CA CA - Camarillo, Male 13 - 18, UP128289, found at landfill site, Aug'93

[ChatteringBirds]

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Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP128289
Male, Uncertain
Date Body Found: August 30, 1993
Location Found: Camarillo, California
ME/C Case Number: 1515-93
Race / Ethnicity: Uncertain
Estimated Age Group: Adolescent
Estimated Age Range (Years): 13-18
Estimated Year of Death
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Estimated PMI
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Height: Cannot Estimate
Weight: Cannot Estimate
Date Body Found: August 30, 1993
NamUs Case Created: August 28, 2024

Circumstances of Recovery:
Human bones found at a landfill site in Camarillo, CA.

Condition of Remains
Not recognizable - Partial skeletal parts only

 

[ChatteringBirds]

This case has recently been added to NamUs, and it strikes me.
A teen's remains were found in a landfill in 1993.

-How many bones/what was found? How were they found?
- Does that mean he is a homicide victim, or was something else suspected?
(If he is a victim, there are surely many missing teens he could be.)
- Are they still available for DNA testing? Are dentals available?
- Why is there no PMI at all?
- What was done to try to identify him? What type of case is this? Why was he added to NamUs recently?

 

[HopeRains]

Camarillo, CA in dotted-red below. A lot not mentioned in the Namus Casefile. There is a landfill at the abandoned Camarillo Airport - seems to have been used in the past for military type use. Also just poking around on the net, the Camarillo State Mental Hospital closed in 1997 - I mention this b/c it's not entirely unusual to find remains in/around state facilities. I've noticed recently that many states are adding cases - perhaps additional resources/funding available. I don't consider it common at all to find 13-18 y/o people (or anyone for that matter) in a landfill; although it does happen. I've heard of it happening accidentally (for example if someone was sleeping in a dumpster or something, which then got taken away) but more oft than not, I believe it to be related to a crime.