Victim of 1990s Peninsula homicide 'reappears' on Facebook

If those really were Jennifer White's remains found in a Kasilof driveway in the late 1990s, then who has been claiming to be White on Facebook? The Alaska State Troopers say White was killed at age 25, and her case is a prominent one in the troopers' cold case unit. But for a few days recently, someone claiming to be White had a Facebook page on which she said she had suffered a head injury and lost her memory, reports the Peninsula Clarion.

Information on the Facebook page said Jennifer Goodwin [White] was in the class of 1989 at Soldotna High School, which would have been her final year. It also listed her birthday as Oct. 22, 1970, the same date of birth on Jennifer Goodwin White's State of Alaska court records.

An early Facebook wall entry read: ... So it has been a long time since I have seen friends and family and I am slowly getting my bearings. I am so lucky my sister stepped in to raise my kids while I was 'dead.' I can't imagine what they all went through. It is going to take me a while.

Troopers suggest that White's sister, who claimed she has spent years trying to find the killer, created the Facebook page. Sarah Musgrove-Short left Anchorage last month for an undisclosed Outside destination after claiming that her sister was alive. Meanwhile, it's unknown why the Facebook page was taken down.

"The thing that's happening now with the Facebook, we have no involvement in that whatsoever," [Alaska State Trooper Jim] Stogsdill said. "(Musgrove-Short) did say that she had some plans of her own to see if she could drum up some information and this may be a part of that but I don't know." ...

Stogsdill said that it is not common to see impersonations of people from cold case murders like this one.

"Sometimes you'll see that kind of thing in financial crimes, people trying to get money pretending to be somebody else that's alive, but not usually in murder cases too much," he said.

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