I am kicking off Delaware with a case just a bit up the road from me.

Tina has been missing longer than she was alive (presuming the suspected foul play is accurate), and longer than she was accounted for and with her family. She has been mentioned on other subs but I wanted to feature her here as she is one of Delware's older and longer running missing person's cases.

It sounds like Tina Kemp was a "typical teen" by all accounts. According to her older sister, Brenda King's 2022 interview with Dateline NBC. Brenda described her younger sister as a girl who had "a few friends but not many", and that Tina really most prominently was very much into horses. Brenda says Tina would often help their father with the horses at the stables. It wasn't clear in the sources if they owned a horse farm or if her father worked with horses. On The Charley Project description of Tina it states she was "known to hang around horse racetracks in and around the Delaware area".

At 14, Brenda stated that just before Tina vanished for good she had ran away twice previously (within a couple of months of her third and final disappearance). Both of the initial times Tina was found at her boyfriend's home. Only ever named as, Eric. But this all changed on February 3rd 1979.

Tina and Brenda's mother, named Ruth, had been hanging clothes on the clothesline that day and Tina had helped her. The family lived in Felton Delaware. They had been together at the clothesline at around 9a.m. yet just briefly afterwards when Ruth went looking for Tina she was gone. Her mother would never see her again.

Initially the family assumed she'd taken off to her boyfriend's once again. Ruth and Brenda had driven around looking for Tina. Eric had stated she was not there. Their search yeilded little and the day after Tina originally disappeared a blizzard struck the area. It was about 2 foot of snow and it shut the area down for about 48+ hours. Tina Kemp was officially reported missing by Ruth on February 5th, 1979.

According to an email correspondence to Dateline with Officer Master Corporal Heather Pepper, "Tina was very young when she went missing, and did not have the means to start a new life with a new identity."

Foul play is suspected in Tina's vanishing. However according to Corporal Pepper there are no suspects or persons of interest at this time. I'm not sure if there ever have been or were any in the past. None have been publicly named that I could find. Information about the boyfriend is vague.

Tina has been entered into the National Crime Information Center, ( NCIC) as well as DELJIS (Delaware Criminal Justice information system) as well as NAMUS. There have been some Jane Doe comparison over the years but so far all have been ruled out.

Tina's father and several family members have submitted their DNA to various familial DNA sites over the years in hopes to snag some information and have as many hooks in the water as possible. They just long to know what happened to Tina just before that blizzard in 1979.

Ruth passed away in 2011 without knowing what happened to her youngest child. Brenda, who was 17 when her 14 year old sister vanished decades ago is still seeking answers to what happened to her.

Delaware State Police homicide unit is investigating under Detective Mark Ryde as of 2022 at 302-739-5901

https://charleyproject.org/case/tina-faye-kemp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1288995

So much limited information here. I have read on different threads that perhaps Tina did runaway as she had before to go to Eric's, and something happened to her along the way. I am naturally extremely curious about the boyfriend, his age, his family members. I didn't hear him mentioned much at all in Brenda's interview or any of the limited sources I could find. Did the blizzard cover up any possibille evidence after she was gone?

Did she even run away at all after being with Ruth at the clothesline?

Perhaps someone pulled up, possibly accosted her?

I truly hope her remaining loved ones someday get the answers that have remained hidden for so long.

Hello everyone! As always, I'd like to thank you for all your votes and comments under my last post about Harley Morris- I hope that he will be found soon.

My yesterday's write-up got deleted due to the case I covered not being old enough to qualify. As an apology, I wrote this one- a short one, due to not having a lot to work with, but about an, in my opinion, very interesting Canadian Doe case.

DISCOVERY

On the 5th of February, a house fire broke out in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. When it was put out, a victim was discovered- a woman who was only known as "Anna".

She was a white woman, and about 40 to 60 years of age. She was 5'1" (156 cm), 130 lb (59kg), had grey eyes and grey, long, straight hair.

The most "unusual" part of Anna's case is the fact that she had quite a lot of plastic surgery done: She had silicone implants in her calfs, breasts and buttocks. Other than that, she had a circumferential scar around lower abdomen and back, which was likely caused by a plastic surgery known as "tummy tuck", which in Anna's case seemingly also involved her back. This surgery involves the removal of excess skin and fat to achieve a more "toned" look.

There's also speculation that she had some work done on her face, but I can't say for certain. The post-mortem photo of her head is available in the sources, so if anyone has more experience with facial plastic surgery, I'd like to hear your insight.

CONCLUSION

I know that this write-up is rather scant and lacking in details, but I'm afraid that there just isn't many sources for this case- it literally only has an entry in RCMP's database and that's it. It is a pretty new case, so I hope that this lack of info is due to RCMP hoping that she will be identified soon.

Despite that lack of details, what we do have is very curious and interesting. Anna had quite a lot of plastic surgery done- more than an average person who opts to have plastic surgery. Not to mention that what she did have was quite invasive and expensive- it wasn't just a filler or something like that, they were full-on surgeries.

In discussions on this case, people have speculated that Anna might've been someone like a model, bodybuilder, aspiring actress or an exotic dancer- that she might've been in a profession that required her to look a certain way (though she wasn't necessarily working at the time of her death). I'd like to know when were these surgeries done- that would also tell us more about her life or potential reasons for modifying her body.

I wonder if Anna deliberately wanted to change her look so that nobody could recognize her- maybe she wanted to start a new life and cut herself off from her past? Especially given the fact that she died as a Jane Doe, meaning that despite living in a "house", nobody knew her name, or it was fake, not her neighbours, not the person she might've been renting from, nobody around. Anna might not even be her government name.

The description of her discovery is also frustratingly vague- we only know that she was found "in a house". We don't know, however, if she was renting from someone, or if the house was abandoned, or anything more specific. There are many reasons as for why a house fire might break out, both in a house that was abandoned and a house someone was actively renting, so that doesn't narrow it down.

Given that there is no info regarding any homicidal violence comitted, I feel like Jane's death was most likely a suicide or an accident- but then again, we can only speculate.

I believe that Anna will be identified soon. This case is very recent, and with both well-quality DNA samples and DNA technology, I think that it's a matter of "when", and not "if". Still, I'm sure that the investigators would happily recieve any clues about her identity.

If you believe you have any info about Anna's identity, contact the Coquitlam RCMP at 604-945-1550 (case number 2024-2822) or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS(8477).

SOURCES:

1. rcmp-grc.gc.ca (POST MORTEM WARNING! It's also edited in a way that makes Anna looks decapitated, which ca be a bit of a shock at first; But it's just unfortunate cropping)

Anna's websleuths.com thread