Murder of Michelle Garvey

Michelle Angela Garvey (June 3, 1967 – July 1, 1982) was an American teenage girl murdered in Texas within a month of running away from her home in Connecticut.

Authorities were unable to identify her body, but could determine that the victim was a white female between fifteen and twenty years old with blue eyes and curly red hair.

[2][7] Her body was found wearing brown clothing, including a long-sleeved, button-down shirt with a distinct horse embroidery on the breast pocket.

[11] As a Jane Doe, Michelle was buried temporarily at the Harris County II Cemetery near two other unidentified murder victims found in 1981, who were identified in 2021 as Dean and Tina Clouse.

[2][16] She had remained unidentified for 31 years;[17][18] Garvey was fourteen when she disappeared from Connecticut, and was fifteen at the time of her death, more than half-way across the country.

Artist Carl Koppelman's impression of what the then-unidentified Garvey looked like in life