Mystery woman found at Woodbridge mall identified

A security guard found her on Nov. 2, 1994, wandering through the Woodbridge Center mall, well-dressed and clean but lost and disoriented. She carried no identification in her purse, and in broken English explained she couldn't remember who she was or how she had gotten there. For years, a private room at the Senator Garrett W. Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital in Hunterdon County has been her home, where she has remained a Jane Doe unknown to herself and the world -- missed, it seemed, by no one. All the while, Hagedorn's mystery woman drifted deeper into Alzheimer's, losing her ability to speak. But through the diligence of a Human Services police officer who made her case his own special mission for six years, she now has her name back and some of her past. ... "The fact that she was deprived of her IDs... whoever left her at the mall didn't want her to be identified and didn't want to be found themselves...."