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The links worked for me, Irish Eyes. What a clever idea. If I enter your user name in the search box for "People", it takes me to your pages without being logged in as a user. I wasn't familiar with Pinterest before now. Thanks for sharing.
 
I was just wishing there was a function like this a couple of nights ago! The search engine for NamUS is good, but it's only as good as the amount of people that have been entered into it. Doe took me hours just to look for women who went missing in the early part of 1984 in Florida when I was searching the other night. Maybe I'm making it too hard? :waitasec:
 
Thanks for the feedback guys!

Kimster, on Doe, I would look under geographical and then they are listed chronologically within the geographical. Or if you look chronological, you can scroll through females from 1984 and only click on ones with "fl" at the end of their Doe ID. There's no way to search like that on their photo index.

Cool. Now I know that it works I'll keep adding to this page and probably make a few more. At some point I'll list the others here in case anyone finds them useful. If anyone else wants to do it, just let me know. If you just go to Pinterest there is a waiting list to get on (which I really think is just to make people WANT to get on more.) But if an existing member adds you, you get on right away. So I can add anyone who wants to check it out.
 
I have some very exciting news. :D

CarlK is now a mini-moderator for all of The Unidentified forums! :woot:

Be easy on him or you know what will happen...:saber: :giggle:

Congratulations CARLK90245 !!! :blowkiss:
 
I put together this mtDNA map, detailing four generations in a family tree. Each of the family members highlighted in a red oval have identical Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).

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Using mtDNA testing, a familial relationship could be proven between any two people highlighted with a red oval. However, the exact nature of that familial relationship cannot be determined via mtDNA testing. Nuclear DNA (nucDNA) testing must be used to establish the specific relationship between the two persons.
 
Anyone working on New York City cases might want to look at this site:

http://www.therestlesssleep.com/?p=134

I noticed one of the postings on here was for a case I hadn't heard of before and is not in NamUs. The poster goes by the name David Stroebel and says that in 1944 his 15 year old cousin Freida Winget went missing in the Bronx. Just thought I'd throw it out there in case anyone is looking at any really old UID cases.
 
High School Yearbooks

Do you still have your High School Yearbooks for the years 1988 or prior?. Memory Lane (i.e., Classmates.com) wants to include your yearbook in their massive collection.

Other sites (Ancestry.com and e-yearbooks.com) have some yearbooks on their sites, but they don't have anywhere near the number of yearbooks in their collection that Memory Lane has.

Having access to the Memory Lane collection has been quite useful in researching UID and MP cases. In several instances, I have found high school portraits for missing persons for whom no photo was previously available. I also believe (though it still hasn't been verified) that I found a portrait of one of the mystery persons in the Rodney Alcala photo collection in a 1970 book for a school in NYC.

In recent months, I have been performing the very tedious task of browsing through 1960's, 1970's and 1980's yearbooks from around the country looking for some of the teens and 20's UID's for whom a clear photo is available. I am currently looking for Buckskin Girl and the 1984 Davie FL Jane Doe w/Curly Blonde hair. I have found some pretty close possibles for both, but were able to rule them out.

Memory Lane has thousands of yearbooks, but their collection is by no means complete. We need a more complete library to assist us in our research. If you are willing to loan your yearbook to Memory Lane to include it in their online library, you can do so by clicking the following link and completing the requested information.

http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks...hitwiseSegment=paid&checkCookie=1329501854682

Memory Lane will pay all the costs of shipping your yearbook to and from their location. Upon completion of the online form linked above, if they don't already have your edition, you will receive in the mail the Fed-Ex shipping boxes, the shipping authorization form, and the necessary paperwork for you to sign. You can then package up the books and drop them off at your local Kinko's. The books will be returned to you in 4-6 weeks.

I have loaned two of my High School yearbooks (1978 and 1981 El Segundo High School), and I am currently loaning them three of my mother's yearbooks (Grand Ledge (MI) High School 1937, 1938, and 1939).

These books are only available to paid subscribers. If you would like to include your yearbook, but are unable to access the collection to verify whether they already have a copy of your year(s), drop me a PM, and I will check for you.
 
I'm not sure if we want a thread when things like this come up? I'm not sure how often it happens.

But, I found where this gentleman's remains were found. I'm not sure where or when though? And if we have a UID thread about him here or not? I'm not sure how we can figure it out if we don't have information on where his remains were found?

Rahim Quaam Martin

Case Type: ColdCase
DOB: Oct 21, 1981
Missing Date: Jan 19, 2001
Age Now: 30
Missing City: Newark
Missing State: NJ
Case Number: x


Gender: Male
Race: Black
Complexion: Medium
Height: 5-8
Weight: 180
Hair Color: Black
Hair Length: Medium
Eye Color: Brown
Wear Glasses or Contacts: No

Location Last Seen: **UPDATE - Rahim's remains were discovered.** Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance: Rahim went with his friend Anwar Green (also missing), to pick up a check resulting from a civil lawsuit settlement and possibly had a large amount of cash with them. Both men remain missing.

Last Seen Wearing: Red jacket, jeans, athletic shoes.

Identifying Marks or Characteristics: Tattoo of a "bulldog" on right arm, tattoo of "Rah" on lower arm.

http://www.blackandmissinginc.com/cdad/index.cfm?MissingInfoID=348
 
There are two missing persons cases that I think would be really fascinating to solve, and suprisingly, they are not on Doe, Charlie, or NamUs. One being D.B. Cooper, and the other being Jimmy Hoffa.

One day out of sheer boredom I took a gander in NamUs. There is only one UID that would seem to make any sense to be Hoffa - found in Sept of '75 in a lake in Wisconsin (male torso only). The lake is off I-94, which winds down past Chicago, and eventually to the Detroit area. The FBI seems to think the NY mob was behind Hoffa's disappearance, but it's easy to see why the Milwaukee outfit would have had some incentive to hate Hoffa then too. Hoffa was threatening to cut off access to loans that Milwaukee relied on for its casino ventures. Calling this a long shot would be an understatement, but my curiosity is peaked anyway. And I do wonder why they are not in NamUs as MP's....because you just never know....
 
Irish_Eyes said:
There are two missing persons cases that I think would be really fascinating to solve, and suprisingly, they are not on Doe, Charlie, or NamUs. One being D.B. Cooper, and the other being Jimmy Hoffa.

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DB Cooper is not in the MP sites because he is not a missing person per se. He is a criminal whose true identity is unknown.
 
Kimster said:
I'm not sure if we want a thread when things like this come up? I'm not sure how often it happens.

But, I found where this gentleman's remains were found. I'm not sure where or when though? And if we have a UID thread about him here or not? I'm not sure how we can figure it out if we don't have information on where his remains were found?

Rahim Quaam Martin

Case Type: ColdCase
DOB: Oct 21, 1981
Missing Date: Jan 19, 2001
Age Now: 30
Missing City: Newark
Missing State: NJ
Case Number: x


Gender: Male
Race: Black
Complexion: Medium
Height: 5-8
Weight: 180
Hair Color: Black
Hair Length: Medium
Eye Color: Brown
Wear Glasses or Contacts: No

Location Last Seen: **UPDATE - Rahim's remains were discovered.** Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance: Rahim went with his friend Anwar Green (also missing), to pick up a check resulting from a civil lawsuit settlement and possibly had a large amount of cash with them. Both men remain missing.

Last Seen Wearing: Red jacket, jeans, athletic shoes.

Identifying Marks or Characteristics: Tattoo of a "bulldog" on right arm, tattoo of "Rah" on lower arm.

http://www.blackandmissinginc.com/cdad/index.cfm?MissingInfoID=348
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Found Deceased NJ - Rahim Qua'am Martin, 19, Newark, 19 Jan 2001 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

Martin, 19, disappeared with a friend, Anwar Green, 19, from Newark, New Jersey on January 19, 2001. The day after they were reported missing, the bodies of two individuals were found in a burned house in Newark. The victims had been murdered and the house intentionally set on fire. One of the victims was identified as Martin in August 2010. The other body remains unidentified and Green is still listed as a missing person.

http://charleyproject.org/resolved.html
 
I'm wondering if this is still a current practice. :waitasec: It seems there was difficulty identifying these remains.

"The U.S. Department of Justice National Missing Persons database revealed no matches to the remains found in that area. Officer Thompson later discovered that Zunke had been declared legally dead in 1983 and removed from the database. "
http://www.kndo.com/story/18849916/human-remains-found
 
The following is from an article regarding Princess Doe, but contains information about a possible national monument to people whose bodies have been found but who have never been identified:

Sunday, 30 years to the day after the body was found, about 100 people gathered around the headstone of Princess Doe to hear of new efforts to identify her and who killed her and hear of an idea that could lead to a national monument to those whose bodies have been found, but remain unidentified.

The idea for the national monument, similar to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, is being put forward by former police Lt. Eric Kranz, who was the first lead investigator in the case.

While he retired from the Blairstown Police Department in 1985, he has remained interested in the young woman's death and it was with the death of his own daughter, Michelle, who died of cancer in 2007, that the idea of a memorial to all the "unknowns" took seed.

"It started with her. I had the time to be with her," Kranz said. "But these families don't have a place to go to, no place to mourn, no place to say goodbye."

The former officer said he would like to see such a national monument and believes Washington or Arlington would be a good place since "many people vacation there. It is a destination."

http://www.njherald.com/story/19029811/blairstown-cold-case-gets-warmer
 
Here is a link to my WS blog in which I discuss searching NamUs for Hispanics, Asians, other ethnic groups:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/blog.php?b=1044

I never realized that many non-white UIDs are listed as white on NamUs.

NamUs is working to get MEs to use "unsure" rather than "white" when they are unable to tell for sure the ethnicity of the UID.
 
I posted a few more "new to me" 1980's missing cases that I found on the Colorado BCI website that are not in Namus/Doe/Charley, etc. They are in the 80's missing section. I'm going to try to keep finding some of these cases that aren't known to us already.
 
So I was watching a show today about snakes of all things. (It might have been History Channel Nat'l Geographic or PBS, cant remember). At some point there was a woman scientist talking about the differences between human and reptilian skeletons. She talked about how reptilian spines are more flexible left/right, while human spines are more flexible forward/back. She was holding up a human spine and showing how the vertebraes connect and talking about spinal fluid, etc.

Here's what I thought was interesting. She said that as humans walk throughout their day gravity causes the spinal fluid to gradually move downward. As a result she said we are actually shorter at the end of our day than at the beginning - because our spine compresses some when there's less fluid floating in there. She said anywhere up to an inch shorter! That got me thinking about our UIDs....as they lose spinal fluid in the decomp process perhaps they get shorter too? Perhaps that is just another factor in why some of the heights are off. I will try to find the title to the program and a link.
 
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