Resolved OK - Oklahoma City, Skeletal Remains found Scattered in Field near Bridge, Sept'17 - Name withheld

[Gardener1850]

Is the tattoo a skull and crossbones?

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I think it looks like part of a rose. :dunno:

 

[wendybtn]

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...g-Tran-32-pregnant-Oklahoma-City-5-April-2015
Too long ago to be her?

 

[Gardener1850]

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...g-Tran-32-pregnant-Oklahoma-City-5-April-2015
Too long ago to be her?

I think so, because the UID died within the past year. It would be hard to explain where Trang Tran (and her baby) had been for 2 years before being killed. I suppose it's possible someone kidnapped her and held her until she had her baby and kept her a couple years before killing her, but seems unlikely, IMO.

 

[NadirCake]

It looks to me like someone ran that tattoo image through a bunch of crappy photo filters to make it 'less graphic' or something. And the result is an image that's muuuuuuch harder to discern.

Has anyone seen this done before?

 

[dorothyland]

Definitely looks like a skull and crossbones to me. You can see three out of four ends of the bones part. The skull is pretty distorted though.


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[carbuff]

It looks to me like someone ran that tattoo image through a bunch of crappy photo filters to make it 'less graphic' or something. And the result is an image that's muuuuuuch harder to discern.

Has anyone seen this done before?

It could have been run through filters to clarify the design but I've only rarely seen less graphic as a motivation. Could be, though. A tattoo image from restored mummified skin is hard to see at best. They might have made it black and white to sharpen it.

I can make out the skull but not the crossbones.

ETA: I take it back. I expected the bones to be white/light like the skull, but they're black.

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[Gardener1850]

NaMus: https://identifyus.org/en/cases/17054

Already Ruled out is Samantha Ann Puckett 1987 Oklahoma

2 added to ruleout list:

Shannon Baldwin Hokanson 1982 Ok
Casey Shoemaker 1985 Ok

 

[carbuff]

Is the tattoo a skull and crossbones?

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A friend I showed it to says it looks like the top of a sugar skull, with flowers in the eye sockets. (Google sugar skull tattoo to see what she means).

 

[Melt71]

Namus case recently updated, maybe to add ruleouts I only notice one additional piece of information (in red) that wasn't in the post upthread when the Namus file first appeared.

www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/17054?nav

Female
30-60 years old
Unknown race
Postmortem interval: Months; Probable year of death: 2017
Near complete or complete skeleton
Inventory of remains - head not recovered
Hair color: Unknown or completely bald
Clothing on body: Shirt, pants, shoes
Tattoo: Picture of tattoo included in images at Namus

 

[Kano]

No, not odd. Patches of skin often mummify and can be recovered by a variety of means that rehydrate the skin or lift the ink. Yes, it looks partial to me; the part that's white looks like whatever material they used for recovery.

I guess it's possible that the material had deteriorated to the point where they couldn't tell exactly what the item of clothing had been. I dropped a cotton t-shirt in my yard last June and by the time I found it in September, it was just shreds. Looked like an animal might have taken part of it for a nest and the rest had faded to pale. You couldn't even tell what color it had been, though the neck band was still identifiable.

The whole file reads like a stub entry. Hopefully they'll fill in more later as they get more and better information.

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The part that stands out to me is most remains recovered but no head.. While this area overgrown it is fairly flat and doesn't seem like an easy place to lose a head completely