I apologize if I didn’t make clear the purpose of this thread or the Sheet we created.
I noticed several years ago when I was researching missing and unidentified persons and trying to find matches between them that there were several sources mentioning people who were not listed on NamUs or anywhere else online.
@victoriarobinson642 and I had privately discussed some of the people we’d found and helped one another research them in order to figure out if they’d ever been found or identified. Ultimately, the spreadsheet was created and we began adding people to it.
The two of us (and I know MANY other members) try hard to find potential matches between missing and unidentified persons, so I thought sharing our research might be beneficial to others. The people listed on the spreadsheet have been discovered while researching several places; Ancestry.com, newspapers.com, social media, law enforcement websites, mainstream media, and various other sources. All the names listed can not be found (to the best of our knowledge and research) in any public database, such as NamUs, The Doe Network, The Charley Project, etc.
We’ve both submitted some names to NamUs in hopes they’d be added to their database. Without a law enforcement contact and case number, however, they don’t accept or add them. I’ve also submitted some potential matches to The Doe Network (they’re the most responsive and have been willing to forward the submissions to genetic genealogists despite the MP or UID not being listed in NamUs).
As for not using full names, some of these people may not be missing. Several names on the Sheet have numerous newspaper articles and Ancestry trees suggesting they are most likely still missing. But, there are others that we’ve found on social media that a family member is searching for. That person could, unbeknownst to their family, be alive and well and voluntarily disappeared. This is in NO WAY meant to depersonalize anyone, rather protect those who may need protecting. There very well could be a reason they’re not publicly listed as missing.
The best way you can contribute to this thread and/or the entire purpose of what we’ve created is by doing any of the following:
1. Post here any MP/UID you’ve found online that may or may not have been located. Other members can help research them!
@victoriarobinson642 or I can add them to the Sheet if they’ve not.
2. Contact LE to verify whether someone has been located or identified and attempt to get them listed in a public database.
3. Help research.
4. Suggest and/or submit potential matches.
Just a few examples of how this research could help:
The distance is pretty great (approximately 350 miles from Chillicothe), but surely this must be her. JES, missing since 1957, was 53 years old, 5’2” tall, had arthritis, walked with a limp and had false upper teeth.
Some of her personal items were found hidden nearby where she disappeared, along with a rubber mallet and men’s clothing (splattered with red and white spots). Her 17-year-old nephew admitted the clothes were his and subsequently passed a polygraph. He later disappeared for several weeks before returning with no explanation as to where he’d been or what he’d been doing...
This is a case that was discovered by AddysMom7610 while researching old newspaper articles looking for possible perpetrators in the Rancho Cucamonga Jane Doe case. She found an article about Ronald E. Lanphear, who along with his pregnant girlfriend Diana Geisinger, went on a cross country murder spree resulting in the death of three people.
One of the victims was this female hitchhiker who, according to the most recent available articles, was still unidentified.
AddysMom7610 contacted the State of New Mexico Coroner's Investigator's office, and they verified that the girl was...
By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.
www.namus.gov
Partial skeletal parts of a woman, height about 65 inches, found in a wooded area off of Highway 82 West in Union county Arkansas, seems to have been a smoker. She was wearing red and white shorts, something black and brown shoes. This one seems quite solvable since dentals and DNA are available and the deceased had a security card with her. So if it was hers I'm assuming it might be just a matter of locating relatives for a DNA test.
Anyway the name on the social security card was Melvalyn Doris Washington.
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). I think CT, IL, NC and TN have some laws too, they are among the most active states on NamUs.
) who’ve been working to compile the data. It’s almost impossible for us to attempt to get these people added to NamUs or other public databases. If you want to submit someone from the Sheet on your own, please do!! As a reminder, Websleuths does not allow or condone members reaching out to family members! Just don’t do it.
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