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Eleven-year-old cold case ends as South Carolina Jane Doe identified as missing Brunswick woman


By Caroline Curran, Reporter
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 4:43 pm (Updated: September 20, 7:49 pm)
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For the past 11 years, the body of Jane Doe lay beneath the earth in Darlington, South Carolina’s Magnolia Cemetery.



For 11 years, the identity of Jane Doe haunted law enforcement officials in Darlington, and former coroner Elridge Norton, who paid for Jane Doe to have a plot in Magnolia Cemetery—to save her from a pauper’s grave or worse, cremation, which would have meant her identity would always remain a mystery.

Jane Doe was found in the woods behind a truck stop on I-20 in Darlington in August 2000. She had ligature marks around her neck. She was scantily clad. She was unrecognizable.

Her identify would remain a mystery for more than a decade.

For the past 11 years family members yearned for answers about what happened to their loved one—a daughter, a sister and a mother.

For the past 11 years, Detective Sgt. Steve Mason with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office has kept an active missing person case open, hoping to one day close the case.

Then, just last week, these seemingly unrelated stories crashed together, bringing closure and peace for those involved as law enforcement officers in Darlington announced Jane Doe was, in fact, Michelle Yvonne Haggadone, a 34-year-old Belville woman last seen in 2000.

“This case started for me in December of 2000 with a missing person report that was filed, indicating that Michelle Yvonne Haggadone had disappeared; she was missing,” Mason said this week.

“We commenced to looking for her. I came up with very little to begin with—that she was last seen in the area of what used to be Town and Country Motel in Belville. She was known to travel from Brunswick County over to neighboring New Hanover County, to a truck stop on U.S. 421,” he said.

Haggadone was in a car accident in 1999. She was injured in the accident and soon after began abusing prescription medication, Mason said.

“She literally lost her home; her two children she had who were living with her, she lost both of them. Michelle pretty much became a street person. She got involved with people doing drugs and she became involved in a life of prostitution,” he said.

In December 2000, she was reported missing. Mason turned to a good friend and counterpart at the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office.

“And it turned out it was his niece. He gave me a lot of good, helpful information, but we still weren’t able to locate her,” Mason said.

Mason then collected DNA swabs from Haggadone’s mother, her sister and her child.

“Those three swabs were submitted through CODIS at the FBI lab in Quantico. Over the years we’ve persisted at trying to maintain her in NCIC,” Mason said.

Through the years, Mason tried to see if her Social Security number had ever been used again—if she were possibly alive and living elsewhere.

For years there was nothing. Then Mason got a break in the case.

“This went on for a number of years until I finally got a notification from the FBI lab that I would be receiving something from the University of North Texas. Just prior to receiving the notification from the University of North Texas that there was a possible hit on DNA, I got a call from Capt. Andy Locklair with the Darlington County Sheriff’s Department.

“He had a Jane Doe case in which an approximately 34-year-old female had been murdered off of I-20 in Darlington County. They had no way of identifying who she was. They had submitted information on her in 2005, trying to determine her DNA. Between his case, my case and everything that was being submitted into the system at North Texas for identification, we came up with a possible hit."

DNA results found a 60,000-to-one probability Jane Doe was Michelle Haggadone.

“The young lady they had in Darlington County was Michelle Haggadone, 60,000 to one, for each the mother, the sister, the son—that this was, in fact, Michelle Yvonne Haggadone,” Mason said.

Mason submitted further medical information to corroborate Haggadone’s identity.

After 11 years, Haggadone was no longer missing.

Her family has since decided to leave her at rest at Magnolia Cemetery, where Norton buried her more than a decade ago.

The suspect

As the investigation into Jane Doe’s identity closed, the investigation into Haggadone’s killer intensified.

As investigators pieced together their case, they found similarities in other murder cases—the ligature marks, the cause of death, the circumstances—to Haggadone’s case.

All the while a man named John Wayne Boyer was serving time in Wayne Correctional Facility near Goldsboro for a second-degree murder plea in New Hanover County.

Boyer, a trucker who once lived in Leland and frequented the Town and Country Motel and the truck stop off U.S. 421 Haggadone once frequented, quickly became the prime suspect in Haggadone’s murder.

“We went to Wayne Correctional and had an interview with him. We confronted him about what we had in Darlington County, and he admitted that he had committed the act of murder by killing Michelle Yvonne Haggadone.

“In conjunction with what we’ve gotten out of the investigation, working with New Hanover County, we found out from authorities in Tennessee and possibly Kentucky, that there are similar cases in their jurisdictions,” Mason said.

Prosecutors in Tennessee plan to seek extradition for Boyer in 2015 when he is up for parole.

“If he is allowed parole and he is paroled to authorities in Tennessee, he’s looking forward to a life sentence there.”

Darlington officials have charged Boyer with Haggadone’s murder because the murder took place in their jurisdiction.

“We’re working on other angles at this point concerning other cases that Boyer may have been involved in. He traveled extensively when he was working for a company called Twisdale Trucking from North Carolina into South Carolina, to Florida, out toward Texas. He traveled into Tennessee and Kentucky.

“He traveled I-95, I-20, I-24, I-26, and all the relative counties that he went through, there have been several cases where they have unsolved abductions, kidnappings and they’ve got some deceased people they’ve found remains of. At this point, have we been able to tie him to all of those? It’s in the process of being investigated as I speak,” Mason said.

According to the North Carolina Department of Corrections, Boyer, now 54, was convicted in 2007 of the 2003 murder in New Hanover County. He was sentenced to between nine-and-a-half years and 12 years, two months, in prison.

His projected release date on this murder conviction is April 2016. Boyer was moved from Wayne Correctional to Central Prison in Raleigh on Sept. 16.

Closure

Mason is set to retire from his law enforcement career this November, and he is relieved to have closed this case before retiring.

“My counterpart in Darlington, S.C., has had the case ever since the body was found in 2000. I’ve had this case ever since 2000. It’s a case that I’ve never put as inactive. I’ve kept her active in NCIC. I’ve also maintained the file in my office for quick reference if I needed to.

“We’ve had our hopes up before that we had the right female located, but it turned out it wasn’t the proper DNA. I didn’t want to put the family through anything without being convinced this time that we had the right person. We actually knew a little bit more about what we had prior to notifying the family—the mother, the daughter and the son.

“It’s good closure. It’s good closure for us as law enforcement officers. And, at the same time, it made me feel good that I was able to be involved with the actual interviews that led to the ultimate charging of the man responsible for the death of Michelle Yvonne Haggadone,” Mason said.




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