NY NY- Bronx, Possible Male, UnkRace, Adult/could be as young as 15, UP10119, skull only. April 1990.

[cheemsg]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Date Body Found: April 16, 1990
Location Found: Bronx, New York
Estimated Age Range: 15-99 Years

Estimated Year of Death: 1980-1990
Estimated PMI: Months

Location: Bronx, New York
County: Bronx County
GPS Coordinates (Not Mapped): 40.860625, -73.832921
Found On Tribal Land: No
Circumstances of Recovery: Unknown skull, probably male, found in a lot on Waring Avenue between Demeyer and Bruner Avenues.

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Details of Recovery​

Inventory of Remains: Torso not recovered One or more limbs not recovered One or both hands not recovered
Condition of Remains: Not recognizable - Partial skeletal parts only

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Bumping up case. Pity that's all the information available. I wonder if they obtained any identifiers or ruled anyone out? @Caring1

 

[Caring1]

Bumping up case. Pity that's all the information available. I wonder if they obtained any identifiers or ruled anyone out? @Caring1

0 Missing Person Exclusions

 

[JSolt1210]

Without any other information to go on, the only thing I can comment on is the area.

The streets appear very residential today, though I don't know what they looked like in the '80s and '90s—especially if the description specifies that the body was found in a lot.

My first thought is that you'd need to live in or near this area to know about it because it's so out of the way. But it is right next to the Hutchinson River Parkway, and this connects to I-95 which in turn leads to other states like Connecticut, New Jersey, etc. Someone not from the area could've casually known about it from having to drive past it and decided it would make a good dump site.

It doesn't help that the age range is practically an entire lifetime and the timespan an entire decade.

On that note, how can the estimated year of death be 1980–1990, but the estimated PMI "months?" Does this mean that the decedent had been dead months before being dumped here, but could've been dumped any time in the '80s?

 

[ChatteringBirds]

On that note, how can the estimated year of death be 1980–1990, but the estimated PMI "months?"

I wonder if they meant "months to years," because otherwise that doesn't make sense. I doubt it was only a few months. It's sad to wonder where the rest of the remains are.