A couple walking out for their daily newspaper in Owen County, Kentucky, discovered a body instead on May 6, 1988. She was unclothed except for men’s socks, and her left hand was partially missing. A medical examiner determined that she had been strangled days earlier, and was between 25 and 40 years old. Her upper arm had a tattoo of…
Lula Cora Hood left her family after a dispute in 1970. She had 4 children at the time, who were under her sisters care. When a skeleton was found in East Galesburg, Illinois on Sunday, May 5, 1996, they matched Hood’s height of 4’10”. Lula Hood was presumed dead. 15 years later, and 41 years since the disappearance, Lula was…
Marvin Alvin Clark is the oldest active missing person case in the United States. He was born in 1852 and disappeared October 30, 1926, at age 69. Marvin vanished while on the way to visit his daughter in Portland, Oregon from Holbrook, less than 10 miles away. On October 30, 1926, Clark departed his home in Tigard to meet his…
The Iowa Department of Public Safety reported 386 Iowans total missing. Of the 386 people missing, 227 of them went missing in 2019. The DPS identifies each incident type including juvenile, adult missing, disability — physical/mental, endangered/physical, familial abduction, involuntary disappearance and missing after a catastrophe. The youngest missing person was under a year old while the oldest would be…
In 2015 U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy proposed the federal “Help Find the Missing Act,” or “Billy’s Law,” in honor of missing Waterbury man William Smolinski Jr. He sought to create an organized system to match remains to missing people. It would of provided an incentive grants program for law enforcement and medical examiners to report information to NCIC, the U.S….
Remains found in Buffalo Cave in 1979 may soon return to family. First, a torso was found by a family in the Idaho cave. In 1991, a young girl found a mummified hand. A search of the area turned up both arms and legs, wrapped in burlap. No head was ever located. Professors at the Idaho State University’s Anthropology Department have…
On November 5, 2017 a transient in Sun Valley, California was walking along a hillside when he found a barrel. The barrel appeared to have been burned. The same area had been engulfed in a fire only two months earlier. The person opened the barrel lid, revealing what appeared to be bones and called 911. The skeleton was noted to…
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is offering four training sessions across Native American Reservations in Montana, this November. At the training session, a NamUs representative will teach people about the free-to-use tool, and about how to enter information about a missing person. Nov. 6: Blackfeet Community College, Browning, 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., with lunch. Nov….
November 1, 2009. The remains of an adult male, estimated to be over 60 years old and 6′ tall, were found in a remote Palo Verde desert. The unidentified person had been deceased for at least a couple months and was unrecognizable. On the body was a gray shirt, gray socks, and gray shorts over gray sweatpants. There’s was also…
A patient at St. Mary’s Hospice in Tucson, AZ for palliative care died October 21, 2010 after battling lung cancer. Preceding his death he gave the fake name “Robert Johnson” to social workers. Fingerprints matched to a record under the name Robert Cessler AKA Bobby Steve Redman. Date of Birth April 19, 1945 and 103-36-3195 , a New York SSN….
