Baby Doe Tabor

Elizabeth McCourt Tabor (1854 – March 7, 1935), better known as Baby Doe, was the second wife of pioneer Colorado businessman Horace Tabor. Her rags-to-riches and back again story made her a well-known figure in her own day, and inspired an opera and a Hollywood movie based on her life.

Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, she moved to Colorado in the mid-1870s with her first husband, Harvey Doe, whom she divorced for drinking, gambling, frequenting brothels, and being unable to provide a living.

She then moved to Leadville, Colorado, where she met Tabor, a wealthy silver magnate almost twice her age. In 1883 he divorced his first wife, to whom he had been married for 25 years, and married Baby Doe in Washington, D.C. during his brief stint as a US senator, after which they took up residence in Denver. His divorce and remarriage to the young and beautiful Baby Doe caused a scandal in 1880s Colorado. Although Tabor was one of the wealthiest men in Colorado, supporting his wife in a lavish style, he lost his fortune when the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act caused the Panic of 1893 with widespread bankruptcies in silver-producing regions such as Colorado. He died destitute, and she returned to Leadville with her two daughters, living out the rest of her life there.

List of unidentified murder victims in California

In California, there are many murder victims in the category of unidentified decedents, whose identities remain unknown.

In most of these cases, their murderer has never been identified.

Los Angeles County John Doe (1967)

On October 31, 1967, a white male was shot and left in the hallway of a hotel in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. He was a young man, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was estimated to be between twenty and thirty years of age when he died. He was five feet ten inches tall and weighed 148 pounds. He was wearing a white shirt, white boxers, suede shoes, brown socks and tan pants when his body was found shortly after neighboring hotel guests heard the gunshot and reported the murder to police. The man had a distinct, foot long, scar on his abdomen.

Los Angeles County John Doe (1968)

The body of a black male was located on February 9, 1968 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. The victim was a young man, who was older than eighteen when he was shot to death. The John Doe was tall, approximately six feet three inches tall and weighed 156 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. His frame was noticeably thin. He was wearing a green sweater over a green turtle neck shirt. Blue pants, a brown leather belt, green socks, white boxers and gray shoes were also worn by the decedent.

Baby Doe (disambiguation)

"Baby Doe" may refer to the following people:

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