NC NC - Benson, BlkMale 40-60, UP2220, in shed, poss migrant wkr, Bulls Hit Ranch & Farm FL cap, Jan'86

[aThousandYearsWide]

1938UMNC - Unidentified Male

Date of Discovery: January 10, 1986
Location of Discovery: Benson, Johnston County, North Carolina
Estimated Date of Death: 7 months prior
State of Remains: Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton
Cause of Death: Unknown

Physical Description
Estimated Age: 40-60 years old
Race: Black
Gender: Male
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 160 lbs.
Hair Color: Black with white tight curl.
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Healed fracture of the frontal and orbital bones on the left and deviation of the nasal septum. Mild to moderate arthritic lipping in vertebra.

Identifiers
Dentals: Available. Caries noted on #12 and 15; roots only #16 and 32.
Fingerprints: Not available. Could not be obtained.
DNA: mtDNA and nucDNA available at UNT (ref #11-1881).

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Fragmented blue shirt, brown trousers, blue baseball cap with the words "Bulls Hit Ranch and Farm, Hastings, Florida," and white track shoes with rubber red cleated soles (size 10).
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Discovery
The victim's remains were found in an old shed on an abandoned farm near the 8 mile marker off of I-40. This is an area frequented by migrant workers. It appeared that he may have been living in the shed.

Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Agency Contact Person: Clyde Gibbs
Agency Phone Number: 800-672-7042
Agency Case Number: 86-030

NCIC Case Number: N/A
NamUs Case Number: UP #2220 Former Hot Case Number: 1654

Information Source(s)
NamUs

1938UMNC

 

[aThousandYearsWide]

Interesting. The farm on this Doe's shirt recently in 2012 was under fire for mistreating their migrant workers.

"They called it “The Bullpen.” Farm workers were roped in from the street by recruiters and herded into the enclosed camp, where they worked during the day and slept in dirty, overcrowded bunks rife with bugs. Some, according to the workers' legal complaint, wrestled with grinding drug addictions and were sated periodically by dealers who would come by to sink them deeper into debt and dependency.

Though reminiscent of any chain gang from the old South, this labor camp was in modern-day Florida, and these human chattel were harvesting vegetables that might have nourished your family. Brought by the legal advocacy groups Farmworker Justice (FWJ) and Florida Legal Services, this landmark suit alleges a group of homeless men were taken from Jacksonville to the Bulls-Hit Ranch and Farm in nearby Hastings by recruiters, to work the yearly potato harvests in 2009 and 2010."
Bulls-Hit Ranch Labor Scandal Ensnared Florida Homeless

 

[aThousandYearsWide]

I posted this in the other Benson county Doe's thread as well.

"The Florida Department of Health in Collier County, assisted by an 11-member Doctors Without Borders team, this month stepped up testing among migrant worker communities ahead of an annual migration of Immokalee farmworkers northward to work the fields in Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia or Michigan."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/11/migrant-farmworkers-many-who-have-tested-positive-covid-19-move-north-florida-other-farm-states/?outputType=amp