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| NCM071100 / Genesis Lewis; Nov 2007 Goldsboro | |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jan 12 2008, 02:20 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.newsargus.com/news/archives/200...rch/index.shtml No word yet on identity of body found near church Authorities are still hoping to solve the mystery behind an unidentified skeleton found in November on the property of a Goldsboro city councilman. Detectives slogged through mud in waders as they logged bone fragments from a ditch behind Fellowship Baptist Church off Arrington Bridge Road that month. Sheriff's Office Capt. Tom Effler said this week that turning the remains over to the state Medical Examiner's office has produced at least some leads. "I will say this: The remains appear to be someone late in age, probably in excess of 55 to 60 years old," Effler said. The person also had suffered some sort of major injury, but the injury almost certainly had nothing to do with the male's eventual death, the captain said. "He had extensive facial injury on the left-hand side of his face -- prior to this, not because of this," Effler said. "Like he may have been involved in an accident." Sheriff Carey Winders said that other than the body being that of a black man, few clues have turned up. "We're beginning to wonder whether this is a homeless type person or whatever," the sheriff said. "His friends, no family connections around, anybody that's got anybody that's missing that they haven't seen" have not turned up. No one has reported a vacant house or other indicator that a person might have gone missing either, the sheriff said. "That's unusual that when you've got a body that's been missing and nobody turns up to claim it," Winders said. The sheriff said indicators such as stacked up newspapers or mail or abandoned belongings usually cause people to notify authorities of a missing person. Effler said traditional methods to identify the remains have failed, and the medical examiner's office is using other techniques of studying the bones. The captain said he did not want to say exactly how long the body had been in the ditch behind Fellowship Baptist Church, but said "he's been there a while." When detectives first began investigating, some speculated that the remains could have been from a Civil War battle. That theory has since been proven false, Effler said, and the Sheriff's Office must now ponder whether the man had simply wandered into the field. "Like I say, we're asking for the public's help," Effler said. "If they can identify the person, (they should) feel free to contact the Sheriff's Office." By Nick Hiltunen Published in News on January 10, 2008 02:04 PM |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jan 12 2008, 02:20 PM Post #2 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 30 2008, 11:51 PM Post #3 |
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Body found behind church in November identified The bones found behind Fellowship Baptist Church last November once belonged to a man known to wander fields and ditches in search of valuables, the Sheriff's Office says. http://www.topix.com/metro/goldsboro-nc/20...mber-identified |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 30 2008, 11:53 PM Post #4 |
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http://www.newsargus.com/news/archives/200...ber_identified/ The bones found behind Fellowship Baptist Church last November once belonged to a man known to wander fields and ditches in search of valuables, the Sheriff's Office says. Genesis Bruce Lewis had been missing since 2004, and did not turn up until someone found his skeletal remains scattered in a ditch in 2007. Foul play has never been suspected, authorities have said. Goldsboro police took the initial missing person report in January 2004. Lewis was identified by a Medical Examiner's Office bone expert after traditional identification methods proved fruitless, Capt. Tom Effler said. That left the identity of the victim a mystery for many months, after a reportedly happenstance discovery of Lewis' remains. A worker clearing a field belonging to Goldsboro City Councilman Chuck Allen alerted authorities when he found a skull on the Arrington Bridge Road property, Sheriff's Office officials said. It still is not clear how Lewis got there, and with the area's history of flooding, he could have died elsewhere and washed into the ditch, authorities have said. However, the land lies near the intersection of John Street -- where Lewis is last known to have lived -- and Arrington Bridge Road. The skeletal find launched a laborious investigation starting with a two-day excavation of the skull and bone fragments scattered over a distance of about 150 feet. A team of Sheriff's Office detectives and other volunteers said they were knee-deep in mud to extract the pieces of bone. As he left the excavation site when authorities finished their search on Nov. 24, Capt. Tom Effler remarked that despite the intensive search, "We have not found it all, and we probably never will." Because of the skeleton's age, investigation proved difficult, because medical and dental records proved difficult to obtain. Sheriff's Office detectives said that Lewis was actually the second missing person they posited as the skeleton's owner. Detectives sought records to link him with the skull and bones, Effler said, but time had washed those away as well. Only one facility was likely to have had medical or dental records belonging to Lewis, but the information was collected so long ago, that the records had been destroyed, Effler said. That left the greatest hope of identifying the body with Medical Examiner John Butts' office in Chapel Hill. It took many weeks, but the bone expert was finally able to positively identify Lewis. Effler said he got a call from a bone expert with the Chapel Hill-based Medical Exam-iner's Office. "He called and said 'I've got good news.'" Effler said. "I said, 'You've identified him, didn't you.'" Although there were no obvious signs of foul play in Lewis' death, what caused him to die is still officially listed as "undetermined." |
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