Bit of hope
Life is a long lesson in humility.
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I'm considering just going back through Namus state by state and looking at each missing person case, rather than just the ones that fit his specs. I work for a law enforcement agency and back in the day I would book people into the booking system from the booking slip that the officer would fill out. Then I would proceed to run the suspects criminal history and warrants, etc. More than once I wouldn't be able to find anything on someone who obviously had a record, so I would try to match tattoos listed on the criminal history against the suspect. On one specific occasion, I found a possible match, but according to the system it was a white guy
with red hair, while the suspect in custody was Hispanic. As it turned out, the suspect in custody was a very light skinned Hispanic with light brown hair that could've been mistaken for red hair. Then I realized that it really depends on the person taking the initial report and how they see the person in question. Our Lyle might be in Namus somewhere described totally different than what we see. So I'm gonna give it a shot.
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I totaly agree...as we know dead people look most of the time quite different from what they looked like in life. To train the eye I compare post mortem pics, reconstructions and pictures of people who have been identified and lot's of times they look very different. About the descriptions, you are also right...where I would say brown hair, you could be saying something different. With Lyle we have a lot of reconstructions and morque pics, so a broughter picture, but maybe it also blurs the eye...if you look, as we say, through your lashes and in a different corner maybe you can find him. It's a lot of work just going through all the pictures en reading all the files (again) but If you are willing to...great!