My hearing is not very good (esp with British accents) but I'm a little confused re: the body parts that were discovered. Some were apparently burned, but what about the head? There was talk about using a dentist, but was it only teeth they discovered in the furnace ashes. Lastly, I thought they were going to ask the dead girl's parents to identify her. How? Using her clothes? None of this seemed to be explained.
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Maybe the parents could identify the luggage with the initial JS.
The detective had the 6 dentists in the area called on the phone and asked for the names of any young female patients with the initials JS. Remember how the female officer first called another JS, found out she was still around and then called the next on the list?
I thought maybe the hands were burned to destroy fingerprints.
I never did figure out where the head wound up. Seems to me that the skull would not have burned. And I think Jack Warner mentioned that there were no teeth to check on.
Thanks for the reply. I'm glad to hear that I'm not alone with unanswered questions.
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The killer did not finish the job of disposing of Joan's body. Some of her body parts were found in the incinerator but I got the impression most of her body was stuffed into the trunk. I assumed it included her head.
The identification by way of her teeth was because they did not know who she was. They originally thought she was Jean but when they found Jean they still needed to figure out who 'Mrs. Campbell' was. Also, if I'm not mistaken, the actual teeth aren't used; rather the pattern of the teeth are matched to x-rays. I don't know if one tooth would have done the job. Today there may be a way to extract DNA but in the sixties DNA was not a factor.
Having identified her, the detectives didn't really need the parents to identify her; that was more procedural. They went to notify the parents of her death and to get whatever information they could provide. What they told the detectives about her former love interest helped move the case along.
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