Cumberland Times-News

September, 2003

CUMBERLAND — The Maryland Missing Persons Network has announced that www.doenetwork.org provided the needed information to solve a John Doe mystery in New York City.

Kylen Johnson, Maryland area director for the Doenetwork and administrator of Maryland Missing Persons Network, came across a profile of missing person Christopher Faniard on the Missing Person Cold Case Network.

The case profile resembled a deceased John Doe on the Doenetwork — missing since 2000. A potential match was submitted between the unidentified person and the missing person to the Doenetwork volunteer group.

“I looked at the two — they had the exact same tattoos; they went missing the exact same week the body was found,” said Johnson.

Tracie Fleischhut, assistant area director for New York, passed the information on to New York City Police for further investigation. New York City Police confirmed the match.

The Doenetwork is a volunteer, nonprofit organization that assists law enforcement in locating missing people and identifying unidentified human remains.

It has been successful in solving 11 cases and has assisted in at least four other cases being solved since the group of volunteers was formed in 2001.

The group’s Web site, www.doenetwork.org, details more than 720 unidentified victims and 2,220 unexplained disappearances from North America, Europe and Australia.

The site has been designed specifically to assist police in locating missing people, generating public awareness regarding Maryland’s missing people, and releasing information on Jane and John Does in hope of public recognition.