Recent content by Magnum P.E.

Don’t all digital photo files have attached metadata, including location? Would be interesting to know where the dinner photo was taken….

I was looking at this man’s photos and wondered where I had seen someone who looked like him before. Then it hit me, a young Curly Joe DeRita! Not saying that this enormous gent was Curly Joe, who was born in 1909 and looks to have been a foot shorter, just saying there is a resemblance. Maybe...

The strange thing is, a LOT of people tell me she looks familiar, but no one has identified her. I doubt that this exhumation will result in an ID unless they submit to GEDmatch.

Here is a link to a story in today’s Uniontown Herald-Standard. My heart sunk when I saw that they are uploading the dna profile to CODIS. https://www.heraldstandard.com/news/local_news/2025/jun/11/body-of-woman-killed-in-1986-springhill-township-crash-exhumed-in-search-for-identity/

A new program to identify UIDs in Pennsylvania. https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/institutes/ifaas/pa-muhr/index.aspx

Yes. I think there was a million dollar grant to identify does. I hope the Mt. Jewett Jane Doe and Mr. Bones would benefit from this. No exhumation would be required in either case, making it an efficient use of available funding.

Lookks like that is indeed what has happened. If a story is published tomorrow I will post a link or summarize it.

There is some activity on this case. There was a large LE presence today in the cemetery where this UID was buried. Word is that there has been an exhumation but I can not confirm yet.

I think it is just the words “CONTINENTAL AIRLINES”.

The post mortem photo does not look too bad so I would guess not. The fuel logs of that truck would be useful to see. We would know where he stopped, which would likely be where she got on, as she was not in the truck at Sparrow Point but was in the wreck south of Uniontown.

Bumping again for San Angelo Doe Edentulous fellow whose name we don’t know No prints, false names, a true mystery You died as you lived, anonymously

You can be tracked via a cell phone. A wallet and keys, no. I don’t know how effectively a person could be tracked by their cell phone back then but it was my first thought. I think he probably walked away and is somewhere on an island playing pinochle with Mel Wiley and DB Cooper.

TSC, you may have standing to ask for forensic genealogy to be done that we would not have. You should have the right to know if the remains in that barrel are your relative. I can’t imagine the basis for the rule out given the testing that was done. I am grasping at straws here. If Mr. B is not...

Oh my, from the review they tied Gricar’s disappearance to everything but the Kecksburg Incident and the missing B-25 bomber in the Mon River! Hard pass on this book.

Bumping for what is IMHO Websleuths’ strangest case.