Identified! NM - Gallup, NtvMale UP10510, 23-52, brought home by dog, Jun'12 - Name not found

[Kimster]

Police have determined the skull was from an individual believed to be a man, roughly 35 to 45 years old, who probably died about three years ago, Allen said.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...s-for-walk-returns-home-with-human-skull?lite

 

[Donjeta]

Age is slightly off range (49) but Nathaniel Browning is missing from Gallup since 2009
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/5292/1/

Raymond Begay has been missing since 2005 but he was 45 and last seen about 15 minutes from Gallup.
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/5296/6/

Wade Benally was last seen about an hour away.
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/5298/8/

Several from Albuquerque.

Gallup is not far from the Arizona border so it might be an AZ missing person too.

 

[CarlK90245]

Here's the NamUs casefile for this John Doe. He remains unidentified.

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/10510

 

[OkieGranny]

ETA: Never mind, wrong case. But it does appear that the remains described by the OP may have been identified. The NamUs profile is now restricted.

 

[carbuff]

Might not be related, but Nathaniel Browning's case is also unavailable:

Age is slightly off range (49) but Nathaniel Browning is missing from Gallup since 2009
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/5292/1/

 

[jjohnston0827]

Per Charley Project, Nathaniel was located:

Browning, 48, disappeared from Church Rock, New Mexico on October 9, 2009. He has been located; further details are unavailable.

http://www.charleyproject.org/resolved/resolved87.html

 

[carbuff]

Does that mean he was located alive? Or just located?

 

[jjohnston0827]

It says no other details are available... but it doesn't seem like a very positive "we found him alive and well" sort of thing. :notgood: