CT CT - Enfield, UncMale Adult, UP13981, left human foot bone in sock & Sz 8.5 Bass hiking boot, Oct'03

[rats]

NamUs: https://identifyus.org/en/cases/13981

Case #: 03-12250
Date found: October 4, 2003
Location: South River Street Boat Launch, Enfield, CT (Hartford Co.)
Estimated age: Unknown
Race: Unknown
Sex: Male
Body conditions: Not recognizable - Partial skeletal parts only
Probable year of death: 2002 to 2003
Estimated postmortem interval: 1 year

Circumstances:

Skeletonized left human foot bone found in a sock and hiking boot found on ground by river clean up crew

Clothing/Footwear:
Ankle high boot Covered in mud so turned it black "BASS" on bottom
Size 8.5 medium sock

DNA: Sample submitted - tests complete

Wonder where the rest of the body is...

 

[Melt71]

What a horrible clean-up find. And no apparent matching parts found (at least not noted in Namus).

Also doesn’t say what size shoe but if the sock was only an 8.5 that seems pretty small for a guy, to me.

 

[Laughing]

8.5 Bass boots while the description reads as if the sock was sized.

I am 5'9". I'm a woman, but wear a men's 8 or 8.5 hiking bo

Images of the boot and sock from the NAMUS page linked above:

Leather upper. Certainly LE has tried, can anyone get more information from the tag?

 

[YaYa_521]

No exclusions. Updated link:
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[carbuff]

What a horrible clean-up find. And no apparent matching parts found (at least not noted in Namus).

Also doesn’t say what size shoe but if the sock was only an 8.5 that seems pretty small for a guy, to me.

That's the size all the adult Carbuff males wear. They're all around 5'7"-5'8".

 

[carbuff]

No exclusions. Updated link:
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Still no exclusions. There's not even an investigator currently assigned, just the state medical examiner's office. Looks like it's not high on anybody's priority list.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Miguel Flores?

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[buyerninety]

The boat ramp mentioned in post #1 would be this:
Donald W. Barnes Boat Launch, S River St, Enfield,
Hartford County, CT
Donald W. Barnes Boat Launch · S River St, Enfield, CT 06082
That's up close to the border with Massachusetts.

The Connecticut River flows via the States of
Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts before
reaching that location in the State of Connecticut.
File:Connecticut River Map.png - Wikipedia
I didn't look upriver, but I understand there are
various dams and fish ladders upriver.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
The boot maker appears to be 'G.H. Bass'. Plenty
of boot examples findable on ebay post year 2000
but I found none displaying the logo style with the
cursive flourish under the word 'Bass' with the
'man in canoe' logo, as seen on the UID's boot sole,
that particular boot sole tread or that triangular
type of boot 'pull tab'.

The information seen on the boot tag usually has
a numbers designation (model type?) with words,
e.g. LEATHER UPPER BALANCE MAN MADE
MATERIAL MADE IN CHINA, usually followed by a
number designation in the format e.g. 08/04,
08/06, 04/2014, 06/15, etc., presumably that's
a month(or week) and a year indication.

Presumably the police have enquired as to the
time period of manufacture of that model of
boot. We can only guess, based on the visible
ending number '5' (or '6'?) where the year
indication would be, as to whether that boot
was manufactured in e.g. 1985 or 1995?

 

[carbuff]

G. H. Bass is a Maine company and they've been around for more than a hundred years. Very well known in New England, quality stuff that lasts for years. (People say that Admiral Byrd wore Bass ski boots on some of his Antarctic expeditions; I've never tried to fact-check that.) Their products are available world-wide, but I think it's slightly more likely that whoever wore that boot was from the northeast.

 

[beavt]

Thomas L. Aird could be a possibility. Fits the time frame, was of slight build, car found on bridge in/near Northampton, MA which has tributary to the Connecticut River…

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[Kamiko123132]

The boat ramp mentioned in post #1 would be this:
Donald W. Barnes Boat Launch, S River St, Enfield,
Hartford County, CT
Donald W. Barnes Boat Launch · S River St, Enfield, CT 06082
That's up close to the border with Massachusetts.

The Connecticut River flows via the States of
Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts before
reaching that location in the State of Connecticut.
File:Connecticut River Map.png - Wikipedia
I didn't look upriver, but I understand there are
various dams and fish ladders upriver.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
The boot maker appears to be 'G.H. Bass'. Plenty
of boot examples findable on ebay post year 2000
but I found none displaying the logo style with the
cursive flourish under the word 'Bass' with the
'man in canoe' logo, as seen on the UID's boot sole,
that particular boot sole tread or that triangular
type of boot 'pull tab'.

The information seen on the boot tag usually has
a numbers designation (model type?) with words,
e.g. LEATHER UPPER BALANCE MAN MADE
MATERIAL MADE IN CHINA, usually followed by a
number designation in the format e.g. 08/04,
08/06, 04/2014, 06/15, etc., presumably that's
a month(or week) and a year indication.

Presumably the police have enquired as to the
time period of manufacture of that model of
boot. We can only guess, based on the visible
ending number '5' (or '6'?) where the year
indication would be, as to whether that boot
was manufactured in e.g. 1985 or 1995?

Maybe I can prob help ik like some epeople had tried to like see what numbers but if you can tell me which numbers maybe i can see what numbers they are I can try I think I got the name of the boot if its even useful it may not be correct but I tried my best if you want to knwo the name let me know

 

[SDMABEL]

4389DMNY - Thomas James Carleton

I wonder if Thomas Carleton could be a contender for this doe .

Although would be hard to confirm as only dentals available....

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[buyerninety]

SDMABEL said:
"I wonder if Thomas Carleton could be a contender"...

No, because Thomas Carleton went missing whilst
hiking in the Adirondack Mountains, just north of
Wallface Mountain. That area does not constitute
or contribute to the drainage catchment area of
the Connecticut River, which is east of the Green
Mountains.
File:NortheastAppalachiansMap.gif - Wikipedia