Laura Fulginiti can read carnage like you’re reading this newspaper. Here’s what she knows about an unidentified, partially mummified corpse dubbed “Chavez”: He was in his 30s, a Hispanic who lived most if not all his adult life in the U.S.

Laura Fulginiti can read carnage like you’re reading this newspaper.

Nearly 28 years ago, road workers discovered the body of a young woman near a canal in the 4300 block of East Williams Field Road in Gilbert. She has been unidentified since, buried as a Jane Doe in Tempe's Twin Buttes Cemetery for the indigent.

When Shannon Aumock was 10 years old, a psychologist asked her during an interview what she would want on her tombstone if she were to die because of her continued behavior of running away and constant run-ins with the law.

When Shannon Aumock was 10 years old, a psychologist asked her during an interview what she would want on her tombstone if she were to die because of her continued behavior of running away and constant run-ins with the law.

PHOENIX – For 25 years, Joella Moore wondered what became of her brother after he ran away from his family’s home in Riverside, Calif., at age 16. She came to fear the worst but hoped he had started his life over somewhere.

A 16-year-old girl whose body was discovered murdered in a north Phoenix desert area nearly 20 years ago and later buried as a Jane Doe in the Twin Buttes Cemetery in Tempe has been identified and a Phoenix police homicide investigation seeking leads to find her killer is under way.

A 16-year-old girl whose body was discovered murdered in a north Phoenix desert area nearly 20 years ago and later buried as a Jane Doe in the Twin Buttes Cemetery in Tempe has been identified and a Phoenix police homicide investigation seeking leads to find her killer is under way.