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| LAM900723 July 23, 1990; Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana | |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Jul 13 2008, 02:02 AM Post #1 |
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Unidentified White Male The victim was discovered on July 23, 1990 in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana Estimated Date of Death: Hours prior -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vital Statistics Estimated age: 40-55 years old Approximate Height and Weight: 68" Distinguishing Characteristics: Short dark brown to black hair. Mustache. Dentals: No dental chart done. Clothing: Blue jeans, unknown brand or size. Tattoos: Right forearm: an anchor, a sailing ship, the name "JIM", and a bird. Left forearm: a cobra and an insigna with "H.S." and "NAVY". The right calf: a cross. The left calf: a mermaid and a female in a short skirt, boots and a furry hat. DNA: Profile available at state lab. Sketch drawing of tattoos on right forearm Sketch drawing of tattoos on the left calf Sketch drawing tattoo on the right calf Sketch drawing of tattoos on the left forearm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case History The victim was located at a truck stop in Tangipahoa Parish, LA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Investigators If you have any information about this case please contact: Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office/FACES Lab 225-578-6084 You may remain anonymous when submitting information. Agency Case Number: LSU 90-09 Source Information: UDRS http://www.doenetwork.org/ This man had alot of Tatoos-Images Below---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Jul 13 2008, 02:05 AM Post #2 |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Jul 13 2008, 02:06 AM Post #3 |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Jul 13 2008, 02:07 AM Post #4 |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Jul 13 2008, 02:17 AM Post #6 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 4 2010, 10:12 PM Post #7 |
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For nearly 20 years, Alice Langley had envisioned dozens of scenarios for the disappearance of her brother on July 23, 1990, exhausting every avenue to locate him and tormenting herself with imagined chance sightings in the faces of strangers. Her brother, James Nelson, 52 at the time of his disappearance, was a lover of life, words and the open road, Langley said. He was hitchhiking his way from Florida to Langley’s home in Texas when he vanished. “I thought about him constantly, coming up with all kinds of things for where he may be,” said Langley, 76. Langley finally got her long- awaited answer in June when the LSU Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Service — or FACES — laboratory identified as Langley’s brother the remains of a man found at a truck stop in Hammond the same night Nelson went missing. Nelson’s case was one of two nearly 20-year-old cold cases Mary Manhein, director of the FACES lab, and her team were able to solve on the same day, June 17. The second case involved the body of a man found in a swamp off Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans in 1992. Manhein’s team was able to identify the man as John Erickson, 23, who was on his way from New Orleans to visit his mother when he went missing in 1991. Determined relatives of the missing men were able to finally find their loved ones using the Louisiana Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons Information Program, an online database run by the staff of the FACES lab. Since receiving state funding through legislation enacted in 2006, the FACES lab has been systematically compiling biological and DNA profiles on all missing and unidentified persons from Louisiana. The online database provides a centralized location for people to search through physical descriptions of unidentified persons and the circumstances of their discovery. In Nelson’s case, the description of his tattoos “sent chills” down the back of his niece, Janice Carroll, who stumbled upon the FACES website and Nelson’s listing on April 12 through a series of references from coroner’s offices and authorities in other states. The family’s DNA was compared to a sample Manhein took from the remains 20 years previously and the two were a match. Nelson’s relatives believe he was trying to hitch a ride on the side of the road when he was hit by an 18-wheeler and dragged more than 100 miles along Interstate 12 before his body ended up at the Hammond truck stop. “I just have to believe his spirit flew free on impact, and he’s been free for 20 years,” Langley said. “He’s free and full of joy, and now I can be, too.” Relatives of Erickson could not be reached for additional information. Before the databases’ creation, there was no central repository for information on missing and unidentified persons throughout the state. Manhein and her team have traveled to every parish in Louisiana, requesting all information available on people reported missing as well as unidentified bodies found there. Manhein said the database consists of information on more than 100 unidentified people and 200 missing people from Louisiana, as well as hundreds of missing persons from throughout the nation. And it’s working. Since it’s inception, Manhein said, the system has resolved nearly 100 missing or unidentified cases, including six cold cases. One cold case solved through the FACES lab combined the team’s technique of reconstructing faces using clay with the strong memory of an investigator. Lt. Robert Davidson with the DeSoto Parish Sheriff’s Office visited Manhein’s lab in August 2007 seeking information on a skull found in 1985. While browsing Manhein’s work space, Davidson said, he stumbled upon a familiar face — a partial clay reconstruction on a skull found in Bossier Parish that resembled a photo of a person reported missing in DeSoto Parish in 1975. The skull was found in a landfill in 1979 in Bossier City, about 30 miles north of where the man was reported missing. Davidson dug up the files and contacted the family of Victor Barajas, 20, for DNA samples. They matched. After sitting in labs in Bossier City and Baton Rouge for nearly 30 years, Barajas’ remains were laid to rest in his hometown of McAllen, Texas. Manhein’s team also assisted in identifying the skull that initially brought Davidson to the FACES lab as that of man who was reported missing in 1985. “If Mary says it, it’s right,” said Davidson, who’s been in law enforcement for 36 years. “The work she’s doing with DNA and evidence, it’s a whole new ballgame. We’re able to solve these decades-old cases.” In addition to working on cases long forgotten by most of the public, the FACES team is also an “invaluable” resource for current cases, said East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III. Manhein’s team moves in when the body is too damaged for conventional methods to establish a date or cause of death or an identity. Manhein’s team collaborated on cases involving convicted serial killers Derrick Todd Lee and Sean Gillis, and, Moore said, is involved in two Baton Rouge homicide cases. But Manhein said identifying people after most of their families have given up hope is “the best feeling in the world.” “We get to send them home and allow the families to go on with their lives in peace,” Manhein said. For nearly 20 years, part of Nelson’s remains were stored in labs while the rest were buried in Holly Gardens Cemetery in Tangipahoa Parish with a headstone reading only John Doe. Nelson’s niece, Carroll, said her uncle’s remains will be exhumed and cremated. His ashes will be buried next to his father in Florida on July 23, exactly 20 years after Nelson was killed. “Everyone can now rest at ease,” Carroll said. “He’s OK now. It’s sad what happened, but at least we finally have closure.” http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/97750384.html |
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