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IL IL - Naperville, HispMale UP16366, 20-30, possibly from Mexico, Oct'96
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Here's his Doe Network page, but it has the wrong discovery date. doenetwork.org/cases/151umil.html
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[h=1]Naperville's two other unsolved murders[/h]Oct. 20, 1996: An unidentified Hispanic man was found dead, shot in the back of the head, in a forested area across Ogden Avenue from the Stardust Motel. He was never identified and his killer never captured.
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180126/napervilles-two-other-unsolved-murders
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180126/napervilles-two-other-unsolved-murders
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The UID does have a DNA sample in NamUs, so for those other potential matches that you're researching also have DNA in the system, it should be found automatically (if there is indeed a match).
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Age range for this UID has been made younger, now 18-26yo.
www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/16366?nav
NamUs #UP16366 Male, Multiple
Date Body Found October 20, 1996
Location Found Naperville, Illinois
Estimated Age Range18-26 Years
Circumstances of Recovery Found in a wooded area
Details of Recovery
Inventory of Remains All parts recovered
Condition of Remains Recognizable face
Physical Description
Hair Color Black
Head Hair Description Full head, medium length.
Body Hair Description Underarm hair.
Facial Hair Description Thin black mustache. Thick black eyebrows.
Eye Color Brown
Distinctive Physical Features
Well-developed, well-nourished. No indications of any dental work or orthodonture. Calluses on the right thumb and the inner aspect of the right palm at the base of the right index finger.
Clothing and Accessories
Clothing - "Athletic Works" brand: blue mesh sleeveless shirt, "Spaulding" brand: size 36-38 bikini style blue underpants. "Javolis" brand: black jeans, waist size 32. Made in Taiwan.
On the Body
Footwear
"Once" brand black boots, men's size 8
On the Body
www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/16366?nav
NamUs #UP16366 Male, Multiple
Date Body Found October 20, 1996
Location Found Naperville, Illinois
Estimated Age Range18-26 Years
Circumstances of Recovery Found in a wooded area
Details of Recovery
Inventory of Remains All parts recovered
Condition of Remains Recognizable face
Physical Description
Hair Color Black
Head Hair Description Full head, medium length.
Body Hair Description Underarm hair.
Facial Hair Description Thin black mustache. Thick black eyebrows.
Eye Color Brown
Distinctive Physical Features
Well-developed, well-nourished. No indications of any dental work or orthodonture. Calluses on the right thumb and the inner aspect of the right palm at the base of the right index finger.
Clothing and Accessories
Clothing - "Athletic Works" brand: blue mesh sleeveless shirt, "Spaulding" brand: size 36-38 bikini style blue underpants. "Javolis" brand: black jeans, waist size 32. Made in Taiwan.
On the Body
Footwear
"Once" brand black boots, men's size 8
On the Body
Maybe these were caused by repetitive tool use? This could indicate a construction profession.
Though am unsure when nail guns began to systematically replace hammers in construction, the deceased was found in 1996. Thus, his possible constriction experience would have started earlier.
Likewise, the deceased's physique was described as "well developed". Construction work is over all physical and construction work using hammers leads to workers with very strong fore arms etc.
20 years later, Naperville murder victim remains unidentified
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Murder, mystery
Naperville police continue to seek information that could lead to the identity of a Hispanic man found dead in a forested area across Ogden Avenue from the Stardust Motel on Oct. 20, 1996. - Courtesy of Naperville police
The case began on a chilly afternoon when a Kankakee man walking through a forested area north of Ogden Avenue near Sherman Avenue discovered the body. A storm had just moved through; the body was cold and wet.
Police wondered if the victim had been dumped there, in the small wooded site across from the nondescript Stardust Motel, now townhouses. But when they found shell casings from a pistol, they knew they were at the crime scene.
Authorities determined the man likely had been dead less than 24 hours when his body was discovered.
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Naperville Deputy Police Chief Brian Cunningham was a detective in 1996 when a man, still unidentified, was found dead in a wooded area across from a motel. - Daily Herald file photo, 2014
The work was round-the-clock at first. Police had baseball cards printed with the victim's image, and Cunningham passed them out as he made his rounds to talk with landscapers and restaurant workers.
Many of those he approached were hesitant to speak at first, but then it began to turn around.
"I started to get help," he said.
The locals told him the victim looked like he might be from the Mexican region of Michoacan. But something closer to the crime scene proved more helpful.
Cunningham got records from the Stardust and other motels, looking for vehicles in town at the time of the murder. He identified a van from Texas registered under different names that visited the Stardust every three months. Soon, he found the same van was visiting a motel in Elgin with about the same frequency.
Cunningham learned the visitors were involved in the marijuana trade, bringing loads of it to the suburbs for distribution in Chicago.
With a list of four suspected marijuana traffickers who came to the motels in the van, Cunningham and another officer traveled in January 1997 to McAllen, Texas, a border town not far from the Gulf of Mexico.
Hindsight says that was the best lead of the case. Now all Cunningham can say with some certainty is he believes the victim to be a Mexican man who was involved in dealing marijuana.
20 years, no name
Even when the Texas lead went cold, police weren't through seeking answers.
Naperville Crime Stoppers got involved and offered a reward. Cunningham said the department investigated at least 100 leads -- each a dead-end.
As each lead fizzled, so did public interest. Without knowing who the man was, there was little else to do.
It has remained that way for years.
But just last month, Cunningham said there was a technological breakthrough in fingerprint processing. Dutifully, he sent through the victim's prints, hoping they would align with someone who had been fingerprinted somewhere before the man's 1996 death.
He got nothing.
Anyone who has information about the victim is asked to call Naperville Crime Stoppers at (630) 420-6006. There remains a reward of up to $1,000 for information that helps the investigation and maybe even answers the first and last question of this two-decade-old case.
"The big thing is," Cunningham still wonders, "Who is he?"
20 years later, Naperville murder victim remains unidentified
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Murder, mystery
Naperville police continue to seek information that could lead to the identity of a Hispanic man found dead in a forested area across Ogden Avenue from the Stardust Motel on Oct. 20, 1996. - Courtesy of Naperville police
The case began on a chilly afternoon when a Kankakee man walking through a forested area north of Ogden Avenue near Sherman Avenue discovered the body. A storm had just moved through; the body was cold and wet.
Police wondered if the victim had been dumped there, in the small wooded site across from the nondescript Stardust Motel, now townhouses. But when they found shell casings from a pistol, they knew they were at the crime scene.
Authorities determined the man likely had been dead less than 24 hours when his body was discovered.
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Naperville Deputy Police Chief Brian Cunningham was a detective in 1996 when a man, still unidentified, was found dead in a wooded area across from a motel. - Daily Herald file photo, 2014
The work was round-the-clock at first. Police had baseball cards printed with the victim's image, and Cunningham passed them out as he made his rounds to talk with landscapers and restaurant workers.
Many of those he approached were hesitant to speak at first, but then it began to turn around.
"I started to get help," he said.
The locals told him the victim looked like he might be from the Mexican region of Michoacan. But something closer to the crime scene proved more helpful.
Cunningham got records from the Stardust and other motels, looking for vehicles in town at the time of the murder. He identified a van from Texas registered under different names that visited the Stardust every three months. Soon, he found the same van was visiting a motel in Elgin with about the same frequency.
Cunningham learned the visitors were involved in the marijuana trade, bringing loads of it to the suburbs for distribution in Chicago.
With a list of four suspected marijuana traffickers who came to the motels in the van, Cunningham and another officer traveled in January 1997 to McAllen, Texas, a border town not far from the Gulf of Mexico.
Hindsight says that was the best lead of the case. Now all Cunningham can say with some certainty is he believes the victim to be a Mexican man who was involved in dealing marijuana.
20 years, no name
Even when the Texas lead went cold, police weren't through seeking answers.
Naperville Crime Stoppers got involved and offered a reward. Cunningham said the department investigated at least 100 leads -- each a dead-end.
As each lead fizzled, so did public interest. Without knowing who the man was, there was little else to do.
It has remained that way for years.
But just last month, Cunningham said there was a technological breakthrough in fingerprint processing. Dutifully, he sent through the victim's prints, hoping they would align with someone who had been fingerprinted somewhere before the man's 1996 death.
He got nothing.
Anyone who has information about the victim is asked to call Naperville Crime Stoppers at (630) 420-6006. There remains a reward of up to $1,000 for information that helps the investigation and maybe even answers the first and last question of this two-decade-old case.
"The big thing is," Cunningham still wonders, "Who is he?"
20 years later, Naperville murder victim remains unidentified
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Postmortem Photo was recently publicized on NAMUS
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
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