Over a Decade Later, A Serial Killer’s First Victim Has a Name

In northern Ohio, several women suffered at the hands of a brutal man

A facial reconstruction of Dana Lowrey. Edited by the author. By Carl Koppelman from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Background: train tracks at Marion, Ohio, USA. Edited by the author. By James St. John from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Pain and loss touch many lives. Unbeknownst to society, humans hurt each other behind closed doors, in their own so-called kingdoms. Sometimes, these assaults even rob victims of their identities. When experts reconnect faces, as in this case, it provides confused, heartbroken relatives with the story of their last moments. Sometimes, certain people might even have believed a missing person had abandoned their family, but the truth could have a life-changing significance.

Mistaken beliefs boil

In the mid-2000s, Dana Nicole Lowrey left Louisiana to travel across the USA to sell magazines. During her travels, the 23-year-old called the estranged father of her two daughters, aged one and four at the time. In May 2006, Lowrey said she was in Ohio. Then the calls stopped.

Lowrey’s erstwhile partner assumed she had moved on with her life. Because she was an independent individual, some believed that she might have tried to make a new start. Years rolled on as assumptions remained the only thing friends, relatives, and loved ones had in their grasp.