Identified! TX - Bell Co., Remains found of missing soldier? - Matthew Moraski

[reb]

anyone know of a soldier missing in texas (in the US- not iraq) since 2001?
some remains were found today in central TX, with military tags.
Remains found in southwestern Bell County

Military identification tags list name of soldier missing since 2001.

By Katie Humphrey
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The Bell County Sheriff's Office is investigating a "questionable" death after finding human skeletal remains on private property on Monday afternoon, officials said.

The remains, found by a landowner in southwestern Bell County, have been sent to the Southwest Forensic Institute in Dallas for an autopsy, Sheriff Dan Smith said in a media release.


Officials from Fort Hood are also involved in the investigation because a set of military identification tags was recovered along with the remains, Smith said. The tags list the name of a soldier who has been missing since 2001, he said.

The sheriff's office will not release the name on the tags until the remains have been positively identified and next of kin are notified, Smith said.

[email protected]; 246-0053

 

[gardenmom]

http://www.doenetwork.us/nampn/cases/steigerwald_jordan.html

Jordan Keith Steigerwald has been missing since 2002.

 

[meggilyweggily]

I don't think Jordan was a soldier. He was just a college student as far as I have been able to determine. Also, I don't think the military would have accepted a recruit with his medical history.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/steigerwald_jordan.html

 

[gardenmom]

I don't think Jordan was a soldier. He was just a college student as far as I have been able to determine. Also, I don't think the military would have accepted a recruit with his medical history.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/steigerwald_jordan.html

He was listed as wearing dog tags, so you are right, but you never know...

 

[Sundayrain]

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/mpch/MissingPersons.asp?Letter=C
You can try this site......I linked it but it will start you on letter C.....You can do any letter you want.
If the link doesn't work it is http://www.txdps.state.tx.us
that you would try.
Unfortunately there is many missing in Texas......and you'd have to click on all
of the pictures to see if a military person comes up. It is a good site and it gives the years. So only click on the right timeframe ie:2002
HOPE this helps.......

 

[Kat]

Date of OP was 09-26-06.

This was a local story for us, so I looked in the archives of KWTX our local channel for news.

I found that the Soldier had been Identified as:

Last Updated: 9:34 AM Oct 24, 2006

Skeletal remains discovered by a property owner on Sept. 25 in southwestern Bell County are those of a Fort Hood soldier who has been missing since 2001, investigators said Monday.

Matthew Moraski, 23, of Westfield, Mass. failed to report for a formation on Dec. 27, 2001.

Link to information: http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/4459841.html


COD determined Suicide:

November 22, 2006

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/4722841.html
RIP Matthew, he served in the 4TH Infantry DIV

 

[Teddy50]

anyone know of a soldier missing in texas (in the US- not iraq) since 2001?
some remains were found today in central TX, with military tags.
Remains found in southwestern Bell County

Military identification tags list name of soldier missing since 2001.

By Katie Humphrey
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The Bell County Sheriff's Office is investigating a "questionable" death after finding human skeletal remains on private property on Monday afternoon, officials said.

The remains, found by a landowner in southwestern Bell County, have been sent to the Southwest Forensic Institute in Dallas for an autopsy, Sheriff Dan Smith said in a media release.


Officials from Fort Hood are also involved in the investigation because a set of military identification tags was recovered along with the remains, Smith said. The tags list the name of a soldier who has been missing since 2001, he said.

The sheriff's office will not release the name on the tags until the remains have been positively identified and next of kin are notified, Smith said.

[email protected]; 246-0053

Cause of death listed as Suicide, so how did he get there in the remote desert, unfound for 5 years?
I knew his Grandfather Dan Moraski in Southwick MA, but he did not know that I knew of this tragedy.

 

[Friday Fan]

Cause of death listed as Suicide, so how did he get there in the remote desert, unfound for 5 years?
I knew his Grandfather Dan Moraski in Southwick MA, but he did not know that I knew of this tragedy.

It's not a desert. It was on private property, likely in secluded site etc. (99% of land in Texas is private property) There is plenty of thick brush and it's fairly easy to trespass. This is just a random screenshot from a state highway in South West Bell County. It's about 50 miles north west of Austin.

Street View of Bell County · Google Maps

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