AR AR - Farmington, UnkSex&Race UP16218, UnkAge, burned in vehicle accident, Dec'16

[Romulus]

Unidentified Person/NamUs #UP16218
Unsure, Uncertain
Date Body Found: December 16, 2016
Location Found: Farmington, Arkansas
Estimated Age Range--

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Circumstances of Recovery: On 12/16/2016, the vehicle was being driven by a subject that was traveling East on Main Street at Kelli Avenue in Farmington , Arkansas when the vehicle left the roadway and struck a high pressure gas line. The vehicle burst into flames and burned for 8 hours until the gas was able to be shut off.

 

[DS2021]

Yikes. Is there anyway to get dna off remains that are  that charred? They werent even able to determine sex. @othram would you be able to answer that?

 

[DS2021]

Body found in burned car driven into Arkansas gas line hard to identify | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Farmington police continue to try to identify the body found in a car that was driven into a natural-gas line that exploded and burned for hours two weeks ago, police spokesman Sgt. Mike Wilbanks said.

www.arkansasonline.com

Every case is going to be different," Channell said. "The more a body is subject to intense heat, as apparently this one was, the more difficult it becomes [to identify the person]."

McCartney said investigators have a good idea who the driver was, but the information cannot be released until they are completely certain about the identity, he said

 

[DS2021]

samples are sent to a university in Texas for mitochondrial DNA tests

Heres a picture from above article

 

[carbuff]

Driver in Arkansas gas-main crash dies, police say | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

FARMINGTON -- The driver who struck a gas main Friday, sparking a large natural gas fire, died in the accident, according to police.

www.arkansasonline.com

Body found in burned car driven into Arkansas gas line hard to identify | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Farmington police continue to try to identify the body found in a car that was driven into a natural-gas line that exploded and burned for hours two weeks ago, police spokesman Sgt. Mike Wilbanks said.

www.nwaonline.com

Body found in burned car driven into Arkansas gas line hard to identify | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette "Police could not find a vehicle identification number, which might have helped identify the vehicle's owner and possibly the driver, Wilbanks said. Numbers should have been stamped on the car in several places, but the car was too badly burned to read them, he said. Samples from severely burned bodies can take time to analyze, because the state sends the samples to a university in Texas for mitochondrial DNA tests, Channell said."
McCartney said investigators have a good idea who the driver was, but the information cannot be released until they are completely certain about the identity, he said.

 

[carbuff]

https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/outreach/back-to-school/farmington-police-say-they-may-never-be-able-to-id-person-who-died-in-gas-line-explosion/527-00fce979-0d95-4e81-b59a-89a72cd8d2c1.

"The Farmington Police Department said Thursday (Jan. 5) the State Crime Lab was unable to get any DNA from what was left of a body in the car that crashed into a gas line in December causing an explosion and fire that burned for nine hours."
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"Wilbanks said a family came to the police department the Monday after the gas line crash saying David A. Carver, 32, who lived in Farmington has not been heard from since the explosion. The family told police Carver had bought a Buick LeSabre prior to the crash, Wilbanks said. While police have not been able to identify the car involved in the explosion because all the VIN numbers had burned off, they are able to say the car was a unibody vehicle, according to Wilbanks. A Buick LeSabre is a unibody vehicle.
An obituary for David Allen Carver appeared on Dec. 29. 2016 listing the date of death as Dec. 16. The obituary did not list a funeral date, but it did list a memorial service."

 

[othram]

Yikes. Is there anyway to get dna off remains that are  that charred? They werent even able to determine sex. @othram would you be able to answer that?

Of course every case is unique, but we have successfully identified people from charred remains, many times.