Identified! NV - Reno, WhtMale 45-65, UP7633, 'Carlos F Otero', Bronx address, suicide by IV, Aug'99 (name withheld)

[OneLove]

Other than a suicide note that did not identify next of kin allowing for identification, how was it determined positively that he self administered? This is a chemical, after all, used in high level interrogations and the method used in this case was quite sophisticated.

 

[iamshadow21]

Other than a suicide note that did not identify next of kin allowing for identification, how was it determined positively that he self administered? This is a chemical, after all, used in high level interrogations and the method used in this case was quite sophisticated.

Perhaps his fingerprints were all over the equipment, and no one else's.

MOO

 

[The4TierBridge]

The Doe Network lists others as "White/Hispanic", though, so why not him?

Because that's not how the official investigators chose to list him in NamUs, and the Doe Network is a private organization that works to better publicize what has been released by the authorities. Simple as.

 

[OneLove]

Perhaps his fingerprints were all over the equipment, and no one else's.

MOO

True, but that would be very easy and an absolute given for a professional to do, whether criminal enterprise or intelligence. These are not amateurs.

 

[summergirl1]

I would assume they looked looked at surveillance camera footage, too. By 2001, those were common. This isn't the only case I have ever read of where race or ethnicity wasn't listed correctly somewhere (or even identified correctly). Sometimes it's obviously a genuine mistake and other times it leaves you to wonder why the person's race/ethnicity wasn't identified more correctly. It impacts the process of identifying the person. So it's something I wonder about at times.

 

[iamshadow21]

I would assume they looked looked at surveillance camera footage, too. By 2001, those were common. This isn't the only case I have ever read of where race or ethnicity wasn't listed correctly somewhere (or even identified correctly). Sometimes it's obviously a genuine mistake and other times it leaves you to wonder why the person's race/ethnicity wasn't identified more correctly. It impacts the process of identifying the person. So it's something I wonder about at times.

It will happen less the more people rely on DNA and not skull morphology.

MOO