NC NC - Charlotte, WhtMale 20-30, UP79088, cranium in creek bed, PMI 5 years, Sept’87

[MadMcGoo]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Date Body Found: September 21, 1987
Location Found: Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
ME/C Case Number: B87-1971
Race / Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Sex: Male
Estimated Age Group: Adult - Pre 40
Estimated Age Range (Years): 20-30
Estimated Year of Death: 1977-1985
Estimated PMI: 5 Years
Height: Cannot Estimate
Weight: Cannot Estimate
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown

Circumstances of Recovery: Human cranium discovered in soil/trash debris by backhoe operator while excavating a muddy creek bed . No mandible or other remains recovered.

Investigating Agency: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (704) 336-4978

 

[Earth]

I may have forgotten this, but what does PMI mean?

 

[MadMcGoo]

I may have forgotten this, but what does PMI mean?

Post mortem interval. The approximate time between death and discovery.

 

[Melt71]

So estimated death 1977 - 1985 ... that leaves a lot of MPs.

But at a quick glance, a few that seem possibilities :

Steve Lewis Arrowood (19yo) went missing from Gastonia, 20mi away in 1975, so 2 years outside the Estimated Year of Death range. The Doe Network file makes it sound as though a long distance trucker could have been a suspect - although we don't have exact coords, I'm guessing these remains were found somewhere near I-85 I guess www.doenetwork.org/cases/3832dmnc.html
NC - NC - Steve Lewis Arrowood Jr., 18, Gastonia, 3 April 1975 | Page 2 (websleuths.com)

Jimmy Wayne Edwards (22yo) disappeared in 1978 www.doenetwork.org/cases/4387dmnc.html and possibly linked to a biker gang. He went missing from 45mi away, along I-85.

David Leonard McMiken (24yo) missing December 1982 with 2 other men Michael Fay Norman and William Earl Clifton and neither they, nor Clifton's vehicle, have been found. UID remains were found in a creek bed - possible they went into water and these remains eventually washed out? www.doenetwork.org/cases/5353dmnc.html
NC - NC- David McMicken, 24, Michael Norman, 32, William Clifton, 30, Beaufort County, 10 Dec 1982 (websleuths.com)