Identified! FL - Jackson Co., WhtFem UP1244, 18-25, found off I-10, Dec'84 - Deborah Pauline Bearden

[cheemsg]

She was identified in 2019 as Deborah Pauline Bearden, 29.

https://www.fdle.state.fl.us/MEC/Publications-and-Forms/Documents/Annual-Workload-Reports/2019-Annual-Workload-Report-FINAL.aspx

This case involved a nearly skeletal white female located along the side of the interstate in Jackson County on December 20, 1984. The deceased was initially believed to be 18-25 years of age. An investigator with the District 14 Medical Examiner’s Office contacted UDI for assistance in confirming the identity of the deceased. Initially identified by a fingerprint record located by the medical examiner’s office, the deceased had a criminal history which included multiple identities. UDI examined the criminal history and contacted numerous law enforcement agencies in Louisiana and Mississippi in a search for records to determine the subject’s true identity. Due to age- and weather-related disasters, no records existed. SCIA Rigsby contacted the state of Georgia Department of Vital Records (GDVR). GDVR produced a copy of a birth certificate related to one of the subject’s identities: Deborah Pauline Bearden, age 29 at the time of death. The birth certificate listed both parents for the deceased, although public records indicated that they were also both deceased. This information was provided to the investigator at the District 14 Medical Examiner’s Office.

Wow! Where did you find this?

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Her ancestry tree suggests that she was from Atlanta. At the time of her ID, both parents and a brother were deceased. It is implied that she has two children.

 

[iulia]

Wow! Where did you find this?

Florida Medical Examiners Commission publishes a yearly report on their website. It's only up to 2021, the next meeting will be towards the end of the year if I remember well. You can find it here (it's geo-blocked for me but I manage to bypass it ):

Publications and Forms

www.fdle.state.fl.us

Meeting Minutes is up to 2023:

Meeting Minutes

www.fdle.state.fl.us

 

[Friday Fan]

She was identified in 2019 as Deborah Pauline Bearden, 29.

https://www.fdle.state.fl.us/MEC/Publications-and-Forms/Documents/Annual-Workload-Reports/2019-Annual-Workload-Report-FINAL.aspx

This case involved a nearly skeletal white female located along the side of the interstate in Jackson County on December 20, 1984. The deceased was initially believed to be 18-25 years of age. An investigator with the District 14 Medical Examiner’s Office contacted UDI for assistance in confirming the identity of the deceased. Initially identified by a fingerprint record located by the medical examiner’s office, the deceased had a criminal history which included multiple identities. UDI examined the criminal history and contacted numerous law enforcement agencies in Louisiana and Mississippi in a search for records to determine the subject’s true identity. Due to age- and weather-related disasters, no records existed. SCIA Rigsby contacted the state of Georgia Department of Vital Records (GDVR). GDVR produced a copy of a birth certificate related to one of the subject’s identities: Deborah Pauline Bearden, age 29 at the time of death. The birth certificate listed both parents for the deceased, although public records indicated that they were also both deceased. This information was provided to the investigator at the District 14 Medical Examiner’s Office.

You are amazing! How you find something like this is beyond me! And going through the report and finding info on this Doe is something else! I tried reading it and was very, very quickly bored!

I'm also amazed at how you keep tabs on all the NAMUS UID's!

 

[MadMcGoo]

View attachment 442375Her ancestry tree suggests that she was from Atlanta. At the time of her ID, both parents and a brother were deceased. It is implied that she has two children.

I wonder where the tree owner got that specific DOD.

 

[iulia]

You are amazing! How you find something like this is beyond me! And going through the report and finding info on this Doe is something else! I tried reading it and was very, very quickly bored!

I'm also amazed at how you keep tabs on all the NAMUS UID's!

Thank you so much for your very kind words, I appreciate it.

I happened to find that section with the reports on the FDLE website by chance while searching for information on a UID lady years ago. Luckily the document I opened had a table of contents and I noticed the Unidentified section so I knew what to search for in the other docs. I wouldn't have the patience otherwise. I saved a copy of the file so that I would remember to check in the following years for new success stories, in the hopes I would find information about identifications that don't make the news. That obviously didn't happen, I completely forgot about it until yesterday when I stumbled upon it while searching for something else.

There are so many instances when UIDs are identified and there is no media release. They don't have to release a name, but at least acknowledge that the case has been resolved. I find it a bit unfair and I try to search for information on these cases whenever I have some free time. This was also the motive why I started tracking the activity on NamUs UIDs/MPs/UCPs, to try and see what UIDs and MPs are removed in the same timeframe, and maybe catch a match.