Correction...
The abandoned car was found 5 months prior to the body discovery, not 7 months as stated in my previous post.
Some excellent questions have been raised, some of which we can not publicly discuss, but here are answers to some that we can:
Can you provide more information about the 1979 Pontiac Grand Prix and its owner? Any details would be helpful.
We can't provide the identity of the owner, but we will look into what details we
can provide about the car that may or may not help with identifying the victim. We will follow up with a later post on this.
In the photo of the dog, is he wearing a collar?
The dog doesn't appear to be wearing a collar in the photo. Here is the photo:
Can you tell what color eyes the deceased he had?
As of right now, no. The remains were almost completely skeletonized. However, DNA technology may be able to help us answer that question at some point. I know there are advances being made as far as using DNA to identify characteristics of an individual.
Does the owner of the car have ties to Albuquerque or Texas in 1990? Is he in the construction field?
Interesting question. Please PM me with your thoughts on this and what leads you ask.
might of already been looked at but have you looked at Dean Thomas Spencer?
The Doe Network page indicates the photo on the far right is a photo of Spencer in December 1991. His hair is far too gray in that photo to be our UID. We are looking to post an appropriate photo of the actual hair found at the scene. We will follow up with this in a later post.
As for the questions we can't discuss, they are still helpful to us! The smallest thing could lead to the next clue. My partner and I feel this is a very solvable case. The answer is out there.
Here is something else to think about as you look at missing persons cases...
As we have searched databases, my partner and I have found a striking number of cases that weren't reported until many years later. Remember that the date last seen is often a date which the reporting person provides, which could be inaccurate (sometimes intentionally), especially as the years go by. Due to this, don't be afraid to post possible matches just because they were alleged to have been seen
after the discovery of John Doe.