Identified! AZ - Mohave Co, WhtMale 19-39, UP85990, Buried in Lime Filled Shallow Grave, Ring w/Tiger Eye Stone, Nov'76 - Luis Alonso Paredes

[phantomstrider]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Date Body Found November 23 1976​

Location Found Mohave County Arizona​

Race White​

Sex Male​

Height (5"8)-(68 inches) Measured​

Weight 140-150 lbs Estimated​

Hair Color Brown​

Eye Color Unknown​

Clothing Yellow long sleeve shirt(Ashley brand sport shirt)​

Blue denim Levi jeans​

Footwear Black western boots(unknown brand, possibly Rodeo)​

Jewelry Synthetic tiger eye stone with gold band on right finger​

Circumstances of Recovery Hikers found the victim buried in a lime filled shallow grave 6.7 miles east of Katherines Landing(Lake Mohave) on 11/23/1976​

 

[Hochman]

Reconstruction

 

[Caring1]

UP85990 has been identified through fingerprints as Luis Alonso Paredes. Authorities are still working to solve the cold case and also find relatives of Mr. Paredes.

December 26, 2023

PHOENIX — Investigators with the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office want to crack a decades-old cold case involving a man from El Salvador who was shot and killed in the 70s.

The office released sketches of Luis Alonso Paredes, who was around 30 to 35 years old at the time of his death, on Tuesday.

Mohave County cold case: Human remains identified after decades

Investigators want to crack a Mohave County cold case involving a man from El Salvador who was shot and killed in the 70s.

ktar.com

 

[phantomstrider]

UP85990 has been identified through fingerprints as Luis Alonso Paredes. Authorities are still working to solve the cold case and also find relatives of Mr. Paredes.

December 26, 2023

PHOENIX — Investigators with the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office want to crack a decades-old cold case involving a man from El Salvador who was shot and killed in the 70s.

The office released sketches of Luis Alonso Paredes, who was around 30 to 35 years old at the time of his death, on Tuesday.

Mohave County cold case: Human remains identified after decades

Investigators want to crack a Mohave County cold case involving a man from El Salvador who was shot and killed in the 70s.

ktar.com

Good that he was identified although since his family hasn’t been found I suspect he’ll be added to namus unclaimed soon.

 

[Caring1]

Good that he was identified although since his family hasn’t been found I suspect he’ll be added to namus unclaimed soon.

Right. I would think so too.

 

[victoriarobinson642]

I don't know why they say he was 30-35. His immigration records are public and suggest that he was ~41 at the time of his death.
The witnesses who testified on his behalf for naturalization are both deceased, though one has a living child.
They don't appear to be relatives of his.

 

[dotr]

rbbm

Arizona cold case homicide victim may have had ties to Bay Area

Investigators in Arizona have identified a cold case homicide victim and the man might have ties to the Bay Area, the San Francisco Police Department said on social media Tuesday.

www.cbsnews.com

''Detectives believe that Paredes may have been living or working in the Las Vegas area at the time of his death, but he also may have had employment with the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy in the San Francisco Bay Area nearly a decade before his homicide.

According to the Sheriff's Office, to this point, investigators have been unable to locate any of his relatives or next of kin.

Anyone who may have information helpful to this case or who may be able to help investigators locate the family of Paredes is encouraged to contact the Mohave County Sheriff's Office detective division at 928-753-0753, ext. 4288 and reference DR# 76-5053. ''

 

[phantomstrider]

rbbm

Arizona cold case homicide victim may have had ties to Bay Area

Investigators in Arizona have identified a cold case homicide victim and the man might have ties to the Bay Area, the San Francisco Police Department said on social media Tuesday.

www.cbsnews.com

''Detectives believe that Paredes may have been living or working in the Las Vegas area at the time of his death, but he also may have had employment with the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy in the San Francisco Bay Area nearly a decade before his homicide.

According to the Sheriff's Office, to this point, investigators have been unable to locate any of his relatives or next of kin.

Anyone who may have information helpful to this case or who may be able to help investigators locate the family of Paredes is encouraged to contact the Mohave County Sheriff's Office detective division at 928-753-0753, ext. 4288 and reference DR# 76-5053. ''

I hope they find his family soon so he can be claimed.

 

[formerlyme]

He would have been the same age my parents would be, if they had not had me there would only be distant family, his family may be all gone .

 

[dotr]

Dec 27, 2023
Hikers found the man's body in a high desert area about 6 miles east of Katherine's Landing on Nov. 23, 1976. He's now been identified

 

[Caring1]

February 22, 2024

Luis Alonso Paredes’ remains were found by hikers in the Arizona desert in 1976, deputies said. His remains were identified 47 years later, McClatchy News reported. Now deputies need help from the public in finding his family. They said they believe his family members might be in the San Francisco Bay area or in Alameda County, California, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said in a Feb. 21 Facebook post.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article285811146.html