Identified! OR - Cannon Beach, male body washed ashore, Apr'08 - Lawrence Nibler

[c2cd208]

I had already created a seperate thread for the other body. The one you just posted here.

ETA: Here is the link to that thread: http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63248

Sorry, did not see that one! Was stuck in this one :waitasec:

 

[Earthbound Misfit I]

I would go ahead and leave what you posted here also as the two cases could be related to each other. I just wanted to let people know there was a thread for this one too

Sorry, did not see that one! Was stuck in this one :waitasec:

 

[c2cd208]

I would go ahead and leave what you posted here also as the two cases could be related to each other. I just wanted to let people know there was a thread for this one too

Great Idea, cross ref material!

 

[SeriouslySearching]

Also they said that this was a male, so it could not have been too badly decomposed to know that right off, meaning it had to have some kind identifying solidness, and not just bones. IMO I would guess this vic has been dead no longer than two months. I say this because with tide currents, regular motion of the waters, and predators, it would not seem likely that a body that could immediatly be identified as either male or female would have been in those conditions very long.

They determine sex by the pelvic bones. So yes, they can tell easily the sex of skeletal remains as long as the bones are intact.

 

[Earthbound Misfit I]

This is from an article dated March 1st:

The bodies of Heuer and James Nibler were recovered, but a search failed to find Lawrence Nibler.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1204354510142650.xml&coll=7

 

[Earthbound Misfit I]

I wanted to post this information on this thread also. I don't think his body was recovered.

Parish mourns drowning of pastor and peers

By Ed Langlois

Fr. Jim Nibler

NEWBERG — Following his drowning death, a priest who returned to his home state after decades in other parts of the country is being recalled as brilliant, generous, open-minded and willing to grow.

Father Jim Nibler, 54-year-old pastor of St. Peter Parish here, died Saturday morning along with his brother and a friend when their fishing boat capsized near the mouth of the Columbia River.

The funeral for all three men will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 1, at St. Mary Cathedral in Portland preceded by a rosary at 10:30 a.m. There will be a service at St. Peter’s at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 29.

Father Nibler had been pastor of St. Peter’s since 2003.

Parishioners were tearful and shocked at Masses last weekend.

“It was the best day Kleenex ever had. It still hurts,” says a choked-up Larry Bernards, who with wife Dorothy often took Father Nibler fishing on his day off.

Bernards recalls the priest as a man who became talkative in his element and who knew a lot about almost everything, from saints to diesel engines.

“Everything that went into his head stayed there,” Bernards says.

The Coast Guard found the bodies of Father Nibler and Curtis Heurer, 62. One of the bodies washed ashore near Hammond and the other was tangled in the boat’s anchor line. Lawrence Nibler, the priest’s 64-year-old brother, is still missing. The Coast Guard estimates that a person overboard would survive no more than four hours in the 44-degree water.

The weather was clear Saturday morning, with wind about six miles per hour out of the east. A potline become tangled in the propeller of the 17-foot boat’s motor and waves capsized it, authorities say.

More here: http://www.sentinel.org/node/8825

 

[Earthbound Misfit I]

I would almost bet that one of the bodies that washed up is indeed Lawrence Nibler.

 

[Earthbound Misfit I]

I would almost bet that one of the bodies that washed up is Lawrence Nibler.

ETA: Notice I said ALMOST bet, lol.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

It wouldn't surprise me. I know his family will be grateful if it is. Reading their story, it is just so sad. They all seemed like such good men.

 

[Earthbound Misfit I]

Yes, they did all seem like good men. I do hope that Lawrence Nibler has been found.

It wouldn't surprise me. I know his family will be grateful if it is. Reading their story, it is just so sad. They all seemed like such good men.

 

[Earthbound Misfit I]

Body Found on Oregon Coast Identified

Salem-News.com

The bodies of James Niber and Curtis Heuer were previously recovered.

(CANNON BEACH, Ore. ) - A body that washed up onto the beach Sunday afternoon about 2 1/2 miles south of Cannon Beach was positively identified by the Clatsop County Medical Examiner as a Newberg man missing since a February 23rd boating incident in the Columbia River.

Next of kin have been notified.

64-year-old Lawrence Gene Nibler, from Newberg, was one of three men who died in the February 23rd boating incident. According to a Clatsop County Sheriff's Office news release, Lawrence Nibler was on a fishing trip with 54-year-old James Niber, and 52-year-old Curtis Heuer all from Newberg. While crabbing near buoy 22 in Hammond, a crab pot line became entangled in the out-drive of their 17-foot open bow Weldcraft vessel and the boat subsequently capsized. The three men were thrown into the water.

More: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april102008/body_id_041008.php

 

[Earthbound Misfit I]

Body Found on Oregon Coast Identified

Salem-News.com

The bodies of James Niber and Curtis Heuer were previously recovered.

(CANNON BEACH, Ore. ) - A body that washed up onto the beach Sunday afternoon about 2 1/2 miles south of Cannon Beach was positively identified by the Clatsop County Medical Examiner as a Newberg man missing since a February 23rd boating incident in the Columbia River.

Next of kin have been notified.

64-year-old Lawrence Gene Nibler, from Newberg, was one of three men who died in the February 23rd boating incident. According to a Clatsop County Sheriff's Office news release, Lawrence Nibler was on a fishing trip with 54-year-old James Niber, and 52-year-old Curtis Heuer all from Newberg. While crabbing near buoy 22 in Hammond, a crab pot line became entangled in the out-drive of their 17-foot open bow Weldcraft vessel and the boat subsequently capsized. The three men were thrown into the water.

More: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/a..._id_041008.php

ETA: This thread is not for the "Cannon Beach" body that was found, but thought I'd post this news on this thread also.