NV NV - Las Vegas, AsianMale 24-30, UP6605, tatt 'Emilio or Emiro', full back tatt, piercings, Jul'00

[Romulus]

NamUs UP 6605

https://www.identifyus.org/en/cases/6605

Unidentified Asian Male

Found July 22, 2000 in Clark County, NV
Body Condition: Not recognizable - partial remains with soft tissues

Probable year of death: to
Estimated postmortem interval: 4 weeks


Vital Statistics
Estimated age: 24-30
Approximate Height: 61 estimate
Approximate Weight: cannot estimate
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown
Scars and marks: Closely cropped goatee; "Emilio" or "Emiro" right chest
Indecipherable tattoo covering the decedent's entire back; Both eyebrows and lower lip.

Clothing & Accessories
Clothing: Hanes white T-shirt (size 42-44), blue pants (40 x 30), blue underwear, white socks, black belt; Army jacket (M) with staff seargent insignia patch on collar points and a parachutist insignia on the breast pocket. Airborne patch sewn on the shoulder and a knife patch on the upper arm.

Jewerly: White metal bars with balls to both eyebrows and lower lip; Necklace of round beads (3/8", possible wood) bearing black Chinese/Japanese characters.

Footwear: White Nike Air, Team Sports, (size 9).

Accessories: nothing

Identifiers
Fingerprints: Fingerprint information is not available
Dentals: Dental information / charting is available
DNA: Sample submitted-tests complete

Case History: The decedent was found in a very remote landfill area, in a ravine near the corner of Hollywood and Vegas Drive, behind Las Vegas High School. The remains were partially skeletonized.

 

[the_missing]

>Hollywood and Vegas Drive, behind Las Vegas High School

Vegas Drive is nowhere near Las Vegas High School. There's a Vegas Valley Dr that intersects with S Hollywood, but it's a good half-mile south of the high school (hardly "behind").

(Yet another example of the incoherent, utterly useless location data these reports have. Doenetwork isn't much better.)

 

[cvaldez1975]

if he was partially skeletonized how do they know about his closely cropped faical hair and tattoos?

 

[CarlK90245]

if he was partially skeletonized how do they know about his closely cropped faical hair and tattoos?

The operative word is "partially".

 

[cvaldez1975]

touché!

The operative word is "partially".

 

[WesternArtist]

Since this UID is listed as Asian (and there are very few Asian males reported missing) and the "Emilio" tattoo sounds like a Hispanic name I was hoping to find a missing Filipino match but also broadened my search and found Mario Yerba Meza http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/meza_mario.html

His goatee matches but he has a different tattoo listed: "Mario" on finger on left hand... perhaps he could have had others that are not listed and being on a finger and this one was too decomposed to see. His height (5'3") is pretty close. He went missing from Laguna Nigel, CA on April 4, 2000. He is listed as Race "Other" Ethnicity "Hispanic/Latino."

Now, with some reaching -I tried to use his name to figure out his heritage, which is very challenging and probably speculative at best. His middle name, Yerba, is a common surname in Argentina and Peru. From what I understand, in some Latin American cultures it is common to have your mother's maiden name as a middle name. About 15-20% of Peru's population has Asian ancestry. Some other South American countries also have substantial Asian ancestry so I am thinking even if this guy isn't a match this UID might be from a Central or South American country with Asian ancestry or is Filipino. JMO.

 

[rats]

Surprised this guy doesn’t have a recon.

 

[Melt71]

Just bumping this case. Many Mexican and Central/South American populations have significant Asian heritage. Just one example of research outcomes (Latin America’s lost histories revealed in modern DNA | Science | AAAS (sciencemag.org):

But when he searched a database of 500 Mexican genomes—initially assembled for biomedical studies—and sought genetic variants more common in Asian populations, he found a surprise. Some people from northern Mexico did have significant Asian ancestry, but they weren't the only ones. Rodríguez discovered that about one-third of the people sampled in Guerrero, the Pacific coastal state that lies nearly 2000 kilometers south of the U.S. border, also had up to 10% Asian ancestry, significantly more than most Mexicans. And when he compared their genomes to those of people in Asia today, he found that they were most closely related to populations from the Philippines and Indonesia.

 

[Susikatze]

Archeologist excursion:

If you look at the history of those populations, that is no surprise, as most have significant Native American bloodlines. And Native Americans share close genetic connections to Southeast Asian people (albeit of course different markers showing divergent lineages tens of thousand years ago), likely they were the first ones who settled the uninhabited American continent. There are myriads of research papers on that and even some experimental archeology attempts crossing the ocean with boats (though more likely it was via landbridges in the North). Incredible civilisatory achievement! Every person with a Native lineage can be very very proud of their brave and inventive ancestors.

Just bumping this case. Many Mexican and Central/South American populations have significant Asian heritage. Just one example of research outcomes (Latin America’s lost histories revealed in modern DNA | Science | AAAS (sciencemag.org):

But when he searched a database of 500 Mexican genomes—initially assembled for biomedical studies—and sought genetic variants more common in Asian populations, he found a surprise. Some people from northern Mexico did have significant Asian ancestry, but they weren't the only ones. Rodríguez discovered that about one-third of the people sampled in Guerrero, the Pacific coastal state that lies nearly 2000 kilometers south of the U.S. border, also had up to 10% Asian ancestry, significantly more than most Mexicans. And when he compared their genomes to those of people in Asia today, he found that they were most closely related to populations from the Philippines and Indonesia.

 

[heartanium]

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