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She Was Killed In A Motel Room 31 Years Ago, And Even Though Her Family Was Tracked Down In 2019, She Was Only Recently Identified

It was June 10th, 1991, and she was at the Whitehall Motel to see James McAlphin, her ex-boyfriend, but she had moved on after their split and was seeing a new man.

Despite that, James had requested that she stop by the motel so that he could see her, and she had agreed.

Witnesses recalled watching her and James fighting right there in the parking lot of the motel. It quickly escalated and turned pretty physical.

Eventually, she ended up in room number 121 with James. Even though the two were full-on fighting, a man who lived a few doors down decided now would be a good time to ask James to give back some cassette tapes he had lent him, so he went over to the room.

She said “You need to talk to him,” asking this man for help, but he didn’t do anything to intervene.

After he returned to his room, she tried to leave at one point, but James hit her and pulled her back inside.

Gunshots rang out, and the police quickly arrived on the scene not long after.

El Dorado Police Department; the El Dorado Jane Doe is pictured above with James

She was found with a gunshot wound to her head inside of room 121, and everyone at the motel who had witnessed her fighting with James knew he had taken her life.

James had fled the scene and told a very different story when police were able to catch up with him.

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