NC NC - Durham, WhtMale Pre 50, UP84497, skeletal remains found at NIEHS, Sep'21

[Curious_in_NC]

This was posted originally by @TootsieFootsie in a different thread. Since then the remains were further identified as belonging to a white male under 50 yo, according to NamUs. Not much other details.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article254315383.html

Human remains were found Thursday evening in a wooded area near the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Durham, according to the Durham County Sheriff’s Office.

Bones were discovered in the area shortly after 6 p.m., and sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene and started investigating, the sheriff’s office said in a news release on Friday.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[Curious_in_NC]

I find this discovery somewhat surprising. For at least the last 15 years, or so, the NIEHS campus has been secured by DHS because it's a federal government facility. Entering by car requires ID and a contact on the inside. Although the surrounding woods are not impenetrable, I would think security also keeps an eye on them. So I don't think a homeless camp would go unnoticed very long. The campus is about a half mile south of I-40, a major east-west interstate, so there's a lot of other possible scenarios for how someone from outside the area could end up there.

Of missing locals, this is one possibility:
NC - Hollis McAbee, 31, Durham, 29 May 2010

 

[Laughing]

My 'little' step-brother lives in Durham!!!

FBI investigating after human remains found in wooded area in RTP

Human remains found in Durham woods :: WRAL.com

We may never here much beyond rumors.

Aerial video shows water -- wonder if one can kayak/canoe into the area?

Wonder if there is any local scoop -- or if Little S-Bro would notice?

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[Curious_in_NC]

Aerial video shows water -- wonder if one can kayak/canoe into the area?
rsbm

That's pretty much a landlocked pond in the center of campus, surrounded by EPA and NIEHS buildings. I don't think anyone could kayak in or out. It's not rural. It's in Durham Co. but still within Research Triangle Park and on the western boundary. The WRAL video suggests the remains were possibly found near S. Alston and TW Alexander Dr., at least that looks like where their camera was set up.

There are some apartment complexes not far from there that have been there at least thirty years. RTP is between the cities of Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh. The area adjacent to RTP has gone from somewhat sparse to dense development with numerous hotels, strip malls, apartments, restaurants etc. over the last thirty years.

 

[Curious_in_NC]

Some more local MPs that might be a fit

NC - NC - Samuel Claude Gilbert, 46, left home, leaving behind his sons & his car, Raleigh, 23 Oct 2018

NC - NC - Jeremy Bruce, 44, Roxboro, March 2016

NC - NC - Roger Wade Ayscue, 40, Franklin County, 7 July 2009

 

[Melt71]

None of the above suggestions are listed as ruleouts, in fact there are no ruleouts or updates to this case.