MT MT - Turah, Clark Fork Rvr near Turah Fishing Access, UncMale 18-50, UP15667, skull fragment, Jul'16

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NamUs UP 15567

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Unidentified Male Remains (Partial skull)

Body Condition: Not recognizable - partial skeletal only


Probable year of death: to


Vital Statistics

Estimated age: 18-50

Approximate Height: cannot estimate.
Approximate Weight: cannot estimate.
Hair Color: nothing
Eye Color: nothing


Clothing & Accessories

Nothing.

Jewerly: nothing.



Identifiers

Fingerprints: Fingerprint information is currently not available
Dentals: Dental information is currently not available
DNA: Sample submitted - tests not complete


Case History
The frontal portion of a partial human skull was found on an island in the Clark Fork River near the Turah Fishing Access by a crew spraying for invasive weeds. The area is prone to heavy spring flooding; after extensive searching with cadaver dogs, no other human remains were found. Forensic analysis of the skull fragment indicates the decedent to be a small-statured adult, most likely male, of an unknown age and ethnic heritage. The condition of the skull suggests that it had been skeletonized for several years at a minimum. There was no trauma.
 
Possibly Native American. There was a Fort in Missoula for a long time.
 
If this part had come down-river in the floods (rather than locally) what are the most likely states of origin?
 
Nothern ID and eastern Wa are to the west not sure if this area would drain into the Clark fork or not. The 1910 firestorm blew through there and devistated everything for miles around. Still known as the big burn
Sorry OT remarkable history in that area .There was a man Brian Shookman that went missing between Kellogg Id and Sunny Slopes / Osburn Id . In July 2012.
 
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Nothern ID and eastern Wa are to the west not sure if this area would drain into the Clark fork or not. The 1910 firestorm blew through there and devistated everything for miles around. Still known as the big burn
Sorry OT remarkable history in that area .There was a man Brian Shookman that went missing between Kellogg Id and Sunny Slopes / Osburn Id . In July 2012.
That’s a possibility.

Brian Edwin Shookman
 
Nothern ID and eastern Wa are to the west not sure if this area would drain into the Clark fork or not. The 1910 firestorm blew through there and devistated everything for miles around. Still known as the big burn
Sorry OT remarkable history in that area .There was a man Brian Shookman that went missing between Kellogg Id and Sunny Slopes / Osburn Id . In July 2012.

The river flows east to west, from the Montana mountains into Pend Orielle Lake in Idaho, then northward where it hooks into British Columbia and enters the Columbia River right about at the US/Canada border. The Columbia continues mostly westward to the Pacific. Here's a map (from Wikipedia) of the Clark Fork drainage: Clark Fork River - Wikipedia

This is where the body was found, roughly: خرائط ‪Google‬‏‏

There's really not much place for the skull to have come from except that area of Montana between Butte and Missoula. The fishing access where the skull was found is even upstream from the city of Missoula.

Scott Gilchrist is one of the two who have been ruled out:

MP253 Shannon LaBau 02/23/1999 Lewis and Clark MT
MP 14936 Scott Gilchrist 10/22/1999 Missoula MT
 

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