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For more than fifty years, Florida’s most haunting Jane Doe was known only as Little Miss Panasoffkee — a young woman found strangled beneath an Interstate 75 overpass in 1971. She appeared on Unsolved Mysteries, inspired endless theories, and became one of the state’s most enduring cold cases.

Now, at long last, she has a name.

In this episode, Cold Case Journalist Dustin Terry takes you inside the remarkable identification of Maureen L. Minor Rowan, nicknamed “Cookie,” who was finally identified in 2025 through her fingerprints — not DNA. You’ll hear how investigators revisited the evidence, the red-herring theories that led them astray, and why her estranged husband, Charles Emery Rowan Sr., is now considered a person of interest in her death.

This is the story of how one woman’s name was lost for half a century — and how determination, technology, and compassion finally brought it back.

Because every name matters.
Every life deserves to be remembered.

🕯️ Rest in peace, Cookie.

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