Identified! WA - White male, UP51038, Lynnwood, 1978 - Horace Jack “Dany” Prescott Jr.

[sasha17]

Skeletal remains were found in a field near 3016 164th Street SW in Lynnwood, WA on three separate occasions: January 4, 1978, March 10, 1978 and April 11, 1978. Men's clothing and a blanket were found near the remains. His estimated age is 40-80 with an estimated PMI of 1 year.

NamUs #UP51038 - The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

Missing man’s name literally found in grave of 1978 cold case | HeraldNet.com

BBM:

"Forty years ago, an unidentified man’s clothes and bones were buried at Cypress Lawn in Everett. In October, the grave was exhumed, with the hope that it held clues to the man’s past.

Cold case investigators dug up a name, printed on the shirt. '
“Prescott Horace.”"

Both Horace Prescott and the UID's NamUs page is offline now, indicating it was a match. Awaiting official statement from LE, though.

Horace Prescott's WS thread:
WA - WA - Horace 'Jack' Prescott Jr, 50, King County, 16 June 1977

 

[sasha17]

According to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner, this UID has been confirmed to be Horace Prescott.

Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office on Twitter

 

[sasha17]

Who Am I? Mystery of a 1978 Lynnwood John Doe is solved | HeraldNet.com

 

[Al Ka]

Who Am I? Mystery of a 1978 Lynnwood John Doe is solved | HeraldNet.com

Identified as Veteran Horace Jack “Dany” Prescott Jr.

Next on the former John Doe’s strange journey is to be buried a second time, in Oregon, at the request of extended family on his father’s side. Except this time, instead of a tiny paper marker for a pauper’s grave, Horace Prescott will get military honors.

 

[sasha17]

Further information from the county about how the identification was made: Horace Jack Prescott, Jr. | Snohomish County, WA - Official Website