetha Slain Murlin

In may, 1992, a construction worker renovating a home in Fort Wayne, Indiana made a gruesome discovery. In the flooded basement of the home, he discovered a woman's body wrapped in a blanket. Investigators were unable to determine an exact cause of death due to the condition of her remains, although they did make one important discovery; she was about 26 weeks pregnant when she died. Although police suspected foul play, they didn't have much in the way of leads to ID a suspect in her death, and they didn't even know who she was. Efforts to ID her came up empty, and she was laid to rest with the moniker 'Mary Jane Doe'.

Decades would pass before DNA & genealogy would finally provide some answers by late 2023; the dead woman was Tabetha Slain Murlin who was about 23 when she died. Her family had lost contact with her in the late 1980s, and although they tried to look for her over the next three decades, they had no luck, and presumed the worst. Now, police know who Tabetha is, but if she met with foul play, they don't know who it was at the hands of. They would also like to determine the identity of her baby's father, and perhaps genealogy will one day help them do that.

Anyone with information on what led to Tabetha Murlin's death should reach out to authorities at 260-427-1201 for the Fort Wayne Police Detective Bureau; Fort Wayne CrimeStoppers at 260-436-7867; or report an anonymous tip using the P3Tips mobile app.

After more than three decades, 'Mary Jane Doe' finally has her name back; it's Tabetha Slain Murlin, and this is her story.

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0:40.3	The On May 15, 1992, around 3 o'clock p.m., an unnamed contractor was painting a vacant home
1:14.9	owned by his grandfather at 3512 Reynolds Street on the southeast side of Fort Wayne, Indiana. He discovered
1:22.1	that the dark basement was a flooded mess of 8 to 12-inch deep brackish standing water, mold, and floating debris. And one
1:30.6	thing floating in the water grabbed his attention. It was a very dirty pink sneaker. He picked it up
1:36.1	and there was something inside it, foot and ankle bones. This from a May 17th, 1992 article in the
1:42.9	journal Gazette, quote,
1:44.7	a contractor found a pink sneaker with an ankle bone in it and asked a neighbor to call police.
1:49.7	The neighbor, David Lewis, was visiting his father nearby.
1:53.3	Lewis said he wondered whether a body was inside the house when his three-year-old son picked the shoe up and began in looking at it.
2:00.0	Lewis, who used to work in a
2:01.6	morgue, decided to investigate. He said he walked inside the house but didn't find anything.
2:06.8	It was then that he walked around outside and looked in the basement window. Lewis said he saw
2:11.8	the body partially covered by a blanket as he looked through the basement window of the one-story house
2:16.6	at 3512 Reynolds Street."
2:18.8	And quote. Lewis notified the Allen County Sheriff's Office and deputies were dispatched to the
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