Knox County John Doe (2022) is now Identified
Knox County Regional Forensic Center Teams with Othram to Identify a 2022 John Doe
dnasolves.com
In December 2022, details of the case were entered into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) as UP98486. Despite extensive efforts by law enforcement investigators to identify the man, no matches were found, and the case went cold due to a lack of investigative leads.'
The investigation led to the positive identification of the man, who is now known to be Cody S. Wilhite, born January 8th, 1991. He had been missing since 2020 from the Knoxville area and his missing person record was in NamUs as MP73197.