Identified! KS - Garnett, WhtMale 17-20, UP2344, Buffalo Nickel Belt Buckle, Blue Jeans W/Stop Sign Patch on Pocket, Apr'73 - James "Jimmy" Allen Dollison

[Moev]

Someone had made a colored version of his NCMEC reconstruction on findagrave, so I thought I would include.

 

[DS2021]

Identified as Jimmy Allen Dollison

Remains found in 1973 identified as Kansas City, Kansas, teenager; Homicide case remains open

Authorities in Kansas have identified human remains discovered in 1973 near Garnett as Jimmy Allen Dollison.

www.kmbc.com

 

[Moev]

Identified as Jimmy Allen Dollison

Remains found in 1973 identified as Kansas City, Kansas, teenager; Homicide case remains open

Authorities in Kansas have identified human remains discovered in 1973 near Garnett as Jimmy Allen Dollison.

www.kmbc.com

Was going to come on here and send this. Hoping we can find out who had done this.

 

[Moev]

1970 Central Junior High School Kansas City, there's also a local census in KC, Kansas for 1957 that gives the nickname "jimmie". Seems legally he was James though.

 

[DS2021]

After 53 years, Garnett John Doe (1973) is now Identified

Kansas Bureau of Investigation Teams with Othram to Identify a 1973 John Doe

dnasolves.com

 

[Nate_Bro]

Wow this is great news. One question I have is, if he was reported missing by the family, why was he not in any records or databases? At what point are these cases falling between the cracks, and can anything be done to resurrect them?

 

[Vern]

Wow this is great news. One question I have is, if he was reported missing by the family, why was he not in any records or databases? At what point are these cases falling between the cracks, and can anything be done to resurrect them?

1973 - I suspect his missing persons report fell off the radar and out of the missing case files the minute he would have turned 18. Unfortunatley that seems to have been status quo back in the day.

 

[dotr]

April 10 '25

Advanced DNA testing identifies murder victim more than 50 years after body was found in Kansas

The remains were identified as belonging to a young Kansas man who was last seen six months before his body was found.

www.cbsnews.com

''Dollison had been living in Kansas City, Kansas when he went missing, sometime in October or November 1972, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said. He was 16 at the time of his disappearance. He was reported missing by his parents, family members told the bureau, but relatives never received any answers.

The bureau did not say how long the remains had been decomposing when they were found in April 1973, six months after Dollison's disappearance. Dollison's entry in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System notes that he "had likely been deceased 2-4 weeks" before his remains were found. ''

Jimmy Allen Dollison.Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Kansas City is about 80 miles from Garnett, where the remains were found.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

"Many attempts" were made to identify the man over the years, the bureau said, including listing the man's description in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, but to no avail. In 2024, DNA extracted from the remains was sent to the forensic company Othram for forensic genetic genealogy testing, the bureau said. Othram created a DNA profile and searched for relatives of the unknown man. @othram

The jewelry discovered alongside the remains of an unidentified man found in Garnett, Kansas in April 1973. National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

In early 2025, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation learned that Othram had identified a match. Agents from the bureau and officials from the Anderson County Sheriff's Office were able to locate people who DNA showed were the siblings of the unidentified man

Advanced DNA testing identifies murder victim more than 50 years after body was found in Kansas

The remains were identified as belonging to a young Kansas man who was last seen six months before his body was found.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Wow this is great news. One question I have is, if he was reported missing by the family, why was he not in any records or databases? At what point are these cases falling between the cracks, and can anything be done to resurrect them?

I wondered the exact same!

 

[Richard]

It is great news that Jimmy has at long last been identified.

This is not the only case in which information regarding a missing person is not on any on-line website. There have been several recent cases solved through DNA testing which have shown this.