NC NC - Bethany Collins Buckles, 47, Asheville, 18 Nov 2021

[Caring1]

Asheville isn’t real far from Knoxville, just a couple of hours drive. She could have ended up in the homeless area of Knox County. Height sure would be off but she resembles the unknown female found in Knoxville August of 2022 and both reported to have a scar on the abdomen.

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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

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UP95334 is not a match to Bethany. I just received word back from the ME.

“Thank you for sending us this lead. Our forensic odontologist has excluded Ms. Buckles as a match based on her dental radiographs.”

 

[truthfinder2019]

Public urged to provide clues in ongoing search for Asheville woman missing since 2021

The Asheville Police Department (APD) is requesting the public's help in their continued efforts to locate a missing person.

www.wlos.com

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Asheville, NC (November 15, 2024): The Asheville Police Department is requesting the public’s help in their continued efforts to locate a missing person. This week marks the third anniversary of the disappearance of Bethany Collins Buckles.

Bethany Buckles, 50, failed to return to her residence on Ravencroft Lane in South Asheville and was initially reported missing by her family on Nov. 20, 2021. Her car was later located in the Swannanoa area. She is 5’6” tall and approximately 200 pounds, with either blonde or dark-colored hair and blue eyes. Her tattoos include a flower on her left ankle.

We urge the public to come forward with any information they may have. Even the smallest detail could provide the link that helps us locate Bethany.

If you have any information about this case, you can send an anonymous tip by texting TIP2APD to 847411 (TIP411) or using the TIP2APD smartphone app. You can also directly contact APD at (828) 252-1110.

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[truthfinder2019]

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[Caring1]

Refreshing Bethany’s thread. She has just the one Knoxville exclusion listed.

She has a flower tattoo on her left ankle and a scar on her abdomen.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

1 Unidentified Person Exclusion

 

[BlkMtnGirl]

Refreshing Bethany’s thread. She has just the one Knoxville exclusion listed.

She has a flower tattoo on her left ankle and a scar on her abdomen.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

1 Unidentified Person Exclusion
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Can you explain what exclusion means? I mean, I see that Bethany has the tattoo and scar you mentioned, but I don’t see anywhere to see an exclusion?

 

[The4TierBridge]

Can you explain what exclusion means? I mean, I see that Bethany has the tattoo and scar you mentioned, but I don’t see anywhere to see an exclusion?

Seeing NamUs exclusions (unidentified bodies that have been proven not to be a missing person, or missing people proven not to be an unidentified body) requires you to make a NamUs account. If you do this, the "Exclusions" tab will show up in between "Images & Documents" and "Contacts".

Exclusions can be made after comparing dental records, fingerprints, DNA, biometric data like height/weight/scars/marks/tattoos, or by having somebody who knew an MP look at a UID's morgue photo to visually confirm they are not the same person. Sometimes, exclusions are made improperly, and there have been several cases where a reported missing person was excluded from being themselves in NamUs. Here are Websleuths threads for 5 examples of this happening:

Robert Stuewe was excluded from being himself after dental records from a relative were obtained by authorities instead of his own: Identified! - MI - Jackson Co., WhtMale UP8183, 23-35, blonde, tie-dye TShirt, Aug'86 - Robert Lee Stuewe

Robby Peay was excluded from being himself after his dental records as an MP were entered in crime databases upside down: Identified! - UT - Moab, Three Gossips area of Arches Nat Park, WhtMale 18-25, UP8196, Camel cigs, clothes, Feb'83 Robby Peay

Hector Garcia was excluded from being himself after incorrect DNA analysis: Identified! - TX - Harris-Waller County Line, HispMale 17-32, woven leather belt, March 20, 2002 - Hector Jose Garcia

Kenneth Gridiron Jr. was excluded from being himself after incorrect DNA analysis: Resolved - Ca - Inglewood, UnkMale 2-5, UP3708, K-Mart sweatshirt, in storage facility, Feb'94 - NamUs removed

Sharon Gallegos was excluded from being herself after her baby footprints were compared to post-mortem footprints as a toddler (we know now that footprints change shape as humans age, but this was not known during the 1960s when she was recovered): Identified! - AZ - Yavapai Co, 'Little Miss Nobody', WhtFem 6-7, UP10741, Jul'60 - Sharon Lee Gallegos

In this specific instance, this missing woman was proven not to be an unidentified human skeleton recovered in Knox Co TN on 8/16/2022 (if you read further upthread, you'll see that authorities made this exclusion through discrepancies in dental records after a tip from a user on this forum).
The 1 case Bethany Buckles was excluded from being has also already been resolved; she was identified in early 2025 as 47yo Erin C. Callahan from Knoxville through dental records.

Forensics Center details into how a 2022 cold case was solved in Knox County

Erin Callahan was identified as the body discovered near Fourth and Gill in Knoxville back in 2022.

www.wvlt.tv

 

[Caring1]

dbm

 

[BlkMtnGirl]

Thank you for the explanation. Does anyone know if her car was ever recovered?