A Black Notice is an Interpol alert that is issued to law enforcement agencies worldwide in order to gain information about unidentified bodies. In this case, we are dealing with twenty-two unidentified women. They were found in the area covering Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. However, that does not mean that they were killed in […]
Unidentified
Karen Kaye Knippers identified
We called her the Pulaski County Jane Doe as for 40 years, we didn’t know her name. Now we do: Karen Kaye Knippers. From KCRG: “Three Sheriffs, J.B. King, Ronald Long, and current Sheriff Jimmy Bench continued searching for answers through the years, along with Coroner Mikel Hartness, who got a court order in 2015 […]
Boy in the Box by Silvia Pettem
If ever there was a child crying out to be identified, the “Boy in the Box” is the one. Also called “America’s Unknown Child,” the little boy was found deceased in a cardboard box in a debris-filled empty lot in northeast Philadelphia on February 25, 1957. Ever since, police and others periodically have assembled at […]
Toronto John Doe 1989
WARNING: this post contains photography that some might find disturbing! One of my readers alerted me to a case of an unidentified man with zero media attention. I have not plowed through all newspaper archives yet as I’d normally do, however, I am posting it in hopes that others can start sharing it. What do […]
1991 East Allentown John Doe
NamUs profile #UP16506 is about the unidentified 1991 East Allentown case that was uploaded on April 7, 2017. This case remains unsolved so I made it the Case of the Month for September, 2020. The Case On Sunday, April 28, 1991 around 6pm, two hikers on a hillside near Albert Street, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, found scattered […]
Chesterfield County Jane Doe
UPDATE: Aug 13, 2020: Her name is Christy Lynn Floyd. I received the tip to look into the Chesterfield County Jane Doe from my friend Michele who grew up near this area in Virginia. What do we know? From WSLS: “On Aug. 7, 1986, workers were unloading trash from the School Street transfer station in […]
DeKalb County GA John Doe 1999
Investigators have named him Dennis, a well-taken care off little boy whose remains were found on February 26, 1999 in DeKalb County, Georgia. But they don’t know his real name or his official cause of death. His case can be found in NamUs. We know this: the boy’s remains were found in a DeKalb County […]
Oronoque Rd John Doe
Milford Police in Connecticut is asking for your help to identify this man. I have named him Oronoque Rd John Doe as this was where the unidentified man was found in August 21, 1992. Milford Police Detective Mitchell Warwick told News8 the following: on August 21,1992 two pedestrians found skeletal remains wrapped in a blanket across the street […]
Unidentified: Conroe Lake John Doe
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office need help in the case of an unidentified man I called the Conroe Lake John Doe. UPDATE: In December 2023, the victim was identified as Clarence Wilson. He was born on February 18, 1952. The authorities ask if you have any information, no matter how small the detail, to call […]
The Unidentified
Please welcome Rebekah Turner who joins the cause to name the unidentified. She wrote the post below to introduce her project to my blog’s readers in hopes that you will use her database as well. I have said it before and cannot stress this enough: cold case work is teamwork. If you have a missing loved […]