We have created this page for links to media in which the Trans Doe Task Force or a case we have worked on has been mentioned. If you know of any other articles which should be in this list, please let us know! If you are a journalist interested in interviewing us, please reach out.
Recent Update 13 May 2022: We would like to extend congratulations (and thanks again!) to Erica Lenti whose article about the Trans Doe Task Force for Xtra Magazine has been nominated in the Digital Publishing Awards Best Feature Article category!
Media links
- Harris County medical examiner teams with nonprofit to identify transgender, nonbinary crime victims
12 May 2022 - Madison Magazine: The skeleton in the chimney
10 May 2022 - Oxygen: Chicago Transgender Woman Found Slain In Trash, Family Demands Answers
25 Mar 2022 - People: Missing Trans Woman Found Fatally Beaten in Chicago Garbage Bin: ‘There Is Not Enough Community Response’
24 Mar 2022 - Medium: Julie Doe: The Story of a Transgender Doe
11 Mar 2022 - ChromasomaX: Encuentran a una mujer trans secuestrada gracias a un mensaje de voz
10 Mar 2022 - HRC: Honoring Za’niyah Williams, A “Beautiful Butterfly” Who “Ripped the Runway”
27 Jan 2022 - WTHR: Victim of 1982 serial killing found in Jasper Co. identified as 19-year-old Peru man
1 Dec 2021 - Project Q: Tracking Atlanta’s trans murder cold cases through the decades
24 Sep 2021 - Xtra Magazine: Cases of missing trans people are rarely solved. A married pair of forensic genealogists is hoping to change that
21 Sep 2021 - Idaho State Journal: ISU researcher helps bring law enforcement closer to solving decades-old mystery
2 Aug 2021 - Remembering Our Dead: Live Oak Doe
28 Feb 2021 - Vice: Meet the Genetic Sleuths Solving Decades-Old Trans Murders
25 Jan 2021 - Greenfield Recorder: Cracking cold cases: Athol couple uses genetic genealogy to ID bodies, find killers
18 Jan 2021 - Wired UK: DNA detectives are using new tools to solve decades-old cold cases
8 Dec 2020 - The Atlantic: Sleuths Are Haunted by the Cold Case of Julie Doe
23 Dec 2019 - Gay Star News: Can you help solve the mystery of Transgender Julie Doe?
16 May 2019 - The Fall Line Podcast: Julie Doe
17 Apr 2010 - The Unidentified: The Incredible Postmortem Journey of “Transgender Julie Doe”
28 Dec 2018