NEWBIE QUESTION!
I had NO idea where to post this, so mods, please feel free to delete/move this/let me know where I can post a thread to ask some questions about a possible match?
I was just looking through a few sites of cold cases, and unidentified people in IL (my home-state), and ran across a picture of a reconstructed face from a UID body that was found in IL in 2005. I thought it looked a lot like someone whose missing photo I had just ran across at another site... Both the man who is a missing person, and the UID have a distinctive bend in their nose, in the same place. Seeing as I'm comparing a real photo with a reconstruction, I think several things (like puffier cheeks, or the like) could simply be because of the reconstruction techniques. Also, the body was pulled out of water where it was weighted down, so I don't know how long the body had been in the water. They could not determine eye color, and they seem to be unsure if the body was of a man who was balding with gray hair, or just going gray.
The questions I have are this -- is there anyway someone could lose height of a few inches simply from decomposing within water? The missing person is listed as 6'1" and the UID is stated to be only 5'9" - I realize that's a full four inches, so that's kind of a big difference... Neither the UID, nor the Missing person have a thread here at WS that I have found yet, otherwise I'd have posted these questions there.
I've just got this weird feeling that these are the same person and don't know where to go from here with it...
TIA for any advice, or help. Would love to be able to say I've found answers for a woman and her children who have been missing their loved one for 11 years now.