Australia Australia - Sydney, Royal Nat Park, poss AsianMale 25-40, bones in checkered shopping bag, Sep'18

[ZombieKittie]

Bump/Anything new on this case??

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Nothing since the last updates in August 2020 where they said the remains were male, and asian.

Bump/Anything new on this case??

 

[they'll get you]

August 7, 2020
A bag of bones could have been sitting at the bottom of an embankment in the Royal National Park in Sydney for decades before it was found “by sheer luck”.

Two years after the male human remains were found, police have revealed they have turned to emerging DNA technologies to determine what the unidentified victim may have looked like.

A post-mortem couldn’t determine how the victim died and some of the bones had been degraded after years exposed to the elements, including bushfire.

A forensic anthropologist determined the bones belonged to the same skeleton and a man who was about 175 cm tall and aged between 25 and 40 when he died.

Bomb pulse carbon dating tests were carried out at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and determined the man died sometime between 1985 and 2005.

Bag of bones found by ‘sheer luck’

 

[they'll get you]

I wonder if something like this is linked.

Cut-up torso found off Sydney beach may have been drug mule: coroner

 

[TootsieFootsie]

OMG!

is that an ublurred photo of the torso ?

Usually they don't let you see something like that. Like in the contents of a shoe with a foot in it was blurred out.

 

[Mandala]

Might have to look at the Sydney missing persons page for missing Asian males. He could have been from overseas though, a backpacker or involved in the drug trade as suggested above.

 

[SLouTh]

Update

There is an inquest scheduled to start on 20th February, under the direction of Coroner Harriet Grahame…

Titled: Inquest into the death of unknown bones, Sutherland, 2018.
This is the case number ..

2018/00290819

Inquest into death of Unknown Bones - Sutherland - 2018/70005, 2018/70013, 2018/70029 and 2018/70258

Online Registry - Landing Page

onlineregistry.lawlink.nsw.gov.au

 

[SLouTh]

Just bumping this thread as the inquest is due to start tomorrow.
Hopefully media will report on it …

 

[imstilla.grandma]

“To support this search for answers, anyone who may have held onto information since Simon’s disappearance is urged to come forward,” Superintendent Hill said.

“We are keen to speak with anyone who lived or frequented Crown and Oxford streets, Surry Hills, in July 2005, particularly if they knew Simon and have not yet spoken to police.

“Any piece of new information – no matter how seemingly insignificant – could be the key to solve this case and help provide much-needed answers to Simon’s family about what happened to him.”

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/nsw-police-launch-fresh-250k-appeal-for-information-on-missing-sydney-chef-simon-knight/news-story/2b49102278ad7f6bea9049e4051ae487

 

[TootsieFootsie]

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/nsw-police-launch-fresh-250k-appeal-for-information-on-missing-sydney-chef-simon-knight/news-story/2b49102278ad7f6bea9049e4051ae487

"At the time of his disappearance, Simon was described as being of caucasian appearance, 183cm tall, with blue eyes, a fair complexion, red hair and facial hair"

Simon is not Asian.

 

[Susikatze]

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/nsw-police-launch-fresh-250k-appeal-for-information-on-missing-sydney-chef-simon-knight/news-story/2b49102278ad7f6bea9049e4051ae487

"At the time of his disappearance, Simon was described as being of caucasian appearance, 183cm tall, with blue eyes, a fair complexion, red hair and facial hair"

Simon is not Asian.

He is not Asian but his skeletonized features could be mistaken easily for Asian - relatively flat, wide face, high cheekbones, widely set eyesockets, wide nasal bridge and opening.

 

[Via Marple]

He is not Asian but his skeletonized features could be mistaken easily for Asian - relatively flat, wide face, high cheekbones, widely set eyesockets, wide nasal bridge and opening.

The bones were determined to be an Asian man by DNA technology. It was discussed in the previous page of this thread.

 

[Susikatze]

The bones were determined to be an Asian man by DNA technology. It was discussed in the previous page of this thread.

That would rule out Simon. But i do not understand how the DNA just gave a “high probability” of the UID being Asian. FGG, even just autosomal ethnicity analysis of the person without looking at matches usually quite certainly pinpoints ethnicity. In SE Asians even down to the country/area: The different Chinese ethnicities differ from eg Korean, Japanese or Vietnamese in a fairly distinctive way.
But I am happy this case is being worked on.

edit: Just realized it is a non US case! MtDNA is very common outside of the US and FGG is not done (with a few exceptions- Somerton Man had it done). I assume they did MtDNA here which explains the vagueness

jmoo