DECADES LATER: Meresa Hammonds is positively identified as the #YonkersJaneDoe found deceased in a #Yonkers alley on June 27, 1992 And Killed By Confessed Serial Killer
DNA CONFIRMATION: Now the ugly crack cocaine murder story has been confirmed with DNA evidence.
YONKERS PD: Known as the “Yonkers Jane Doe“, the deceased has been identified as 31-year-old Meresa Hammonds of New Jersey – so we are closing the case.
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: But much information about her life has been known for years and this is not much of a revelation by the police.
One of seven children, Meresa was born in Kentucky in April 1961. She spent the majority of her childhood in California, before relocating to Michigan when she was older. She eventually moved to New Jersey, where she and her sister worked as models.
At the time of her death, she was the mother of two sons.
Meresa is one of five victims of serial killer #RobertShulman, who confessed to her murder following his arrest on April 6, 1996.
According to Shulman, he brought her back to his apartment, where they used crack cocaine.
He then blacked out.
He claimed that once he came to, Meresa was dead.
He then proceeded to dismember her body before transporting her to the alley where she was discovered.
Shulman was sentenced to death in relation to another murder, but his sentence was changed to life without parole after New York overturned the death penalty in 2004.
On April 13, 2006, he passed away of natural causes in prison.
