Body of ‘Julie Doe’ finally identified as transgender woman Pamela Leigh Walton after 37 years

The body of a woman, previously known as Julie Doe, and found in Florida in 1988, has been identified as that of trans woman Pamela Leigh Walton.

According to the Lake County sheriff’s office, Walton’s body was found on 25 September 1988, in a wooded area of Clermont, near Orlando. 

She had been dead for between two and four weeks, and, until 2015, was thought to be a cisgender woman. However, authorities later found that she was a transgender woman, with breast implants, who may have been undergoing hormone therapy. 

A Facebook post by police revealed that the case was evaluated by the DNA Doe Project, “a non-profit organisation that utilises investigative genetic genealogy to identify unidentified remains”. 

Years of work led genealogists to identify

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