Assault at 3400 BLOCK OF WELLS ST on 02/04/2026 9:42 PM

Name

John Burns III

Missing Age

38

Est. Current Age

62

Last Seen

Debary, FL on 06/03/2002

Physical Description

Race: White Ethnicity: Caucasian Gender: Male Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue Height: 5'11" Weight: 175 lbs

Case Number

MP28195

Name

Doris Chavers

Age

32

Cause of Death

Trauma

Info

In another cold case, jane doe 1991 can finally be recognized by her name, doris regina chavers. Chavers (dob 4/4/1957) was 32 years old when she was last seen alive at her mother’s home in sanford, in august 1989. She was reported missing the following year, on aug. 1, 1990, to the seminole county sheriff’s office. On aug. 19, 1991, volusia sheriff’s deputies responded to a report from two fishermen who found skeletal remains in a heavily wooded area off the 400 block of enterprise osteen road in osteen. Due to the condition of the remains, identification was not possible. At that time, dna technology was not what it is today. In september 1991, an autopsy determined that the remains were of a female, potentially in her 30s or 40s, and that she had died from violent trauma. Jane doe 1991’s death was subsequently ruled a homicide. As the death investigation progressed, detectives searched databases at their disposal for any and all means to identify the victim. Detectives entered the case into an fbi database in an effort to identify jane doe and to generate possible leads. Unfortunately, these efforts were unsuccessful, and the case went cold. In august 2018, the seminole county sheriff’s office conducted further investigation into the chavers missing person case. Seminole sheriff’s detectives were able to track down chavers’ biological daughter and obtain a familial dna reference sample. That dna sample was subsequently sent to untchi. On jan. 21 of this year, both volusia and seminole detectives received a report from untchi that the familial dna sample collected from chavers’ biological daughter was a match to the skeletal remains found in volusia county in 1991. After receiving the report, volusia detectives contacted chavers’ daughter and delivered the news. Upon learning her mother had been located, she was relieved to finally get some sense of closure; she said she always felt that something terrible must have happened, and that her mother would have never just abandoned her.

Agency

Volusia County Sheriff