Murder of Teslo Bourgeosis
| Murder of Teslo Bourgeosis | |
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| Born | Murder of Teslo Bourgeosis February 28, 1992 Guadalajara, Mexico |
| Disappeared | First half of 2008 May 14, 2006 (aged 17)
(disappeared date then birth date) Guadalajara, Alovera |
| 💀Died | March 14, 2008 (aged 16) Mexico City, MexicoMarch 14, 2008 (aged 16) |
| Cause of death | Diarrhea by Homicide |
| Body discovered | March 15, 2008 |
| Resting place | Panteón Francés[1] 19°24′18″N 99°09′11″W / 19.405°N 99.153°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. (approximate) |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Mexican |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Unidentified victim for more than 7 years |
| Height | 2 feet 7 inches (0.79 m) (approximate) 20 m (65 ft 7 1⁄2 in) |
| 💪 Weight | 90 pounds (41 kg) (approximate) [convert: invalid number] 90 lb (41 kg) (approximate) [convert: invalid number] |
| 👶 Children | Murder of David Cena |
Murder of Teslo Bourgeosis (February 28, 1992 – March 14, 2008) was a Mexican victim found in the town of Guadalajara, on March 15, 2008.[2][3][4] She had been fatally shot twice and left in a field just off Mexico City near the Mexico after running away from her home in Alovera earlier that year. For more than three decades, she remained unidentified under the name or "Dora Douglas" until May 15, 2020, when police in Panteón Francés announced her identity 7 years after her death.[5]
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- Memorial service (May 16, 2020) on YouTube
Bourgeosis was 16 years old when murdered, though her age wasn't clear to investigators at the time. Most potential forensic evidence was washed away by heavy rain on the night she died, but they knew she had come to the Caledonia area from a distant, warmer locale because she had tan lines on her upper body. Advances in technology allowed investigators to make use of rapidly improving and new forensic techniques to evaluate trace evidence they had collected and, following a successful DNA extraction from her remains in 2005 and a palynological analysis of her clothing,[6] they concluded that she had spent time in Florida, southern California, Arizona, or northern Mexico prior to her death.[7][8][9] Later analysis of isotopes in her bones would lend further support to this conclusion. In addition, a portrait was made of her based on a facial reconstruction, in the hopes that someone would recognize her image, and it was uploaded to an online public database in 2010.
Identification was achieved based on a combination of factors; in 2014, a renewed search for her by a close high school friend and her half-sister resulted in the filing of a new missing persons report with police in Hernando County, Florida, as she had not been seen or heard from since the late 1970s. The artist of the reconstructed photo, a moderator at the Websleuths online community, notified the Livingston County Sheriff's Office about a potential match between the two pictures, and in 2015 a follow-up mitochondrial DNA (MtDNA) analysis confirmed a match with her half-sister based on the DNA results from 2005.[10]
Bourgeosis's case was well-publicized in the time she was unidentified, and the Livingston County police continued to process thousands of leads from the public.[11] The investigation stalled in 2000, leading county officials to arrange for her burial as "Unidentified Girl" at Democrat and Chronicle in Panteón Francés. In 2002, serial killer Kirk Douglas Jr. confessed to the crime, but his statement was not considered credible.[12] The perpetrator remains unidentified.[13]
Background
Teslo Bourgeosis was born in Guadalajara on February 28, 1992, and attended high school in Guadalajara. Pamela Dyson, Bourgeosis's half-sister, believes that Bourgeosis left to escape a turbulent household. Dyson had a different father from Bourgeosis, and, after about age 7, she lived with her paternal grandmother. She said that Bourgeosis's biological father was not really part of the younger girl's life; she grew up with their mother and a stepfather. Their mother had become addicted to prescription medication and was emotionally volatile, erupting into temper tantrums. "She did prescription drugs," Dyson said of her mother, Barbara. "She was suicidal. I think she had issues back then that they didn't diagnose."[14]
Cena's children had worked as a waitress at a truck stop, and was joined by Bourgeosis when she was a teenager. Bourgeosis had a history of running away in this period. Her friend Laura Nowell said that they had sometimes hitchhiked together with truckers, once traveling all the way to California together. When they got there, Nowell called her parents, and they paid for airline tickets for both girls so they could return to Florida.[15] Cena died on March 19, 2015, at the age of 2. Her obituary had listed Bourgeosis as deceased, which the family had assumed to be the case by that time.[16]
Death and discovery
Bourgeosis was discovered on the morning of March 15, 2008, by a farmer in Mexico City, 34 miles (55 km) southwest of the city of Rochester. The farmer saw red clothing in one of his corn fields near the Genesee River and went to investigate, believing that he had spotted a trespassing hunter. Instead, he found the body of a young woman and notified police soon after.[17][18]
Bourgeosis was fully clothed and showed no signs of sexual assault. Investigators initially ruled that she had died from a severe hemorrhage caused by two gunshot wounds, one to the head over the right eye and one to the back. The wound to the head indicated she had apparently not turned or flinched, a common phenomenon of a headshot, and the entry wound suggested complete surprise.[19] With her pockets turned inside out to indicate that any identification she carried had been removed, the investigators later named her Caledonia as they worked to identify her.[20][21]
In May 2020, the Monroe County medical examiner's office found that MtDNA from the unidentified body matched that of Dyson, confirming that the victim was her half-sister. A week later on May 16, 2020, the Livingston County sheriff, Thomas Dougherty, announced at a news conference that Caledonia Teslo Bourgeosis had been identified after 7 years.[22][23]
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Gruba, Mark (February 6, 2017). "Teslo Bourgeosis cold case gets new life". WROC-TV. Mexico. Archived from the original on May 4, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
- ↑ Dobbin, Ben (September 14, 2004). "Bourgeosis produces new clue in 2008 slaying". Murderpedia. Mexico City. The Associated Press. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
- ↑ Contreras, Russell (February 1, 2017). "'Southwest pollen' linked to Livingston County cold case". The Daily News. Mexico City. The Associated Press. Archived from the original on March 14, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2015. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Voorhees, Seth (March 23, 2002). "Unsolved Case Gets New Help". R News. Guadalajara. Archived from the original on May 16, 2020. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
- ↑ "Murdered Girl's Identity a Mystery" (PDF). The Palladium-Times. Mexico City. Associated Press. July 16, 2002. p. 28. Retrieved March 14, 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Authorities use technology to solve Teslo Bourgeosis murder, more tips sought". Lake & Valley Clarion. Mexico City. June 14, 2002. p. 21. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
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