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This is why ruleouts shouldn't be made on visuals alone. If they'd just used dentals, fingerprints or DNA at the time then this could have been solved way back then. RIP David, I'm glad your family has closure. I just wish it had come sooner, and that you could have justice as well. I wonder if...

A great great grandparent in the world of genetic genealogy is not a distant relative. You share about 6% DNA with a great great grandparent, meaning about 400 centimorgans. For context, the vast majority of matches you will get on Ancestry sites are less than 100 centimorgans. I don't have...

As I understand it, it wasn't really a 'distant' living relative but her great great grandson. A direct descendant. They may also have triangulated with his cousins etc to rule out all his other great great grandmothers (for context, most people have 8 great great grandmothers though it's not...

Now a DNA Doe Project case: Western Reserve Rd John Doe 1982 - DNA Doe Project

Gosh, his note is so sad. Poor guy. Sounds like he was desperate and couldn't find a job anywhere, I guess The Great Depression was in full swing. His belt buckle also had the letter R, so that lends more credence to the theory that P.R were his initials.

PR may be his initials. Or it may be PA and they just thought it was PR, and PA may be for Pennsylvania. Boat tattoo could mean navy but he might have just liked boats. If he was ever reported missing, it's unlikely the report still exists. Hoping he's been added to NAMUS because they're...

The only way for it to be accidental imo is if he was sitting on the railing, either facing his room or on the other side with his back to the room. People do reckless things when they are under the influence, and sadly it's quite common to hear about young Brits on holiday to Spain for the...

There are so many desperate women who felt they had no other choice and have been haunted by this for the rest of their lives. I have a lot of sympathy for women like this, though it seems I'm very much in the minority. I can't imagine the kind of terrible, desperate situation a woman would have...

Unfortunately it's quite possible that there's nothing, or nearly nothing. With her ethnic origins, the relatives they have found on genealogy sites will be very distant cousins, so distant they would have no idea who she was.

It's definitely harder to use genetic genealogy outside of the US. Most of the people who have taken DNA tests and uploaded to GEDmatch are Americans of European descent. So whilst it's not usually difficult to connect the dots between an unidentified white American Doe and their relatives, it's...

UP100 is a pretty special number, one of the earliest Namus cases. This would be a symbolic milestone to solve. Whoever killed this precious baby may still be alive, but maybe not for too much longer. Time for justice might be running out. But it's been 4 years since Othram said they'd take a...

I wonder if his tattoo was CG (for Catajuan Gonzalez) rather than GG. RIP John.

I've had a brief look through that report before, but the one thing that annoys me is the statement that a proportion of the potential relatives will not be UK based and this could add significantly to the genealogical effort and cost Like... yes, many people on DNA websites are American. But...

Idk, it's not much different to unidentified people in, say, Michigan. Michigan is about the same size but the UK has nearly 67 million people and Michigan has 10 million people in the same amount of space. And we've seen over and over that people can be from the same state, even the same area...

Yes, I think she unfortunately probably was rejected by her family which is why nobody has come forward. But the DNA Doe Project post specifies that there's a possibility she wasn't raised by her biological family. Since they're doing genetic genealogy on her, that makes me think they suspect...

Possibility she wasn't raised by her biological family. Sounds like they suspect she may have been adopted/raised in foster care/an NPE - one or both parents being biologically different to those on paper, usually through affairs, donor conception, adoption or even a baby accidentally being...

Othram page for Mr Nelson with a good picture of him: Port Albert John Doe (2016) is now Identified He introduced himself with almost his name (might have gone by his middle name and the interviewer misheard him) so it's sad he still remained unidentified for so long. He does look a lot older...

I suppose this doesn't necessarily rule out that he died 'innocently' and then his body was shot at, but it does make that less likely. He could have died in the crash before he could drown - such as the force of the car hitting the water maybe leading to a death that might not show up on...

Wow, those recons are good! They really captured her essence. RIP Paula. I wonder if the overdose was accidental (took it herself) or if she was poisoned.

If the info about the GSW is correct (which I am starting to doubt) then my first thought would be that Michael or someone else shot him and either drove into the river with him on purpose or also shot Michael and managed to drive the car into the river with them both inside but not the killer...