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| KYM210401 April 1, 1921; Georgetown, Kentucky | |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 4 2011, 04:40 PM Post #1 |
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Unidentified Male # Date of Discovery: Discovered early April and buried on April 14, 1921 # Location of Dicovery: Georgetown, Kentucky # Estimated Date of Death: Unknown # State of Remains: Unknown # Cause of Death: Unknown # Alias: Affectionately referred to as Some Mother's Boy Physical Description ** Listed information is approximate # Estimated Age: about 19-years-old # Race: Unknown # Gender: Male # Height: Unknown # Weight: Unknown # Hair Color: Unknown # Eye Color: Unknown # Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown # Dentals: Not available # Fingerprints: Not available # DNA: Not available Clothing & Personal Items # Clothing: Unknown # Jewelry: Unknown # Additional Personal Items: Unknown Case History Near the Tent Girl in Georgetown Cemetery is the resting spot of another unidentified body - a young man who was found dead outside Georgetown, Kentucky..The grave says he was killed. His remains were discovered in early April and he was buried on April 14, 1921. The townspeople pitched in to buy a grave marker, which reads: ~ Some Mother's Boy ~ Killed April 1, 1921 Interred April 14th, 1921 The only reference to him was the 1969 issue of Master Detective. The article leads you right to his final resting place...the only evidence proving that he ever existed.. There is little doubt that anyone who knew him would now be deceased but there's also little doubt that he has some relatives out there somewhere. There has got to be a gap in someones family Bible. http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1633umky.html |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 4 2011, 04:40 PM Post #2 |
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| tatertot | Feb 6 2017, 08:43 PM Post #3 |
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http://www.somerset-kentucky.com/news/some...ce49aaaea9.html Someone knows Something: 2 Pulaski missing person cases on Department of Justice radar By BILL MARDIS Commonwealth Journal Feb 3, 2017 An agency of the U.S. Department of Justice is actively working on two missing person cases, both with Somerset and Pulaski County connections. The oldest cold case, dating back to April 1921, involves the travel companion of a young man killed in a train accident in Scott County and detained for questioning in Somerset. The other is a white female, age 24 to 45 years old, whose skeletal remains were found July 2, 1995 in a remote section of western Pulaski County. J. Todd Matthews, director, Case Management and Communications, National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), called the Commonwealth Journal Wednesday to inquire if a news article was done locally about the young man who was detained in Somerset following the 1921 train accident. The Commonwealth Journal wasn’t much help. Bound volumes in this newspaper’s morgue, according to legend, were destroyed in a fire, sometime in the early 1920s. An article about the 1921 accident in a northern Kentucky newspaper, said “ ... the body of an unidentified young man, about 17 years old, was killed at the Southern Depot (in Georgetown) when struck by the Royal Palm train. “ ... The unknown young man’s companion, who is being held at Somerset, says that he does not know the boy’s name, having met him in Cincinnati on the way here. “The accident occurred when the two young men, who were under a box car on the east side of the tracks, attempted to pass in front of the northbound Royal Palm to catch a slowly moving passenger train on another track. The first man succeeded in crossing but the other was struck on the head by the engine. Several local people at the station witnessed the accident,” the newspaper said. The youth’s (victim’s) clothes bear the name of a Chicago clothier and his shirt has the laundry mark ‘Jones.’ The initials ‘W.A.’ are engraved on the back of his watch, and ‘L.H.D.’ is engraved inside the timepiece. The boy was about 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighed about 110 pounds, and had blue eyes, light brown hair and a fair complexion,” according to the newspaper article. Matthews is searching for the name of the young man who was taken off the train and detained in Somerset. The newspaper article never mentioned the name of the youth who was held for questioning. The woman’s skeletal remains found in Pulaski County more than 21 years ago is the only missing person from this county on NamUs Unidentified Persons Database, Matthews said. The remains were found about 10:30 a.m. July 2, 1995 by two people looking for a campsite, according to the late Sam Catron, then sheriff of Pulaski County. The discovery was the lede story in the July 3, 1995 edition of the Commonwealth Journal. The area of discovery is off Piney Grove Road West across Lake Cumberland from Pulaski County Park about a mile and a half west of the park. Then-Pulaski County Coroner Alan Stringer said most of the bones were above ground, scattered over an area about 40 feet. Shreds of the woman’s clothing were near where most of the bones were found and Stringer believes the bones were scattered by animals. Dr. Emily Craig, state medical examiner, said the body was put there more than a year before it was found. Stringer said pictures were taken of the scene where the skeletal remains were found, “ ... but I turned my files over to the next coroner.” The problem of missing persons and unidentified human remains in this country has existed for a long time. Significant progress has been in recent years and in 2003 the DNA initiative was launched. Major efforts are being made to maximize use of DNA technology in the criminal justice system. NamUs supports investigators across the country seeking to solve challenging cases involving missing persons Anyone with information about a missing person case may call Pulaski County Coroner Clyde Strunk at 606-679-1850 or Amy Burrows-Beckham, case manager, at 502-489-5209. |
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| tatertot | Mar 14 2017, 09:35 PM Post #4 |
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http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/countie...e137751323.html MARCH 10, 2017 3:58 PM Bones, teeth recovered in exhumation. Will they lead to identity? BY GREG KOCHER Bones and teeth exhumed from a 96-year-old grave Friday hold half the answer to the identity of the teen buried there. Now authorities hope to find the other half through a genetic match that will tell them who was buried beneath a 1921 stone with the poignant inscription “Some Mother’s Boy.” It only took about 15 minutes of careful digging by backhoe operator Gene Cook to find the first bone in the grave at Georgetown Cemetery. Some minutes later, teeth were recovered. The remains were put into a white baby casket for safekeeping. Samples will go to Scott County Coroner John Goble’s office and he will send them to the FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. for testing. Goble is confident that the identity of the teen will become known. A person in Indianapolis has already called about the possibility of a link to the Georgetown body, Goble said, but he didn’t know how that person heard about the case. Mouth swabs from that person and others will go into a DNA database. That information can be compared to the remains unearthed Friday to see if there are matches. “My goal is to get him buried next to his mom and dad,” Goble said. The teen was 16 or 17 when he was struck by a train on April 1, 1921, a Georgetown newspaper reported at the time. He and another young man had met in Cincinnati on their way south, and in Georgetown they had attempted to pass in front of a northbound train to catch a slow-moving passenger train on another track. The companion succeeded in crossing, but the 17-year-old was struck. The dead teen’s clothes bore the name of a Chicago clothier, the newspaper said. The initials “W.A.” were engraved on one side of his watch, and “L.H.D.” was engraved inside the timepiece. The boy was described as 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighed about 110 pounds, and had blue eyes and light brown hair. Money collected locally paid for the casket and cemetery lot, and several people sent flowers and attended the 1921 burial. But the boy’s family was never found. Friday’s exhumation echoed the “Tent Girl” mystery, another unidentified person case that was solved in 1998. DNA testing confirmed that the body found wrapped in canvas in Scott County in 1968 was Barbara Hackmann Taylor. Two investigators from the Tent Girl case — Emily Craig of Georgetown, the former state medical examiner, and Todd Matthews, director of case management and communication for NamUs, a national organization that maintains a database of unidentified remains — attended Friday’s exhumation. Craig is married to Goble, the Scott County coroner. Unlike the Tent Girl case, in Friday’s exhumation there are no probable matches “that we know of,” Craig said. “This one is a total unknown,” she said. Nevertheless, the exhumation demonstrates that Georgetown-Scott County is a place that cares, said Mayor Tom Prather. “Even in the years that have passed since 1921, we still feel an obligation to ‘Some Mother’s Boy’ to return those remains to the folks that have lost this young man,” Prather said. The confluence of advanced technology, DNA testing, and the availability of that testing performed at no cost to local governments made the exhumation possible now, Prather said. Federal funding for unidentified persons who died accidentally and not as the result of a criminal offense is about to run out. “We think if we have the ability to provide answers, then we should do so,” Prather said. There was a sense of reverence before the exhumation began. Scott County Judge-Executive George Lusby said a short prayer before digging commenced. “My prayer is that you help us identify this body,” Lusby said. “And that the family can find some solace knowing this body has been identified and brought back.” Mary Susan Kring of Georgetown also came out to watch the exhumation. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me,” Kring said. “It’s a very humbling, respectful time and I just wanted to come by.” In addition to teeth and bones, the exhumation of more than four hours uncovered handles and other metal hardware from what might have been a pine box in which the body was buried, Goble said. Officials could not say Friday what will happen with the gravestone. “Those are questions we can answer only once we get an identity,” Prather said. “If there is remaining family, we would hope they would help us make those decisions.” |
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| tatertot | Jun 14 2017, 07:48 AM Post #5 |
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NamUs officials identify human remains in 1921 Kentucky cold case Panama City police still need help solving the June 2010 death of Michael Guynn. Posted: Tue 4:45 PM, Jun 13, 2017 (WYMT) - Officials with the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System say they identified human remains in a Kentucky cold case from 1921. Todd Matthews from NamUs says a previously unidentified teenager buried in Georgetown is Frank Haynes, from Pulaski County. NamUs officials will meet with the Scott County coroner Thursday to make a decision on officially identifying the remains. Matthews said NamUs made the connection through circumstantial evidence and not DNA. http://www.wymt.com/content/news/NamUs-off...-428254503.html |
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