Who is Princess Doe? A local cold case

Princess Doe was the
name given to a female murder victim found in the Cedar Ridge Cemetery in
Blairstown, NJ, on a hot summer morning in 1982. Her face was bludgeoned beyond
recognition, making identification near impossible. To this day, no one has
claimed her and no one has reported her missing. Though the case is still open
and has garnered national recognition, including recent air time on CNN and
“America’s Most Wanted”, it remains unsolved, and her killer remains at large.
Princess Doe made history in 1982 as the first missing unidentified victim ever
entered into the FBI’s database. Local author Christie Leigh Napurano, whose
fiction novel “The Untold Story of Princess Doe” was published last spring, has
spent much of the past year promoting the case, along with her book, at library
presentations. Ret. Det. Stephen Spiers, lead detective on the case from
1998-2012, has been joining her. Together Spiers and Napurano hope that
educating the public on this case, and keeping it fresh in people’s minds, will
eventually bring them closer to the ultimate tip: the person who might have
known Princess Doe’s name.

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