Identified! VA - Cana, Wht/HispMale UP10226, 25-35, along Timber Road, Apr'12 - Name not found

CANA, Va. — Law enforcement officials were combing through missing-person files Monday in an attempt to identify human remains found the day before along a Cana roadside.

... of a person believed to have been dead “less than five years.”

.. officials also have tentatively identified the gender of the person. “They were leaning yesterday toward it being a male,” ...

...believed to have been between 25 and 35 years old at the time of death.

... located on Timber Road, which connects Bear Trail and Wards Gap Road in a remote section of southern Carroll County.

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Read more: Mount Airy News - New details emerge about dead body

http://www.mtairynews.com/view/full_story/18083024/article-New-details-emerge-about-dead-body

Thanks for posting Carl. I am about to become unemployed for the first time in 30 years and plan to spend some time looking into some of the Unidentified cases. Please let me know if you have any leads you want followed up on. I am starting to build a list of possible matches for this one.

My first hunch is: Israel Ray Smith, Wythe County, Virginia, 28 to 29 year old white male missing since March 24, 2008. https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/2828/0/

and here, the VA state missing persons site, they actually spell his name wrong: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1AO6ts-ILTyO2pyBAqoqOSJuXpvMA2KWB8bJnFy2SJug

While I don't know anything about Israel's history, I am somewhat familiar with that area of Virginia and his home is a direct route to where the UID was found and not all that far away (about a 40 minute drive).

While my search has just begun, some of the others from VA are too far away or circumstances do not make them a close match. Since the UID was found close to the North Carolina border I will also look there. In addition, the area is scenic, a place where hikers and backpackers might be passing through, so that needs to be taken into consideration.

http://www.mtairynews.com/view/full...e-Possible-Surry-link-to-human-remains-probed

by Tom Joyce
Staff Reporter
5 days ago

DOBSON — Surry County authorities have identified two men missing locally as a possible link to Sunday’s discovery of human remains in Cana, Va., according to Sheriff Graham Atkinson.

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One is Joseph Pike, a disabled resident of McBride Road in the Flat Rock community reported missing in July 2009.

Another possibility mentioned by Atkinson is James Roger “Jimmy” Huff, who has been missing since April 2007. Huff, of 190 Palmer Road, Mount Airy, was 55 at the time of his disappearance.

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summer_breeze said:

http://www.mtairynews.com/view/full...e-Possible-Surry-link-to-human-remains-probed

by Tom Joyce
Staff Reporter
5 days ago

DOBSON &#8212; Surry County authorities have identified two men missing locally as a possible link to Sunday&#8217;s discovery of human remains in Cana, Va., according to Sheriff Graham Atkinson.

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One is Joseph Pike, a disabled resident of McBride Road in the Flat Rock community reported missing in July 2009.

Another possibility mentioned by Atkinson is James Roger &#8220;Jimmy&#8221; Huff, who has been missing since April 2007. Huff, of 190 Palmer Road, Mount Airy, was 55 at the time of his disappearance.

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Joseph Carl Pike http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/pike_joseph.html
James Roger Huff http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/huff_james.html

http://www.thecarrollnews.com/pages...ana+believed+to+be+Hispanic+male &id=18451991

by Allen Worrell, Editor 23 hrs ago

The identity of human skeletal remains discovered in Cana on April 1 are still unknown, but officials with the Carroll County Sheriff's Department now believe the remains are of an Hispanic male.

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http://www.galaxgazette.com/content/bones-remain-mystery-0

By Christopher Brooke, Reporter
Monday, May 7, 2012 at 6:00 am (Updated: May 7, 6:00 am)

HILLSVILLE — Remains found on Timber Road in Cana April 1 are going to a forensic lab in Tidewater to extract DNA to try to identify the subject, Carroll Sheriff J.B. Gardner reports.

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https://identifyus.org/en/cases/10226
ME/C Case Number: W2012-80393
Carroll County, Virginia
25 to 35 year old White Hispanic/Latino Male
Weight (pounds) , Cannot Estimate
Height (inches) 67, Estimated

SOCKS, PORTIONS OF DECAYED JEANS, UNDERWEAR, BELT, AND COINS. JEANS ARE PLATINI COUGAR JEANS SIZE 29 ?. HANES SHIRT TAG SIZE 42 - 44
SHOES- SKETCHERS HIKING BOOT STYLE
COINS
Dentals: mostly postmortem loss, no fillings in what was left.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/319126

I'm getting a permission error at NamUs but cannot find any further info.