Transgender Skeleton Found in Markham, Ontario, Canada (UNSOLVED)

As Trans True Crime continues profiling unidentified remains of transgender homicide victims, today we switch focus to a trans homicide victim that I've dubbed The Markham Ontario Doe. I do this because I can't find a lot of articles on her case, or any that nickname her. We're switching focus because this murder happened in Canada, rather than in the United States, like all of the other cases that I've profiled so far.

On July 16, 1980 the Markham Ontario Doe's remains were found in a bushy area on the East side of the Eleventh Concession, one kilometer North of Steeles Avenue in the York region of Markham, Ontario Canada. At first glance, the female clothing found on and near the victim suggested that the victim was biologically female; however upon further examination it was determined that the victim had the Y-chromosome, making investigators surmise that the doe was transgender. Upon the clothes and personal items found were: red (or possibly pink) high-heel shoes with a decorative flap and bow, Britannia jeans (women's size 30/29), a woman's red shirt, and white frilled socks.

The victim's physical characteristics are described as her being: five-feet-four inches to five-feet-seven inches tall at a weight of ninety-nine to one-hundred twenty one pounds with poorly developed muscular markings and a thin build. She had medium brown four inch long straight hair. Her eye color is unknown as she was fully decomposed at the time of discovery. She is estimated to be anywhere from twenty to forty years old, however I don't believe she could have been that old.

I believe she was younger than twenty years old and the victim of homicide at the hands of some parental figure. I estimate from the small stature that the victim may have been transgender; hiding it from family. On the day she died she may have been experimenting with women's clothes, dressing up, when she was caught by one or both of her parents, and in a fit of rage and ignorance with their child's lifestyle, she was killed.

One thing that strikes me as odd about the case, is that found with her remains were a small bag containing animal bones. I highly doubt she would put an animal in a plastic bag to transport it, if she happened to be a runaway? I think the animal bones came from another person who disposed of a dead pet in the vicinity where the victim was dumped. Maybe it was winter at the time the pet was tossed in the bushes, with snow on the ground; inadvertently concealing her from the pet's owner-hiding her until the summer?

In 2009 police revealed a clay bust of the victim's skull; showing what she may have looked like in life (first photo above). DNA was extracted from her teeth but yielded no results in databases for missing persons. Investigators examined the remains looking for signs of: an edged weapon used to kill her, signs of blunt-force trauma, or any other signs of trauma but didn't come up with results. Currently the Markham Ontario Doe is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.