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NamUs #UP12216 / Doe Network 3471UMAL
Demographics
Sex: Male
Race/Ethnicity: Black / African American
Estimated Age Group: Adult
Estimated Age Range (Years): 24-30
Estimated Year of Death: 1991
Estimated PMI: Days
Height: 5'9" (69 inches), Measured
Weight: 127 lbs, Measured
Cause of Death: Homicide
Circumstances
Type: Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found: August 24, 1991
NamUs Case Created: March 10, 2014
ME/C QA Reviewed: March 4, 2014
Location Found: Munford, Alabama 36268
County: Talladega County
Circumstances of Recovery: At around 11:45 a.m. on August 24, 1991, a passing motorist called authorities to report seeing a body in a ditch along Jenifer Road in Talladega County. Upon responding to the call, officers found a decomposed male body wrapped in a blanket lying in the ditch. He appeared to have been there for several days and was "somewhat decomposed by the heat and elements," according to Talladega Sheriff's Department detective Mike McBurnett.
Another body had been discovered less than a mile away along Jenifer Road nine days prior. That body was later identified as 20-year-old Sabrina M. Hughley of Anniston, AL. She died of a single gunshot to the head. Police do not believe the cases to be connected, despite the bodies being found in close proximity to one another.
An autopsy revealed the man was bludgeoned and suffocated with a plastic bag. He was wearing black trousers but was not wearing a shirt or shoes. The body was wrapped in a fitted sheet with reddish-brown stains and an electric blanket. Investigators believe the man was killed elsewhere and his body later dumped in the roadside ditch.
In July 1992, the remains were buried next to a rusty chain-link fence under a pecan tree in a section of the Oak Hill Cemetery reserved for indigents and unknowns following a brief service. Nearly a dozen people attended. Det. Mike McBurnett, who had been investigating the man's murder for the past year, served as one of the pallbearers.
Inventory of Remains: All parts recovered
Condition of Remains: Not recognizable - Decomposing/putrefaction
Physical Description
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Distinctive Physical Features: Gold colored metal earbob in the left ear lobe.
Clothing and Accessories
- Decedent is found wrapped in a reddish-brown automatic electric blanket; Fitted sheet with reddish brown stains that contains blue, light blue and white lines with a label inscribed with "Queen's Bed Springmade 50% combed cotton/50%kodel polyester No Iron Percale". (Near the Body)
- Decedent was wearing black trouser's (Inside label reads "Index Men 67% rayon 32% nylon, waist 31 inseam made in Taiwan". There are large plastic buttons in the waistband, Trousers are received buttoned and zipped), black and white abstract patterned "32 medium" boxer style underwear. (On the Body)
- There is a green pullover shirt Slammer USA 12:44 with a label inside the collar reading "Slammer USA Medium", the shirt is received at the morgue inside out.; White pullover shirt with red and grey stripes, shirt is also inside out; Pink pullover shirt with the inscription "Bugle Boy Authentic Lifestyle" on the left front, received inside out; Short sleeve pullover shirt received inside out that is blue with thin white horizontal lines "trent trent trent sport" on the label inside the back collar. (Near the Body)
- Gold colored metal earbob in the left earlobe. (On the Body)
News Coverage
Sean Reilly, "Second body found near location of first victim," Anniston Star, 25 August 1991, 12B.
Underscoring Talladega County's reputation as a dumping ground for dead bodies, a second body has been found on Jenifer Road, less than a mile from where the body of a 20-year-old Anniston woman was discovered Aug. 15.
The partially clothed body was found Saturday morning in a roadside ditch by a passing motorist. The motorist alerted authorities at 11:45 a.m., said Talladega Sheriff's Department detective Mike McBurnett.
The body had been in the ditch for several days and appeared to be male. While "somewhat decomposed by the heat and elements, it wasn't as decomposed as the other one," McBurnett said.
No identification was found, and the body has been sent to the state forensic lab in Birmingham for further examination. The results are expected Monday, McBurnett said.
He declined to comment on the possible cause of death or whether the most recent body is related to the death of Sabrina M. Hughley of Anniston, whose then-unidentified body was found 10 days ago about seven-tenths of a mile away on Jenifer Road between Silver Run and Munford.
"Body found in Munford still not identified," Anniston Star, 26 August 1991, 5A.
Jena Janovy, "Questions follow body of unknown man to the grave," Anniston Star, 10 July 1992, 1A, 6A.
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But they came anyway, about a dozen people on a sweltering cloudless day, to pray for the soul of a man who was bludgeoned, smothered with a plastic bag, bound in a blanket and dumped on Jenifer Road nearly a year ago. His identity remains a mystery.
"It's sad that a person could have such a disregard for a human life that ... they would just dump them along side the road, just like a dead animal," said [Tony] Kuberka, a lay minister in Talladega, following the five-minute service. "There are two that know who did it: the perpetrator of the murder and God himself."
Authorities discovered the decomposed body of the unidentified man on Aug. 24, 1991. Nine days earlier, the body of Sabrina Hughley, 20, of Anniston, had been found about a quarter of a mile away, also on Jenifer Road, but investigators believe there is no connection between the two killings. Neither has been solved.
The man was about 20 years old, black, about 5 feet 9 inches and 150 pounds. His left ear was pierced. He was wearing pants, but no shoes or shirt. Investigators believe he was killed somewhere else, then dumped in the roadside ditch.
Demographics
Sex: Male
Race/Ethnicity: Black / African American
Estimated Age Group: Adult
Estimated Age Range (Years): 24-30
Estimated Year of Death: 1991
Estimated PMI: Days
Height: 5'9" (69 inches), Measured
Weight: 127 lbs, Measured
Cause of Death: Homicide
Circumstances
Type: Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found: August 24, 1991
NamUs Case Created: March 10, 2014
ME/C QA Reviewed: March 4, 2014
Location Found: Munford, Alabama 36268
County: Talladega County
Circumstances of Recovery: At around 11:45 a.m. on August 24, 1991, a passing motorist called authorities to report seeing a body in a ditch along Jenifer Road in Talladega County. Upon responding to the call, officers found a decomposed male body wrapped in a blanket lying in the ditch. He appeared to have been there for several days and was "somewhat decomposed by the heat and elements," according to Talladega Sheriff's Department detective Mike McBurnett.
Another body had been discovered less than a mile away along Jenifer Road nine days prior. That body was later identified as 20-year-old Sabrina M. Hughley of Anniston, AL. She died of a single gunshot to the head. Police do not believe the cases to be connected, despite the bodies being found in close proximity to one another.
An autopsy revealed the man was bludgeoned and suffocated with a plastic bag. He was wearing black trousers but was not wearing a shirt or shoes. The body was wrapped in a fitted sheet with reddish-brown stains and an electric blanket. Investigators believe the man was killed elsewhere and his body later dumped in the roadside ditch.
In July 1992, the remains were buried next to a rusty chain-link fence under a pecan tree in a section of the Oak Hill Cemetery reserved for indigents and unknowns following a brief service. Nearly a dozen people attended. Det. Mike McBurnett, who had been investigating the man's murder for the past year, served as one of the pallbearers.
Inventory of Remains: All parts recovered
Condition of Remains: Not recognizable - Decomposing/putrefaction
Physical Description
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Distinctive Physical Features: Gold colored metal earbob in the left ear lobe.
Clothing and Accessories
- Decedent is found wrapped in a reddish-brown automatic electric blanket; Fitted sheet with reddish brown stains that contains blue, light blue and white lines with a label inscribed with "Queen's Bed Springmade 50% combed cotton/50%kodel polyester No Iron Percale". (Near the Body)
- Decedent was wearing black trouser's (Inside label reads "Index Men 67% rayon 32% nylon, waist 31 inseam made in Taiwan". There are large plastic buttons in the waistband, Trousers are received buttoned and zipped), black and white abstract patterned "32 medium" boxer style underwear. (On the Body)
- There is a green pullover shirt Slammer USA 12:44 with a label inside the collar reading "Slammer USA Medium", the shirt is received at the morgue inside out.; White pullover shirt with red and grey stripes, shirt is also inside out; Pink pullover shirt with the inscription "Bugle Boy Authentic Lifestyle" on the left front, received inside out; Short sleeve pullover shirt received inside out that is blue with thin white horizontal lines "trent trent trent sport" on the label inside the back collar. (Near the Body)
- Gold colored metal earbob in the left earlobe. (On the Body)
News Coverage
Sean Reilly, "Second body found near location of first victim," Anniston Star, 25 August 1991, 12B.
Underscoring Talladega County's reputation as a dumping ground for dead bodies, a second body has been found on Jenifer Road, less than a mile from where the body of a 20-year-old Anniston woman was discovered Aug. 15.
The partially clothed body was found Saturday morning in a roadside ditch by a passing motorist. The motorist alerted authorities at 11:45 a.m., said Talladega Sheriff's Department detective Mike McBurnett.
The body had been in the ditch for several days and appeared to be male. While "somewhat decomposed by the heat and elements, it wasn't as decomposed as the other one," McBurnett said.
No identification was found, and the body has been sent to the state forensic lab in Birmingham for further examination. The results are expected Monday, McBurnett said.
He declined to comment on the possible cause of death or whether the most recent body is related to the death of Sabrina M. Hughley of Anniston, whose then-unidentified body was found 10 days ago about seven-tenths of a mile away on Jenifer Road between Silver Run and Munford.
"Body found in Munford still not identified," Anniston Star, 26 August 1991, 5A.
Jena Janovy, "Questions follow body of unknown man to the grave," Anniston Star, 10 July 1992, 1A, 6A.
[part 1] [part 2]
But they came anyway, about a dozen people on a sweltering cloudless day, to pray for the soul of a man who was bludgeoned, smothered with a plastic bag, bound in a blanket and dumped on Jenifer Road nearly a year ago. His identity remains a mystery.
"It's sad that a person could have such a disregard for a human life that ... they would just dump them along side the road, just like a dead animal," said [Tony] Kuberka, a lay minister in Talladega, following the five-minute service. "There are two that know who did it: the perpetrator of the murder and God himself."
Authorities discovered the decomposed body of the unidentified man on Aug. 24, 1991. Nine days earlier, the body of Sabrina Hughley, 20, of Anniston, had been found about a quarter of a mile away, also on Jenifer Road, but investigators believe there is no connection between the two killings. Neither has been solved.
The man was about 20 years old, black, about 5 feet 9 inches and 150 pounds. His left ear was pierced. He was wearing pants, but no shoes or shirt. Investigators believe he was killed somewhere else, then dumped in the roadside ditch.
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