carbuff
Well-Known Member
If you can do US telephone calls, the most effective route is often to call the medical examiner for the unidentified person, who is usually listed on the first or last page of the Namus post (https://identifyus.org/cases/6754)
Another good strategy is to email or call the Namus administrators for either or both UID and missing person. In this case that would be Amy Dobbs for Harfield and Lori Bruski for the decedent. Again, those will be listed on the "contacts" page of the Namus listings.
You can also submit through Doenet, but I've never done that.
In any case, you want to just outline the reasons why you think it might be a match; in this case, especially the timeline, the broken leg, and probably the clothing.
I've never had anybody be anything but polite to me. Ignored, yes, frequently, but with this much similarity, you aren't likely to be ignored.
If they tell you he's been compared and it wasn't a match, ask them to update the decedent's information to include the ruleout.
My only reservation is that both men have DNA in the system and it ought to have been picked up automatically. But it could be mtDNA versus nucDNA.
p.s. It's a site rule that you have to have 50 posts before you can start a new thread. There are a bunch of game threads in the members-only area where you can beef up your count quickly, or I can start the threads for you if you send me the pointers.
