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What tells investigators far more is what the pathologist finds when he [music] examines the remains. He sees
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two small puncture wounds beneath the right side of her chin and a large cut across the back of her neck. Most of the
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cuts are precise, almost scalpel-like. So her probable cause of death is listed as a neck wound, a severed artery. But
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really, with no torso, no organs, like that's just a best guess based on what they have. Now what the pathologist can
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determine is that the dismemberment happened after she was already dead. And the cuts [music] at each joint are
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deliberate, methodical. Like this is the work of someone who knew what they were
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doing. Now the level of decomposition suggests that whoever this girl is, she died within the last 24 to 48 hours of
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being found. And even though no one matching her description has been reported missing, it turns out that
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someone had been missing her. Because that same night, around 11:00 p.m., officials get a worried call from
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Charles Casper over in Milwaukee. According to Journal Times reporter Michael Osan, he and his family had just
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been about to report their teenage daughter Stephanie missing when one of his children heard a news bulletin about
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the remains that had been found at Root River. They gave like a vague description over the broadcast, but
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Charles [music] tells them about this small mole on the right side of Stephanie's face, something that they
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hadn't mentioned was on their Jane Doe, who obviously isn't a Jane Doe anymore. Cuz by the early hours of July 10th,
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Charles confirmed that this was his daughter, Stephanie Casper, whose 18th birthday would have been the very next
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day.