Her Name is Alexa: Sisters' Search for Truth

For the first time since her recovery 24 years ago, Jane Manhattan Doe 2000 has been identified as Alexandria “Alexa” Isadora Skolnitsky.

In May 2000, unrecognizable, unidentified female remains were pulled from the East River in Midtown Manhattan. Medical examiners estimated the young woman had been deceased for several months. Despite an extensive investigation, the cause and manner of her death were both ruled as undetermined. The girl was fully clothed, wearing a distinctive, local band t-shirt with a skunk emblem on the front and the words “Perfect Thyroid” on the back. 

With her name unknown, the girl became Jane Doe, and for more than two decades, dedicated scientists at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner (NYC OCME) tirelessly sought to uncover her identity. But they weren’t the only ones searching. At the same time, two sisters embarked on their own quest to find their youngest sister – Alexa.

No one expected that the two searches would collide.