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I contacted "Lyle's" father with my idea, and he agrees with my suggestion that if people would like to write something to the family, they could be sent to me. He said "It relieves the pain in our hearts to know that so many wonderful people were involved". I will act as moderator and conduit...

email should work as well as letters. I'll run this by Lyle's family first.

I just had a thought, and I want to run it by the group. I know how much time and effort so many of you put into this case. You feel a personal connection to him, and more than a few of you have remarked that he is like a brother. Would any of you want to write a letter to Lyle's family? I...

I have warned Lyle's family, that the pictures are on the internet, just incase they look into the efforts that were put into identifying him. While I was the one that took the photos, it made me sick to my stomach to learn that the photos had to be released and they were made public. This was...

I want to thank everyone in the WS community for all of your dedication and hard work to help give Lyle his name and help give his family some closure. You did so much of the leg work and eliminated hundreds of potential matches. I knew from day one that Lyle just wanted to disappear, but I...

Lyle's family had a set of his fingerprints that were taken in grade school, as part of a children's identification program. The Sheriff's Department compared those prints with the post mortem prints I took in 2001, and made a positive identification.

No drugs, no alcohol, no pierced ears. Only scar noted was from apendectomy.

The local PD questioned the staff, and showed Lyle's picture around, but no one recognized him.

I've suspected for a long time that Lyle's story will be somewhat similar to Richard's. There has got to be a reason that no one has reported him missing, and it might be that he was estranged from his family (or they may have died), and perhaps he was frequently away for long periods of time...

Nope, still nothing new on our babe in the woods case.

Det. Sgt. Shumate and I discussed the possibility of facial recognition software, to compare the photos. It may not be exact, but would let us know if we are on the right track. One of the Deputies is into genealogy, and will be looking into Richard's past. The RCMP (or some agency) needs to...

I have excluded Harold Galvis through fingerprints. Det. Sgt. Shumate and I discussed Richard Meirle, and he is looking into it. The ears don't appear to match, but it deserves a closer look.

I don't believe that Richard is Lyle, but I am meeting with Shumate on Tuesday, and will let everyone know what we uncover.

This deserves a closer look, and I'll be meeting with Det. Sgt. Shumate on Tuesday. Many of the features look good, but I can't tell about the ears. The gentleman with the beer bottle has the type of earlobes that Lyle had.

I belive he was looked at earlier, but I'll pass it along to the Sheriff's Office. The nose looks different, Bradley has smaller eyebrows, and doesn't have the mole on his chin.

His appendix was removed. I don't know who said "may". I also don't know where "African American" came from. He appeared Caucasian, possible Native American.

DNA was extracted from the skull, and the profile was compared to Jeffrey's mother. It is not Jeffrey. What we do know is that it is a child around 8 yoa, and the skull is less than 50 years old. We can't determine sex or race (only a partial skull).

I'm still here. I have been tied up on other cases. Sgt. Steve Shumate is the primary person on Lyle's case, but he has been pretty involved with the Lindsey Baum disappearance. I've tried twice to get Lyle on NAMUS, but it doesn't seem to be going through. I'll check in from time to time.

I'm sure we do. I worked at GHSO from 1977 to 2007. Tyler Inman was an Aberdeen PD case and Jeffrey Bratcher was a GHSO case. I wasn't able to come help search last weekend, but I'm glad so many WSers were able to make it.

I started as a reserve in 1976 and as far as I know nothing like this has happened. I guess it's not safe anymore... DD While it is rare in Grays Harbor, it has happened before. In 1974, 7 year old Jeffrey Bratcher disappeared while on a family outing at Ocean City State Park, and in 1982...