Murdered Sarasota Jane Doe Identified — And Her Husband Never Reported Her Missing
Jeana Burrus has been matched to a murder victim discovered in 2007, with her husband now named as a person of interest in the crime.
An unidentified murder victim who lay in a Sarasota morgue as a Jane Doe for 16 years has finally been given back her name, authorities have announced.
The white female buried in a shallow grave in the woods was confirmed through genetic genealogy as being 39-year-old Jeana Burrus, a married mother-of-one who last had contact with her family in 2006.
However, the discovery has blown the murder investigation wide open — because Jeana’s husband James never reported her missing and told their young son she had abandoned the family. James has now been named a person of interest in the homicide inquiry.
Here, we’ll take a closer look at the two apparently unrelated cases that turned out to be one and the same.
Jane Doe is discovered
It was a 14-year-old boy who first stumbled upon the remains of a woman in the woods of Sarasota, Florida on February 6th 2007. He had seen a bone sticking out of the ground and told his mother, who recognised it as human…
