LA LA- Banks of the West Pearl River near Interstate 59, Partial skeletal remains, Male, Caucasian/AA mix, 18-40, ST. TAMMANY PARISH, 11 October 1984

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Kenny Kuhn October 30, 2023

Recognize this person? | Coroner hopes sketch from unidentified remains leads to identification

The image shows several unique facial features that investigators hope may lead to his identification.

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''ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. — The St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office needs your help identifying a man whose remains were recovered over 40 years ago.
On October 11th, 1984, hunters discovered a partial human skeleton of an unknown man along the banks of the West Pearl River near Interstate 59.
With the use of sophisticated technology, an artist’s rendering was made from the remains to reveal what the unidentified man could look like.''

'The image shows several unique facial features that investigators hope may lead to his identification.
The St. Tammany Coroner says LSU Faces Laboratory Anthropologists found characteristics of both Caucasian and African American ancestry.
Forensics determined the remains to be those of an 18 to 40-year-old man at the time of death.
Anyone with information that could help the coroner potentially identify his person should contact Investigator Chris Knoblauch by phone at 985-781-1150 or by email at [email protected].''

 

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A mystery skeleton on Louisiana's northshore now has a face. Will it crack a cold case?

Investigators trying to crack a decades-old cold case in St. Tammany Parish have put a face on a skull found along the West Pearl River in 1984. Now, they hope

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''Knoblauch said the Coroner's Office learned of the skull in 2019 and worked with anthropologists at the LSU FACES Laboratory to try and determine an indentity.

"We had a complete skull, which allowed us to do the rendition," Knoblauch said. "It's amazing how they can do that."

Knoblauch said anthropologists found characteristics of both Caucasian and African American ancestry, indicating that he may have been of mixed race.


While the Coroner's Office cautioned that the skin tone and hair patterns in the computer face image are "estimations," officials hope that someone might recognize the facial features and provide information.

Dr. Ginesse Listi, director of the FACES Laboratory, said the "facial approximation" in this instance took imaging specialist Larry Livaudais a bit more than a month.''