ID on Jane Doe’s Body, Found Near Healdsburg

A young woman whose dead body was found on the rural outskirts of Healdsburg more than three decades ago, but was always just a Jane Doe, has finally been identified as Vallejo resident Robin Fay Hendrick. This, thanks to a Sebastopol-based nonprofit called DNA Doe Project that has reportedly helped law enforcement identify hundreds of Does in recent years. Sheriff’s investigators know she was in her late 30s when she went missing in the early ’90s — but what happened after that is somebody’s secret. Here’s some more info from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office: “On August 9, 1993, skeletal remains of a woman were found in a creek bed off Pine Flat Road near Healdsburg. Due to the extent of decomposition, Jane Doe’s identity remained a mystery. In 2022, our Coroner’s Bureau submitted Jane Doe’s DNA to the DNA Doe Project. The DNA Doe Project identified a potential relative, which led detectives to Jane Doe’s son. A California Department of Justice DNA laboratory compared Jane Doe’s DNA with the son’s DNA, identifying Jane Doe as Robin Fay Hedrick. Robin was born in 1953 and lived in Vallejo, CA. Little is known about Robin other than she was last seen alive in Vallejo in February 1992.” The sheriff is now asking anyone with “any information about Robin’s life” or her “suspicious death” to contact the department’s cold case unit at (707) 565-2727 or [email protected]. (Source: Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office via Facebook & DNA Doe Project via Facebook)