Identified! GA - Harris Co, BlkFem Skeletal UP5818, 34-59, in woods off I-185, May'09 - Name withheld

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http://www.wtvm.com/global/story.asp?s=10422813

Hunter stumbles across skeletal remains

HARRIS COUNTY, GA (WTVM) - A day in the Harris County woods ended with a grim discovery for one local turkey hunter.

Instead of finding a trophy gobbler on Memorial Day, he stumbled across a skull investigators say appears to be human.

The discovery was made in the woods off Georgia Highway 18 in Harris County, not far from Interstate 185 South Exit 34 for Pine Mountain/West Point.

...rest at the link provided...
 
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/731219.html

an update:
Since then, searchers have scoured the area around I-185 and Ga. 18 — near Exit 34 — finding leg bones, a skull and part of a pelvis.

“An additional pelvic bone was found (Wednesday),” said Rodney Wall, Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent in charge. “We don’t know if this is a man or a woman. We have no idea on race at this time.”

more at link
 
The human bones found off Interstate 185 this week have not been identified, but authorities hope DNA tests will offer more clues about the remains.

“We have to get more information from the lab on the race, sex and origin,” said Rodney Wall, Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent in charge. More at link: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/732837.html

kaelee
 
Possible identities:

From WALB (with videos)

Like the case of 61-year-old Alton Moss from Meriwether County who was last seen in 2005. Investigators believe foul play was involved in his disappearance.

Then, there's the case of Pamela Hixson who left her Talbot County home 3 years ago and hasn't been seen since.

In Harris County, authorities are still looking for 28-year-old Christopher Thompkins, who was last seen walking away from his job site in Ellerslie in 2002.

"There's missing persons cases in this area that we know of that working out of this office but there's also missing persons cases that we're aware of throughout the state. And we'll also have to consider any cases that are across the line into Alabama," added Special Agent Wall.
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An adult AA female.

https://identifyus.org/cases/5818

Date found May 27, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Estimated age Adult - Pre 60
Minimum age 34 years
Maximum age 59 years
Race Black/African American
Sex Female
Probable year of death 2008 to 2010
Estimated postmortem interval 9 Months
Address 1 I-185 AND HWY 18
State Georgia
County Harris
MEN'S BLACK UNDERWEAR SIZE 34 WERE FOUND IN THE SAME AREA AS THE REMAINS.
RED UNIDENTIFIABLE MATERIAL WAS FOUND IN THE SAME AREA AS THE REMAINS.
 
I think that this is the same UI. The article says she was found on May 25 2009, not May 27 as in NAMUS, but everything else looks correct.

HARRIS COUNTY, GA - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is asking for your help identifying human skeletal remains found in Harris County three years ago.

GBI forensic artists have released a photograph--they believe those remains belong to a woman resembling a constructed model.

"It appeared to be a black female in her late 30's, so we are making leeway slowly but surely in the identification and solving of this crime," Harris County Sheriff Mike Jolley says.
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It kind of concerns/puzzles me that the GBI has this UID on its web site twice, with different discovery dates listed...? I'm sure there's a reason, but...?

https://gbi.georgia.gov/case/unidentified-remains-326

https://gbi.georgia.gov/case/unidentified-remains-325


At the second link, its says investigators at one time thought the remains might be those of a missing woman from Talbot County (GA) but DNA ruled that out.


Also wanted to point out that where the remains were found is at the Georgia-Alabama boundary -- so she easily could have been from Alabama.
 
I don't have any MP suggestions yet for this UID -- hope someone will -- but I wanted to post her here and ask a few questions this UID brought up for me at the same time.

There actually seem to be two listings on the Georgia Bureau of Investigation web site for her -- I think it's probably just a glitch -- but linking them both. There are some small differences in the info, such as a few days difference in the date the remains were found. The reconstruction pictured is the same and the main info matches pretty well. The first link is the more complete info:

https://gbi.georgia.gov/case/unidentified-remains-325

https://gbi.georgia.gov/case/unidentified-remains-326

I don't see the UID in NAMUS. * In the info at the link (the longer one), it is mentioned that DNA was used to rule out a missing woman from Talbot County (GA) for this UID. My questions: Because of the mention of DNA being used, should I assume the UID's DNA is in CODIS? Or do some states maintain their own "banks" and not input to CODIS? Also, is it common for a state agency like the GBI not to put UIDs on NAMUS?

*ETA: I found her in NAMUS. See my third post. Sorry...
 
Also -- not to make this thread too confusing, but because this really jumped out at me -- the subject of this thread was found in 2009 in Harris County, very near the Troup County line. There is ANOTHER black female UID -- who IS in NAMUS -- found IN Troup County (GA) two years earlier, in 2007. (That UID was dismembered and partial remains were found in trash bags along a road; someone had tried to burn them.) The NAMUS link for that UID (NOT the subject of this thread, remember) is: https://identifyus.org/en/cases/11123 and DOE Network is http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/841ufga.html
 
Sheesh, folks -- I'm so sorry! The subject of the thread IS in NAMUS. I tried a different search method and found her:

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/5818

Don't know what went wrong the first five times I tried, LOL.

Anyhow -- here she is. Let's find who she is.
 
The GBI and NamUs links are all broken--so while I can't find confirmation of this, I believe she has been identified.
 
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