Autopsy: Woman Found In Ditch Beaten To Death

Excerpt from the Orlando Sentinel:

Autopsy: Woman Found In Ditch Beaten To Death

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January 24, 1994

SANFORD — An Orlando woman whose nude body was found Saturday stuffed into a cardboard box in a drainage ditch near Altamonte Springs was beaten to death, an autopsy revealed.

Seminole County Sheriff's spokesman Ed McDonough said the autopsy also revealed that Elizabeth Doren, 26, had been dead for three to four days when her body was found by a 10-year-old boy.

''She died of blunt-force trauma,'' said McDonough.

Doren was reported missing Wednesday by a boyfriend, McDonough said.

Body Of Nude Woman Found In Box In Seminole

Excerpt From the Orlando Sentinel:

Body Of Nude Woman Found In Box In Seminole

An Autopsy Was Being Done To Find The Cause Of Death. A 10-year-old Boy Discovered The Body.

January 23, 1994|By Darryl E. Owens of The Sentinel Staff

The nude body of an Orlando woman stuffed into a cardboard box was found in a Seminole County drainage ditch by a 10-year-old boy early Saturday morning.

The grim discovery appears to be the third homicide in Seminole County in the past week.

''It does not look natural,'' Ed McDonough, Seminole County sheriff's spokesman, said of the death.

The victim was identified as Elizabeth Doren, 26.

Seminole County Sheriff's Office Unsolved Murders - 1994 Murder of Elizabeth Doren

Unsolved Homicides

If you have information about any of these cases, please contact the Major Crime Unit at (407) 665-6600. 

Name: Elizabeth Doren
Date: January 22, 1994
Case Number: 9400220019
Location: Anchor Road, Altamonte Springs
On January 22, 1994, the body of Elizabeth “Lizzy” Doren, w/f 26 years old, was recovered from a ditch on Anchor Road, just north of S.R. 436 in Altamonte Springs. She was inside a cardboard box which had been sealed with duct tape. Doren was last seen alive on January 19, 1994, between 0530 and 0600 hours when she left her apartment, located at 1521 Americana Boulevard, Orlando, on foot.