I found this insightful news article attached to his NamUs profile:
Likeness created to help ID dead man
By PAT KELLY
JACKSON COUNTY BUREAU
PASCAGOULA
The glass eyes peering from the sculpted re-creation of the dead man's skull seem to painfully accuse his onlookers for failing to find his killer. Law enforcement officials are hopeful the public can help ease the stare.
The Jackson County Sheriff's Department un- veiled the model head Tuesday of what they believe is a close likeness of an unidentified man whose bones were found Dec. 24.
Two hunters found the skeleton in a muddy area in Escatawpa's Greenwood Cemetery near the Escatawpa River. Authorities at first believed the body had washed up from the river several years: ago and was perhaps the victim of a drowning accident.
Now they are convinced the man was murdered. "We are now 90 percent sure he didn't just float up," Jackson County Coroner David Miller said. "The clothing was inside out and lying next to the remains. He was either killed there or transported there and dumped."
Hattiesburg forensic anthropologist Edward B. Waldrip has been collecting the bones and studying their characteristics for a cause of death. The remains of the body and the results of his findings were turned over Tuesday to the Sheriff's Department.
He said the remains show marks on the shoul- ders and ribs "which are suggestive of two stab-like wounds, possibly inflicted by a knife-like object." Based on his study of the bones and other evidence collected at the crime scene, Waldrip said the victim was a white male, about 25 to 30 years old and between 5 feet 3 inches and 5 feet 6 inches tall. The man weighed between 155 and 165 pounds, was left-handed, had two impacted wisdom teeth and was a smoker. He had blond or light brown hair. "The slight muscle markings (on the bones) indicate to me that the individual had a sedentary
Specialist Ed Waldrip explains how this likeness of an unidentified skeleton was made.
lifestyle," Waldrip said. The plaster head was sculpted by Charles Am- bros, director of the Art Department at the Gulf port campus of William Carey College.
He said he first did a casting directly from the skull and then added facial characteristics that are consistent with what Waldrip was able to discover, such as determining how much the skin should sag by the age. Facial contours were decided by adding known tissue depths to the skull casting.
"When we get through we have a pretty good idea of the likeness," he said.
Waldrip said law enforcement officials are successful about 60 percent of the time in eventually identifying victims through re-creations such as the one performed by Ambrose. "The degree of success depends on the amount of people who see the results," Waldrip said. "The best scenario will be for someone to call after they think they know this person. We have a dental chart that will be our best bet for identification." Waldrip said the victim has been dead at least since 1981.
Sheriff Pete Pope urged anyone who thinks they may know the unidentified person to contact the Jackson County Sheriff's Department.
Key notes:
- He was left-handed
- He had two impacted wisdom teeth
- He was a smoker
- He lived an inactive lifestyle
From the indications of an inactive lifestyle, I wonder if he had something like an illness, an office job, no job or was experiencing depression.
