PA PA- Andrew Nedby, 13, Philadelphia, 1 June 1973

[ChatteringBirds]

Anyone had any luck?

I don't know how to seek archived articles. I wonder if there is a "How to" post on Websleuths. It's time I learned. However I am thinking a subscription to a website might be required.

 

[Aurora90]

I don't know how to seek archived articles. I wonder if there is a "How to" post on Websleuths. It's time I learned. However I am thinking a subscription to a website might be required.

archived articles? like newspaper archives?

 

[ChatteringBirds]

archived articles? like newspaper archives?

Yes. Sometimes people have been able to post some very interesting old articles. I remember someone saying they used a free trial but the site they used requires a subscription. I don't know how many legit sites there are.

 

[bettyboop]

I don't know how to seek archived articles. I wonder if there is a "How to" post on Websleuths. It's time I learned. However I am thinking a subscription to a website might be required.

@ChatteringBirds , I don't know how to do that either

 

[Aurora90]

I dont know if anyone would be able to find articles on this missing boy.

 

[victoriarobinson642]

I dont know if anyone would be able to find articles on this missing boy.

None seem to exist since it seems he was reported missing many years later

 

[Aurora90]

I am still waiting for an update...

 

[Aurora90]

If anyone finds any exclusions on NamUs please update this thread.

 

[subaw0067]

Yes. Sometimes people have been able to post some very interesting old articles. I remember someone saying they used a free trial but the site they used requires a subscription. I don't know how many legit sites there are.

Nothing (at the surface, I'm about to deep dive) in Newspapers.

 

[Aurora90]

The detective assigned to this case was kind enough to call me back. She is working with the remaining family members to look into the possibility that Andrew is the John Doe found in Frankford Creek in 1975.

If the mother and father had both passed by 1973, I wonder if the children got split up and put into foster care, hence the time discrepancy from when the siblings last saw him to his potential demise?

 

[Aurora90]

The John Doe isotype details are interesting. I wonder if anyone can find a birth certificate for Andrew Nedby?

 

[Caring1]

If anyone finds any exclusions on NamUs please update this thread.

0 Unidentified Person Exclusions

 

[subaw0067]

The John Doe isotype details are interesting. I wonder if anyone can find a birth certificate for Andrew Nedby?

No birth records in ancestry that I can find.

 

[walt91]

Andrew Nedby - The Charley Project

 

[Aurora90]

Has anyone made the submission? The collar in Andrew's photo looks like it could be similar to the kind of coat in the artist's renderings of what UP16972 was wearing. It seems like a probable match, especially when it's been so many decades since the family believes he went missing - they could have their year wrong, even.

It has been submitted and the Detective assigned to the case is in the process of collecting DNA and comparing it with the John Doe suggested. I could be wrong but I don't think the remaining family members got the date wrong. If my genealogy research is correct, the mother passed away and the siblings likely got put into foster care.

Again if I am correct in my research, that would explain the date discrepancy here. It also would explain why this case has been assigned to the Special Victims Unit? Maybe something happened while he was in the care of the government thus never reported to be missing? Only to "age out of the system" in their records but in actuality this wasn't the case?

This is pure speculation on my part. I am not even sure I was able to find the correct family tree for Andrew.

I truly hope we get updates on this case soon.

Andrew Nedby, where are you...?

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Thinking of Andrew Nedby.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Andrew Nedby – The Charley Project

charleyproject.org

 

[Quiteage]

Does anyone know why he doesn't have a NCMEC page? Is it because he was only reported missing so long after the fact?

 

[HopeRains]

Does anyone know why he doesn't have a NCMEC page? Is it because he was only reported missing so long after the fact?

I do not know the specifics reasons, but I can say there are thousands of missing children/child Does who do not have a public page on NMCEC. They may very well have a record on him, just not on their public website. You could always call the and inquire on it, they will tell you if they have a case on him.

 

[Aurora90]

I wanted to give a small update.

A close relative of Andrew's has reached out and wanted to let everyone know that they are sill awaiting the results of the DNA results. If this does turn out to be Andrew, they will share the entire story surrounding his disappearance and the circumstances.

I hope this family can find the answers they have been desperately looking for.