The Doe Squad

30/11/2022

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/the-boy-in-the-box-americas-unknown-child-philadelphia-police-name/?fbclid=IwAR3uBbH9Atog2_dTw348WKfOLTSQUitpo4_MoPKe4DWDm2NnudUs_yJReqk

Police tell CBS3 Investigations they have the name of a little boy that eventually became known as "America's Unknown Child."

31/10/2022

Lady of the Dunes has been identified.

Homicide Victim Provincetown, Massachusetts July 1974

29/10/2022

https://www.facebook.com/181750275212787/posts/5456853011035794/

On July 10, 1982 in Las Vegas, Nevada, the unidentified body of an elderly female was found slumped over in a stall in the ladies restroom at the Greyhound bus station. It was determined she had passed away due to a heart attack. Her purse was hanging on the door handle inside of the stall. There was no identification inside the purse or on her body. Investigators believe her wallet had been stolen.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Estimated Age: 55-60 years old
Race: White
S*x: Female
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 138 lbs.
Hair: Brown, graying 3 inches in length.
Eye Color: Hazel
Distinguishing Marks/Features: 2 ½ inch long healed scar on left side of umbilicus.
Dentals: Available. Maxillary partial denture-cast gold. Replace 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12. Precision attachments placed for intercoronal attachments to #4, 11, 14 crowns. Mandibular partial denture-cast gold. Replace 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31. Precision intercoronal attachments for bicuspid position on right & left. Abutment attachment to partial teeth #21, 22, 27, 28.
Clothing: Blue pants, multi-colored blouse with flowers, and a white shirt.
Jewelry: White metal ring with 6 clear stones. White metal wedding style ring. White metal earrings. Two white metal necklaces.
Additional Personal Items: A purse (no description available).

Additional details about case here:
https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/992ufnv.html

28/09/2022

It has been 27 years TODAY and she is STILL unidentified. Someone somewhere is missing her.

👉 Discovered September 26, 1995
👉 Buffalo, New York
👉 Estimated Age Range: 60-70
👉 Height: 5'2", measured
👉 Weight: 132 lbs, measured
👉 NamUs: #12704

👉 Circumstances: Older well dressed lady found floating off of Squaw Island.

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case #/12704

Missing Persons of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Upstate New York unsolved homicides and Missing Persons

28/09/2022

It has been 41 years TODAY and he is STILL unidentified. Someone somewhere is missing him.

👉 Discovered September 28, 1981
👉 San Diego, California
👉 Estimated Age Range: 20-40
👉 Height: 5'8", measured
👉 Weight: 106 lbs, measured
👉 NamUs: #63959

👉 Circumstances: The decedent was found in a large trash receptacle located adjacent to the loading dock at the rear of the Big Bear Market, 9905 Mira Mesa Blvd.

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case #/63959

Missing Persons in California

28/09/2022

It was the 23rd of May, 1996, when a man was walking along a wooded canal bank on Old U.S. 27 in Clewiston, Palm Beach County, Florida. He was searching for scrap metal and cans when he came across a maroon and white Indian or Mexican style blanket and a woman’s black and white sweater. The area was in a seldom travelled dead-end road, around two miles from Hendry County.

The man decided he would investigate. As he got closer to the blanket and sweater, he noticed that there was a deceased baby girl wrapped up inside. She was estimated to be between four and six weeks old and was either white or Hispanic. The baby girl had black or dark brown hair. Due to decomposition, it couldn’t be determined what colour her eyes were.

The man immediately called police who cordoned off the area and transported the body to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy to be conducted. It would determine that she had been dead for around five days. She also had a fractured mandible and maxilla and had died either of accidental or intentional injures.

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞:

https://morbidology.com/the-mystery-of-baby-belle/

28/09/2022

Authorities have identified a man who was found dead in Clark County on January 13, 2002, giving a family some closure after twenty years.

Authorities have identified a man who was found dead in Clark County on January 13, 2002, giving a family some closure after twenty years.The Clark County Medic

27/09/2022

Our next featured case for Hispanic Heritage Month is Kings County Jane Doe. With few and distant DNA matches, her case is enormously challenging to the team. You can make a difference - just one close DNA match could help to solve her identity!

Please consider uploading your direct-to-consumer DNA test results to GEDmatch. Greater representation of Latinx people in GEDmatch will help our team to solve cases like Kings County Jane Doe. To find out if you’re a DNA match to her, click the link here: https://bit.ly/DDPHispanicCases

26/09/2022

Fairfax County PD Teams with Othram to Identify a Homicide Victim Found in 2001

24/09/2022

24/09/2022

On August 6, 1980 in Larksville Borough, Pennsylvania, a bulldozer operator discovered the body of a baby boy in the West End Landfill in Larksville.

The victim was born alive and lived 24 to 72 hours after he was born. The coroner ruled the manner of death to be homicide, as it appeared he had not recieved adequate attention following his birth.

Additional details about case here: https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1902umpa.html

24/09/2022

IN TEXAS

On December 29, 1989, the body of an unidentified female was found on the stairs to a building located at 5433 Westheimer Street, , . It is believed she had been deceased less than 8-10 hours prior to discovery.

She had long, black, curly hair that was approximately 20 inches in length. She was found wearing size 10M "Lee" black corduroy pants, a white pullover t-shirt, black socks, and black shoes (“Coaster” brand). She also had a small, half-moon shaped scar on her right knee and a 1-inch scar on her right forearm.

Please contact the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST with any information that could help identify her.

Additional information can be found at her poster: www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMU/1184610/1/screen

23/09/2022

This breaks my heart..... 💔 We need to find out who did this and we need to give this little angel her name back..... 😔

4 months after young girl's body was found in the Grand River, police still don't know who she is

➡️Forensic anthropologist Emily Holland said the girl's age and time in water complicate the autopsy⬅️

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Four months after the body of a girl, between the age of 10 months and two-years old, was found in the Grand River near Dunnville, Ont., police still don't know who she is or how she died.

Emergency crews responded to a call around 1:22 p.m. on May 17, after the remains were found in the river.

OPP Det.-Insp. Shawn Glassford said in May it was unclear how long the girl was in the water and whether the body may have moved with the current from a different place

On Wednesday, four months later, he told CBC News, "these things take time," adding that the doctors at the office of the chief pathologist are doing "painstaking work" related to the autopsy of the child.

"We all want answers quickly," Glassford said. "It's important for the community to know we are still investigating this case. We want to identify this child."

The family of the child has also not been identified.

"We're looking for missing children ... really across Canada and the United States," Glassford said in May, adding tips had come in from across the province and the U.S.

None of the tips have so far led to an identification.

Emily Holland, a forensic anthropologist in the department of anthropology at Brandon University in Manitoba, agreed that quick answers are not always possible in these cases.

She says an "autopsy can take different amounts of time depending on the complicated nature of the case" and locating the body in water makes finding answers more difficult.

"Water complicates the whole process," she said. "It complicates estimating time since death and it complicates estimating where this person originally came from."

Back in May, Wasyl Luczkiw, whose family owns the Grand River Marina and Cafe in Dunnville, said police used the business's property as a base for their investigation, and used one of the marina's boats to conduct the search.

The body's discovery was "surprising and shocking and sad to hear that somebody lost a loved one," Luczkiw told CBC Hamilton, adding he hoped the family could eventually find closure.

Holland says there are other complications in the identification process. She says there's a challenge that would make it difficult to determine the ethnicity of the young girl.

"If an individual has been dead for a long time, if that outer layer of skin is lost in the process of decomposition, you can't rely on that to determine someone's ancestral origin," she said. "For adults you can look at specific features of the skull but that same kind of assessment isn't always possible for children, particularly young children."

In a statement from the office of the coroner, representative Stephanie Rea said, "Death investigations – especially complex ones – can take many months."

"The coroner needs to be able to answer five questions to complete an investigation: the identify of the deceased, the date of death, location of death, medical cause of death, and manner of death," she said.

The investigation is ongoing and Glassford said he is determined to find the girls identity.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/girl-grand-river-1.6591587

22/09/2022

Help ID Me

The DNA Doe Project and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children want to highlight Tempe Girl Jane Doe in the hope that new details about her ethnicity and heritage may lead to answers.

On April 27, 2002, the body of an unidentified female was found behind a business around 1850 East University Drive in , . DNA matches indicate she of Peruvian and possibly Mexican descent.

She had black hair, approximately 12.5 inches in length, and was estimated to be between 15 and 19 years of age. She was approximately 5'1" and 125 lbs. She had a scar on the back of her left hand and a scar near the top of her left shoulder.

It is believed she hitchhiked to Tempe from and was likely picked up near 32nd Street and Greenway Road in Phoenix, Arizona on 04/26/2002. She died of a drug overdose and reportedly told a driver who picked her up that she had been kicked out of her home due to drug use. She may have been a Spanish speaker according to witnesses who spoke with her prior to her death.

Please contact NCMEC at 1-800-THE-LOST if you have any information that could help identify her.

21/09/2022

Do You Know Me?

On August 12, 2001, my partial skeletal remains were located in a wooded area along the Saint Francis River near the old siphons on Lock and Dam Road in Poinsett County,

I was between 16-19 years old and it is believed that I had been deceased at least one year prior to being found based on DNA testing

The image featured is a facial reconstruction created by a Forensic Artist depicting what I may have looked like

Do you know me? It has been over twenty years, but I may still have friends and family wondering what happened to me. Please contact the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children with any information that could help identify me at 1-800-THE-LOST

poster: http://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMU/1104263

21/09/2022

Can you help Paul Fronczak find his sister?

Jill’s story begins on Oct. 27, 1963, when she and her twin brother were born at a hospital in New Jersey. The babies, a boy and a girl, were named Jack and Jill Rosenthal. At some point between 1963 and 1965, both babies would be separated from one another. Baby Jack was left abandoned and what happened to baby Jill would remain a mystery. In fact, no one even realized that Jill disappeared until years later, when her twin brother gained national attention for his own unbelievable story. Read our latest blog: https://www.missingkids.org/blog/2022/finding-the-missing-piece-brother-searches-for-twin-sister

20/09/2022

The body of a unidentified man was found inside a room at the Tod Motor Motel in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 11, 2006.

Additional details about case here: https://doenetwork.org/cases/1240umnv.html

20/09/2022

19/09/2022

https://dnasolves.com/articles/alachua-john-doe-1979-ralph-tufano/

Alachua County Sheriff’s Office and Othram Team to Identify 1979 John Doe

19/09/2022

In recognition of (Sept 18-24, 2022), would like to thank all the incredible crime scene investigators who are responsible for collecting biological evidence and the amazing DNA analysts who prepare the DNA samples that we analyze. Their dedication and professionalism make enormous contributions to the criminal justice system.

18/09/2022

IN CALIFORNIA

On August 20, 1986 an unidentified male was found in a field, 225 yards south of Stroud Avenue at Simpson, Kingsburg, .

He is estimated to have been 15-16 years old, 5’5”, and 120 pounds. Investigation revealed he may have arrived in Kingsburg from southern California just 2 days prior to death and that he may have used the name “Mario”.

He was wearing a red pullover shirt, blue denim trousers, blue stockings, and white jogging shoes. A blue makeup compact and black comb were found nearby.

Please contact the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST with any information that could help identify him.

Additional information can be found at his poster: www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMU/1184577/1/screen

17/09/2022

The skeletal remains of a young female were discovered on September 17, 2016 in Madisonville, Texas.

Additional details about case here: https://doenetwork.org/cases/1645uftx.html

17/09/2022

Robert Ronald “Bobbie” Soden is the fourth of the “Fort Myers Eight” to be identified. The other four men remain listed as John Does.

Authorities believe alleged serial killer Daniel Conahan Jr. is responsible for the deaths of Soden and the other seven men, as well as several murders in Charlotte County known as the “Hog Trail murders.” Conahan, 68, has been in prison since 1996, when he was arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Richard Allen Montgomery.

According to a Fort Myers police spokesperson, Soden’s identification is the result of Fort Myers cold case detectives’ work with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Parabon Nanolabs, a Virginia-based lab that offers forensic genealogy services to law enforcement agencies.

Genealogists were able to build a family tree for Soden, previously known only as Victim H, based upon DNA extracted from his remains.

“Based on the data that was searched, a family tree was developed that identified the probable identity of the person,” police officials said. “Cold case investigators then located direct relatives of the potential victim and completed direct comparison DNA with (the Department of Law Enforcement).

“That comparison confirmed the identity of Soden.”

Soden, who had been missing since 1996, was 30 when friends and family last heard from him. Detectives have been able to tie him to the Fort Myers area, but family members have been found in New Jersey, North Carolina and Washington, authorities said.

17/09/2022

The Clark County Medical Examiner is asking for help in identifying a man found dead last month in Vancouver.