FL Miami Beach, White Male, 23-57, traumatic injuries, "Morey Boogie Bodyboards" t-shirt

[PatLaurel]

1320UMFL

Reconstruction of Victim

Date of Discovery: February 9, 1993
Location of Discovery: Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, Florida
Estimated Date of Death: 1993
State of Remains: Not recognizable - traumatic injuries / partial skeleton
Cause of Death: Unknown

Physical Description​

Estimated Age: 23-57 years old
Race: White
Sex: Male
Height: 5'4" to 5'8", estimated
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: It is unknown what hair color the decedent had; however, there was dark brown hair body hair. Possibly walked with a limp, possibly favoring the left leg. He was uncircumcised. Shoe size estimate was 6.5 to 7 narrow in Mens, but this is an estimate.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: T- shirt that says "Morey Boogie Bodyboards" on the front of the shirt. On the back of the shirt, there is a picture of tribal men and it says "Morey Boogie". The size is XL. The tag says "Morey Boogie Bodywear". One white sock.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Blue lighter

Circumstances of Discovery​

The decedent's remains were found in multiple areas of Miami Beach, Florida. The parts of the remains were found on February 9, 1993, February 10, 1993, and September 22, 1999.

Investigating Agency(s)​

Agency Name: District 11 Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's Office
Agency Contact Person: Brittney McLaurin
Agency Phone Number: 305-545-2400
Agency E-Mail: [email protected]
Agency Case Number: 1993-0391 (related to: 1993-400 &1999-2292)

NCIC Case Number: U-350000476
NamUs Case Number: #UP8153
Former Hot Case Number: N/A

 

[PatLaurel]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Circumstances of RecoveryThe decedent's remains were found in multiple areas of Miami Beach, Florida. The parts of the remains were found on Feb 9, 1993, Feb 10, 1993, and September 22, 1999.

 

[PayrollNerd]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Circumstances of RecoveryThe decedent's remains were found in multiple areas of Miami Beach, Florida. The parts of the remains were found on Feb 9, 1993, Feb 10, 1993, and September 22, 1999.


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Remains found in multiple areas on multiple dates but there's no DNA available? How did they know it is the same individual? I'm sure reassembling the skeleton would make them think that. However, if they did that, was the reconstruction that exact and perfect??? Glad they have dentals.

 

[PatLaurel]

I think he was recognizable when first found in 1993. ME was able to determine the male was uncircumcised. The 6 year gap and no DNA is what i don't understand. Do ME offices keep the bodies that long?

 

[aThousandYearsWide]

My guess would be the first body part found was the torso +/- head and the limbs were found at a later time. Traumatic injuries make me believe possible a boating accident?

 

[Goecke]

That seems like a very small shoe size to me, even if he was on the shorter end of the height estimate.

Could be a boating accident, or postmortem disarticulation. Or dismemberment/murder... There's not enough info to know for sure.

 

[PatLaurel]

Traumatic injuries make me believe possible a boating accident?

Could be a boating accident, or postmortem disarticulation. Or dismemberment/murder... There's not enough info to know for sure.

He was mutilated. Clipping from South Florida Sun Sentinel - Newspapers.com

There's another article stating the pelvis and thighs were found in a blue duffel bag.

 

[Goecke]

He was mutilated. Clipping from South Florida Sun Sentinel - Newspapers.com

There's another article stating the pelvis and thighs were found in a blue duffel bag.

Wow, that's disturbing. I wonder why DoeNet doesn't mention anything about it.

 

[GatorFL]

I think he was recognizable when first found in 1993. ME was able to determine the male was uncircumcised. The 6 year gap and no DNA is what i don't understand. Do ME offices keep the bodies that long?

Depends. Many times the remains are buried in a pauper's grave and other times they are skeletonized and kept at the ME's office. Or they can be exhumed and kept at the ME's office. So DNA could be available. Since he was dismembered it's a crime and usually they work a little harder when a crime is attached to an unknown.

 

[PatLaurel]

“Police released an artist's sketch of a man who was seen near the Plymouth Hotel around 9 a.m. Tuesday, about 2 1/2 hours before the first grisly discovery. They would like to talk to him as a potential witness. (...) The man was seen by a resident in the 2000 block of Park Avenue. He was described as a white male about 6 feet tall, 180 pounds with short brown slightly wavy hair. He wore a light brown suit white shirt and dark solid tie.“

1320UMFL - Newspapers.com

 

[PatLaurel]

John Doe 1320UMFL - Newspapers.com

"A Miami Beach maintenance man made a gruesome discovery Tuesday morning — human remains stashed inside a blue duffel bag. The duffel bag was found inside a trash container behind the Plymouth Hotel, 399 W 21st St. A custodian at the hotel saw the bag and opened it, finding bones and human flesh. Anyone with information can call Miami Beach police at 673-7900."

 

[PatLaurel]

The remains found on September 22, 1999.
1993 JD? - Newspapers.com

"(...)The search for the skeletal remains began Wednesday afternoon after Alfred Presendieu, a Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation Department employee, found the upper portion of the skull while pruning shrubbery on the dunes. After making the discovery, Presendieu took the skull to the parks and recreation yard at 7929 Atlantic Way, where he cleaned, greased and displayed it to fellow employees, said Miami Beach police Officer Bobby Hernandez. "He gave it to his supervisor like a souvenir," Hernandez added. About 3:30 p.m., the supervisor notified the police, and they started an investigation. The skull was small with ah intact set of teeth, said Carlos Mazariegos, a city of Miami Beach employee who saw the skull while it was still at the parks office.(...)"

 

[branmuffin]

There's a couple of things I can think of, with this UID. One, is that in March of 1993, a storm dubbed the Storm of the Century ravaged the eastern seaboard of the US. It did most of its damage on the gulf side but the east coast didn't escape damage. It stretched from Canada to Honduras and caused billions of dollars worth of damage and was responsible for over 300 fatalities. Based on that information I have serious doubts that the second set of remains found in 1999 lay there for another 6 years before being found. I've lived on the coast when destructive storms have occurred and usually what happens the storm and the tides remove more sand than normal leaving a change in the level of the shoreline until regular tides restore it And if that doesn't happen (which is becoming the norm) it's shipped in. So I just can't see that those bones found in 1999 were bones that had just been unearthed from a burial site. It sounds more likely they were unearthed several years prior and got hung up in the shrubbery. I'm shaking my head at that guy who thought he'd found a gag gift for his boss.

The second thing is, I don't know if the smaller mass of a leg muscle would translate into a limp. There are all sorts of reasons why a muscle may atrophy. Being bedridden, living a sedentary lifestyle, being a desk jockey, etc can result in muscle atrophy but it doesn't usually affect one muscle. One of the most common reasons why a muscle may atrophy is when people break a limb; doesn't matter whether it's a leg or an arm. When you wear a cast for 8 weeks or so, your leg muscle is going to atrophy but that doesn't mean you'll limp. I have broken both ankles and a wrist and in both ankle breaks my calf muscle atrophied a fair amount but I never limped, while wearing the boot, or when it came off. A couple of weeks after the cast came off the muscle was back to being normal. If the atrophy was significantly smaller, it could have been related to some other sort of issue that would only affect one muscle, like polio. I discount polio, though, since most people who were born after the polio scare from the 1950s were innoculated against polio. Another issue could be nerve damage cause by rare neurological diseases like Myoshi Myopathy that usually attacks distal muscles one at a time but over time spreads upward affecting other muscles and ending in the shoulders.

Does the fact he was uncircumcised shrink the potential pool? Back in the 1960s when this UID may have been born circumcision was at an all time high in the US. Jews and Muslims are circumcised as part of their religious beliefs but most circumcisions in the rest of the population are done because of future health concerns. Circumcision is not a requirement of the Catholic church either. Most Europeans aren't circumcised. So who does that leave us with? A low percentage of home births where circumcision wasn't going to be done and millions of men who were born during a time when getting your male baby circumcised before leaving the hospital was considered the norm so families complied.

Like most other UIDs I'm betting we won't find this guy in Namus or any other missing/UID website.

 

[GatorFL]

There's a couple of things I can think of, with this UID. One, is that in March of 1993, a storm dubbed the Storm of the Century ravaged the eastern seaboard of the US. It did most of its damage on the gulf side but the east coast didn't escape damage. It stretched from Canada to Honduras and caused billions of dollars worth of damage and was responsible for over 300 fatalities. Based on that information I have serious doubts that the second set of remains found in 1999 lay there for another 6 years before being found. I've lived on the coast when destructive storms have occurred and usually what happens the storm and the tides remove more sand than normal leaving a change in the level of the shoreline until regular tides restore it And if that doesn't happen (which is becoming the norm) it's shipped in. So I just can't see that those bones found in 1999 were bones that had just been unearthed from a burial site. It sounds more likely they were unearthed several years prior and got hung up in the shrubbery. I'm shaking my head at that guy who thought he'd found a gag gift for his boss.

The second thing is, I don't know if the smaller mass of a leg muscle would translate into a limp. There are all sorts of reasons why a muscle may atrophy. Being bedridden, living a sedentary lifestyle, being a desk jockey, etc can result in muscle atrophy but it doesn't usually affect one muscle. One of the most common reasons why a muscle may atrophy is when people break a limb; doesn't matter whether it's a leg or an arm. When you wear a cast for 8 weeks or so, your leg muscle is going to atrophy but that doesn't mean you'll limp. I have broken both ankles and a wrist and in both ankle breaks my calf muscle atrophied a fair amount but I never limped, while wearing the boot, or when it came off. A couple of weeks after the cast came off the muscle was back to being normal. If the atrophy was significantly smaller, it could have been related to some other sort of issue that would only affect one muscle, like polio. I discount polio, though, since most people who were born after the polio scare from the 1950s were innoculated against polio. Another issue could be nerve damage cause by rare neurological diseases like Myoshi Myopathy that usually attacks distal muscles one at a time but over time spreads upward affecting other muscles and ending in the shoulders.

Does the fact he was uncircumcised shrink the potential pool? Back in the 1960s when this UID may have been born circumcision was at an all time high in the US. Jews and Muslims are circumcised as part of their religious beliefs but most circumcisions in the rest of the population are done because of future health concerns. Circumcision is not a requirement of the Catholic church either. Most Europeans aren't circumcised. So who does that leave us with? A low percentage of home births where circumcision wasn't going to be done and millions of men who were born during a time when getting your male baby circumcised before leaving the hospital was considered the norm so families complied.

Like most other UIDs I'm betting we won't find this guy in Namus or any other missing/UID website.

A storm isn't stuffing his pelvis and thighs into a blue bag. He was murdered and dismembered.

 

[branmuffin]

A storm isn't stuffing his pelvis and thighs into a blue bag. He was murdered and dismembered.

I'm aware of that. But if the body parts found at that location had originally been 'neatly wrapped' in garbage bags like the other discoveries then I find it highly unlikely that they were buried in the sand there, especially since the other parts were found in trash containers. Between '93 and '99 there were numerous hurricanes and storms that would have revealed them. The perp obviously was dropping off the packages in locations where they were going to be removed fairly quickly so why would they take the risk of going on to the beach carrying human remains and burying them increasing the chance of discovery?

 

[GatorFL]

I'm aware of that. But if the body parts found at that location had originally been 'neatly wrapped' in garbage bags like the other discoveries then I find it highly unlikely that they were buried in the sand there, especially since the other parts were found in trash containers. Between '93 and '99 there were numerous hurricanes and storms that would have revealed them. The perp obviously was dropping off the packages in locations where they were going to be removed fairly quickly so why would they take the risk of going on to the beach carrying human remains and burying them increasing the chance of discovery?

Who knows. And where they were found they weren't dragged off from animals. It is an interesting point.

 

[BigKeyManatee]

He could be Cuban.

I realize that I’m playing into a stereotype of a fictional character played by an Italian American actor, but the reconstruction @PayrollNerd posted reminds me of Tony Montana.

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The Doe is of shorter than average stature and has an unusual deformity. I don’t know what the circumcision practices are in Cuba, but 72% of native Cubans are described as European in origin.
There appears to be a noticeable mole or growth on the UID’s chin in this drawing. It appears less prominently in another reconstruction as well.
It’s very sad that with all these distinguishing attributes this man has remained unidentified for over two decades.