Sources (compiled 2026-08-22 to fill a sourcing gap identified in The_Duckett_File.html, Section II "Background" — the Ronette Lynn Peterson paragraph had no citation at all):

1. Polk County Sheriff's Office, "Ronette Peterson" cold case page
   URL: https://www.polksheriff.org/news-investigations/cold-case-homicides/cold-case-homicide-details/ronette-peterson
   (Direct WebFetch returned HTTP 403 Forbidden on 2026-08-22; site content instead accessed via a Google cache / search-engine snippet on 2026-08-22, per the WebSearch tool's summary below.)

2. Iowa Department of Public Safety / Iowa DCI press release (Jan. 28, 2005)
   URL: https://iowacoldcases.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2005-1-28-ia-dci-pr-ronette-peterson.pdf
   (Direct WebFetch returned HTTP 403 Forbidden on 2026-08-22.)

3. Iowa Cold Cases, "Ronette Peterson" case summary
   URL: https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/ronette-peterson/
   (Direct WebFetch returned HTTP 403 Forbidden on 2026-08-22.)

4. Websleuths thread, "Ronette Peterson Burton, 22, Lakeland, 7 May 1986"
   URL: https://websleuths.com/threads/ia-ronette-peterson-burton-22-lakeland-7-may-1986.18910/
   (Successfully fetched via WebFetch on 2026-08-22; content below.)

EXTRACTED CONTENT (from Websleuths, corroborated by search-result snippets of the Polk Sheriff and Iowa Cold Cases pages):

Victim's Name: Ronette Lynn Peterson (maiden name), later known by her married name Ronette Lynn Burton.

Date and Location Found: May 7, 1986, in a water-filled pit off Highway 33 (State Road 33), approximately three-fourths of a mile north of Combee Road, in Lakeland, Florida (Polk County).

Cause of Death: Homicide. She had suffered multiple blows to the body and head, and was "put in the water and left to drown."

Background: Born July 14, 1963; age 22 at the time of her death. From Madrid, Iowa (Boone County). She left home on January 20, 1986, telling her grandparents she was heading to Alabama with a male friend. A family member received a letter postmarked March 1, 1986, from Georgia — her last contact with family before her death.

IDENTIFICATION — CORRECTION TO THE_DUCKETT_FILE.HTML: She remained unidentified as a "Jane Doe" for approximately 19 years, not two decades as loosely stated in the uncited paragraph in Section II. She was identified in JANUARY 2005 — not 2006 as the uncited paragraph in The_Duckett_File.html states — through a fingerprint match, after her sister filed a missing-persons report with the Boone County (Iowa) Sheriff's Office. Iowa investigators found the match through Florida's missing-persons database and coordinated with Polk County authorities to confirm it.

Distinguishing features noted in the record: a question-mark (?) tattoo on her right hip, and a separate unicorn tattoo.

No document consulted for this file — including the official Polk County Sheriff's Office cold-case page — states any connection between this case and James Duckett beyond what The_Duckett_File.html itself already sources to the 2003 Lakeland Ledger/Marshall Frank reporting (the "dark blue car" witness detail, and Duckett's ownership of a royal-blue Buick Regal). The Polk Sheriff's 2026 press conference on the Weldon case (Section VII of The_Duckett_File.html) did not, per the FOX 13 and Action News Jax reporting also in this documents folder, name Duckett in connection with the Peterson case, and Sheriff Judd is quoted saying "It is also unclear if Duckett had any other victims" beyond Weldon and McAbee.