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Larry Fishman The victim was located on August 5, 2000 in Tennille, Taylor County, Florida. Due to the efforts of a Doe Network member, he was identified as Larry Fishman, age 48, in December 2004. Fishman had been missing from New York City since January 3, 1999. A suicide note dated January 6, 1999, was found at the scene. |
Gregory Stolmann The victim was located on July 8, 2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was found hanging from an elevator shaft at a hotel in an apparent suicide. He was identified as Gregory Stolmann in January 2005. His father had died of natural causes on July 2, 2002 and Gregory was in the Navy stationed in Texas. They gave him a 3 day pass but he never showed up at home. He was AWOL from the Navy but was never reported missing. |
Dorothy L Spriggs The victim was located on July 8, 1982 in Louisville, Kentucky. She died from injuries in a traffic accident. |
Tina Louise Leone The victim was located on September 14, 2003 in Aberdeen, Harford County, Maryland. Due to the efforts of a Doe Network member, she was identified as Tina Louise Leone, age 38, in January 2005. Leone had been missing from Lynn, Massachusetts since the winter of 2003. |
Ronette Peterson The victim was located on May 7, 1986 in Lakeland, Polk County, Florida. In January 2005, Peterson's younger sister reported her missing to authorities in Iowa. Investigators found an unidentified body in Florida matching Peterson's description. They then matched her fingerprints to confirm her identity. She was identified as Ronette Peterson, age 22, in January 2005. |
Nelson Orlando Delgado The victim was located on March 5, 1998 in Atascosa County, Texas. In January, 2005 Delgado’s cousin, saw a sketch on a missing person identification website. DPS pulled Delgado’s drivers license application and the DPS lab there compared the thumbprint on the application with the thumb print taken from the body at the time it was discovered. It was a match and the identification was made January 14, 2005. Delgado, age 21, was last seen at his home in San Antonion, Texas on February 26, 1998. He was never reported missing. |
Identified The victim was located on September 21, 1997 along Reedy Creek Park Road in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. |
Megaly Mendoza The victim was located on September 22, 2003 in Montgomery County, Texas. She was identified by DNA in January 2005 as Megaly Mendoza from Mexico. |
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Maria Solis The victim was located on August 13, 2003 near the U.S. 59 southbound turnaround at the Brazos River in Sugar Land, Fort Bend County, Texas. She was identified by DNA in February 2005 as Maria Solis, 16, who was last seen when she left home for school one morning in Houston. |
Karen Davis The victim was located on March 2, 1985 in Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona. She was identified by DNA in February 2005 as Karen Davis, 22. The 22-year-old mother of two small children was reported missing by her sister in November 1984. |
James W. Burton The victim was located on September 25, 1988 in Homer Township, Michigan. He was identified as James W. Burton in March 2005. Burton was born in Virginia and had arrest records in 1974 in Georgia, 1975 in Alaska and 1981 in Chicago, but so far other records about him have either been destroyed or not located. The identification was made possible through a fingerprint match. |
Jerrell Willis The victim was located on May 27, 1994 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was recognized by a family member looking at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children website and he called in his concerns. Further testing proved his identity. |
Kenneth Smith The victim was located on January 1, 1996 in Punta Gorda, Charlotte County, Florida. |
Cheryl Bowman The victim was located on November 26, 1989 in Harris County, Texas. She was identified as Cheryl Bowman. |
Darlene Hortencia Campos The victim was located on January 23, 2002 in King County, Washington. She was identified as Darlene Hortencia Campos in March 2005. Campos was last seen on her birthday on April 15, 2001 in Pierce County, WA, and last talked to by her mother on April 18, 2001 at 6:00 p.m. |
Rebecca Reid The victim was located on January 26, 2003 in Hillsborough County, Florida. She was identified as Rebecca Reid in 2005. Her husband was charged and convicted of her murder. |
Gregory John May The victim was located on August 27, 2001 in Kearney, Missouri. Due to the efforts of a Doe Network member, he was identified as Gregory May in April 2005. Mr. May was last seen at his home in Bellevue, Iowa, on or about January 11, 2001. A suspect is being tried in his homicide. |
Erica Michelle Maria Green The victim was located on April 28, 2001 in Kansas City, Missouri. She was identified as 3-year-old Erica Green in May 2005. Her mother and stepfather were charged with murder and endangering the welfare of a child. |
Identified The victim was located on March 6, 2003 in rural Clark County, Nevada. She was identified in 2005. |
William Reid The victim was located on July 30, 1995 in Hillsborough County, Florida. He was identified through fingerprints in May 2005 as William Reid. |
Donald Alan Royce The victim was located on January 31, 1996 in Hillsborough County, Florida. He was identified through fingerprints in May 2005 as Donald Alan Royce. |
Identified The victim was located on May 6, 1997 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. He was identified in May 2005. |
Kenneth Bennett Glaze The victim was located on December 1, 1963 in Tarrant County, Texas. He was identified in June 2005 as Kenneth Bennett Glaze, a 35-year-old man who disappeared from Fort Worth in 1963. Identification was made after comparing DNA from a relative with DNA extracted from the victim's teeth. |
Ruben Ortiz-Gutierrez The victim was located on May 16, 1998 in Weld County, Colorado. He was identified in June 2005 as Ruben Ortiz-Gutierrez, a 30-year-old man from Denver. Ortiz-Gutierrez had an arrest record from Aurora but had not been reported missing. |
Identified The victim was located on January 20, 1982 in Hillsborough County, Florida. He was identified in June 2005 per the FBI via fingerprints. |
Randy Bales The victim was located on December 24, 1982 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida. He was identified in June 2005 per the FBI via fingerprints as Randy Bales. He was born on May 8, 1963. He was located 6 miles from home. |
Identified The victim was located on April 7, 1994 in Hillsborough County, Florida. He was identified in June 2005 per the FBI via fingerprints. |
Identified The victim was located on May 19, 1995 in Hillsborough County, Florida. He was identified in June 2005 per the FBI via fingerprints. |
Cynthia Louise Vanderbeek The victim was located on May 1, 1995 in Fulton County, Pennsylvania. Due to the efforts of a Doe Network member, she was identified as Cynthia Vanderbeek, age 47, in April 2004. Vanderbeek had been missing from New York since March 22, 1995. |
Jennifer Landry The victim was located on August 15, 2002 in Mount Ranier, Maryland. She was identified as Jennifer Landry, age 19, in June 2005. Landry was last seen in New York City on July 31, 2002. |
Identified The victim was located on October 28, 1977 in Ashland, Ohio. He was identified in 1979, as were his parents, who were convicted for his murder. |
Henry George Blank Jr The victim was located on December 26, 2002 in Riverview, Hillsborough County, Florida. He was identified via fingerprints in 2005. |
Ronald Slaybaugh The victim was located on September 24, 1999 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida. He was identified via fingerprints in 2005. |
Identified The amnesia victim was located on March 25, 2001 in Santa Monica, California. She was identified in 2005. |
Georgia Ann Irwin The victim was located on November 25, 1985 in Bernards Township, New Jersey. She was identified in April 2005 as as Georgia Ann Irwin. She was reported missing from Michigan on July 7, 1984. |
Cecilia Dominguez Velasquez The victim was located on March 21, 1998 in Arroyo, New Mexico. She was identified through post-mortem fingerprints and dental records in 2005. |
Robert Ezell The victim was located November 6, 2001 in Jacksonville, Florida. Due to the efforts of a Doe Network member he was identified via fingerprints in August 2005. |
Levi Carpenter, Jr The victim was located June 18, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was identified in August 2005 as Levi Carpenter, Jr., a 49 year old man who accidentally drowned in a park pool. His family in CA was notified after identification of the decedent by fingerprints. |
Charles Crawley The victim was located August 17, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was identified in August 2005 as Charles Crawley a 46 year old man who died from an accidental drug overdose. His brother in MD was notified after identification of the decedent by fingerprints. His brother had filed a missing persons report with law enforcement two months after his disappearance in 1996. |
Che Hargett The victim was located on June 3, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was identified in August 2005 as Che Hargett a 26 year old man who died from a gunshot wound. His parents in NY and GA were notified after identification of the decedent by fingerprints. |
Torrey Marie Foster The victim was located in September of 2004 in Mesita, Colorado. She was identified in August 2005 as Torrey Foster a 25-year-old mother of two. On August 16th, 2005, Denver Police announced that her remains had been identified as a victim of serial killer Richard Paul White. The remains were identified with DNA extracted from the bones. |
Teresa L. Bryan The victim was located on June 12, 2005 in Tyler, Texas. She was identified in August 2005 as Teresa L. Bryan from Waskom, Texas. |
Identified The victim was located on July 17, 1990 in Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. She was identified in 2005. |
Lisa Kay Kelly The victim was located March 24, 1989 along Lariat Trail by a group of hikers on Lookout Mountain in Jefferson County, Colorado. She was identified in October of 2005 by fingerprints. In the year before her death, 33-year-old Lisa was arrested for shoplifting, theft, prostitution, obstructing police and failing to appear in court. She had drug problems, and her family wanted her to become clean. |
Cedric A. Harper The victim was located on November 7, 1986 in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida. He was identified as Cedric A. Harper in October 2005. He was reported as missing in Ohio. This ID was made via the Cleveland detective looking at the Fluiddb website and looking at the sketch and contacting the Medical Examiner's Office. |
Douglas Martin Prouty The victim was located on November 25, 1993 in Madison County, Kentucky. He was identified as Douglas Martin Prouty in October 2005. |
Stephen Jerome Diggs The victim was located on June 5, 1984 in Banning, Riverside County, California. He was identified as Stephen Diggs, an outstanding felon from Michigan from 1984, in October 2005. He was identified by fingerprints. |
Identified The victim was located on April 18, 1973 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. |
Jacqueline Ann Wunch The victim was located on October 29, 1999 in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Due to the effort of a Doe Network member, she was identified as Jacqueline Wunch in November 2005. |
Jaime Hilario The victim was located on August 31, 1985 in Austin, Texas. He was identified as Jaime Hilario in November 2005. APD went to Mexico to find the victim's family. Hilario's sister, from Saltillo, contacted detectives and identified her brother. She said Hilario had come to the United States in 1983. |
Identified The victim was located on June 13, 2005 in Palmdale, Los Angeles County, California. He was identified in November of 2005. |
Identified The victim was located on May 1, 2001 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. He was identified at the end of 2004. |
James Albert Lepik The victim was located on June 25, 2005 in Grand County, Colorado. He was identified as James Albert Lepik of Aurora, Colorado in January of 2006. |
Identified The victim was located on March 25, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. He was identified by DNA in January of 2006 when a relative who saw the drawing called and said the boy resembled her nephew, who had been missing since 1977. |
Mona Duwaik This homicide victim was located on January 22, 1998 in Hamilton County, Tennessee. She was identified in 2003 as Mona Duwaik from New Jersey. |
Mary Kate Sunderlin The victim was located on December 9, 1999 in the Forest Preserve in Lake County, Illinois. She was identified in January 2006 as Mary Kate Sunderlin, 34, a former Carpentersville resident. She had been missing since fall 1999. She was identified by dental records. Jason Strong, an employee of an adult bookstore in northern Lake County, was convicted of murder in October 2000. |
Kimberly Dawn Thompson The victim was located on April 25, 1999 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. She was identified through DNA testing and dental records in early 2005 as Kimberly Dawn Thompson who had been missing since November 26, 1998 from Beckley, West Virginia. |
Wilma June Nissen This victim was located on October 4, 1978 near Inwood, Lyon County, Iowa. She was identified in January 2006 as 23-year-old Wilma June Nissen, who grew up in California. It's still unknown what brought Nissen to Iowa, but investigators believe she was a troubled youth, possibly a runaway who was estranged from her parents. She had run-ins with the law, including an arrest for prostitution in Long Beach, Calif., in 1975. Those were the last known whereabouts of Nissen, who also went by the aliases Wilma Wellington and Boots Wellington. When Nissen was found in 1978, the technology at the time wasn't good enough to identify her. But in January 2006, investigators plugged in a fingerprint search in the updated FBI software, and got a 100% positive ID by fingerprint analysis to the young woman from California. |
Identified This victim was located on December 1, 1987 in Zellwood, Orange County, Florida. He was positively identified in July 2005. |
Identified This victim was located on December 1, 1987 in Zellwood, Orange County, Florida. He was positively identified in July 2005. |
Crystal Figueroa This victim was located on January 12, 2006 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. She was identified in February 2006 as 3-year-old Crystal Figueroa. The girl's mother's boyfriend beat both the mother and Crystal which resulted in Crystal's death. The child's grandmother grew suspicious after asking her daugter about Crystal which led her to notify authorities about her missing granddaughter. She positively identified the child. |
Identified This victim was located on February 16, 2006 in Bartow, Polk County, Florida. She was positively identified in March 2006. |
Jennifer Sipes The victim was located on December 5, 2005 in Edmond, Oklahoma following the report of a grass fire in the 8000 block of Redhawk Lane, about two-and-a-half miles northeast of Interstate-35. She was identified in August 2006 as Jennifer Sipes. Jennifer was last seen at Scott Street and Dinker Diagonal in Del City, Oklahoma. |
Rachel Furlow The victim was located on July 6, 2005 in Kaskaskia Island, Illinois. She was identified in August 2006 as Rachel Furlow, 25, a St. Louis resident who committed suicide. She was reported missing in January 2005. Dental records confirmed her identity. |
Courtney Lynn Bowser The victim was located on August 20, 2003 in Imperial County, California. She was identified in January 2006 as Courtney Lynn Bowser who had been missing since August 7, 2003 from Palm Desert, California. Courtney was 14 years old at the time of her disappearance. |
Identified The victim was located on July 1, 1982 in Harris County, Texas. She was identified in March 2006. She was never reported as a missing person. |
Janet Stroup The victim was located on July 10, 1998 in Longview, Gregg County, Texas. She was positively identified in March 2006 as Janet Stroup missing from Longview, Texas. |
Identified The victim was located on January 25, 1991 in Waller County, Texas. She was identified in January 2006. She was never reported as a missing person. |
Michael Keith Roberts The victim was located on June 14, 1983 in Spokane, Washington. On April 12, 2006, Lorrie Hegewald, a Spokane County deputy medical investigator, received the original fingerprints taken from the body and re-submitted the prints to the FBI and they came back with a match. The fingerprints had been sent in to the FBI in 1983 before the records were computerized which was like looking for a "needle in a haystack." No match could be found back then. This time there was a match with prints taken from a man arrested for a minor offense in Lakewood, Colorado in 1978. Roberts had left home at the age of 18. He returned home one time, distraught and destitute. By his late teens, it was obvious he suffered from mental illness, most likely schizophrenia. He was 30 years old at the time of his death. Roberts was never reported missing. |
Calletano Segovia Gonzales The victim was located on October 23, 1987 in Houston, Texas. He was positively identified by DNA analysis on August 2, 2006 by the Texas Public Safety Crime Division as 28 year old Calletano Segovia Gonzales. |
Christine Allen The victim was located on April 18, 2002 in Morrow, Clayton County, Georgia. She was positively identified by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as 48 year old Decatur resident Christine Allen, in July 2006 by X-rays. Allen had been involved in a car accident in November 2001 and had undergone extensive X-rays. A comparison of the dental work and broken bones showed the woman in the photographs were the same. Allen was a file clerk for an Atlanta law firm who was reported missing by her Decatur roommate on April 19, 2002. The roommate hadn't seen her since April 12 and started to worry. Allen died as the result of a homicide. There are no suspects at this time. |
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