CASE FILE 001 · UNSOLVED
The Buckskin Girl: Marcia King
For 37 years she was a Jane Doe in an Ohio cemetery. In 2018, DNA and volunteer genealogists found her family in about four hours. Her name was Marcia King. Her murder is still unsolved.
She was 21, from Arkansas, and had left home in 1980. Nobody ever reported her missing. Her mother kept the same house and the same phone number for decades, in case she called.
- Late April 1981
- A young woman is found in a ditch on Greenlee Road near Troy, Ohio, with no ID, wearing a handmade fringed deerskin poncho. It gives her the name the case is known by.
- 1981
- About 200 leads from a composite sketch go nowhere. She is buried as Jane Doe at Riverside Cemetery in Troy, with officers as her pallbearers.
- 2016
- Isotopes in her hair and pollen on the poncho show how far she had travelled. New facial reconstructions are released.
- 29 March 2018
- The DNA Doe Project, then a new nonprofit, finds a family candidate in about four hours. A relative's DNA confirms it, and the sheriff announces her name that April.
- 20 July 2018
- A memorial in Troy and a new headstone with her name, paid for by a fundraiser. Her family chooses to keep her there.
- Today
- Her killer has never been found. The investigation is open, and no newer public update turned up when we checked in October 2026.
If you know anything
Miami County Sheriff's Office, Detective Section: (937) 440-3965. Anonymous tips. NamUs case UP4790.