Identified! MO - St Louis, N 19th St, WhtMale <50, UP60172, in cistern, Aug '19 - Joseph Parker

[Melt71]

www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/60172?nav

Case Numbers - ME/C Case Number 2019-1833
Demographics
Sex Male
Race / Ethnicity White / Caucasian
Estimated Age Group Adult - Pre 50
Height 5' 6"-6' 3"(66-75 inches) , Estimated
Weight Cannot Estimate
Circumstances
Type Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found August 18, 2019
NamUs Case Created September 18, 2019

Location Found Map
Location St. Louis, Missouri 63106
CountySt. Louis City
GPS Coordinates (Not Mapped)--
Circumstances of Recovery Decomposed and partially skeletonized remains discovered in cistern inside vacant building in St. Louis City on 8/15/2019.

Details of Recovery-
Condition of RemainsNot recognizable - Partial remains with soft tissues
Clothing - White high top athletic shoes; XL Dickies brand shirt dark color; dark trousers

 

[Laughing]

An address would be helpful.

Cistern? Is this like the Elisa Lam story, a cistern on top of a building? Or underneath?

Why did someone look in that cistern (only to receive the shock of their life!)

Crew tearing down a building?

IDK

JMHO YMMV

 

[Melt71]

@Laughing your wish is my command!
www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/homicide-detectives-investigating-body-found-in-abandoned-building/article_299e561f-3cdb-55cc-81da-17d49851fb1b.html

St Louis Post-Dispatch 19 August 2019

ST. LOUIS — A body was found Sunday inside a vacant building in north St. Louis, police said. Police called the death "suspicious" on Monday.

Police responded to a call for a building check at about 2 p.m. and located the body in the underground cistern of an abandoned building in the 1800 block of north 19th Street. The building is in the St. Louis Place neighborhood.

Homicide detectives are investigating. Police had not identified the person found as of Monday morning.

Police are encouraging anyone with information to call the homicide division directly at 314-444-5371, or to remain anonymous contact CrimeStoppers at 866-371-8477.

 

[Laughing]

@Melt71 , I have a few (dozen) other wishes here at the ready....

So the building was abandoned, but someone called in asking for the police to check there.

Aaaand of course the map pin is in an intersection, not on a building.

Must be big to have an underground cistern?

Big, or perhaps old?

Pondering, here. (Should be mopping, or folding....)

(If you "walk" around that map a bit, you may notice a person sitting on the front step!)

 

[PayrollNerd]

I wonder if a realtor and buyer were touring and saw evidence of an altercation or a crime scene.

....a call for a building check at about 2 p.m.

A lot of remote areas have cisterns for water. My daughter lived on the top of the mountain in St. Thomas, VI. They had a cistern which was normal and came in handy when Hurricane Irma blew through. You hand pull the water up by a bucket when you lose power.

 

[Laughing]

Looks like an abandoned factory, large 2 story red brick building, metal panels covering the windows.

 

[YaYa_521]

Doe's NamUs profile has been removed. May he rest in peace.

 

[iulia]

'Joseph never just disappeared': St. Louis family reacts to identification of loved one's remains after 4 years

St. Louis Medical Examiner's Office has an unprecedented amount of unidentified remains waiting to be reunited with families

www.ksdk.com

ST. LOUIS — Joseph Parker’s family wondered for four years where the father of five had gone.
[...]
Occasionally, a week might pass before a member of his family would hear from him–but the spring of 2017 was different, said his sister, Lashawn Jones.

“Joseph never just disappeared,” she said. “He always needed us for whatever it was. For him to go missing for weeks or months, we were like, ‘OK, something is not right.’”

That’s why in April of 2017, after two months went by with no word from Joseph, his family filed a missing person’s report and formed a search party to look for him in vacant buildings around the St. Louis Place neighborhood where his mother lived.

“We searched every building but that one,” his brother Don Parker recalled, standing outside an abandoned light bulb factory near 18th and Madison streets.

Inside that building, a man found human remains in 2019.

Now, two years after that, the St. Louis Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the remains as the body of Joseph Parker – and reunited him with his family.

 

[Teignmouth 22]

Wandering around (on street view) it looks like the building in question has since been fire damaged. I love the old residential buildings in the area.

R.I.P.