The Girl in the Ditch: The Wilma June Nissen Story

In October 1978, a utility worker in Rock Rapids, Iowa, made a grim discovery—a young woman’s body in a roadside ditch. No identification. No name. And for 27 years, no answers.She was buried under a headstone that read Jane Doe.What no one knew then was that the woman had a name: Wilma June Nissen. She had a daughter—an infant at the time of her death —who’d been looking for her mother the whole time.This is episode one of the Wilma June Nissen story.