Irish_Eyes
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Why don't you start a thread for the UID and post your other guy in that thread as a possible match?
I'm wondering how close investigators usually are regarding age of an UID, especially if they're looking at a skeleton.
I'm also curious to know how they know how long a body has been there. What's the difference between 3 years and 5 years when it comes to skeletal remains?
I'm looking at an UID who is thought to be 18-22 years old at time of death and they think she was dead for 2-3 years before being found. Based on that should I rule out someone who would have been 32 at the time the body was found?
Thanks!
Thank you Carl!
Are they generally accurate in estimating how long a skeleton has been there?
Why don't you start a thread for the UID and post your other guy in that thread as a possible match?
Dr. Alejandro Hernandez Cardenas and his assistants prepare to work on a mummified corpse found in Juarez. Hernandez has developed a technique for rehydrating cadavers and extracting DNA material from them in hopes of identifying people who have died.
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"We can recover their fingerprints and any scars, birthmarks or tattoos they had that can help identify them. Also, we can learn how they died because wounds and even bruises become visible," Hernández said.
Much more at the linkAug. 4, 2013 3:24 AM
Written byBrian Haas
The Tennessean
His gravestone simply read, John (19) Doe.
He was the 19th unidentified man buried in the Bordeaux Cemetery. He lies in plot #555, a grave overlooking the Whites Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. And around him lie 1,001 others who died penniless and, in some cases, unmourned...
Nolan filed a missing persons report on April 12, 1998, but police were not optimistic...
While police overlooked the possible connection between the missing man and the sudden appearance of an unidentified murder victim wrapped in a burned carpet, LeRyans mother was looking everywhere for her son...
In 2012, on what would have been LeRyans 33rd birthday, Williams stumbled upon a government website called NAMUS. The site contains nationwide databases for missing persons, unidentified remains and unclaimed bodies.
Williams searched around the time LeRyan went missing. She got an immediate hit, that of a young man whose burned remains were found at the end of Mary Street.
John Doe.
They never put two and two together when LeRyan Nicholson went missing April 12, 1998, only to have the burned body of a young man matching his description show up the very next day.
I got word from one of the NamUs RSA's that they have been so inundated with requests for manual checks of possible matches that the leader of their lab "put her foot down".
They are no longer going to do manual comparisons, unless requested to do so by law enforcement.
She added that comprehensive comparison of all DNA profiles is performed monthly, so any MP's with NamUs DNA profiles are automatically compared to those UID cases with DNA profiles.