‘Midtown Jane Doe’ finally ID’d 20 years after remains found cemented in former NYC hot spot

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By Joe Marino and Alex Oliveira

NYPD detectives have lastly ID’d the stays of a lady found mysteriously entombed in cement at a former famed Hell’s Kitchen scorching spot 20 years in the past — and so they have been eerily helped alongside by a 9/11 sufferer.

Cops imagine that the girl — who had solely been generally known as “Midtown Jane Doe” after her skeleton was discovered by building staff at 301 W. forty sixth St. in Manhattan in February 2003 — is Patricia Kathleen McGlone, a teen woman from Sundown Park, Brooklyn, who was final seen within the late Sixties.

Detective Ryan Glas of the NYPD’s Chilly Case Squad lastly received a optimistic ID on McGlone after years of exhaustive old-school gum-shoe detective work coupled with the high-tech forensic and genealogical investigative toiling of the Police Division’s Crime Lab, together with some involving the DNA of a lady killed on Sept. 11, 2001 — and whose first identify additionally was Patricia.

“Now we are able to begin the following part of the investigation — discovering the killer,” Glas just lately instructed The Publish of the case, which had as soon as shaken the town, annoyed stymied investigators and grabbed tabloid headlines throughout the Large Apple.

“The work is extremely rewarding,” added the cop, who spent seven years as a detective within the Sixth Precinct earlier than being transferred to the NYPD Chilly Case Squad, the place he mentioned he all the time needed to be.

“Everyone seems to be somebody’s youngster. We’ve to deliver closure,” he mentioned.

McGlone was between 17 and 19 years previous when investigators imagine she was fatally strangled, certain with electrical wire, wrapped in a carpet after which cemented into the constructing’s basement, which was as soon as house to the mob-tied rock ‘n’ roll membership The Scene, a joint that hosted the likes of Jimi Hendrix and the Velvet Underground earlier than closing in 1969.

McGlone’s physique was found when building staff broke up a slab of cement within the constructing’s basement and her cranium rolled out onto the ground.

Contained in the makeshift tomb was a wristwatch, some kids’s toys and a signet ring bearing the initials PMcG.

However the division’s investigation into the macabre discover — which was splashed throughout the pages of The Publish in 2003 — quickly ran aground given the restricted forensics expertise of the day, an ongoing hovering metropolis murder charge and a myriad of useless ends within the case.

Then ultimately, as expertise associated to DNA sampling superior — together with the elevated reputation of familial and genealogical monitoring that got here with it — cops have been in a position to make use of a little bit of genetic materials pulled from the girl’s skeleton to get a attainable hit on her household tree.

“We used forensic investigative family tree to supply that household tree below the Forensics Investigations Divisions on the NYPD Crime Lab,” Glas mentioned. “That hit got here again in early 2023.”

Glas and his staff then set to work interviewing individuals within the household tree. All leads on the paternal aspect got here up dry, however after turning to the maternal aspect, investigators discovered a 90-year-old lady in Florida who turned out to be a distant cousin of Midtown Jane Doe.

The lady recalled her sister babysitting some younger cousins again when she lived in Brooklyn — and DNA testing prompt that one in all them was Midtown Jane.

Glas mentioned he was capable of assist affirm the identification utilizing DNA samples from a lady who died on 9/11.

DNA submitted by relations hoping to search out the feminine 9/11 sufferer’s stays within the Manhattan rubble turned out to be associated to Midtown Jane Doe.

“The investigative genetic family tree used [from her skeleton] is barely a lead — Jane Doe was recognized by her distant genetic kin,” Glas mentioned. 

One other DNA-driven lead turned up who investigators believed have been Midtown Jane Doe’s dad and mom, and armed with that data, they recognized the physique as McGlone.

Glas set to work combing by public and Brooklyn church data to then piece collectively the quick lifetime of McGlone, who grew up in a home on Third Avenue in Sundown Park, attended Catholic college after which public highschool for a mere eight days earlier than marrying a person in his early 30s round 1968 or ’69 and disappearing.

Now that detectives have a reputation, they’ve gotten to work attempting to determine McGlone’s killer.

Glas mentioned the teenager’s thriller husband was linked to the Hell’s Kitchen constructing the place her physique was discovered.

“We’re nonetheless engaged on getting data on him, attempting to confirm what his state of affairs was together with her,” Glas mentioned. “At this level within the investigation, what I can say is, he does have a connection to the place she was discovered.”

Glas mentioned investigators instrumental to the tragic lady’s identification included: Lt. Michael Saccone, the commanding officer of the Chilly Case Squad; retired Detectives Gerard Gardiner and Robert Hahn; the NYPD Police Laboratory’s Forensic Investigations Division genealogist, Linda Doyle; Detective Joey Rodriguez and criminalist Sarah Sciortino, in addition to metropolis Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner’s Dr. Angela Soler and the Assistant Director of the Anthropology Unit Director Dr. Bradley Adams. 

The investigation continues below the Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace’s Siobahn Berry of its Investigations Bureau and Forensic Sciences Chilly Case Unit Chief Coleen Balbert.