UId, FL, 1961

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JOALAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KlcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3823,989010

A little more info, had a permanent a little before death, apparently was found without upper denture, teeth distribution, "3-inch" scar from appendectomy, "4-inch" scar from pelvic operation.

http://doenetwork.org/hot/hotcase632.html

(It might happen I send twice the same article but I see so many that even if my memory -the long term one only lol... how many times I forget I have pastas or what else cooking... - is good I can forget)

UID, FL, 1972

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g8kMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3WADAAAAIBAJ&pg=3615,324965

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hMkMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3WADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6608,945290 (1st part)

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hMkMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3WADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2822,984492 (2nd part)

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vJsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4GADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2846,1072486

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vpsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4GADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6897,2760136

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wJsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4GADAAAAIBAJ&pg=4297,5065230

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tdIMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yGADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5161,4119298


http://doenetwork.org/hot/hotcase1462.html

UID, WA, 1980

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ysQSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KPkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6861,2860099

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=x8QSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KPkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3441,1618903


http://doenetwork.org/hot/hotcase67.html

The Boy in the Box

I hope most of you like old articles too, that's the one I find the most interesting, but then I hope it doesn't make visitors run away.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v-sNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rG0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4822,975802

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WHcUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lgIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5516,4531119 (article starts two pages before)

Neb. Court Upholds Murder Conviction

Left: Jessica O'Grady

cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA

Jul 10, 2009 5:45 pm US/Mountain

Neb. Court Upholds Murder Conviction

JEAN ORTIZ, Associated Press Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ― The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction in the case of a college student who went missing in May 2006, saying a murder can be proven even without a body.In a ruling issued Friday, the high court rejected Christopher Edwards' request to overturn a jury's guilty verdict and give him a new trial in the case stemming from the disappearance of his 19-year-old girlfriend, Jessica O'Grady. The Omaha man was sentenced two years ago in Douglas County District Court to at least 80 years in prison for second-degree murder and 20 more years on a weapons charge. He was 20 at the time.In his appeal, Edwards argued there wasn't enough evidence to show O'Grady had been murdered."To require that the victim's body be discovered would be unreasonable; it would mean that a murderer could escape punishment by successfully disposing of the body, no matter how complete and convincing the other evidence of guilt," Judge John Gerrard wrote in the court's ruling.Omaha attorney Steve Lefler, who helped represent Edwards in his appeal, said the decision was disappointing. (more...)

Remains Identified in Guernsey

Left: Neil McPhee

WHIZ - Zanesville,OH,USA

Remains Identified in Guernsey

Fri, Jul 10, 2009. 09:24 PM

By: Kelly Gilmartin

The Guernsey County Sheriff's office has identified the remains found on Oldham Road last week.Sheriff Mike McCauley says the remains found July 3rd were identified as 74-year-old Neil Michael McPhee. He was reported missing October 6, 2004, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.The Alzheimer's patient reportedly got on a bus headed toward New York City nearly 5 years ago. The sheriff says they're not sure how he ended up north of Cambridge, but there's no evidence of foul play.

http://www.whiznews.com/article.php?articleId=26405

Cold-case story will appear on local TV

Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA

Cold-case story will appear on local TV

Video: http://www.koinlocal.com/content/mediacenter/default.aspx

July 10, 2009 A Portland television station's broadcast on a cold-case investigation seeking the identity of a little boy found in Keene Creek Reservoir 46 years ago has garnered new tips for Jackson County Sheriff's Department.

And the story will now air locally — at 11 tonight on KDRV Channel 12 and again on the station's morning show Monday. (more...)

Fresno Teacher Missing for 10 Years

Left: Sandra Kirby

Fresno Teacher Missing for 10 Years

Posted: July 11, 2009 07:59 AM

By Norma Yuriar
Fresno, Calif. (KMPH News) - A decade has passed since a beloved teacher at Gibson Elementary school in Fresno disappeared.
"I think the first year might have been the hardest," said Bette Shearman, mother of missing teacher Sandra Kerby.
The Kerby's eldest daughter Michelle tells KMPH News she is certain someone killed her mother. This next part is where the family is divided, while Sandra's daughter is not pointing the finger at her father, her grandmother is.
Bette Shearman says she remembers the last conversation she had with her daughter, Sandra.(more...)

Sally, "The Lady in the Trunk", FL, 1969

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6RIOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9nsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6880,4291705

*updated*

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kOcLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IFkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5364,4429400

This article has additional details I hadn't seen yet, like the presence of alcohol in her blood.

Unidentified boy, VA, 1972

Small article, didn't find any other.




http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lwoQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2YoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5408,2118069

http://doenetwork.org/cases/461umva.html

1996 Placitas disappearance heats up

Above: Ann Lombard

KRQE - Albuquerque,NM,USA

1996 Placitas disappearance heats up

Investigators search former property
Updated: Wednesday, 08 Jul 2009, 3:33 PM MDT
Published : Tuesday, 07 Jul 2009, 10:47 PM MDT

Reporter: Maria Medina
Web Producer: Bill Diven
PLACITAS, N.M. (KRQE) - Sandoval County investigators Tuesday revealed they are taking a fresh look at a missing-person case and considering the possibility Placitas resident Ann Lombard was murdered.

They also have named a person of interest in the case they reopened a few months ago.

Investigators said they're looking into whether James Taylor, 42, was involved in Lombard's disappearance in 1996. She was his girlfriend at the time.

Taylor had told investigators Lombard walked out on him.

It's remained a missing-person case since, but Undersheriff Tim Lucero said they're starting to look at it as a homicide. (more...)

A family tragedy that Stephen Harper has not forgotten

Globe and Mail - Canada

A family tragedy that Stephen Harper has not forgotten

One day in 1950, Stephen Harper's grandfather disappeared, never to be found

A family tragedy that Stephen Harper has not forgotten

Lawrence Martin

Last updated on Thursday, Jul. 09, 2009 09:45AM EDT

Much is unknown about Stephen Harper. He’s more remote than recent prime ministers. Among his many qualities, a sunny disposition is not to be found. Much is internalized.

The other day, he surprised us with a touching eulogy for Dave Batters, the former Saskatchewan MP who took his own life. The Prime Minister spoke of how the 39-year-old had struggled with severe anxiety and depression. Depression, said Mr. Harper, who created the Mental Health Commission of Canada in 2007, “can strike the sturdiest of souls. It cares not how much you have achieved or how much you have to live for.”

That eulogy got me thinking about a little-reported episode in the Prime Minister’s family history. One day in 1950, Mr. Harper’s grandfather, Harris Harper, a high-school principal in Moncton, disappeared, never to be found. The circumstances have remained obscure. It received a brief mention in William Johnson’s biography of the Prime Minister, but little follow-up. (more...)

15 Years And Still No Sign Of Missing Teen

Left: Cleashindra Hall

Today's THV - Little Rock,AR,USA

New At 10: 15 Years And Still No Sign Of Missing Teen

Posted By: Ashley Blackstone

Fifteen years ago, a Pine Bluff honor student was at her part time job one minute and then gone the next. Cleashindra Hall, 18, left no trace, no trail, but Pine Bluff police firmly believe that someone she knew murdered her.

And despite never finding her body, the investigation still continues.

Pine Bluff police admit they are baffled. There is a lack of evidence; however detectives do say they have some physical evidence, but they won't say what it is. Also, there is a person of interest they've been looking at since the very beginning.

Detectives have followed every lead and can now only wait and hope that someone will call and provide them with a lead to break the case.

Much has changed in Pine Bluff since Clea's disappearance. Both of the Clea's grandmothers have died. She has two new nieces and a nephew who only know their aunt through pictures. Pink ribbons still hang on the front door of Clea's home, a reminder of a family who waits and hopes. (more...)

Cold case gets help from Medford, Ore. dentists

kgw.com - Portland,OR,USA

Cold case gets help from Medford, Ore. dentists

07/09/2009

Associated Press

Two Medford dentists have done their part to help the Jackson County Sheriff's Office solve a mystery that has stumped investigators for almost a half-century.

Dentists Hal Borg and Greg Pearson volunteered to examine the skull of a toddler pulled from a reservoir east of Ashland in July 1963.

Investigators exhumed the body from an unmarked grave last summer, hoping DNA testing and facial reconstruction could solve the mystery of the child's identity.

Reconstruction illustrations by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children released in March didn't offer any firm leads, and DNA collection and matching has yet to be completed.

Borg and Pearson helped police learn more about an unusual tooth deformity — a bifurcated lower front tooth that has two roots and a surface split by an odd groove. Borg, Pearson and their technicians stayed after work one day to make film and digital X-rays of the toddler's teeth and jaws, Detective Sgt. Colin Fagan told the Mail Tribune newspaper.

They determined the boy was 1 year and 11 months old, at the low end of the range estimated by investigators in the 1960s. They also concluded that the child had characteristics of Down syndrome, as well as birth defects and developmental problems consistent with congenital syphilis. (more...)


Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA

X-rays, TV may help ID remains of child

An analysis finds boy had Down syndrome, syphilis

July 09, 2009
By Anita Burke
Mail Tribune
Attempts to identify a little boy found dead roughly 46 years ago in a reservoir in the hills east of Ashland are getting a potential boost from dental X-rays and television cameras.

A Jackson County Sheriff's Department team trying to find the name of a toddler discovered wrapped in blankets and wire in Keene Creek Reservoir in July 1963 is getting help from a Medford dental practice and a Portland television station.

Last summer — 45 years after the child was found, then buried in an unmarked grave at Hillcrest Memorial Park — the team exhumed the body. With DNA testing and facial reconstruction from the skull, team members hoped to unravel the mystery that had stymied their predecessors' best efforts decades earlier and sent the case deep into the department's forgotten archives, where sheriff's department volunteer special investigator Jim Tattersall discovered it and brought it to light.

Reconstruction illustrations by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children released in March didn't offer any concrete leads, and DNA collection and matching still is under way at Center for Human Identification at the University of North Texas, investigators said.

Although they haven't yet cracked the case, tips and offers of help continue to pour in from diverse sources, Jackson County sheriff's Detective Sgt. Colin Fagan said. (more...)

Teenager gets 40 years in slaying at car wash

The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA

Teenager gets 40 years in slaying at car wash

Victim, 33, was uncle of missing teen Tabitha Tuders
By Nicole Young • THE TENNESSEAN • July 7, 2009

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Del.icio.usFacebookDiggRedditNewsvineBuzz up!TwitterA 17-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to the 2008 shooting death of Billy Jack Shane Tuders, the uncle of missing teen Tabitha Tuders.


Kevin Buford Jr. pleaded guilty in Davidson County Criminal Court to second-degree murder in exchange for a 40-year prison sentence. Tuders, 33, was shot during a botched robbery attempt near a car wash on Clarksville Pike on Jan. 21, 2008, police said.
During questioning by Assistant District Attorney Kathy Morante the teenager, who had been transferred to adult court, told Judge Randall Wyatt that he was in a car with his father, uncle, brother and another man on the day of the shooting.
Buford's father, Kevin Buford Sr., then 40, drove them to a car wash on Clarksville Pike and when they saw Tuders, Buford said his father gave him a loaded gun and said, "Go get him." Buford testified that his uncle Robert Buford, then 38, told him to do what his father said. (more...)

Volunteers, police seek help in 1995 missing person's case

Left: Kimberly Langwell

KFDM-TV News - Beaumont,Texas,USA

Volunteers, police seek help in 1995 missing person's case

July 7, 2009 - 5:35 PM
Jennifer Heathcock
BEAUMONT -- Nearly 10 years have passed since a 34-year-old woman disappeared in Beaumont's west end, but an effort to solve the case is kept alive.

DeDe Keene and law enforcement want the community to know of Kimberly Anne Langwell and hope that area residents can help solve her disappearce and bring closure to her family. Police believe someone could have seen something that would help solve Langwell's whereabouts.

Keene holds the case close to her heart.

"Kimberly's case, when I found out about it, smoked my heart," she said. "I received my calling in July 1999, also the same month and year she disappeared."

Police said Langwell went missing a decade ago at about 5 p.m. July 9, from a parking lot at Dowlen and Phelan roads, where an Eckerd's pharmacy was located. Her car, cell phone and other belongings inside the vehicle were left behind. (more...)

What really happened to little Elian Majano?

Left: Elian Majano

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

What really happened to little Elian Majano?

2:00 PM Mon, Jul 06, 2009

Katherine Leal Unmuth/Reporter

From time to time, I find myself thinking about an Irving toddler who apparently disappeared while playing with his older brother in Irving's Lively Park on June 21, 2006-- Elian Majano, then two years old. Today, close to the third anniversary of his disappearance, he should be five years old.

His father handed the photo (pictured at the right) of brothers Alexis, then 4, and Elian to me me when I visited the family's cramped apartment in South Irving--an aging complex occupied by many immigrant families. (Elian's parents are from El Salvador). Now this little boy has joined a long list of other missing children from throughout the country, his case featured on America's Most Wanted online. (more...)

Troubled lives, unsolved deaths

News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA

Troubled lives, unsolved deaths

6 women killed in Edgecombe
BY THOMASI MCDONALD AND BARRY SAUNDERS - Staff Writers
Published: Wed, Jul. 08, 2009 05:04AMModified Wed, Jul. 08, 2009 05:53AM Buzz up! E-

ROCKY MOUNT -- Edgecombe County authorities and the State Bureau of Investigation are trying to determine whether the unsolved homicides of six women in and around Rocky Mount since 2005 are connected.

At least three other women from the area have been reported missing.

Many of the homicide victims share a similar profile: At least five were unemployed, and some had troubled pasts.

Five of the women were reported missing before their bodies were found. On Tuesday, Rocky Mount police released the names of three more women who have been reported missing since 2006 under suspicious circumstances.

[...]

Left: Joyce Durham

A second woman, Joyce Renee Durham, 46, of 1505 Harper St. in Rocky Mount has been missing since June 17, 2007, police reported. Durham was reported missing by her brother-in-law, Winston Kemp, who told police that she frequented drug areas, according to police reports.

Months before on Jan. 16, 2007, Christine Marie Boone, 43, was reported missing to Rocky Mount police by her daughter in-law, Susan Ann Boone. Susan Ann Boone told investigators that her mother in-law was suicidal. (more...)

Additional link: http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/5494376/

Motorcyle Ride For Melinda McGhee Reward Fund

NorthEscambia.com - near Pensacola,FL,USA

Motorcyle Ride For Melinda McGhee Reward Fund

July 8, 2009

A motorcycle ride will be held Saturday in Atmore for the Melinda Wall McGhee Reward Fund. McGhee is the Atmore area woman that has been missing for six years.

Melinda Wall McGhee was reported missing from her residence on Kent Road on March 24, 2003. She was 31 at the time.

Friends and family members still have hope that they will learn what happened to McGhee. That’s why they are still raising money for a a reward fund. The motorcycle ride will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday at the Wind Creek Casino, Highway 21 at I-65 Atmore. The cost $25 per bike, $10 for an extra rider. Lunch will be provided. For more info, call Rita at (850) 394-7784.

http://www.northescambia.com/?p=9318

Identity of skulls continues to be unknown

Vernon Morning Star - BC, Canada

Identity of skulls continues to be unknown

Published: July 07, 2009 7:00 PM

0 Comments It’s been more than a year since the skull of a man was found by Okanagan Indian Band members near Antoine Road.

And it’s been nearly a year since male skeletal remains were discovered in Vernon Creek by Fulton Secondary School.

RCMP still have not been able to identify either man.

“No to either one,” answered RCMP spokesman Gord Molendyk when asked if police were any closer to finding out the identity of the remains. (more...)

Madison County woman still missing after 1 year

Left: Jennifer Powers

WAFF - Huntsville,AL,USA

Madison County woman still missing after 1 year

Posted: July 7, 2009 08:00 PM

Updated: July 8, 2009 12:53 AM

By Tory Dunnan - bio email
Posted by Dana Franks - email

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - July 12 marks one year since Jennifer Powers vanished. One daughter wears her mother's ring -- a circle of faith that's broken without her.

All three children sent a message just in case she's watching.

"I love her and I just want her home," said daughter Brittany Vann.

"She needs to come back home cause she has somebody that loves her," said Katelyn Powers, Powers' other daughter.

"I just want her to really come home and I really miss her too," said son Dylan Powers.

Her disappearance left many questions for investigators. (more...)

Missing Chili man's family, friends still wonder

Left: Brian Sullivan

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle NY, USA

Missing Chili man's family, friends still wonder

Ernst Lamothe Jr. • Staff writer • July 9, 2009

GATES — Time doesn't necessarily heal all wounds.
Standing in front of a billboard with two large images of Brian Sullivan, family members are still trying to wrap their minds around the two-year anniversary of his disappearance. More than 50 people attended a candlelight vigil Wednesday on Buffalo Road in Gates to honor Sullivan, who was last seen on July 7, 2007, at a Burger King on Chili Avenue. On that billboard were Sullivan's height, weight and a picture of his red 1995 Pontiac Sunfire, which was found nearby that day. There were no signs of foul play in or around the vehicle, and family members say it doesn't get any easier to stay hopeful.
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"It's a horrible feeling not knowing where my brother is," said Britney Murphy, 22, of Churchville, who is 18 months older than Sullivan.
"We don't know what happened, but we know he is out there someplace."
Katie Towner of Greece led the vigil with a few remarks. She read from Psalms 34:18, which she said was the sum of emotions she has felt since her cousin disappeared. (more...)

1986 Jane Doe Case Reopened

KSAT.com - San Antonio,TX,USA

1986 Jane Doe Case Reopened

Victim May Have Been Victim Of So-Called Railroad Killer

Jozannah Quintanilla, KSAT 12 News Reporter
POSTED: Thursday, July 9, 2009
UPDATED: 9:00 am CDT July 9, 2009

SAN ANTONIO -- She has been dead for more than two decades and her slaying remains unsolved.
Bexar County Sheriff's Office investigators have wondered about the identity of the woman who was killed and left inside a shed in southeast Bexar County in 1986. The case has been filed away without a name since March 1986. The body was so badly decomposed detectives were never able to identify her.
Cold case investigators recently reopened the Jane Doe case.
The only break investigators have had to go on was a confession from the convicted and so-called Railroad Killer Angel Resendez Ramirez. Several years before Resendez was executed, he confessed to killing the woman. Resendez was believed to be in the area around the same time the remains were found. (more...)

Officials identify skeletal remains

Left: David Bell

Abilene Reporter-News - Abilene,TX,USA

Officials identify skeletal remains

Thursday, July 9, 2009


Skeletal remains found last week on an Eastland County property were identified Tuesday as belonging to a man who disappeared more than two years ago, said county Justice of the Peace D.J. Walker.

The remains of David Bell, 27, were found on property just southeast of Cisco by three women who were fishing in a tank on the property, Walker said.

One of the women walked around the tank to an area where the water had receded and found the skull. More bones were later found around the area, Walker said.

The remains were sent to Tarrant County for identification and an autopsy. A medical examiner there said there were no signs of foul play on Bell’s remains, Walker said.

“It (the autopsy) didn’t show any breakage of bones,” Walker said. (more...)

Tips roll in for amnesia victim; no ID yet

I hope the CO lead will eventually be the successful one.

Colorado Daily - Boulder,CO,USA

Tips roll in for amnesia victim; no ID yet

By Vanessa Miller (Contact)
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

A man who goes by "Benjaman Kyle" says he has some memories of Boulder up until the early 1980s, and advocates who are helping the amnesia victim find his identity have turned their attention here.

BOULDER, Colo. — An amnesia victim -- who's been searching for his identity for five years and recalls being in Boulder -- might have been a manager at a University Hill restaurant, according to recent tips that have come in since the Camera and other Colorado news outlets reported on his plight.

Several people who spent time in Boulder in the late 1970s or early 1980s have said they remember the unknown man working at Round the Corner -- an eatery that used to have three locations in Boulder.

Colleen Fitzpatrick, a forensic genealogist who's been helping the man since February, said none of the tipsters remember the name of the employee that resembles the amnesia victim.

"But several people said they knew him as a manager there," Fitzpatrick said. (more...)

Vanished—with a Trace

Left: John Cheek

March 28, 1994 Vol. 41 No. 11

Vanished—with a Trace

By David Grogan
Despite Tantalizing Clues, Memphis Businessman John Cheek Is Still MissingJOHN CHEEK WAS ABOUT TO BECOME A rich man. At 28, he was the chief financial officer of a Memphis apartment-management company. For three months he had been working 18-hour days, putting together a stock offering to take the company public—a move that was expected to bring him a personal windfall of $1 million. Then, on Dec. 2, he disappeared.

The day before, Cheek had returned to Memphis at 6 a.m. from a business trip to Portland, Ore. He had gone straight to the office and worked until 11 p.m. "That was the last anyone saw of him," says one of Cheek's closest friends, Andy Teller, 29, of Dallas.

Police found no evidence that Cheek had met with foul play. An audit of his company did not uncover any improprieties, and the public stock-offering plan eventually went through without a hitch. No money had been withdrawn from Cheek's checking account. And family members discovered nothing out of the ordinary at his three-bedroom colonial-style house, except that the garage door was open with no car inside. (more...)

Additional link:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YXQKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IEsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7054,1464533

"Chris" Doe, VA, 1987

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2dMQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=04sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1252,5180547

Just for the info:

CONVICTED MURDERER KILLED IN PRISON
$1.95 - Roanoke Times - NewsBank - Dec 14, 1999
John Stephen Swartz, who was serving a life sentence for a 1987 murder along Interstate 81 in Rockbridge County, became involved in an incident with another ...

UID, FL, 1986

http://www.doenetwork.org/hot/hotcase378.html

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zusTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cAYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5550,3929703

Looks like it's the same 10/21/1986 was a Tuesday.

Human remains identified as missing person from last Fall

Left: Kenneth McDonald

Midnorth Monitor - Espanola,Ontario,Canada

HUMAN REMAINS IDENTIFIED AS MISSING PERSON FROM LAST FALL

OPP HAVE IDENTIFIED HUMAN REMAINS AS KENNETH MCDONALD
Posted By Rosalind Raby
Posted 1 day ago
Manitoulin OPP has confirmed that the human remains that were located on Friday, July 3 at 7:44 pm as that of missing person Ken McDonald of Spring Bay.
Manitoulin OPP received a call from a couple who own property on Lot 9 Concession 12 off Grimsthorpe Road near Spring Bay who located the human remains. The couple were out for a walk collecting mushrooms when the discovery was made.
In October 2008, the Manitoulin OPP initiated an investigation of a report of a missing person in the Spring Bay area. The person, identified as Kenneth McDonald, of 9310 Hwy 542, Spring Bay was last seen near his residence on October 28 at approximately 1:00 pm.
At the time of his disappearance McDonald was described as a white male, 39 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall with a slim build. McDonald was suffering from a mental health condition and may have been disoriented when he went missing. (more...)

Bones found in North Augusta in 2007 identified as missing Augusta man

Left: John Gustafson

WRDW-TV - Augusta,GA,USA

Bones found in North Augusta in 2007 identified as missing Augusta man Save Email Print

Posted: 1:14 PM Jul 7, 2009
Last Updated: 12:04 PM Jul 8, 2009
Reporter: Ashley Jeffery
Email Address: ashley.jeffery@wrdw.com

News 12 @ 11 o'clock, July 7, 2009

NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. --- The Aiken County coroner say human bones they found in 2007 belong to 51-year old John William Gustafson. He had been missing since July of 1999.

It's been a 10 year search for a mother and for law enforcement trying to figure out what happened to John Gustafson the day he left his Augusta home.

"It's tough on anybody. Not knowing an answer, wondering," said Lt. Tim Pearson of North Augusta Public Safety.

Gustafson's mother reported him missing to the Richmond County Sheriff's Office July 23, 1999. Just three days later, North Augusta investigators say they found his car with the keys still inside on Frontage Road. But it would be eight years before investigators would get a break in the case, when a father and son stumbled across human bones.

Investigators say Gustafson's bones were found in some woods off of Austin Graybill road. Not far from where his car was found. But Gustafson's remains were so old and in such bad condition, they had to be sent to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, where a lab was finally able to say the bones belonged to him. (more...)