Identified! WV - Cabell Co., Skeletal remains in remote area, Oct'12 - Michael Rigdon

CarlK90245 · Oct 21, 2012

A resident of Wire Branch Road was surveying property behind just before noon Sunday when he found what he believed was a human skull

Read More:
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/briefs/x1363969156/Human-skeletal-remains-found-in-Ona

Sheriff's deputies in Cabell County say human skeletal remains were found off Wire Branch Road in Ona. A family called police after making the unexpected uncovering.

...

It's unclear how long the remains have been there, but investigators suspect quite some time.

Sheriff Tom McComas tells WSAZ.com no missing people have been reported recently. However, they're treating this like a worst-case scenario, even calling in FBI investigators.

Read More:
http://www.wsaz.com/breaking/home/Human-Remains-Found-in-Ona-WVa-175154751.html

CarlK90245 · Oct 21, 2012

Connie Klomp is missing from nearby Huntington WV.

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/15573/0

... So is Samantha Burns

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/burns_samantha.html

... and Laura Etta King:

http://www.nampn.org/cases/king_laura.html

... and Jason Scott Atkins

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/a/adkins_jason.html

summer_breeze · Oct 24, 2012

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/briefs/x535102122/Search-moves-to-evaluation-period

October 24, 2012 @ 12:00 AM
CURTIS JOHNSON
The Herald-Dispatch

HUNTINGTON -- The effort to identify and explain human remains found this past weekend in Ona has moved from one of recovery to evaluation, said Cabell County Sheriff Tom McComas.

carbuff · Oct 24, 2012

This is pretty much the middle of nowhere: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Wire...11,+Ona,+Cabell,+West+Virginia+25545&t=m&z=11

ualaw99 · Oct 24, 2012

carbuff said:
This is pretty much the middle of nowhere: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Wire...11,+Ona,+Cabell,+West+Virginia+25545&t=m&z=11

When I did investigations for the Census Bureau, their employees told me there were spots so rural and inaccessible in W. Virginia that they sometimes had to ride mules or ATV's to access some "homes."

fiberoptick · Oct 27, 2012

There was a driver's license found with the remains.

According to a release from the Cabell County Sheriff's Department, Michael Whittier Rigdon's West Virginia driver's license was found near the human remains in Ona.

http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/Human-Remains-Found-in-Ona-WVa-175154751.html

kalikaboo · Oct 27, 2012

ualaw99 said:
When I did investigations for the Census Bureau, their employees told me there were spots so rural and inaccessible in W. Virginia that they sometimes had to ride mules or ATV's to access some "homes."

This is close to where I used to live in WV, and Ona isn't that rural. on outskirts of Huntington.

Redwood146 · Oct 27, 2012

So has Michael Whittier Rigdon been reported missing?

fiberoptick · Oct 27, 2012

Redwood146 said:
So has Michael Whittier Rigdon been reported missing?

Not that I'm aware of!

nerosleuth · Oct 27, 2012

Since we don't know the gender of the remains and how long it been there before it was recently found, there are two other missing persons from the tri state area that I'm aware of.

Janet Jolene Stephens Brown from Ashland, Kentucky went missing in October 2009.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/stephens-brown_janet.html

Dixie Barker from Ashland, Kentucky went missing in February 1983.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/barker_dixie.html

cj327 · Oct 28, 2012

I did some searching online, and I am pretty confident that the body is the same as the driver's license. I don't want to post details here as they are against WS policy, but all signs point to it being him.

Sharedspirit · Oct 28, 2012

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x535103000/Drivers-license-found-near-skeletal-remains

McComas said investigators have reached out to Rigdon's family. They were unsure of his whereabouts and as to why his identification would have been found in proximity to the human remains.

The sheriff confirmed that others lived at Rigdon's listed address in Ona. He declined comment when asked to disclose a specific address and the relationship those living at the residence had with Rigdon.

"We in law enforcement as well would wonder why somebody didn't report him missing, if in fact he is missing," McComas said. "Based upon some information we have obtained, he potentially had lived at another location or two. That's why we're not being specific."

mikkismom · Nov 15, 2012

Smithsonian asked to help ID remains

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x1102806087/Smithsonian-asked-to-help-ID-remains

summer_breeze · Nov 20, 2012

http://www.wsaz.com/news/wvnews/headlines/Human-Remains-Found-in-Ona-WVa-175154751.html

UPDATE 11/19/12 @ 10:40 p.m.

ONA, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- An investigation into human remains found last month off Wire Branch Road in Ona continues.

summer_breeze · Jan 27, 2013

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/briefs/x2070307789/Skull-found-near-Lesage

January 05, 2013 @ 12:00 AM
LACIE PIERSON
The Herald-Dispatch

<snipped>

In November, experts from the Smithsonian Institution based in Washington, D.C., visited the area to assist in identifying skeletal remains found on a property along Wire Branch Road in Ona.

The sheriff said there were no new leads on that case as of Friday.

believe09 · Jan 27, 2013

"Both fortunately and unfortunately, that situation was an education for our staff on how to deal with skeletal remains of that nature," McComas said. "Right now, it is too early to say even if this person is from this area due to the proximity to the river, but we are moving forward with our part of the investigation."

From your link, summer. Did someone have the skull on his desk :waitasec: That is such a strange statement...

Wolf Dreamer · Jan 28, 2013

So hang on, they've found a second body in the area, or the skull goes with the remains? And if they have a potential name, why haven't they done DNA?

EmmaliLucia · Jan 28, 2013

I'm thinking that there is a second set of remains.The ones found in November on someone's property and a skull found recently by a rabbit hunter..

Aunt_B · Jan 2, 2015

http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/Human-Remains-Found-in-Ona-WVa-175154751.html

UPDATE 1/2/15 @ 1 p.m.
ONA, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Two years after human remains were found in Ona, West Virginia, officials say they have been positively identified.

Friday, the Sheriff's Office and West Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner released the remains belonged to Michael Rigdon, who was 52-years-old.

Identified! WV - Cabell Co., Skeletal remains in remote area, Oct'12 - Michael Rigdon

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