Three years after the remains of three unidentified women were found behind a New Britain Plaza, police are hoping new high-tech tools will help them figure out who they are, and how they died.
It was August 2007 when the remains were uncovered in a wooded area behind a Subway sandwich shop off Hartford Road, and right up against Route 9.
Bones from at least three women were discovered, but police could only find two skulls. Police now refer to them as Jane Doe One and Jane Doe Two.
Forensic technicians and scientists at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia have spent months with those skulls. They've used a new state-of-the-art forensics to create three-dimensional likenesses based on those skulls.
"We strongly believe identifying these girls is one of the first steps in finding out how they died," Lt. James Wardwell told the New Britain Herald.
The sculpted likenesses give police a good approximation of what the women looked like at the time of their death.
Jane Doe One was most likely African-American, Hispanic or Caribbean, 20 to 30 years old, and most likely somewhere between 5 feet to 5 feet 3 inches tall, the paper reported.
Jane Doe Two appeared to be white, of European decent and in her 40's. She was missing several teeth, but did have a root canal at some point, according to information obtained by The Herald.
"Someone knew them, most likely from the Northeast or this area, we need to get these images out so people can see them. We're hoping someone will recognize their features and give us a call, " Lt. Wardwell told the paper.
Police believe the deaths of these women may be connected to another violent crime. In 1995, the body of a woman was found in the same area behind the plaza on Hartford Road. She had been shot in the head.
Although police found her body intact, she has never been identified.
"We haven't definitely connected her with the bones of the three women found in 2007, but at the time I thought it was a real good coincidence that they were all found close to each other," Capt Matthew Tuttle told The Herald. "It renewed our hope that we could solve them all."
Some of the officers have become very personally connected to the cases, and want to see them solved. "Everyone talks about them as human remains but they were human beings," Lt. Wardwell told the paper. "These were somebody's wives, daughters, sisters. They were real people and they deserve for us to find out what happened to them."
