I regularly DVR and watch a TV show named "Crime Watch Daily", and on today's episode I learned some things I found alarming. As most of us here on these boards are aware, there's a nationwide database named NameUS that collects information on unidentified bodies recovered and missing persons throughout the US. According to today's episode, however, many MANY unidentified and missing persons in the USA are NOT listed in NameUS, AND even more surprisingly is that is common that LE does not know of the existence of a national US database NOR submit their cases to the collection. Instead, these uninformed precincts simply maintain their own missing and unidentified cases. Sadly, unless they're contacted by another precinct looking for a match a person may sit months or years unclaimed in their morgue or buried as a John or Jane Doe. This is especially true for adults since they do not get the publicity that child cases receive.
Of particular concern to me, how many people potentially die in another precinct? Perhaps the family gets lucky and they get some regional or national attention for their loved one... Maybe.... JUST MAYBE.... someone in the right precinct holding the deceased body recognizes some identifying information like a tattoo or something else, but that's a slim chance. What if the body has already decomposed or perhaps further decayed? Unless that DNA profile is entered into NameUS this person may never have dignity in death.
Another concern this show brought up today is that too often, a DNA sample will be harvested from a recovered body but often sits in a drawer or on a shelf collecting dust, most often they are NOT sent for analysis (any NameUS since they don't know of the existence of such a database) until the LE receives a call inquiring about a potential match. How many John and Jane Does sit without dignity in the US because no one bothered to submit the DNA profile to NameUS?
I know I've gotten off-topic with Mike, and I apologize. But I'm returning..... I live in Kentucky, although I'm about 90 minutes from Louisville (Mike's hometown). Louisville is a border city... It borders southern Indiana. There are three major interstates that I'm aware of that intersects in that city - interstates 64, 65, and 71. The Ohio River also divides Louisville from southern Indiana.
Mike's disappearance by any means forced or voluntary,could have been one of many routes, including these interstates with some anonymous person. There's the airport but of course everyone federal agency in the country would probably know if he left by commercial airline.
I do wonder:
- are there any unidentified bodies found in the Ohio Rive since 5/29/15 near Louisville or in the direction the current flows?
- are there any LE precincts in KY or southern Indiana that have unidentified males reported or unreported to NameUS since that date?
- IF a person leaves an airport on a private airplane (say for example Mike had a friend, possibly a friend who's a pilot with his own air craft or access to a private air craft at his disposal), would they be subjected to the same identifiable scrutiny as commercial passengers? Personally I have flown for business (PRE 911) on private air craft and we simply entered a totally separate section of the airport, parked our car, walked onto the runway and boarded the private plane). It was a domestic flight so we landed in much the same manner - completely anonymous.... Has this changed??
All I've written regarding the Ohio River and Southern Indiana is not my consensus that he has committed suicide or is a victim of homicide. It's simply the only area that I feel that I can search for information that can be publicly available.... These are, IMO, only avenues that can be explored or confirmed explored to rule out.
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