NY NY - Brentwood, WhtMale 15-17, UP2925, Clothing, Jewelry, 'Hands of Gold Jewelry' key ring, May '98

[BrownBear]

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP2925

Demographics
Sex Male
Race / Ethnicity White / Caucasian
Estimated Age Group Adult - Pre 20
Estimated Age Range (Years) 15-17
Estimated Year of Death 1997-1998
Estimated PMI 6 Months
Height 5' 0"(60 inches) , Estimated
Weight Cannot Estimate

Circumstances
Date Body Found May 20, 1998
Location Brentwood, New York
County Suffolk County
Circumstances of Recovery remains found in overgrown sump area just east of chain link fence adjacent to/behind an elementry school
Details of Recovery
Inventory of Remains All parts recovered
Condition of Remains Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton

Distinctive Physical Features
Piercing yellow metal stud earring with green stone


Clothing and Accessories
Clothing
white socks, white boxers with blue vertical stripes,green/black jacket size XL outside of jacket labelled "Alliance Down", shirt with "Chicago" written on it
On the Body

Clothing
blanket with crude knot loop around neck
Near the Body

Footwear
black hiking boots "Buffalo" brand USA size 8 1/2
On the Body

Jewelry
yellow stud/post earring with green stone white plastic rosary beads irridescent green plastic key ring inscribed "Hands of Gold Jewelry" Copiague,NY
On the Body

 

[Laughing]

No picture of the shirt. Wonder if that was Chicago the city, or Chicago the music group?

No pic of the keychain, either -- does the store still exist?

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[Melt71]

No pic of the keychain, either -- does the store still exist

Google shows it at 494 Oak St, Copiague, NY

 

[BrownBear]

Hands of Gold Jewelry probably gave key rings to customers or like gave them out to anyone for advertising, because if they were only given to people who worked there he probably would be identified by now.
So I'm thinking he might not be connected to Hands of Gold Jewelry but he had probably been to Copiague, NY.

 

[Beccalicious]

Bumping

 

[Beccalicious]

Bumping again

 

[beavt]

Not much lines up and there’s a lot of ambiguity around the missing story. But, age and location align and he did have a pierced ear and it seems his mother was from Copiague

5708DMNY - Ralph Morgan Parker

 

[lightofmine99]

His NamUs was modified 10/13/2024. There are zero public exclusions.

 

[Caring1]

 

[Melt71]

Not much lines up and there’s a lot of ambiguity around the missing story. But, age and location align and he did have a pierced ear and it seems his mother was from Copiague

5708DMNY - Ralph Morgan Parker

We've seen cases where nothing in the MP file matched the UID file but they were one and the same. Do you think there's enough visual resemblence to submit?

 

[beavt]

We've seen cases where nothing in the MP file matched the UID file but they were one and the same. Do you think there's enough visual resemblence to submit?

Cannot find any pics of Ralph. Maybe someone could pull up the old articles listed below to see if they included a photo:
Information Source(s)
Newsday (Nassau Edition) - (Hempstead, NY) - Jun. 8, 1994
Daily News (New York, NY) - Jun. 10, 1994

 

[Caring1]

Cannot find any pics of Ralph. Maybe someone could pull up the old articles listed below to see if they included a photo:
Information Source(s)
Newsday (Nassau Edition) - (Hempstead, NY) - Jun. 8, 1994
Daily News (New York, NY) - Jun. 10, 1994

No photos. Detailed description of Ralph and the circumstance about his disappearance.

Jun 08, 1994, page 25 - Newsday (Nassau Edition) at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com

View the digital scanned newspaper from Newsday (Nassau Edition) dated Jun 08, 1994, page 25.

www.newspapers.com

 

[victoriarobinson642]

No photos. Detailed description of Ralph and the circumstance about his disappearance.

Jun 08, 1994, page 25 - Newsday (Nassau Edition) at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com

View the digital scanned newspaper from Newsday (Nassau Edition) dated Jun 08, 1994, page 25.

www.newspapers.com

I found a photo

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/54157105/person/13623036132/gallery?galleryPage=1&tab=gallery&sort=-created

It sounds like he was lost at sea, though.

 

[sds71]

3 more ‘Does’ added by ⁦@RayTierneyDA⁩ to ⁩ to Suffolk Co. website that seeks to solve cold cases. One involves a teen. The skeletal remains of Brentwood John Doe were found near Brentwood Freshman Center Elementary School on 5/20/1998. Between 15-17

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[snooptroop88]

Have wondered if Ivonne Rivera was a LISK victim, this case sounds eerily like Ivonne's.

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

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

www.namus.gov