AZ AZ - Gila Bend, MultMale 27-61, UP15571, Found in the desert area, Green necklace with medallions of St. Anthony, Jun'16

[Hochman]

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- Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner Unidentified Persons Bureau

ME# - 16-04527

Reconstruction by Stephen Missal

"This Unidentified Caucasian/Hispanic male was found in the desert area near Gila Bend. This are is a known area for immigrant crossing."

Sex - Male
Race - White, Hispanic
Location Found - Gila Bend, Arizona
Age Range - 27-61 Years
DBF - June 16, 2016
Estimated PMI - 6 Months
Condition of Remains - Decomposing/putrefaction

Height - 5' 9"(69 inches) Measured
Weight - 66 lbs, Estimated (From decomposition)

Hair color - Brown
Facial Hair Description - Moustache, hair on chin
Eye color - Unknown

Clothing
- Levi's 501 Jeans size: 34x32
- Tan belt with "G" on clasp and two chickens facing each other on the buckle
- Reddish underwear with yellow lines and yellow "CC" or "OO"

Jewelry/Accessories
- Green necklace with medallions of St. Anthony, man with a walking stick
- Yellow metal colored hoop
- Metallic coiled necklace with broken ends
- Yellow metal frame crucifixion
- Blue Gowin case with an inscription in ink on the back

 

[PatLaurel]

The "man with a walking stick" is a Saint Francis of Paola (San Francisco de Paula) pendant. There's a locality in Bustamante, Estado de Tamaulipas, with the same name. Interesting fact, San Francisco de Paula is located south of a locality called San Antonio de Padua.
Maybe the UP was from Bustamante?

MOO JMO

 

[cenazoic]

I suspect the medal with the ‘man with walking stick’ is St Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes.

St Anthony is the patron saint of lost things.

The buckle is described as silver, with 2 roosters facing each other. Maybe like the attached?

“Gowin” seems to be Chinese white-labeler company. I wonder what the inscription on the back says.

 

[Laughing]

Gowin looks to me to be a semiconductor company, and there seems to be a retailer in Mexico?

Home|GOWIN Semiconductor

We focus on optimizing our products and removing barriers for customers using programmable logic devices as well as to serve customers in the consumer, industrial, communication, medical, and automotive markets worldwide.

www.gowinsemi.com

Shade of blue is similar, case could hold a flash drive/memory device

▷ Tienda Online De Gowin - Productos De Calidad - Bocinas Económicas

Disfruta al máximo tus Productos Gowin (audífonos, bocinas, cables, cargadores) en OFERTA. ✅ !Entra Ahora¡

gowin.com

My Spanish isn't nearly enough here -- anyone know a poster fluent in Spanish?

@Hochman posted another set of remains near Gila Bend earlier today. Plenty of wide open space in this area, just north of the US/Mexico border.

Long. long ago I lived in Maricopa County, did you know that most Arizona counties are large enough to contain 2 or 3 New England states?

 

[annemc2]

I think @Laughing 's link to the online electronics store is correct. The font is exactly the same. They started out in 1989 as a watch company then grew to include different kinds of products. They have stores all over Mexico (including airports and online offerings). They sell some of the more popular brands of electronics (such as beats headphones) and also have their own brand which they established in 2007.

I didn't see anything that looked like the case on the website, but it could have been supplied with corded headphones or similar. The company also does a lot of philanthropic work (housing, food, cochlear implants) so this little case might be some sort of promotional item from one of these events. I, too wish that we could see what is written on it!

 

[PatLaurel]

@Laughing's link is correct.

Kit Cargador y Cable Gowin : Amazon.com.mx

Cynthia Glasserman - Gowin product line redesign

 

[Bit of hope]

So if I understand it right. On the green necklace there a two medallions, the man with the stick (St. Jude most likely, St. Anthony is always depicted with the child Jesus on his arm) and also a very small one. Also a man with a stick? I can't make the picture that big that I can really take a good look at it.

 

[PatLaurel]

So if I understand it right. On the green necklace there a two medallions, the man with the stick (St. Jude most likely, St. Anthony is always depicted with the child Jesus on his arm) and also a very small one. Also a man with a stick? I can't make the picture that big that I can really take a good look at it.

The oval medallion is St. Anthony:

The "man with a walking stick" is in my opinion Saint Francis of Paola, but it could be Saint Jude Thaddeus as well, or any other Saint. Without a name engraved is hard to tell which, as there are other Saints depicted with walking sticks.

MOO JMO

 

[Bit of hope]

The oval medallion is St. Anthony:
View attachment 358387

The "man with a walking stick" is in my opinion Saint Francis of Paola, but it could be Saint Jude Thaddeus as well, or any other Saint. Without a name engraved is hard to tell which, as there are other Saints depicted with walking sticks.

View attachment 358388

MOO JMO

Thanks for enlarging the pictures. The small one is very likely St. Anthony. The man with the stick....I'm not 100% sure either.

Maybe the St. Anthony medallion has, besides what it represents, another clue to who this is. Maybe he was born on June 13 or his name was also Fernando? Too far fetched I guess.

Saint Anthony of Padua | MaryPages

Saint Anthony of Padua was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was Doctor of the Church and patron saint of lost and stolen articles.

www.marypages.com

 

[Bit of hope]

Then there is Saint Antonius of Egypt (Anthony the Great) who often is depicted with a walking stick and a book. Like in the medallion.

Who is Saint Anthony?

Orthodox Christian Mission

stanthonylc.org

Saint Anthony the Great was born into a wealthy family in upper Egypt about 254 AD. Also known as Anthony of Egypt, Anthony of the Desert, and Anthony the Anchorite, he was a leader among the Desert Fathers, who were Christian monks in the Egyptian desert in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. The Orthodox Church celebrates his feast on January 17.

Confusing.....

 

[Hochman]

Two possible matches, thoughts?

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Jonathan Arash Barmaki

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Dane Lee Hubbard

 

[Bit of hope]

Two possible matches, thoughts?

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

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Jonathan Arash Barmaki
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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

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Dane Lee Hubbard
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I think the dessert is very hot, accelerating decomposition...PMI is 6 months. I'm just not so sure anymore...seeing people identified with DNA analyzes, with nothing close to the estimated stats from the skeleton. Wrong age, wrong PMI, even wrong race.

 

[Bit of hope]

Just trying...... I don't feel he is looking much like the recon.

Jose Erasmo Hernandez-Chij – The Charley Project

Jose Erasmo Hernandez-Chij​

• Missing Since 08/23/2015
• Missing From Pima County, Arizona
• Classification Migrant
• Sex Male
• Race Hispanic
• Date of Birth 07/22/1983 (39)
• Age 32 years old
• Height and Weight 5'9 - 5'11, 185 - 195 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description A black shirt, blue canvas pants, sneakers, and a blue and white rubber bracelet.
• Distinguishing Characteristics Hispanic male. Black hair, black eyes. Hernandez-Chij has a red birthmark on his right cheek, a brown or red birthmark near his right eye, and a birthmark on the right side of his chest in the rib area. He has a red mole on the right side of his upper lip and a large surgical scar on the right side of his abdomen from a gallbladder operation. He is from Guatemala.

Hernandez-Chij was last seen on July 30, 2015. He is from Guatemala and was traveling illegally into the United States at the time of his disappearance, along with a "coyote", or human smuggler.

At the time of his last communication, Hernandez-Chij was on the Tohono O'Odham Reservation in Pima County, Arizona, two days' walk from Tucson. He told the coyote he couldn't walk anymore and was going to find the road and turn himself in to the immigration authorities. He has never been heard from again and may have died in the desert.

 

[Hochman]

Just trying...... I don't feel he is looking much like the recon.

Jose Erasmo Hernandez-Chij – The Charley Project

Jose Erasmo Hernandez-Chij​

• Missing Since 08/23/2015
• Missing From Pima County, Arizona
• Classification Migrant
• Sex Male
• Race Hispanic
• Date of Birth 07/22/1983 (39)
• Age 32 years old
• Height and Weight 5'9 - 5'11, 185 - 195 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description A black shirt, blue canvas pants, sneakers, and a blue and white rubber bracelet.
• Distinguishing Characteristics Hispanic male. Black hair, black eyes. Hernandez-Chij has a red birthmark on his right cheek, a brown or red birthmark near his right eye, and a birthmark on the right side of his chest in the rib area. He has a red mole on the right side of his upper lip and a large surgical scar on the right side of his abdomen from a gallbladder operation. He is from Guatemala.

Hernandez-Chij was last seen on July 30, 2015. He is from Guatemala and was traveling illegally into the United States at the time of his disappearance, along with a "coyote", or human smuggler.

At the time of his last communication, Hernandez-Chij was on the Tohono O'Odham Reservation in Pima County, Arizona, two days' walk from Tucson. He told the coyote he couldn't walk anymore and was going to find the road and turn himself in to the immigration authorities. He has never been heard from again and may have died in the desert.

Comparison

Since the UP was found in an extremely decomposed state, weight isn't really something that can be determined postmortem. The similarities between the recon and Jose are striking if you ignore the weight difference.