Daniela Adamcova, Woman With Amnesia Found in Krk, Croatia, Identified by Pair

Two Los Angeles residents believe they have solved the mystery of Croatia’s Jane Doe—identifying the woman who was 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 was Daniela Adamcova, who had worked as an artisan at a company where she was a manager in 2015. She had been placed there by a non-profit 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.

Years earlier, she had been profiled by a newspaper in her native Slovakia, which described her as a successful jewelry designer whose works were worn by stars including Brigitte Bardot and Diana Ross.

“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 told The Daily Beast 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.

But Adamcova had been to the U.S. long before she met Smidt. In 2008, a local Slovakian news outlet called My Trencin, named after the town where she was born, ran a flattering profile of her titled, “Brigitte Bardot Wore My Jewelry.” The story says she left Slovakia in 1984 to pursue a career in jewelry design in America when she was 19, which would make her 56, just slightly younger than Croatian authorities estimated. She told the outlet she wanted to go to America, which she called the “land of unlimited possibilities.”

She took on housekeeping and childcare jobs and eventually started working for a real estate agency, she told the outlet. “I decided to study at the Fashion Institute of Design and Trade in Santa Monica in the field of Fashion Design and Art Painting, specializing in handmade jewelry,” she said. “Then I got a job at a jewelry store, where my interest in jewelry began.” There she says expensive jewelry made by well known designers was sold and she was inspired to start making her own designs.

“Gradually, as I began to gain more practice, I bought real pearls and better quality material than gold, silver, precious and semi-precious stones,” she said, adding that at the time she was dating a film producer who was in touch with people in the film industry.

“Through him, I got into film studios and lent jewelry to make movies and series,” she said. “A necklace of small stones in the shape of flowers appeared on the neck of the actress in the series Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She also actually owns the jewelry.” She said she also sold jewelry to several Friends cast members, Diana Ross, Brigitte Bardot, Barbara Streisand and the cast of Melrose Place. “I initially saw jewelry as a hobby,”…