Forensic investigators. Series 2, Episode 5., Jane Doe
An unusual pile of bags near the railway underpass on Guess Street, Arncliffe, were examined by a cyclist on his early morning ride on 28 December 1991. The bags held the murdered body of a young woman who would only be known as Jane Doe for the next four months. A description and facial reconstruction photographs were published in newspapers in hopes that someone would recognise her, but police had no success. Publishing the photos in a woman's magazine in colour, a few months later brought a positive result. Jane Doe was actually Viviane Linda Ruiz. Viviane was a dancer, and occasional prostitute, in Kings Cross. No one had reported her missing as they thought she had gone overseas with her boyfriend Richard White. Now police knew who she was they could track possible suspects to find a killer. They decided not to publicise that Viviane had been identified. Autopsy results showed that Viviane had died from ligature strangulation in combination with 2 full sheets of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper being forcibly shoved down her throat. The newspaper would be the key to successfully prosecuting Richard White for her death. A fingerprint left on the newspaper, at first seeming to exonerate White, was discovered to be a tonal reverse of White's fingerprint. Tonal reversal occurs when so much exertion is used when pressing on an object or a surface that moisture on the hand leaves a print of the valleys of a fingerprint instead of the usual ridge mark pattern that most are familiar with
DVD Video, English, 2005
Southern Star Productions, Sydney, 2005