Identified! NY - Coxsackie, MultipleMale Adult (20-50?), UP74503, skull found in Vosburgh Swamp, Feb'17 - namus removed

[iulia]

Rensselaer police say missing man's remains found along Hudson River

Rensselaer police said they've found the remains of Frank Connell, a city man who went...

www.timesunion.com

Police said they've linked a skull that was found by a hiker nearly six years ago along the Hudson River to Frank Connell, a local man who went missing in 2007.

The hiker was looking for arrowheads in the Vosburgh Swamp Wildlife Management Area in Coxsackie when he found the remains on Feb. 26, 2017, Rensselaer police Detective Sgt. Michael Deso said Friday. State Police investigators took on the case, and the skull was sent to the New York City chief medical examiner's office for DNA extraction.

Police at the time did not suspect the remains were Connell's, Deso said. Some even suspected the skull belonged to the still-missing 12-year-old, Jaliek Rainwalker. In 2018 the medical examiner's office created a usable DNA profile of the skull. Rensselaer police developed their own profile for Connell last year using DNA from his relatives and sent samples to compare, Deso said. Last month, the DNA was found to be a match and police said they have concluded the remains are Connell's.

ETA: Frank's WS thread: NY - NY - Frank Connell, 47, Rensselaer, 20 April 2007

 

[Susikatze]

Whoa, way off.
While size wise, a teen skull may not be so different from an adult skull, everything else, dentition, skull sutures are so different for teens and middle aged adults. Even if there was no complete skull. I wonder what went wrong here.
Mabe the skull was incomplete and Frank had an unfused persistent metopic suture, an anomaly a small percentage of adults have.
Otherwise it is impossible to not tell a young teen apart from an older adult.

 

[cheemsg]

Whoa, way off.
While size wise, a teen skull may not be so different from an adult skull, everything else, dentition, skull sutures are so different for teens and middle aged adults. Even if there was no complete skull. I wonder what went wrong here.
Mabe the skull was incomplete and Frank had an unfused persistent metopic suture, an anomaly a small percentage of adults have.
Otherwise it is impossible to not tell a young teen apart from an older adult.

I wonder if it was a miscommunication with the press? Like they were saying the skull was 10-13 years old in relation to how long it had been there, and they reported it to mean the age? I think NamUs always listed him as an adult.

 

[iulia]

His NamUs page has finally been removed.