Because of wrong information supplied by police, this article about a fatal car crash misspelled the last name of Jean Kearney, whose body was found off Suitland Parkway more than a week after the accident. An incorrect location for the crash was also initially supplied; the accident occurred in Prince George's County.
CRASH VICTIM DISCOVERED
Woman's Body Found a Week After SE Accident
The body of Jean Kearny of Forestville was found yesterday.
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Police said a 50-year-old woman was found dead yesterday off Suitland Parkway in Southeast Washington -- more than a week after she was apparently thrown from her car during a crash there.
Officers at the time failed to notice her body in nearby underbrush. Meanwhile, the woman's daughter said yesterday that she reported her mother missing last week, but was never told that her mother's car had been found at a crash site.
The victim, identified by U.S. Park Police as Jean Kearny of Forestville, is believed to have died in the early morning darkness Oct. 7 when her 2006 Mazda went off the parkway near Suitland Road and crashed into woods, according to her family and a Park Police spokesman, Sgt. Robert Lachance.
Lachance said a National Park Service employee working in the area discovered the body about 1:30 p.m. yesterday. He said authorities believe Kearny was ejected from her car during the crash and was "not immediately visible" to officers at the time.
The Park Police criminal investigation unit is looking into the incident, Lachance said, adding that he could provide no further details of the crash last night.
Kearny's daughter, Sharron Williams, 24, said that her mother was in the District on the night of Oct. 6, visiting her boyfriend in the 700 block of Brandywine Street SE, a few miles from where her car was later found. Williams said the boyfriend told her that Kearny left his home after midnight, saying she would be back shortly. But she never returned.
Williams, of District Heights, said the boyfriend called her that day, wondering about Kearny's whereabouts. She said she drove to her mother's house in Forestville, but she was not there. Within a day, unaware that the car had been found, Williams said, she reported her mother missing to police in Prince George's and the District.
She said Park Police told her yesterday that after the car was found Oct. 7, officers went to Kearny's home in the 5800 block of Hil Mar Drive, hoping to find her. It is unclear what efforts they made to find relatives of Kearny.
"They found the car on [Oct.7], but we're just being notified of everything now," Williams said.
It also was unclear whether Prince George's and D.C. police, in checking out the missing-person report on Kearny, had access to any database containing information about her Mazda being found in the woods off the eastbound lanes of Suitland Parkway.
Staff writer Michael E. Ruane contributed to this report.
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