Identified! SC - Myrtle Beach, WhtMale Skel UP11933, 35-60, Dec'13 - David Mino

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He's in NamUs now!
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/11933

DEMOGRAPHICS
  • Race: White
  • 35 - 60 years old
  • Estimated to be 67 inches (5'7) tall
  • NamUs doesn't have a postmortem interval listed, but we know (from news reports) that these were skeletal remains and have been there for around 4 years

CIRCUMSTANCES
  • Skeletal remains found scattered at surface level
  • Address: Tidewater Road, 29577, Myrtle Beach, Horry County, SC

PHYSICAL
  • Missing one pair of ribs. He has 11, most people have 12
  • Evidence of prior surgery to treat a broken neck or spinal fusion
  • Evidence of a Halo fixation device
  • He had a number of healed fractures. Two on his left rib, healed facial fractures around the nasal area, and (possibly) a fracture to the pubic bone.
  • No hair or eye color specified

CLOTHING
  • Sun-bleached greenish-yellow swimming trunks. No size
  • Yellow and white metal chain with one yellow and white metal cross with clear strones. ''Spike's'' engraved on back of cross

DNA/DENTALS
  • DNA: Sample available - Not yet submitted
  • Dentals: Available and will be entered later

NamUs has several pictures up right now. Three are of the cross, one of the swimming trunks and one is an aerial view of where the body was found.
 
CROSS
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SHORTS
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''SPIKE'S'' LOGO
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If he was wearing swim trunks I wonder if his people know he went missing but assumed he drowned and can't be found?
 
Migmuu said:
He's in NamUs now!
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/11933
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PHYSICAL
  • Missing one pair of ribs. He has 11, most people have 12
  • Evidence of prior surgery to treat a broken neck or spinal fusion
  • Evidence of a Halo fixation device
  • He had a number of healed fractures. Two on his left rib, healed facial fractures around the nasal area, and (possibly) a fracture to the pubic bone.
  • No hair or eye color specified
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This is a halo fixation device: http://www.spineuniverse.com/conditions/spinal-cord-injury/halo-brace-use-cervical-fractures

The halo part actually screws to your skull, so it leaves permanent marks.

The facial and rib fractures plus the neck injury and brace makes it sound like he'd been in an accident of some sort in the past -- traffic accident maybe?
 
UID Cross necklace chain 2.jpg

HBJ item online.jpg

I deleted this post to start again..

The jewelry is (I think) from HBJ Wholesale Body Jewelry - who are the wholesale distributors of 'Spikes' Stainless Steel Jewelry.
Its not a cheap jewelry - 316L stainless Steel and Gold.
Link to Hollywood Jewelry TM

Cross: at webpage link http://www.hollywoodbodyjewelry.com/product/5611/
316L Stainless Steel Gold Plated Angelic Cross with Multi-Gem Cross in the middle
Description: Dimensions: W 1.5" x L 1.825"
Pendant Clasp Dimension: 4mm Diameter

Chain: http://www.hollywoodbodyjewelry.com/product/6039/

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I wonder if there is a distributor in SC or around Horry County.
I think a few body modification/tattoo shops or high end fashion retail jewelry would stock these.
The Cross is very individual (design wise) and is quite different than the other crosses in this brand. This is the only one with the wings.
Also the chain is an unusual link.
The pair sold together would be distinguishing (lets hope).
Possibly someone lay-by'd it or bought it on Credit Card in the area - and if so, there would be the purchase details.

ETA.. OOOps sorry carbuff - I was editing and you were posting. We found the same place. Sorry for the double info :)
 
I went into Charley Project and did a search on "drowned."

Which turned up 20 pages of missing people who might have drowned -- and not a one of the males went missing in South Carolina. This guy was the closest:

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mickey_greg.html
June 2005 while diving off Frying Pan Shoals, North Carolina. He and his dive partner got in trouble in rough weather; the friend was rescued 4 miles north of their dive site. Which makes it unlikely he would have drifted south at all, let alone wound up that far inland.

I wonder if that's a place where he could have been washed by one of the hurricanes of the last few years? I don't know whether Myrtle Beach sustained damage from any of them.
 
zelmajane said:
Well done! That's the kind of stuff you can buy at Wings or Waves beach stores too.
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It makes me think he's likely toward the younger end of the estimate -- though I saw some stuff in their catalog that I wouldn't mind owning myself, so maybe that's not a good way to judge :)
 
Going through Charley Project looking for possibles. I haven't found anything too interesting so far.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/smolinski_william.html
similar necklace but circumstances make it highly unlikely. Also at six feet, he's too large, and no mention of injuries.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/stevenson_walter.html
Missing from Memphis in October 2009. He's the right height, but there should have been additional jewelry found. No injuries.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/buonassisi_alex.html
Missing from Phillie in 2006

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/j/jones_el.html
Would be good, but namus says the uid is white and Jones is black. But wearing a diamond-cut Figaro necklace (figaro is a style of link) with a diamond cut cross, so he has similar taste in jewelry.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/martin_wilbert.html
Here's a mentally handicapped guy who went missing from Arizona in 2004, and has some injuries that might match up with the UID's. Also jewelry. He's a small man, possibly even too small.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/peasha_gerald.html

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/q/quintana_israel.html
Missing 1992 from Phoenix, right size and in the age range, and some injuries that might be similar.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/haas_christopher.html
Missing July 2010 from Ohio; has similar injuries including fractured ribs but is a bit on the tall side at 5'11"

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/charping_mack.html
Missing since December 2008 from Louisiana; has multiple injuries including broken nose and ribs. He's much larger at 6'1" though

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/r/riegel_lawrence.html
Missing since Christmas 2009 from Washington, was recovering from neck surgery, but again, much too tall.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/pottinger_jeffrey.html
Ditto, except missing from Ohio

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/griffith_joseph.html
another one, June 2010 from Tucson

ETA: a UID in Colorado estimated at 5'4" has just been identified as a 6-foot missing man: CO CO - Golden - WhtMale Skeletal UP10876, 21-57, in Red Rocks Park - Dec'12 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community So I don't think I'm going to eliminate any of these guys.
 
FigTree said:
Seems the 'Spikes' brand/business was Inc. in 2006
http://www.wysk.com/index/california/gardena/9vkv9yv/spikes-inc/profile
and the TM was 2008
http://www.wysk.com/index/california/gardena/9vkv9yv/spikes-inc/trademarks
These 316lss jewelry styles are also on Alibaba and mainly manufactured in China and imported to the States.

Would be better still to know when the cross and chain were released for distribution in the USA to get a better idea of timeline possibly.

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Good sleuthing!
 
Was the jewelry found in the vicinity of the bones or on the bones?
 
This guy seems like it'd be really easy to find out who he is.

I mean, how many people have had that halo thing?

Being found in swim gear certainly doesn't make me think of a homeless man, but it just seems like if he had been reported he'd be found now.

I'm going to scramble around NamUs now.


ETA: If I were a detective putting a man that had a Halo fixation device into missing persons, what would I put that under? Skeletal information? Deformities? Foreign objects? Prosthetics? Distinctive body features?

This might take me a hot minute
 
EmmaliLucia said:
This guy seems like it'd be really easy to find out who he is.

I mean, how many people have had that halo thing?

Being found in swim gear certainly doesn't make me think of a homeless man, but it just seems like if he had been reported he'd be found now.

I'm going to scramble around NamUs now.


ETA: If I were a detective putting a man that had a Halo fixation device into missing persons, what would I put that under? Skeletal information? Deformities? Foreign objects? Prosthetics? Distinctive body features?

This might take me a hot minute
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Well, if he was still being treated with it, it would probably be under prosthetics, though based on what I was reading, it's technically an orthotic. I don't think there's a category for that, though. It's a device that's normally removed after the injury heals. It'd probably be skeletal information or distinctive body features, at a guess?
 
I wonder if this man was from out of the country?

I mean, isn't Myrtle Beach kind of like a pretty big vacation spot?
 
EmmaliLucia said:
I wonder if this man was from out of the country?

I mean, isn't Myrtle Beach kind of like a pretty big vacation spot?
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I wondered that too. Mainly because those shorts look short.

Also, re: halo.
Prosthetics and orthotics are grouped together. I have family that does that. He is often on call for "halo" duty. Usually a really bad car wreck or motorcycle accident will create the need.
 
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