Match! CA - North Highlands, WhtMale 1137UMCA, 30-50, in orchard, May'80 *Joaquin Moreno*

[Forager]

Just to give a sense of how long it's been since the UID was discovered in May 1980 "in an almond orchard... several hundred yards from Antelope Road and the Southern Pacific crossing in North Highlands." Here's what the area looks like now:



The key links for the case, to get them in one place and handy. (With slight discrepancies on the date of discovery, they all match pretty well):

NamUs UID record: https://identifyus.org/en/cases/2407

Sacramento Coroner's UID record: http://www.coroner.saccounty.net/Li...TypeId=0x0100E110048E8D184C48B947C183B06CF12D

The I Care Missing Persons Cold Cases UID record:
http://icaremissingpersonscoldcases....2#.VpwSKn0rLC1

The Doe Network IUD record: http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1137umca.html

The NamUs Missing Person record for Joaquin Moreno: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/29648/2

 

[Romulus]

Identified!

Joaquin Moreno

http://www.doenetwork.org/closed2016.php

 

[KaylaraOwl]

Hurray! I'm glad that his family will know what happened to him now.

 

[CarlK90245]

Sent it in. The namus contact is Carrie, and I've never gotten a response from her when I sent possible matches in. (Or from Pamela, either.) Hopefully I'll hear about this one.

Looks like KaylaraOwl turned this good match in back in January. Unless someone says differently, I'll consider this a WS Solve.

 

[KaylaraOwl]

That fine by me. I used WS, doe network, and namus on this.

 

[Alleykins]

Excellent news! Glad he got his name back.

 

[the_missing]

Excellent work!

 

[rats]

Rest in peace Joaquin :rose::rose:

 

[Tulessa]

That fine by me. I used WS, doe network, and namus on this.

Never underestimate those little owls! Good job!

 

[LinasK]

Just to give a sense of how long it's been since the UID was discovered in May 1980 "in an almond orchard... several hundred yards from Antelope Road and the Southern Pacific crossing in North Highlands." Here's what the area looks like now:

The key links for the case, to get them in one place and handy. (With slight discrepancies on the date of discovery, they all match pretty well):

NamUs UID record: https://identifyus.org/en/cases/2407

Sacramento Coroner's UID record: http://www.coroner.saccounty.net/Li...TypeId=0x0100E110048E8D184C48B947C183B06CF12D

The I Care Missing Persons Cold Cases UID record:
http://icaremissingpersonscoldcases....2#.VpwSKn0rLC1

The Doe Network IUD record: http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1137umca.html

The NamUs Missing Person record for Joaquin Moreno: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/29648/2

Just showed hubby, he did know of the area, but it's not the part of Antelope that was near his father's house. He said it's majorly changed from what it used to be. Now who murdered this guy?

 

[KaylaraOwl]

I don't know that there was any indication of foul play in this case.

 

[LinasK]

I don't know that there was any indication of foul play in this case.

Do we have a cause of death?

 

[KaylaraOwl]

I didn't see one.

 

[Jake479]

RIP Joaquin Moreno

 

[Owutatangledweb]

Doe network is giving credit to Kaylara.

http://www.doenetwork.org/closed2016.php

 

[KaylaraOwl]

I contacted them because I wanted the various groups involved to get credit. I told them it didn't matter if they mentioned me as long as they credited websleuths, doenetwork, and namus.

 

[Equestrianista]

I wonder how he died?

I read he was known to run his dogs in the orchard...I wonder what ever happened to his dogs if they were out with him?

 

[Ray_of_hope]

Congratulations KaylaraOwl! Awesome job. :yourock:

 

[KaylaraOwl]

I wonder how he died?

I read he was known to run his dogs in the orchard...I wonder what ever happened to his dogs if they were out with him?

I believe he was found by someone else who ran his dogs in the orchard.

 

[JerseyGirl]

After 36 years, son finds out what happened to his missing father

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article130455024.html

An autopsy revealed he most likely died of liver failure.

In early 2016, the website “Websleuths,” a forum that discusses crimes, trials and unsolved cases, discussed the possible connection between Islas’ unidentified persons case in Sacramento County and the missing persons report filed by Rodarte.

Hector Islas found the online discussion in March 2016, and contacted the Sacramento coroner.

“I’m grateful to Websleuths, along with the coroners and detectives who helped me work on finding my father,” Hector Islas said. “I think they’re superheroes of sorts for the missing and the unidentified.”