Homicide case to be on `Most Wanted'
A Boston police artist's reconstruction of the face of a female homicide victim whose remains were found in a Dorchester chimney last October is to be aired on national television in an effort to solve her death and identity.
``America's Most Wanted," which says it has assisted police in the capture of 905 fugitives in its 20-year history, has scheduled a segment on Saturday at 9 p.m. showing an animated reconstruction of how authorities believe the woman looked before she was killed.
Jon Leiberman, a producer for the show, said police believe the victim may be from elsewhere, making the nationally broadcast Fox show potentially of major benefit to police trying to identify her.
In June, four months after the television show featured him, Michael Bohannon was arrested in Chicago in a 2002 slaying in Roxbury.
The woman to be featured on Saturday's program was found by a chimney sweep in the basement of a Dorchester apartment building.
``The police have done an excellent investigation in terms of canvassing the area [and] talking to people who worked there, lived there, [and] going through files of missing people," Leiberman said. ``They've come up with nothing, and nobody has reached out to police and said, `I'm missing a loved one,' which leads us and the police to believe maybe this person is from out of the area."
Leiberman said the victim is believed to have been between 25 and 35 years old, between 5-foot-2 and 5-foot-3, with a small-to-medium build and black hair.
He said the victim is believed to have been of mixed race and had a partial dental plate to fill in for missing teeth in her upper mouth.
Police told the show's producers they believe the woman was killed sometime after January 2002, he said. Police will not reveal the cause of death, he said, because it is one of the few details known only to the killer and authorities.
Elaine Driscoll, a spokeswoman for the Boston police, said the department's composite artist specializes in facial reconstruction cases.
Suzanne Smalley can be reached at ssmalley@globe.com 
