TWO residents in Los Angeles, the U.S., believe they have solved the mystery of Croatia’s Jane Doe — a woman found wrapped in a sheet on a rocky island who spoke perfect English but did not know her own name. Nina Smidt told The Daily Beast that the scratched-up woman pictured in photos that flashed around the globe this week worked as an artisan at a company where she was a manager in 2015. She had been placed there by a nonprofit that helps the homeless, Smidt said. The company was operating out of a warehouse known as Second Space in downtown Los Angeles, and landlord Tyler Madsen allowed the woman to live there rent-free so she could save up money to move to Ireland and get off Skid Row. “I recognized the woman in the photo immediately,” Smidt told The Daily Beast on Tuesday evening. “The second I saw her picture, I sent it to Tyler to confirm that it was her, which he confirmed.” Madsen said he is certain the woman was his former tenant, whom he had not seen since she left for Ireland in July 2015. “One hundred percent — there is no doubt in my mind it’s her,” he said. Smidt said when she saw the photo Monday, she called police in Croatia, who then contacted the embassy in Slovakia, where the woman is from and has family. She said that on Tuesday, police reported back to her that the embassy confirmed the woman’s identity with relatives. The Daily Beast is not making the name public because Croatian and Slovakian officials could not be immediately reached for confirmation. But the photo circulated by police of the woman matches photos of the woman that Smidt and Madsen knew and remember fondly. “[She] had run into hard times and bad luck. But she was a really good worker, smart, and she has a wonderful heart,” Smidt said. The woman was spotted in Krk, Croatia, on Sept. 12 by a married couple who were fishing. While the question of the woman’s identity may have been answered, officials still do not know why or how she ended up in Krk — or how she survived in an area teeming with animal predators. (SD-Agencies) | 