List of formerly unidentified decedents, 2000–2009

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In the many unidentified decedent cases in the world, there are several cases where the individual is eventually identified. Most bodies are provisionally identified within a matter of hours, with the formal identification following a few days, weeks, or months later.

This list is for those individuals identified from between 2000 to 2009.

2000

Article Image Year of

death

Cause of death Location Circumstances
Reyna Marroquin Reyna Marroquin.jpg 1969 Murder US An immigrant from El Salvador who was killed after she informed her lover's wife of his affair. Her remains were not discovered until 1999, thirty years after her murder. The suspect later committed suicide after being questioned about the discovery of the remains in a barrel in his crawl space. Marroquin's body remained unidentified for several months.[1]

2004

Article Image Year of

death

Cause of death Location Circumstances
Alexander Fallon 1987 King's Cross fire victim UK A Scottish man who was previously nicknamed "Michael" and "Body 115" prior to his identification.[2]

2005

Article Image Year of

death

Cause of death Location Circumstances
Erica Green 2001 Murder US A young child murdered in 2001. The brutality of her murder led to national attention.[3] In an effort to identify the girl, police released sketches, computerized likenesses, and at least two busts depicting the victim.[4]

2006

Article Image Year of

death

Cause of death Location Circumstances
Mary Kate Chamizo 1999 Murder US A woman found murdered in Illinois. Some believe her case could be connected to that of Peggy Johnson, who was also murdered in 1999 and went unidentified for two decades.[5][6]
George Robert Johnston Sketch 2004 Suicide US A Canadian man who smuggled guns and dealt drugs in California. He committed suicide in a police standoff.[7]
Barbara Mullenix 2006 Murder US A woman murdered by her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend. The body was placed in a box and deposited in Newport Bay.[8]
Hans Pozo 2006 Murder Chile On March 27, 2006, the dismembered remains of the decedent were discovered in Puente Alto, a commune of Santiago. Ten days after the first discovery, the man was identified as Hans Pozo, a 21-year-old drug addict. His killer, an owner of an ice cream parlor named Jorge Martínez Arévalo, who committed suicide before he could be arrested, had shot Pozo in the head and subsequently dismembered his remains, scattering them around the city. His motive was to prevent Hans from disclosing to his family that he was supposedly his son, but a DNA match after the fact ruled out any relation between the two men.[9]

2007

Article Image Year of

death

Cause of death Location Circumstances
Kamnee Koushal Narain 1987 Murder US An infant girl whose body was found floating in the Cowlitz River in Washington on September 24, 1987. Two weeks earlier, the decapitated torso and legs of a woman had been found in the Lewis River and Willamette River in Washington and Oregon. Authorities believed this woman may have been the baby's mother. Both had been murdered. The victims were presumed to be Hispanic or Native American as they had dark skin and hair, but authorities were not completely sure of their race. In 2007, the woman was identified by DNA as 24-year-old Raj Mati Narain, and the child as her 14-month-old daughter Kamnee Koushal Narain. Raj Mati had immigrated from Fiji to Eugene, Oregon to be with her husband Ashok Kumar Narain in 1985; the couple were Indo-Fijians. Kamnee was born to them in Oregon in 1986. Ashok remains missing, though there is evidence he returned to Fiji in 1988. He is considered a person of interest in the murders.[10][11][12][13]
Riley Ann Sawyers 2007 Murder US A toddler killed by her abusive mother in 2007. She remained unidentified for several months and was nicknamed "Baby Grace."[14]
Tammy Vincent 2007 Murder US A Washington native murdered in California before she was due to testify in court. NCIS cast member Pauley Perrette appeared on America's Most Wanted when the case was detailed.[15]

2008

Article Image Year of

death

Cause of death Location Circumstances
Sidney Leslie Goodwin Sidney Goodwin.jpg 1912 Shipwreck

(RMS Titanic)

Atlantic Ocean An infant who died on the RMS Titanic. He was previously thought to be one of two other young children who died when the ship sank.[16]
Lindsay Harris 2005 Murder US A suspected victim of serial killer Neal Falls whose severed legs were found in a field near Divernon, Illinois. She was identified in 2008 as 21-year-old Lindsay Marie Harris, who had disappeared from Henderson, Nevada the same month her remains were discovered. She was known to be involved in prostitution, and her case remains under investigation.
Randell Harvey 1971 Murder US One of serial killer Dean Corll's victims.[17]
Rickie Lee Jones 1990 Murder US A victim of serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades. His companion, Regina Walters, was also a victim and also remained unidentified until 1991.[17]
Wanda Jean Mays 1986 Accidental fall US Mays, who disappeared from her relatives' rural home in Guntersville, Alabama, after midnight May 12, 1986, was initially believed to have been either abducted or possibly murdered. Remains found at the foot of a cliff in 2003 were confirmed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2008 to match Mays, and her death was ruled an accidental fall.[18]

2009

Article Image Year of

death

Cause of death Location Circumstances
Dot Howard 1954 Murder US On April 18, 1954, a young woman's battered body was found in Boulder Canyon near Boulder, Colorado. She had been beaten to death, but there were also signs of strangulation. Her teeth had no restorations, making it difficult to use dental records to identify her, she also didn't have any distinguishing features other than an appendectomy scar on her abdomen. In 2009, Silvia Plattem published a book titled Someone’s Daughter: In Search of Justice for Jane Doe, which theorized that Jane Doe was a woman named Kathrine Farrand Dyer. However, Katherine was found to be alive and living in Australia. Following the release of the book, a woman contacted Plattem stating that she believed that Jane Doe was her great-aunt, Dorothy Gay Howard, who had disappeared from Phoenix, Arizona in 1953 at the age of 18, and matched the victim's description. DNA comparison with Howard's sister confirmed her identity. It is believed that Howard was the first victim of Harvey Glatman, also known as "The Glamour Girl Slayer".

See also

References

  1. ^ Kevin Krause (30 September 1999). "Body Is Identified, Linked To West Boca". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  2. ^ Jonathan Duffy (22 January 2004). "Solved after 16 years - the mystery of victim 115". BBC News Online. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  3. ^ Goldblatt, Jeff (8 August 2002). "Slain Mystery Girl Brings Community Together". FOX News Network. Archived from the original on 8 April 2008. Retrieved 30 June 2006.
  4. ^ "Police Release New Bust Of 'Precious Doe'". KMBC-TV (TheKansasCityChannel.com). 19 September 2003. Archived from the original on 4 December 2005. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  5. ^ Tunkieicz, Jenny (21 July 2000). "Investigators find ties between Jane Doe, Illinois case". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  6. ^ "Identified - Index 5". doenetwork.org. The Doe Network. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  7. ^ The Vancouver Province (2006). "He told me, 'One day I'm going to do something big.' I Guess He Did". CanWest MediaWorks Publications. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  8. ^ Dowling, Paul. "Runaway Love." Forensic Files. TruTV. Atlanta, Georgia, 16 April 2010. Television.
  9. ^ "Hans Pozo is the name of the Dismembered from Puente Alto". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 6 April 2006. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  10. ^ "Doe Network Identified". Doe Network. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  11. ^ Slate, Leslie. "New evidence points to location of suspect in unsolved '87 murder case". The Daily News. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  12. ^ Slate, Leslie. "Police ID mother, infant found murdered in 1987". The Daily News. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  13. ^ Asianpost. "Hunt goes to Vancouver". South Asian Post. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  14. ^ Sara McDonald (30 November 2007). "DNA confirms Sawyers is 'Baby Grace'". Galveston Daily News. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  15. ^ "America's Most Wanted". 22 February 2009. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  16. ^ "Researchers properly identify unknown child who died aboard Titanic". CBC. Canada.
  17. ^ a b "Identified: Index 9". The Doe Network. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  18. ^ "Wanda Mays' brother talks to WAFF 48 News". WAFF 48. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
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