BOSSIER PARISH, LOUISIANA (WKZO) — Remember the mystery of Bossier Doe, a 34-year-old missing persons case that was partially solved last month when a Kalamazoo woman matched an artist sketch of a long dead murder victim with a picture of her sister, Carol Ann Cole?
It subsequently led to a DNA match as well.
It turns out that investigators had Cole’s name back in 1981 at the time of her death.
For some reason they failed to connect the dots between the missing persons report and the decayed murder victim who had been stabbed multiple times.
Bossier Sheriff’s Lt. Bill Davis says they left it to the coroner to make a match and he apparently incorrectly dismissed Cole. They aren’t sure of the reasons after all these years. He is no longer alive to explain himself.
Her sister, Jeanie Phelps of Kalamazoo says her mother called asking police in Louisiana a few weeks before the murder to help them find Carol Ann.
Phelps says they have set up a gofundme.com site to try and raise enough money to give Cole a proper headstone.
Detectives in Bossier Parish continue to work the case and have a person of interest in the murder.
