{"id":208805,"date":"2026-03-07T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208805\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:35:18","slug":"sacramento-county-identified-jane-doe-after-public-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208805\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento County identified Jane Doe after public plea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento County coroner\u2019s officials have identified the woman who died as an unidentified patient at a Sacramento hospital in January after a public plea from officials for help<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to the tips and information provided by community members, the Coroner\u2019s Office was able to promptly identify the decedent,\u201d Sacramento County officials said in a statement Friday. \u201cMost importantly, this allowed investigators to notify her family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The woman was unable to provide her name when she was admitted to Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, officials said. Days later, on Jan. 25, she died.<\/p>\n

For weeks after, she was known only as Jane Doe. Her case with the Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office was listed as No. 26-00419.<\/p>\n

\"In In a rendering provided by the Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office, a woman who died at Sutter Medical Center in January is shown. Coroner\u2019s officials are seeking the public\u2019s help to identify the woman, who died of natural causes. Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office <\/p>\n

Earlier this week, coroner\u2019s officials asked the public<\/a> for help identifying her, offering details about her age \u2014 she told medical staff she was 39 \u2014 and physical characteristics.<\/p>\n

She had tattoos. She was allergic to blueberries. She had a \u201cspecific medical condition that would be familiar to family and friends,\u201d coroner\u2019s officials said. She also wore glasses.<\/p>\n

On Friday, county officials announced she had been identified.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Coroner\u2019s Office greatly appreciates the public\u2019s willingness to assist in these matters,\u201d Sacramento County officials said in the statement. \u201cCommunity cooperation plays a vital role in helping our office identify Does, thus providing answers and closure to families.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Darrell Smith<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Darrell Smith is a local reporter for The Sacramento Bee. He joined The Bee in 2006 and previously worked at newspapers in Palm Springs, Colorado Springs and Marysville. Smith was born and raised at Beale Air Force Base and lives in Elk Grove.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento County coroner\u2019s officials have identified the woman who died as an unidentified patient at a Sacramento hospital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,96222,96220,123,96221,122,96223],"class_list":["post-208805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county-coroner-identification","tag-sacramento-county-jane-doe-identified","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-hospital-unidentified-patient","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sutter-medical-center-jane-doe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}