IL IL - Chicago, UP119346, Found in Basement of Residential Building - Mar’24

[grifyiad]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Date Body Found March 20, 2024​

Location Chicago, Illinois 60621​

Estimated Age Unknown​

Sex Unknown​

Race/Ethnicity Unknown​

Estimated Age Group Unknown​

Estimated Year of Death Unknown​

Height Cannot Estimate​

Weight Cannot Estimate​

Cook County​

Found On Tribal Land No​

Circumstances of Recovery: On 20 March 2024 at 1303 hours, Chicago Police Department, contacted the Medical Examiner's Office in regard to the death of an UNKNOWN. According to police, the Skeletal remains of the UNKNOWN was discovered in the basement of a previously vacant residential building, located on the 6000 block of S. Sangamon, Chicago, IL.​

Condition of Remains Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton​

Hair Color Unknown​

Eye Color Unknown​

Clothing: None provided / shown​

 

[lightofmine99]

OK, so was the skeleton:

• buried
• laying out in the floor
• concealed in a box
• wrapped up in something

?

 

[iulia]

His NamUs page has been removed.

I think he was identified as Edward Gardner, 22 yo, who went missing in 2022.

Body of Eddie Gardner, missing since 2022, found in abandoned Chicago building

An Oswego family's two-year search to find out what happened to a missing man has ended, after Eddie Gardner's body was found in Chicago in March.

www.cbsnews.com

[...]
His mother, Sandy Gardner, said her son's remains were found in the basement of an abandoned building near 64th and Sangamon on March 20. A bullet casing was next to his body. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office recently identified his remains. A cause of death has not yet been revealed.

ETA: Eddie's WS thread: IL - IL - Edward Gardner, 21, in rental car, driving to Griffith, IN, Bolingbrook, 13 Mar 2022 *car found*