‘Jane’ Finds Herself

Press, 28 March 1981, Page 9

‘Jane’ Finds Herself

NZPA-Reuter Pembroke Pines. Florida

“After an exhausting nationwide search, an amnesia victim, “Jane Doe." found her identity yesterday and was tearfully reunited with the family she had not seen in years.

The woman, who was found in December naked and near starvation by a ranger patrolling a wooded area in nearby Birch State Park, was identified by her parents as Cheryl Ann Tomiczek, aged 34, of Roselle. Illinois, who disappeared seven years ago. “There is no doubt that ‘Jane Doe’ is Cheryl Ann Tomiczek,” said Dr Jesse Kay, a. South Florida State Hospital pscyhiatrist. “The police are content with the identification and so am I. “Now that she is aware of her true identify the prognosis for a complete recovery is excellent,” he said. “Only in the annals of movie script writing do we have a meeting of this kind and instant recognition.” - The hospital and police agencies got thousands of calls from people saying they knew the woman when her story was made public.

But the list was narrowed to the Tomiczeks after “Jane Doe” revealed details of her childhood with the help of sodium amytal, a “truth serum.”

“It was lovely,” Miss Tomiczek said after she met privately her parents, Andrew and Irene Tomiczek, her brother Robert, her sister Kathy, and a Chicago radio personality whose station paid for the family’s trip to Florida.

“Jane Doe” captured the attention of millions after her plight was revealed in the “Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel.” Her story was reported nationwide and she appeared on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America.”

Miss Tomiczek said she would use tbe name Jane for the time being. “I think Jane is nice. I’m kind of used to that.” She said that before she found her family she was considering the name Cheryl “and kind of placing it in a storage place in my mind.” Asked when she might reassume her true identity, Miss Tomizcek said, “I don’t know. I’d like to think about it for a while”.