PA PA - Philadelphia, 30th St Station, AsianMale 20-30, UP7438, gun stolen from WI, note, scars, Apr'94

[AliceInPain]

I held this note in my hand. Very surreal. I did some legwork on it but couldn't really get much going. Reached out to older Amtrak folks, the former medical examiner. Didn't go anywhere. The note was written in very neat English print. Very strange.

Do you know why they haven't released an image of the note?
"Very neat English print" doesn't say much.
Do you remember enough of what it looked like that you could try and reproduce it and post it? (Obv with some big fat watermark saying it's not the original)

 

[UnlicensedPI]

In an article published April 14, 1994, several Philadelphia men are named as having been arrested for robbery and extortion (stealing and selling passports back). In a 1995 article about two of the men, it describes them as members of Flying Dragons and states some of their victims were so afraid to testify they went to China.

 

[annpats]

His Namus details state he was circumcised.

As far as I'm aware East Asians don't have their male children circumcised.
It's only really muslims and Americans that do this practice.
It's not something that's done in the UK or Europe either.

If he were Vietnamese/Cambodian/Chinese etc. I think he would be uncircumcised.

However, the fact he was, means there is a chance he was born in the USA.

 

[boopboopshoop]

His Namus details state he was circumcised.

As far as I'm aware East Asians don't have their male children circumcised.
It's only really muslims and Americans that do this practice.
It's not something that's done in the UK or Europe either.

If he were Vietnamese/Cambodian/Chinese etc. I think he would be uncircumcised.

However, the fact he was, means there is a chance he was born in the USA.

South Korea has similar circumcision rates to the USA.

 

[iamshadow21]

His Namus details state he was circumcised.

As far as I'm aware East Asians don't have their male children circumcised.
It's only really muslims and Americans that do this practice.
It's not something that's done in the UK or Europe either.

If he were Vietnamese/Cambodian/Chinese etc. I think he would be uncircumcised.

However, the fact he was, means there is a chance he was born in the USA.

Lots of Muslims in south east Asia - Indonesia, Malaysia, etc.

Also, sometimes circumcisions happen for medical reasons.

 

[Melt71]

His Namus details state he was circumcised.

As far as I'm aware East Asians don't have their male children circumcised.
It's only really muslims and Americans that do this practice.

There has always been a large Cham community in Cambodia and Vietnam who are of the muslim faith. They were very much targeted in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and it's estimated as many as half a million (one third of their population) was killed. Many fled and eventually migrated to the west.

 

[LizzieParker]

South Korea has similar circumcision rates to the USA.

Yup. This combined with the fact that adoptions from South Korea were at their peak during the 70s and 80s makes me wonder if he was an adoptee, especially considering he was most likely born between the late 60s and early 70s.