LOL...I may have hit rock bottom
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No, I actually thought of you and Mr. Loveless when considering this one! The “nose talk” on Denim’s thread yesterday, and you mentioning the tip of the nose changing, I got to thinking about some of the threads I’ve seen where CarlK explained comparisons and things like that. (I really do pay attention and sincerely want to learn).
Then I decided to search Facebook (which I never do) for missing people in Kentucky. For some reason a post about Mary Jane was on one of the KY group pages and a detective was describing her and how her kids/grandkids were still actively searching for her or answers after all this time.
That intrigued me to begin with simply because I know how crucial and rare that often is when it comes down to DNA and potential comparisons. Then I saw her photo and thought “she has a slender nose”. After seeing the other photos of her, all that stuff Carl (and others) had described, suddenly made sense to me! I realized exactly what that meant in Shively’s case particularly.
I could focus less on the physical “narrowness” and visualize what that would look like if I were seeing only a skull. This is all completely irrelevant, but might raise my standards so to speak.
Mr. Loveless is a prime example. I certainly don’t believe Mary Jane lived to see 1985, unfortunately I don’t think she even saw 1946. There are just so many variables in this UID’s case that leave the door open for otherwise unlikely scenarios. IMO. Shively already has
so many
listed rule-outs, especially for a relatively newer case.
Because I think we can afford to do so in this case, I asked myself this: if not for the
estimated PMI being what it is, could these two be a match? I answered myself, “Yes!”. I didn’t follow the case of Mr. Loveless, but if I understand correctly his partial remains were discovered in 1979 and 1991 and his PMI was listed at 5 years? Come to find out he likely died before 1920?!
So, in short, yes I do think the PMI could be decades.