Collinsville Jane Doe is an unidentified woman who was found dead in a field in Madison County, Illinois, and despite the efforts of local authorities, her murder remains unsolved.
It was around 1:25 p.m. on July 20, 1990, when a maintenance crew discovered the decomposing body of a female in a soybean field, about 40 feet north of Lebanon Road—near Troy and O’Fallon Road—in Jarvis Township, Collinsville, according to Illinois State Police.
The woman was nude, but she was wearing white sandals with straps. She also wore a metal ring on her right ring finger—it had a heart-shaped blue turquoise stone in the center of it, NAMUS reported.
Investigators said it appeared she had been placed at that location two to three days before she was found.
An autopsy revealed that she was a victim of a homicide, as she died from stab wounds and cuts to her neck and torso. It was also uncovered during the autopsy that her “fallopian tubes, uterus, and ovaries were missing,” police said.
However, the medical examiner could not determine if her organs had been surgically removed.
The victim could not be identified, and she, therefore, became known as Collinsville Jane Doe. She was interred at the St. Jerome Catholic Cemetery on Troy O’Fallon Road with the words “Jane Doe” engraved on her tombstone, according to the Times-Tribune News.
Collinsville Jane Doe is believed to be a Caucasian female with red or auburn hair, which she was wearing in a ponytail at the time her body was found.
Her eye color is unknown due to the body’s state of decomposition.
She is between the ages of 25 and 40, and she weighed between 120 and 130 pounds, and stood between five-foot-four and five-foot-six inches tall.
Anyone with information regarding the unsolved murder of Collinsville Jane Doe is encouraged to contact the Madison County Sheriff’s Department at (618) 692-0871 or call Crime Stoppers at 1-866-371-TIPS (8477).