The Lost and the Found

This partially decomposed body was found in a drainage ditch beside the Rock Island tracks near the Reno/Allen street intersection.

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/3006

Case Report - NamUs UP # 3006
Case Information
Status Unidentified
Case number 722487
Date found October 02, 1972 13:40
Date created January 21, 2009 15:15
Date last modified December 09, 2016 11:37
Investigating agency
date QA reviewed January 22, 2009 10:02

Local Contact (ME/C or Other)
Agency Ofc of the Chief Medical Exmnr
Phone 405-239-7141
Case Manager
Name Angela Berg
Phone 918-295-3400

Demographics
Estimated age Adult - Pre 70
Minimum age 50 years
Maximum age 70 years
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Male
Weight (pounds) , Cannot Estimate
Height (inches) 68, Estimated
Body Parts Inventory (Check all that apply)
One or more limbs not recovered
One or both hands not recovered
Body conditions
Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton
Probable year of death 1971 to 1972
Estimated postmortem interval Weeks

Circumstances
Location Found
GPS coordinates
Address 1 N. Allen and W. Reno
Address 2
City OKC
State Oklahoma
Zip code
County Oklahoma

Circumstances
This partially decomposed body was found in a drainage ditch beside the Rock Island tracks near the Reno/Allen street intersection.

Physical
Hair color Gray or Partially Gray
Head hair
Fine textured, medium-graying, blonde straight hair - 4-6 inches in length.

Left eye color Unknown or Missing
Right eye color Unknown or Missing

Skeletal findings
Possible right-handed,
Long time edentulous.
Osteoarthritis - especially of lower back and extremities

Clothing and accessories are described below
Clothing on body
Dark trousers
Plaid shirt

Other items found
with body
empty wine bottle nearby

Dental
Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered

DNA
Status: Sample available - Not yet submitted

Images
There are currently no images available for this case.

http://newsok.com/article/5542856

Oklahoma Highway Patrol works to solve mystery of seven unidentified crash victims

by Josh Wallace Published: March 26, 2017 12:00 AM CDT

At least seven bodies lay in their final repose in cemeteries scattered across the state, entombed under names not their own.

They are among the 111 people cataloged in a database of unidentified persons in the state, and their cases will soon be given attention through social media in an effort to reunite the dead with their loved ones.

Capt. Ronnie Hampton, who oversees the Oklahoma Highway Patrol's traffic homicide program, said he was shocked when he logged into the database about a year ago and saw the number of dead who remain unidentified, ranging from the early 1970s to last year.

Hampton said a campaign is being launched between the patrol, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System and the state medical examiner's office to profile each of the seven people.

“Our goal is to bring attention to these valuable resources for Oklahomans who may have friends or relatives who have been missing for many years, and to reunite family members with their loved one's remains,” Hampton said.

Each of the six men and one woman was either a pedestrian or occupant in vehicles who died in crashes. The oldest of the cases involves a pedestrian killed in 1972.

Using articles of clothing and other information gathered at the time of death, Hampton said, they are hoping members of the public will recognize the deceased and start the process of positively identifying them.

Hampton said the seven people are buried in cemeteries in the counties in which they died, as either Jane Doe or John Doe. He described what happens after the agency thinks it has a match on one of the dead as a “step by step process.”

“Once we believe we have found the person and (their) relative ... then the medical examiner will start the legal process to file an order to have the body exhumed to try to get core DNA samples to match to a relative,” Hampton said.

Some cases will be difficult, as at least two of the dead were badly burned in crashes, but Hampton said there are others he's more hopeful of identifying.

“Some of them we don't think will be really difficult to do. What we're doing is triaging them, which one of these is most likely to solve. It will just depend on what evidence is in the case,” he said.