Dawn Olanick

Dawn Olanick (August 5, 1964 – c. July 1982), previously known as Princess Doe, was an unidentified American teenage decedent from Bohemia, New York, who was found murdered in Cedar Ridge Cemetery in Blairstown Township, New Jersey on July 15, 1982. Her face had been bludgeoned beyond recognition. She was the first unidentified decedent to be entered in the National Crime Information Center. Olanick was publicly identified on the 40th anniversary of her discovery.
Arthur Kinlaw has been charged with first degree murder in Olanick’s case. Olanick’s body was buried in the Cedar Ridge Cemetery, not far from where she was discovered in January 1983. Her remains were exhumed in 1999 so that samples could be collected from her femur for DNA testing in Baltimore, Maryland. Olanick was reburied in the same grave. Prior to her 2022 identification, Olanick was known as “Princess Doe,” a nickname given to her by Lt. Eric Kranz of the Blairstown Police Department, who was the first law enforcement official to respond to the scene of her discovery.