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Leon Jacob Danker The victim was located on April 8, 2003 in Sacramento County, California. In September of 2006, he was identified through DNA. Leon Jacob Danker last contacted his family on September 13, 1978 asking for money to get him back home to Illinois. His family wired him the money and never heard from him again. Pat Keller, a homicide detective in the Sacramento Police Department's cold case unit saw Danker's picture and thought he looked like a man he had been looking to question in a homicide case. In 1990, Danker became a key witness in the trial of a homeless man convicted of murdering his son in Sacramento. Leon Danker testified in 1990 that before witnessing the crime, he had lived for four years at a homeless campsite near the crime scene. It might have been the same site where his remains were found. He was 52 when he died. |
Ector Cruz Lopez The victim was located on April 12, 1986 in Harris County, Texas. He was identified in October 2006. |
David Aaron Garner The victim was located on May 9, 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona. He was positively identified by DNA analysis in November of 2006 by the Phoenix Police Department. |
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Identified The victim was located on October 31, 2005 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was identified in November of 2006. |
John B. Gavin The victim was located on October 6, 2005 in Port St. John, Florida. He was identified by DNA evidence on December 1, 2006 as 67-year-old John B. Gavin of Lakeland, Florida. |
Identified The victim was located on May 21, 1999 in Orlando, Orange County, Florida. |
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Richard "Dickie" Hovey The victim was located on May 15, 1968 in Schomberg, Ontario, Canada. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received tips from members of the public who had viewed an image of the victim's facial reconstruction on the OPP "Resolve" website. The Centre of Forensic Sciences was able to confirm (on December 13, 2006) the identity of the remains to be Richard "Dickie" Hovey of Fredericton, New Brunswick. Hovey had moved to Toronto in 1966 or 1967 and was reportedly a musician in Clubs in the Yorkville area. He disappeared from that area in the late spring or early summer of 1967. Hovey was approximately 17 years old at the time of his death. |
Yesenia Nungaray This victim was located on May 1, 2003 in Castro Valley, Alameda County, California. She was identified in December 2006 after police received a tip that led to locating the victim's mother in Mexico. The teenager left Yahualica, Mexico on her 16th birthday in 2003. She was found dead just three weeks later behind a Carrows restaurant in Casto Valley. |
Identified The victim was located on November 6, 1996 in Gila Bend, Maricopa County, Arizona. He was identified in the Fall of 2006. |
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Identified The victim was located on October 14, 2003 in Bear, New Castle County, Delaware. She was identified in the Fall of 2006. |
Charlleen Saunders This victim was located on August 12, 2002 in Temecula, Riverside County, California. She has been identified as Charleen Saunders, missing from Oceanside, CA since August 1, 1986. |
Katie Mae Mack This victim was located on October 24, 1996 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. She has been identified as Katie Mae Mack, by DNA comparison. |
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Gerald Thayer, Jr. The victim was located on December 26, 2000 in Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona. He was identified in February 2007 as 33 year old Gerald Thayer, Jr. |
Identified This victim was located on November 27, 1997 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. He was identified in February 2007. |
Angela Josephine Wilds This victim was located on June 4, 2006 near Lyons, Boulder County, Colorado. She was identified as Angela Josephine Wilds, by DNA comparison of family members out-of-state, in February 2007. Wilds, a 38-year-old transient, was a Colorado resident since the mid-90s, and most recently resided in the Longmont area. She was largely transient and had no permanent address. She was last seen was in February 2006 in Longmont and investigators would like to obtain information on where she was between February and June 2006. Her death is being treated as a homicide. |
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Identified The victim was located on July 30, 2006 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida. He was identified in February 2007 via tattoos. The lab is also sending specimen to CODIS for DNA matching as well to confirm. |
Identified This victim was located on June 13, 2003 in Immokalee, Collier County, Florida. He was identified in February 2007. |
Andrew Osborne The victim was located on June 18, 2003 in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida. He was identified through fingerprints as 51 year-old Andrew Osborne, in February 2007. |
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Donald Frank Ward The victim was located on November 10, 1985 in Yolo County, California. He was identified in March 2007 via fingerprints. His fingerprints were resubmitted to the Department of Justice in January 2007 and they got a hit. |
Ada Elena Torres Smith The victim was located on January 9, 1997 in Campbell County, Tennessee. She was identified in March 2007 as 32-year-old, Ada Elena Torres Smith. The identification was made by Sergeant Perez and Detective Samaniego with the El Paso Police Department and Captain Farmer and Detective Barton of the Campbell County Sheriff's Department. Members of The Doe Network assisted in the identification. Ada was last seen at her residence on June 1, 1996 in Santee, South Carolina. |
Identified The victim was located on February 25, 2007 in Alpine, Talladega County, Alabama. He was identified through fingerprints in March 2007. He had not been reported missing. |
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Billy Ray Weems The victim was located on June 15, 1999 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He was identified in April 2007 via DNA as Billy Ray Weems. |
Joshua Johnson The victim was located on March 17, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was identified in April 2007 as Joshua Johnson, of Ohio. |
Identified The victim was located on March 9, 2007 in Oxon Hill, Prince George's County, Maryland. He was identified in April 2007 as a Missing Person from Washington DC. |
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Identified The victim was located on February 16, 2001 in Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. She was identified by a fingerprint match. |
Identified The victim was located on April 9, 1998 in Maricopa County, Arizona. He was identified in April 2007. |
Chrystle Edmonds The victim was located on March 3, 2003 in Granville, North Carolina. She was identified in April 2007 as Chrystle Edmonds of Waldorf, MD. The identification was made through DNA. A member of the Doe Network assisted in the identification. |
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Danielle Ranee Hutton The victim was located on May 21, 1999 in Los Angeles County, California. She was identified as 17 year old Danielle Hutton in May 2007. Hutton had been missing from Newhall, California since June 22, 1998. A Doe Network member assisted in the identification. |
Identified The victim was located on November 10, 2002 near Lake Havasu, Arizona. He has been identified. |
Danna Lori Dever The victim was located on July 8, 1996, Solano County, California. She was identified through fingerprint comparison in May 2007 as Danna Lori Dever of Fairfield, CA. who had gone missing on June 14, 1996. |
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Leonard Lee Smith The victim was located on March 18, 2007 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was identified as 60 year old Leonard Lee Smith in May 2007. He was identified after someone saw his picture in the media and contacted the Alberta Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. DNA confirmed his identity. |
Albert Nathaniel Larkins Jr. The victim was located on July 14, 1993 in the Cumberland River, Nashville, Tennessee. He was identified as Albert Larkins in June 2007. |
Timothy McCoy The victim was located on December 28, 1978 in Norwood Park, Illinois. He was identified as Timothy McCoy from Nebraska. |
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Kenneth Cardinal The victim was located on May 6, 2007 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada He was identified on June 8, 2007 as Kenneth (Kenny) Cardinal, of Lac La Biche, Alberta. The Alberta Medical Examiner's office received numerous phone calls and a number of solid leads after photographs of a man were released to media on June 1. The tips led investigators to the man's family. Medical x-rays confirmed the identification. |
Terri Renee Troublefield Reyes The victim was located on September 2, 2006 in San Augustine County, Texas. She was identified as Terri Renee Troublefield Reyes in June 2007. Terri was last seen on May 21, 2006. Reyes was one of two women who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, both of whom had connections to a former Jacksonville police officer, who was sentenced to federal prison in March 2007 for forcing women to have sex with him while he was on duty. |
Rosa Alice Flowers The victim was located on November 17, 2004 in Torrance, Los Angeles County, California. She was identified as Rosa Alice Flowers from California. Heidi Morris, a frequent visitor to the site, assisted in the identification. Her identity was confirmed via her DMV thumbprint. |
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Identified The victim was located on October 9, 2004 in Vettabbia, via Pizzi, Milan, Italy. She was identified in 2007. |
Identified The victim was located on September 24, 2005 in Montclair, San Bernadino County, California. She was identified in the summer of 2007. |
Dana LeighTaylor The victim was located on April 27, 2006 in McLennan County, Texas. She was identified as Dana Leigh Taylor who was last seen Mesquite, Texas on April 16, 2006. She was positively identified by DNA. Robert Allen Byrd was indicted for capital murder by a grand jury in McLennan County, Texas in April 2007. |
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Lamanski O'Brien Groce The victim was located on March 2, 2007 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. He was identified by DNA in June 2007 as Lamanski O'Brien Groce, 33, of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Groce had been reported missing in October 2006. |
Osaze Price The victim was located on July 26, 2005 in Richmond, Contra Costa County, California. He was identified in July 2007 with the help of the media and the public, as Osaze Price, age 21, who went missing on June 17, 2005 from San Francisco. |
Identified The victim was located on September 22, 2006 in Houston, Harris County, Texas. She was identified in July 2007. |
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James Harold Thomas The victim was located on May 18, 1966 in Cross Creek, Alachua County, Florida. DNA tests determined the remains belonged to James Harold Thomas, 24. The man's Ford Falcon with a Texas license plate had been found abandoned in the area a few months before the skeleton was located. Thomas had been listed as an Army deserter. But, when officers first tried to verify if the body belonged to Thomas, dental records obtained from the U.S. Army didn't match. |
Identified The victim was located on September 26, 1979 in Tiburon, Marin County, California. She was identified in July 2007. |
Victor Barajas Victor Barajas, of McAllen, TX, was 20 years old when he went missing in December 1975 in Mansfield, LA. Comparison of DNA samples from remains found in 1979 in a Bossier City, LA., landfill about 30 miles north of Mansfield, in nearby Bossier Parish to samples from Barajas’ family confirmied the remains are his. Authorities have linked his death to drug smuggling. |
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Identified The victim was located on June 10, 2006 in Sacramento, California. He was identified. |
Alfred Cardinal The victim was located on January 30, 1988 in Sacramento, California. He was identified as Alfred Cardinal, 63, in 2007. Cardinal's fingerprints were checked against the FBI's database, and they came back with a name this time. Cardinal had been arrested in 1973 in Richmond for a misdemeanor, information not available when Cardinal died. |
Identified The victim was located on March 14, 1999 in Sacramento, California. He was identified. |
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Identified The victim was located on February 14, 2000 in Valley Center, San Diego County, California. She was identified. |
Scott Michael Morris The victim was located January 7, 1990 near Owensboro in rural Daviess County, Kentucky. He was identified in September 2007 as Scott Michael Morris, who was last seen leaving a convenience store in Indianapolis in 1978 when he was 14. Morris' family at the time told police that the boy frequently ran away from home but usually returned. His grandmother reported him missing, but it was not until 1989 that the family filed a formal missing persons report. The body was identified after Indianapolis police contacted Kentucky investigators to share a cold case. A description of the missing boy matched the body, and tests on DNA samples from Morris' relatives confirmed his identity. |
Kamnee Koushal Narain The victim was located on September 24, 1987 in the Cowlitz River in Kelso, Washington. She was identified in September 2007 as Kamnee Narain, born June 29, 1986. Her mother's body was located on September 11, 1987. Based on DNA tests and other information from the investigation, she was identified as Raj Narain, born May 15, 1963. Narain, 24 at the time of her death, a native of Fiji, who had been living in Eugene. |
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Brittany Rapoza The victim was located on August 18, 2007 in Lake Arlington, Arlington, Texas. Through facial reconstruction, officials confirmed the identity of 20-year-old Brittany Rapoza. | |||
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Douglas Carl Grabowski The victim's skeletal remains were located on November 8, 2006 in Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee. He was identified in October 2007. Grabowski, a graduate of Cave Spring High School and Roanoke College, was 35 when he disappeared from Roanoke County in May 2005. |
Hezekiah Williams II The victim was discovered on December 24, 2003 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. He was identified in October 2007. |
Identified The victim was discovered on January 3, 1976 in Lancaster, Los Angeles County, California. She was identified in November 2007 through fingerprints. |
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Lisa Holland The victim's skeletal remains were located on June 30, 2006 in Houston, Harris County, Texas. She was identified in November 2007. |
Fatima Raquel Fernandez The victim was located on March 18, 2006 in Santa Cruz County, California. She was identified in November 2007. On November 11, 2007, a San Bruno woman reported her niece was missing and hadn't been seen or heard from since January of 2006. Fernandez is an undocumented immigrant from Nicaragua, where her family still lives. Using Fernandez's identification, and a fingerprint comparison from her body, the sheriff's crime scene investigations unit identified Fernandez as the woman found at Greyhound Rock. Her boyfriend confessed to her homicide. |
Identified The victim was located on March 12, 1997 in Orange County, Florida. He has been identified. |
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Riley Ann Sawyers The victim was located on October 29, 2007 in Galveston, Texas. She was identified in November 2007 as 2 year old Riley Sawyers. |
Victor Rodriguez The victim was located on April 24, 1999 in Phoenix, Arizona, a victim of a drunken driver. Victor disappeared in April 1999 at age 15, and was at the time thought to have run away from home. He was positively identified in November 2007 from a thumb print taken at a school health fair. When his family read the police report on Victor's death, they learned that he had not run away at all and was probably only sneaking out to see his girlfriend. |
Identified The victim was located on August 22, 2003 in Maricopa County, Arizona. He was identified. |
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Patsy Lee Ross The victim was located on July 28, 1996 in Denton, Texas. She was identified in December 2007 as 54 year old Patsy Lee Ross. She was identified through fingerprints. |
Timothy John Cassidy The victim was located on January 4, 2005 in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida. He was identified in December 2007 through fingerprints through the Department of Homeland Security. He had not been reported as missing. |
Sandra Jean Brady The victim was located on March 5, 2000 in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. She was identified in January 2008, after the cases was featured at AMW. The unidentified woman was Sandra Jean Brady of Ohio. Her daughter contacted police after viewing the show, and said that a tattoo on the victim was consistent with one that her mother had. She also indicated that the last time she heard from her mother was Jan. 9, 2000, when she told her she was in Albuquerque. Medical investigators used fingerprints to positively identify Brady. |
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Marlaina "Nikki" Reed The victim was located on January 21, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. She was identified in January 2008, as Marlaina Reed, 17, of the Danville area. |
Andrew Bookles The victim was located on June 12, 1993 in the Titicus Reservoir, Town of North Salem, New York. He was identified in January 2008 as as Andrew Bookles of Bellport, N.Y. One reason it took so long for police to identify Bookles was because his mother did not report him missing until 1999. |
Eulalia Mylia Chavez The victim was located on September 6, 1986 in Summerfield, Illinois. She was identified in February 2008 as 27 year old Eulalia Mylia "Lolly" Chavez, from California. It was a fingerprint hit on the FBI's highly advanced fingerprint system that finally led to an identification. |
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Tara Woodman The victim was located on February 25, 2005 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was identified in February 2008, as Tara Woodman. |
David Fraser The victim was located on March 20, 1996 in Jacksonville, Florida. He was identified by resubmitted fingerprints. |
Armando Vasquez-Villalva The victim was located on September 15, 2004 in Wimauma, Hillsborough County, Florida. He was identified in February 2008. |
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Identified The victim was located on June 23, 2002 in Jonesboro, Clayton County, Georgia. She was identified in February 2008. |
Bernard O'Niell Wilson The victim was located on December 29, 2005 in Lubbock County, Texas. He was identified in February 2008 as Bernard O'Niell Wilson of Lubbock. Bernard went missing in May of 2005. The family never filed a missing person's report. |
Identified The victim was located on March 12, 2000 in Tolleson, Maricopa County, Arizona. He was identified in February 2008. |
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Sean Thomas Rush The victim was located on February 19, 2003 in Bloomington, Hennepin County, Minnesota. He was identified in February 2008, as 22-year-old Sean Rush of St. Paul. |
Robert Anthony Salinas The victim was located on February 13, 2003 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. He was identified in August 2007, as Robert Salinas. |
Identified The victim was located on May 15, 1993 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was identified in February 2008. | |
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Identified The victim was located on September 12, 2006 in Tarrant County, Texas. He was identified in February 2008. |
Nancy Valle The victim was located on July 11, 2007 in Houston, Harris County, Texas. She was identified in February 2008 as Nancy Valle. |
Identified The victim was located on September 2, 2003 in Corona, Riverside County, California. He was identified in March 2008. |
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Jaleeza Ann Lobdell The victim was located on September 17, 2007 in Yakima County, Washington. She was identified in March 2008 as Jaleeza Lobdell, a 14-year-old girl. She left her home in Tacoma the day before her body was found. DNA test results confirmed the girl's identity. |
Identified The victim was located on October 5, 1984 in Houston, Texas. She has been identified. |
Miguel Angel Garcia The victim was located on February 21, 1999 in Pendleton, Henry County, Kentucky. He was identified in April 2008 as Miguel Angel Garcia, last seen alive by his mother on July 4, 1998. On Sept 14, 1998, she reported him missing to the Duval County, Texas Sheriff's Office. A member of the Doe Network assisted in the identification. |
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Donna Jean Snowden The victim was located on January 21, 1993 in Chambers County, Texas. She was identified in April 2008 as Donna Jean Snowden, missing from Lufkin, Texas since 1987. |
Joseph Ernest Parnell The victim was located on June 27, 1992 in San Diego, California. He was identified in February 2008 as Joseph Parnell, age 36 at the time of his death. Parnell was originally from Boston, Massachusetts. |
Cynthia Ann Neisler The victim was located on August 14, 2004 in Union City, Georgia. She was identified in April 2008 as Cynthia Neisler, reported missing by her family in 2002. Cindy’s family credits a television show they called “The M & J Show” from New York on the Fox Network for mentioning the DOE Network. Cindy’s family researched the DOE website and found the reconstructive sketch of 483UFGA, by Wesley Neville – her family said the sketch looked just like her. |
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Jose Bernardo Martinez The victim was located on March 13, 2003 in Houston, Harris County, Texas. He was identified in April 2008 as Jose Bernardo Martinez, who was born on October 14, 1997. He was 5 years old at the time of his death. The Houston office of the FBI joined the Houston Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety's ongoing investigation into the death of this child in the hopes of generating the information needed to solve this case. The media coverage and public's interest in the "Beloved Doe" investigation was critically important in solving this cold case. | 
Anthony Clement The victim was located on March 21, 2008 Jacksonville, Florida, He was identified in April 2008 as Anthony Clement. |
Lindsay Harris The victim was located on May 23, 2005 in Divernon, Sangamon County, Illinois. She was identified in May 2008 as Lindsay Harris. Lindsay was last seen making a deposit at her bank near her home in Henderson, NV on May 4, 2005. |
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Pascual Paulino Ixmata Guachaj The victim was located on September 4, 2007 in Braes Bayou, Harris County, Texas. He was identified in May 2008. |
Tanja Marie Hook The victim was located on August 29, 2003 in Cole, McClain County, Oklahoma. She was identified in May 2008 by DNA as Tanja Hook, 17, missing from Lawton, Oklahoma since June 30, 2003. A member of the Doe Network assisted in the identification. |
Marcos Ornellas The victim was located on January 28, 1987 in Los Angeles County, California. He was identified in June 2008 as Marcos Ornellas. |
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Vicenta Sanchez-Orellana The victim was located on January 27, 1991 in Castro Valley, California. She was identified in May 2008 as 24-year-old Vicenta Sanchez-Orellana, an El Salvador native. Sanchez-Orellana had no identification on her when her charred body was found, and dental records entered into a national database didn't lead to a match at first. In October 2007, a niece in Texas found an online posting on the "Doe Network," that described the unidentified victim and a distinctive Mandarin-style burgundy jacket she had been wearing, along with a gold ring inscribed with the initials "O.M.O." Investigators later determined that the initials were those of her husband. |
Lawrence Scott Wikso The victim was located on September 23, 1998 in Loxahatchee, Palm Beach County, Florida. On 7/15/2005 the white male was identified as Lawrence Wikso with a last known address of 521 Federal Highway in the city of Lake Worth. Wikso was a known drug user and was in rehab at the time of his murder. His mother last talked to him in August of 1998. |
Identified The victim was located on February 7, 1990 in Corona, Riverside County, California. He was located in an alleyway in Corona, California, transported to Corona Community Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. He was identified in July 2008. |
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Thomas William Brannon The victim was located on April 9, 1985 in Lima, Adams County, Illinois. He was identified in July 2008. His fingerprints weren't in the AFIS system, but they were in the jurisdiction where he had been arrested in Florida. |
Elke Mevis The victim was located December 24, 2004 in Livorno, Italy. She was identified in July 2008 as Elke Mevis, 26, from Antwerp, Belgium. |
Vincent de Lestre The victim was located December 24, 2004 in Livorno, Italy. He was identified in July 2008 as Vincent, 41, from Antwerp, Belgium. Vincent apparently escaped from psychological treatment. |
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Tina Moore The victim was located September 13, 1983 in Pompano Beach, Broward County, Florida. She was identified in July 2008 as Tina Moore. She was identified through an advanced fingerprint identification process. Detectives believe that 22-year-old Moore may have been a dancer at an area club. She was never reported missing. |
Ricky Lee Jones The victim was located March 3, 1991 in Lamar County, Mississippi. He was identified in July 2008 as Ricky Lee Jones, missing since February 1990 from Houston, Texas. |
Daniel Wayne Dewey The victim was located November 17, 1979 near Greensburg, Louisiana. He was identified in July 2008 as Daniel Dewey, 17. Daniel was a native of Salinas, CA and a resident of Dayton, TX. |
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John Milton Feiga The victim was located April 13, 1998 in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. He was identified in August 2008 as John Milton Feiga, a suspect in a Florida homicide. |
Noel Patrik Cornelius The victim was located November 25, 2005 in Victorville, San Bernardino County, California. He was identified in June 2008 as Noel Cornelius, missing from Apple Valley, California since November 25, 2005. A member of the Doe Network assisted in the identification. |
Loranzo Perez The victim was located February 17, 1995 in in Riviera Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida. He was identified in July 2008 as Loranzo Perez. |
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