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NAMUS:
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Sex - Male
Race / Ethnicity - Black / African American
Estimated Age Range (Years) - 30-44
Estimated Year of Death - 1981-1987
Date Body Found - September 11, 1987
Circumstances of Recovery - On 9/10/1987 officers were called to the area of Liberty Road in reference to human bones found by someone hunting in the area.
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The Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Mahoning County Coroner’s Office is seeking assistance to help identify human remains that were found on Sept. 10, 1987. Partial skeletal remains were located off Liberty Road near Mount Hope Cemetery in Youngstown, Ohio. It is estimated that the remains were at this location for 3-5 years prior to their discovery. The decedent is believed to be a Black male between the age of 30 and 44 years old. Additional details such as height, weight, hair color, and eye color are unknown. The image shown is a facial reconstruction completed by Ohio BCI’s forensic artist. Items such as hairstyle are the artist’s estimations to complete the image and should not be considered significant markers for identification. Anyone with information is asked to call the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office at 330-740-2175.
Human bones found: Youngstown police Lt. David Campana points to a human skull and other bones
discovered Thursday afternoon by two hunters in a wooded area off Liberty Road near Mount Hope
Cemetery on the city's East Side. Viewing the scene today with Campana before digging began as the investigation continued are Sgt. John Perdue, left, and Patrolman William Enyeart.
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Authorities were sifting through
an area off
Youngstown's
Liberty Road on
East Side today after
a hunter and his grandson stumbled
onto one and perhaps two human
skulls Thursday evening.
The remains were discovered
about 4 p.m. by Charles Humphries,
71, of 2339 Liberty and his 11-year-
old grandson, Jason Senich.
Humphries said the two were
hunting during the opening day of
squirrel season when they noticed
something white in a wooded area
about 200 yards northeast of Mount
Hope Cemetery near the Hubbard line.
Humphries said he used a stick to
turn the object over and called police when it appeared to be a skull.
"Let's get the hell out of here,"
Humphries said he told his grandson
after making the find.
Humphries has walked the closed
down a portion of Liberty Road a
number of times for exercise, he
said. Police Lt. David Campana and
Thomas Pappas, an investigator for
the Mahoning County coroners of-
fice, confirmed this morning that
one skull is human and another
found about two feet away "ap-
pears to be human."
The investigation was halted late
Thursday night when it became too
dark to continue the probe, which
resumed this morning. Police
guarded the remains overnight.
Pappas said the skulls didn't ap-
pear to have been buried and no
clothing could be found. One of the
skulls was broken into two pieces and
a portion of a second could be seen.
Pieces of what appeared to be vertebrae and rib bones also were
found at the site.
Authorities were attempting to
find other bones, clothing, and per-
haps papers to identify the aged re-
mains.
The coroner's investigator said
that the bones will be taken to the morgue at St. Elizabeth Hospital
Medical Center and assembled and
X-rayed to determine a cause and
approximate date of death.
There is a possibility, Pappas
noted, that a member of the anthro-
pology department of Youngstown
State University may be called into
the case.
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.
www.namus.gov
Sex - Male
Race / Ethnicity - Black / African American
Estimated Age Range (Years) - 30-44
Estimated Year of Death - 1981-1987
Date Body Found - September 11, 1987
Circumstances of Recovery - On 9/10/1987 officers were called to the area of Liberty Road in reference to human bones found by someone hunting in the area.
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The Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Mahoning County Coroner’s Office is seeking assistance to help identify human remains that were found on Sept. 10, 1987. Partial skeletal remains were located off Liberty Road near Mount Hope Cemetery in Youngstown, Ohio. It is estimated that the remains were at this location for 3-5 years prior to their discovery. The decedent is believed to be a Black male between the age of 30 and 44 years old. Additional details such as height, weight, hair color, and eye color are unknown. The image shown is a facial reconstruction completed by Ohio BCI’s forensic artist. Items such as hairstyle are the artist’s estimations to complete the image and should not be considered significant markers for identification. Anyone with information is asked to call the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office at 330-740-2175.
Human bones found: Youngstown police Lt. David Campana points to a human skull and other bones
discovered Thursday afternoon by two hunters in a wooded area off Liberty Road near Mount Hope
Cemetery on the city's East Side. Viewing the scene today with Campana before digging began as the investigation continued are Sgt. John Perdue, left, and Patrolman William Enyeart.
---
Authorities were sifting through
an area off
Youngstown's
Liberty Road on
East Side today after
a hunter and his grandson stumbled
onto one and perhaps two human
skulls Thursday evening.
The remains were discovered
about 4 p.m. by Charles Humphries,
71, of 2339 Liberty and his 11-year-
old grandson, Jason Senich.
Humphries said the two were
hunting during the opening day of
squirrel season when they noticed
something white in a wooded area
about 200 yards northeast of Mount
Hope Cemetery near the Hubbard line.
Humphries said he used a stick to
turn the object over and called police when it appeared to be a skull.
"Let's get the hell out of here,"
Humphries said he told his grandson
after making the find.
Humphries has walked the closed
down a portion of Liberty Road a
number of times for exercise, he
said. Police Lt. David Campana and
Thomas Pappas, an investigator for
the Mahoning County coroners of-
fice, confirmed this morning that
one skull is human and another
found about two feet away "ap-
pears to be human."
The investigation was halted late
Thursday night when it became too
dark to continue the probe, which
resumed this morning. Police
guarded the remains overnight.
Pappas said the skulls didn't ap-
pear to have been buried and no
clothing could be found. One of the
skulls was broken into two pieces and
a portion of a second could be seen.
Pieces of what appeared to be vertebrae and rib bones also were
found at the site.
Authorities were attempting to
find other bones, clothing, and per-
haps papers to identify the aged re-
mains.
The coroner's investigator said
that the bones will be taken to the morgue at St. Elizabeth Hospital
Medical Center and assembled and
X-rayed to determine a cause and
approximate date of death.
There is a possibility, Pappas
noted, that a member of the anthro-
pology department of Youngstown
State University may be called into
the case.
