CA CA - Salton City, Wht/HispMale 13-20, UP15608, Partial skeletal, In desert, Pants & wallet, Nov'84

[BrownBear]

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP15608

Demographics
Sex Male
Race / Ethnicity White / Caucasian, Hispanic / Latino
Possible First Name--
Possible Middle Name--
Possible Last Name--
Nickname/Alias--
Estimated Age Group Adult
Estimated Age Range (Years) 13-20
Estimated Year of Death--
Estimated PMI--
Height 5' 4"(64 inches) , Estimated
Weight Cannot Estimate

Circumstances
Type Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found November 23, 1984
NamUs Case Created August 17, 2016
ME/C QA Reviewed--

Location Found
Location Salton City, California 92274
County Imperial County
GPS Coordinates (Not Mapped)--
Found On Tribal Land--
Circumstances of Recovery found in open desert

Details of Recovery
Inventory of Remains--
Condition of Remains Not recognizable - Partial skeletal parts only

Physical Description
Hair Color Unknown
Head Hair Description--
Body Hair Description--
Facial Hair Description--
Left Eye Color Unknown
Right Eye Color Unknown
Eye Description--

Distinctive Physical Features
No Known Information

Clothing and Accessories
Accessories
blue wallet
Near the Body

Clothing
blue pants
On the Body

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Has this boy been ruled out? The height is incorrect but he was 13 so he may have grown.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[BrownBear]

Has this boy been ruled out? The height is incorrect but he was 13 so he may have grown.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

No Exclusions on NamUs

 

[John/Jane Doe]

No Exclusions on NamUs

Do you think Armando Rivera Noriega could be a possible match?

 

[Beccalicious]

Bumping

 

[PeriwinkleE]

This poor soul is one of the countless migrants who die trying to get here. Trying to find their people seems like an impossible task when you think about all the places he could have come from.

I recently met a couple. Neither of them seemed to be older than maybe 21. Showed up at my office seeking work. They were from Honduras. I didn’t have the Spanish to ask them how long they had been on the road from Honduras. I couldn’t understand their Spanish because of the totally different accent they had.

I do know some people are traveling on foot for YEARS before they get to a border crossing into the US. Then they pay everything they have to some coyote to be smuggled into the country.

These skeletons in the desert make me sad.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

A teenage boy or young man perishing in the desert, possibly all alone, still unidentified since 1984. It is a tragedy.

 

[MadMcGoo]

Has this boy been ruled out? The height is incorrect but he was 13 so he may have grown.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

I came to make this suggestion also. Despite the height difference (especially not knowing the condition of the remains), I think it’s a possibility.

I couldn’t find anything about his discovery.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Bumping case up. But I speculate DNA may not be available. It was the '80's; was he cremated? His identity may never be known.