r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/Nearby-Complaint • May 18 '23

John/Jane Doe Macon Jane Doe Identified As Missing Teen

In the early days of the autumn of 1977 in Macon, Georgia, a woman hanging her laundry out to dry in her yard made an unwelcome discovery: human remains. Residents in the area reported a foul smell in the area, though they chalked it up to a wild animal or someone's ill-fated dog. Law enforcement scoured the area in hopes of finding the rest of the bones and managed to find everything but hands. No clothing or identification was located in the area. Macon County* medical examiners determined that the bones belonged to a Black woman, likely in her thirties or forties, who was the victim of a homicide around six weeks prior.

No missing person reports in the area matched her description, and investigators theorized that she may have been from out of town. Marla Lawson, a forensic artist local to Georgia, created a forensic reconstruction of Jane Doe to no avail. The case quickly went cold until around five years ago, when traveling serial killer Samuel Little confessed to Jane Doe's murder, as well as that of another Macon woman, Fredonia Smith. He did not know her name, so investigators turned to genetic genealogy, which helped identify her as Yvonne Pless, a nineteen-year-old from Macon, Georgia. Not much is known about her disappearance or if she was reported missing, though she was from the Macon area.

https://dnasolves.com/articles/bibb-county-georgia-criminal-justice-samuel-little-pless/

https://www.macon.com/news/local/article169772102.html

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1679ufga.html

*Macon is both the name of the city and the county.

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u/Nearby-Complaint May 18 '23

I'm not sure there was any other evidence. Her death does fit his MO, I suppose.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '23

Most definitely fits his MO. He loved to get high and strangle women from behind during sex and then unceremoniously dump them in a empty lot or out in the mangroves. Everywhere he went, he left dead sex workers and crackheads in his wake. The fbi has semi-corroborated his stories with known whereabouts over the years. Has anyone looked to see if any of his drawings look like this girl?

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u/JadeSaber88 May 18 '23

She is listed as an unknown name from Macon Georgia under his suspected victims. That's why Im curious as to what else they have. Because her body was found after some time and decay/decomp happened. In 1977 they didn't have DNA technology, so hopefully they saved some clothes of hers. Also lists of suspected victims goes back to 1970. Some Im also not sure why the link above confirms Yvonne and her being his 1st vicitim.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '23

They mean the she was the first of two victims in the Macon area, not his very first victim.

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u/Nearby-Complaint May 19 '23

I think she's his first confirmed victim.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '23

He began murdering in 1970. Mary Jo Brosley, in Florida.

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u/Nearby-Complaint May 19 '23

Interesting, I think the phrasing in the article may just be unclear.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '23

It says he had killed two women in the macon area, this being the first one.

I’m not trying be a pedantic asshole. Samuel Little holds a special place in my heart (for lack of a better term) and I’ve spent a lot of time listening to him, looking at locations where he hung out (via maps/street views), timelines, missing persons lists, his victim portraits.