Today’s case is that of the infamous “Lime Lady,” the young white Jane Doe found covered in quicklime in Oklahoma in 1980.  Investigators had very little to go on in her case, even though her features and physical attributes were very well preserved.  She remained unidentified for nearly a half century.  And when the DNA Doe Project gave her her name back, it simply gave rise to more questions – questions which remain unanswered.

In 1972, Phyllis Bailer and her toddler daughter set out to make an evening drive to her parents’ house for a weekend visit. The drive from their home in Indianapolis to Bluffton, IN should have taken less than two hours.  But Phyllis and her child never made it.  The next day came awful news for Phyllis’s family when she was found dead in a ditch. Her young daughter Jodi was by her side, and suffered only a small injury.  And so began a decades-long investigation into Phyllis’s murder.  A prime suspect focused on by the investigators for years and years seemed like the logical culprit. But police and Phyllis’s family would not have definitive answers until IGG came along and pointed them in an entirely different direction.

In 2016, a John Doe was found behind a WalMart in Charlotte, NC. With no identification and very few personal possessions, he remained unidentified, known only as Charlotte WalMart John Doe.  When a cold case detective took a class on IGG analysis, he applied the new technique to Charlotte WalMart John Doe’s case, and found relatives who had been looking for him for 12 years.  This is the story of Kenneth Robert McCarthy.