It was announced today that forty-one years after her remains were discovered, Walker County Jane Doe has been identified. Her name was Sherri Ann Jarvis. She was fourteen years old, and she was from Stillwater, Minnesota.
She had apparently been in state custody after being removed from her family due to truancy, but ran away. Neither her family nor the state were able to locate her after that. They do not know why she was in Texas. According to her family, Sherri loved animals and horseback riding.
Her remains were discovered on November 1, 1980, just hours after she had been brutally beaten and sexually assaulted.
update: https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/local/walker-county-jane-doe-1980-murder-case-unsolved-new-details/499-af34ef36-5e76-43b1-9413-f339d206c118
https://dnasolves.com/articles/walker_county_jane_doe/?fbclid=IwAR1H4JaPRkeozVnX-t1awwwQ7uNjKRk7fwc9puABfEv5N-4MO1PAGLp1ZZ0
info about her case: https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Sherri_Jarvis
Apologies if I missed anything, there was a press conference that was streamed on Facebook Live but I have not had the chance to watch it yet.
EDIT: I wanted to add some details I gathered after watching the press conference. Sherri ran away sometime around her 14th birthday in March 1980, so she had been alive but missing for about 7 months before she was murdered. She WAS reported missing by her family and they even hired a private investigator to help locate her to no avail. Her case was probably closed and records destroyed after she would have been 18, so she would not have been in any databases.
Her family received a letter postmarked from Denver after she ran away that stated she would come home after she turned 18, and this was the last communication they received from her.
Her brother said she had ran away before after she started hanging with a bad crowd; older men believed to be involved in criminal activity.
EDIT 2: I forgot to add that the three witnesses who believe: they saw Sherri prior to her death asking for directions to the Ellis Prison are unfortunately now deceased.
EDIT 3: An article with more information about Sherri’s life https://www.twincities.com/2021/11/12/14-year-old-girl-identified-as-victim-in-1980-texas-cold-case-homicide-had-forest-lake-stillwater-connections/
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