Identified! TX - Denton, UP59130 WhtMale 60-80, partial skeletal, spinal surgery, E McKinney St, Mar'19 - Bill Sheppard

[JerseyGirl]

Denton police are asking for help identifying human remains found earlier this year.

The Tarrant County medical examiner’s office has said the remains are those of a white man between the ages of 60 and 80, but the office hasn’t been able to identify them.

The remains were found March 1, when police got a call from a surveyor who found a partial skeleton on land he was preparing to develop in the 5600 block of East McKinney Street.

The man’s cause of death is still undetermined, so police don’t know whether there was foul play. Police do not know why parts of the skeleton are missing, she said.

The man would have been large, authorities said, and he previously had spinal surgery. He would have been dead at least a year.

Denton police need help identifying man’s remains found by surveyor

 

[iulia]

His NamUs page
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

#UP59130
Date Body Found March 1, 2019
ME/C Case Number 1904076

Sex Male
Race/Ethnicity White/Caucasian
Estimated Age Group Adult - Pre 80
Estimated Age Range 60-80
Estimated Year of Death 2017-2018
Estimated PMI 2 Years
Height 6' 0"-6' 5"(72-77 inches) , Estimated
Weight Cannot Estimate

Circumstances of Recovery Human remains recovered from a pasture in Denton County on March 1, 2019.

Condition of Remains Not recognizable - Partial skeletal parts only

 

[iulia]

The NamUs page is showing a permission error. Hopefully he's been identified.

 

[iulia]

Denton man’s family seeks answers three years after his skeletal remains were identified

Bill Sheppard’s friends were shocked when he failed to return home after an argument with a roommate in early 2018 ended with him taking her car without permission. They found

dentonrc.com

The short red dog was shaped like a banana when she curled up next to her owner, Bill Sheppard, who divided his time between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints off Old North Road and with his dogs in the woods around his home on the outskirts of Providence Village.
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Bill’s friends and his brother, Jim Sheppard, who didn’t learn his brother was missing until early fall 2018, said they called Denton police to report him missing. All made a similar claim about what they were told: Bill was homeless and didn’t want to be found.
[...]
Five months after his friends and family tried to report him missing, Bill’s skeletal remains were found in the 5600 block of East McKinney Street. Seven months later, Denton police sought the public’s help to identify the remains, according to an Oct. 9, 2019, Denton Record-Chronicle report.

Bill’s death investigation is inactive, pending further evidence, according to Denton police.
Now, Jim Sheppard and Bill’s friends are demanding answers. An internal affairs investigation is pending.

 

[Susikatze]

Poor guy. I am glad his family and friends have closure.