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Beth Doe (known officially as Incident No. N3-27244) is the nickname given to an unidentified young American woman who was discovered murdered on December 20, 1976 in White Haven, Pennsylvania. She was pregnant when she was killed and the fetus was found with her remains. The brutality of the crime and the length of time that she has remained unidentified has sparked national attention. ==Death== Beth Doe, who was carrying a nine-month female fetus, had been strangled and shot in the neck by an unknown perpetrator and was then dismembered with a serrated blade. Her nose, breasts and ears were then severed and have never been found.〔〔 The parts of her body and her unborn daughter were then placed into three suitcases, two were striped with red, blue and white and the other was tan with a plaid design.〔 They had vinyl material and were the same size.〔 It was also evident that the suitcases had been spray-painted black at some point and their handles were severed.〔〔 To dispose of the body, the suitcases were presumably thrown off of a bridge on the side of the Lehigh River in White Haven, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, along interstate 80. The suitcases were estimated to have fallen approximately three-hundred feet before colliding with the ground. It is believed that the suitcases were thrown out of a vehicle moving west.〔〔〔 The killer most likely intended to have the body land in the water below, to lessen the chance of it being found and identified. However, they failed to reach the water, as they were likely carried off course by wind. Two of the suitcases landed in the woods, twenty feet from the river, and the third, containing the head and fetus, was found on the bank.〔 Her body was later found by a teenage boy at approximately 4:30 PM, within seven hours to a week after Beth Doe's death.〔〔〔 Examiners stated that the victims had died recently, as they appeared to have few signs of decomposition and looked to be "freshly thrown."〔 However, some believed the remains may have been at the location longer than a day, as the low temperatures may have preserved the bodies. Due to the force of falling a long distance, two of the suitcases had opened and parts of the body had emerged; the head, fetus and the two halves of the torso had been exposed.〔〔 Other evidence included numbers and letters written with ink on the corpse, straw, packaging foam, a bedspread and waterlogged fragments of a newspaper, later determined to have belonged to ''The New York Sunday'' from September 26, 1976.〔〔 The newspaper was linked to the northern part of New Jersey, where the perpetrator of the crime may have had "ties" to.〔 The comforter was a reddish-orange color of chenille material and was wrapped around some of the body and had yellow and pink embroidered flowers.〔〔〔 The bedding and newspapers had been wrapped over some of the body parts. The ink, believed to have originated from a pen, was located on the left hand of the victim, indicating she was right-handed if she had written it herself. The writing consisted of the letters "WSR" and the numbers "4" or "5," followed by "4" or "7."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beth Doe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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