List of formerly unidentified decedents, 2010–2019

In the many unidentified decedent cases in the world, there are several cases where the individual is eventually identified. Most bodies are provisionally identified within a matter of hours, with the formal identification following a few days, weeks, or months later.

This list is for those bodies that were identified from 2010 to 2019.

2010

Name	Image	Year of death	Cause of death	Location	Circumstances
Michael Baulch		1973	Murder	US	A victim of serial killer Dean Corll. His older brother, Billy, had earlier been killed by Corll in 1972.

2011

Name	Image	Year of death	Cause of death	Location	Circumstances
Bell Gardens John Doe		2006	Murder	US	A Hispanic man was witnessed to have been attacked by a currently apprehended individual in a grocery store parking lot and discovered dead on July 6, 2006. The man was found in Bell Gardens, Los Angeles County, California. He was estimated to be between 62 and 72 years old. He was identified in 2011, but his identity was withheld.
William Bundy		1976	Murder	US	Bundy, aged 19, was one of eight still-unidentified victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy at the time of Gacy's 1994 execution. His were the 19th set of remains discovered in the crawl space of Gacy's Norwood Park ranch house in December 1978. Bundy's remains would only be identified via DNA profiling in 2011.
Atcel Olmedo		2005	Murder	US	A toddler believed to have been killed by his abusive stepfather. Since the suspects have fled the country, they could not be located and tried.
Colleen Orsborn		1984	Murder	US	A victim of a serial killer. She had previously been excluded as a possible identity for the body, but DNA later disproved this.

2012

Name	Image	Year of death	Cause of death	Location	Circumstances
Jon-Niece Jones		2002	Murder	US	A girl whose burned skeleton was found in 2005. Her mother is believed to be responsible for her death but died before she could be prosecuted.
Sandra Major		1982	Murder	US	A woman murdered by serial killer Gary Ridgway in 1982. Her remains were found three years later.
Oral Alfred Stuart, Jr.		1974	Murder	US	Found murdered at a condominium complex near Interstate 605 in Long Beach, California, on November 10. The United States Marine Corps had listed Stuart as AWOL as a result of his disappearance, though this was reversed after his identification. He is believed to be a victim of serial killer Randy Steven Kraft.
Jeanette Tambe		1986	Murder	US	On August 8, 1986, the bound and fully clothed body of a young woman was found in a wooded area near Newtonville, New Jersey. It was determined that she had died of asphyxiation within a day of her discovery, and had suffered several nonlethal stab wounds. It was also noted that sulfuric acid a been poured on her face in an attempt to disfigure her. In June 2012, DNA testing revealed that she was Jeanette Rose Tambe, 24, of Bensalem, Pennsylvania. Tambe was last seen alive in October 1984, but where she was between her disappearance and her murder and discovery remains unclear.

2013

Name	Image	Year of death	Cause of death	Location	Circumstances
Heidi Balch		1989	Murder	US	The first victim of serial killer Joel Rifkin.
Anjelica Castillo		1991	Murder	US	A four-year-old girl who was murdered by her older cousin. She was never reported missing and was identified after a family member noticed a resemblance between the victim and the forensic sketches.
Jennifer Cole		1997	Murder	US	On March 10, 1997, the skeletal remains of a young African-American woman were found in a shallow grave near Percy Priest Lake in Wilson County, Tennessee. On October 4, 2000, a man named Luther Nelson Lynch was arrested for her murder and was sentenced to 15 years after pleading guilty. In 2013, she was identified as 22 year old Jennifer Cole, who had disappeared from Dallas, Texas, in 1996. Her family attempted to report her missing at the time but realized that no report had been filed until almost a decade later.
Kori Lamaster		1994	Murder	US	A teenager reported missing over a decade after she originally disappeared. She was identified through DNA and fingerprints.

2014

Name	Image	Year of death	Cause of death	Location	Circumstances
Mary Lynn Andersen		1982	Murder	US	23-year-old Andersen was last seen in Gillette, Wyoming in 1982. Her body was found in August 1983 outside of the city buried in a shallow grave. She was not identified until July 2014.
Sharon Bowen		1983	Murder	US	On July 2, 1983, the body of a white female was found in the Hoover Reservoir near Columbus, Ohio. It was determined that she had been killed by ligature strangulation about one week prior. She was nicknamed "Rose Mary Doe" while unidentified. In 2014, fingerprints revealed that she was 28-year-old Sharon Rae Bowen, who had disappeared from Salt Lake City, Utah in late 1982.
Shari Lynne Ball		1983	Murder	US	20-year-old Ball was last seen in Boca Raton, Florida, on June 27, 1983. Her remains were found in Shelby, New York in October of the same year and were not identified until April 2014.
Susan Denise Cook		1996	Murder	US	32-year-old Cook was last seen in Phoenix, Arizona on December 14, 1996. Her remains were found between 87th Avenue and West Dobbins Road in June 1997. They were identified through DNA in April 2014.
Nancy Grace Daniel		1976	Murder	US	14-year-old Daniel was last seen in Orlando, Florida on September 7, 1976, and her partial skeleton was found in March 1977. It has been speculated that her case may be connected to that of another still-unidentified young woman who was found in the area earlier that year. Her remains were found by hunters near Lake Mann in the same city. Her body remained unidentified until June 2014.
Diana Jane Elmore		1990	Murder	US	Elmore, 32, disappeared from Lone Grove, Oklahoma on August 5, 1990. Her remains were found in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1991, but were not identified until November 2014.
Jenny Gamez		2014	Murder	US	A victim of Steven Zelich, aka the Wisconsin Suitcase Murderer.
Michelle Garvey		1982	Murder	US	A runaway from Connecticut whose body was found a month after her disappearance in Texas.
Cynthia May Hernandez		1976	Murder	US	Hernandez disappeared from Glendora, California, on August 26, 1976. A skull was unearthed beside Larry James Allred's cabin in Twin Peaks later that year. Some rib bones were found under the cabin. Both the skull and the ribs were linked by DNA in 2009 and finally identified as Hernandez in December 2014. Allred pled guilty to her murder in September 2016.
Darrell J. Hill		1994	Murder	US	29-year-old Hill was last seen in Los Angeles, California, on March 6, 1993. His remains were found in a ditch along State Route 16 in Purdy, Washington around Christmas in 1994. They were mistakenly thought to be that of a female, delaying his identification until 2014.
Cengiz Han Nuray		1995	Murder	US	Cengiz, 17, disappeared from Santa Cruz, California on April 27, 1995. Later that year, his badly decomposed body was found in the water off Asilomar State Beach in Pacific Grove, California. His remains were officially identified by DNA on December 30, 2014.
Priciliano Ontiveros		1987	Murder	US	32-year-old Ontiveros was last seen in Phoenix, Arizona, on October 29, 1987. His skull was found by hikers in the Salt River bottom near 91st Avenue in the same area in 1992. He was not identified until the summer of 2014.
Barbara Precht		2006	Drowning	US	A woman who was found drowned under unknown circumstances in a river in 2006. She was identified through fingerprints.
Suzanne Sevakis		1990	Road traffic accident	US	A woman killed in a hit-and-run accident that some believe was an intentional murder by her husband, Franklin Delano Floyd. She was living under an alias at the time of her death, so it wasn't until 2014 that she was identified as Suzanne Marie Sevakis, Floyd's stepdaughter; Floyd had absconded with her and her siblings while their mother was serving a jail sentence. Sevakis' mother, Sandi Chipman, had attempted to report the children missing, but police refused to take the report because they believed that Floyd, as their stepfather, was a legal guardian to the children and therefore had committed no crime. Floyd eventually confessed to killing her son, but no remains have been found.
Stewart Eric Simmons		1982	Murder	US	20-year-old Simmons was last seen in San Diego, California on June 19, 1982. His skeletal remains were found on October 22 of the same year buried in Archuleta County, Colorado, on the New Mexico border, showing signs of a beating and a gunshot. His body was found alongside the remains of an older woman who was identified after him. Simmons was identified in February 2014 and she (Margaret Ann Walden) was identified in August 2014.
Margaret Ann Walden		1982	Murder	US	39-year-old Walden was last seen in Durango, Colorado, in June 1982. Her skeletal remains were found in Espanola, New Mexico, right on the Colorado border on October 22, 1982, along with the body of a young man. This man remained unidentified as well until February 2014, when he was identified as 20-year-old Stewart Eric Simmons who disappeared from San Diego, California, at the same time as Walden. Walden was identified in August 2014.
Kelly Ann Ward		1986	Murder	US	On February 20, 1997, two maintenance workers of the Swatara Township Sewer Authority discovered the skeleton of a female estimated to be between eighteen and thirty in Swatara Township, Pennsylvania. The site where she was found is about 100 yards from the intersection with Route 441. The remains had likely been there three to five years prior to being found. A facial reconstruction was made, but local police did not make it public for unknown reasons. She was identified as a potential victim of serial killer Joseph Daniel Miller in 2014.

2015

Name	Image	Year of death	Cause of death	Location	Circumstances
Tammy Alexander		1979	Murder	US	A girl who ran away from her Florida home who was later killed in Caledonia, New York.
Bella Bond		2015	Presumed murder	US	A toddler whose remains were found on the shore of Deer Island, Massachusetts. She remained unidentified for three months and her case received significant media attention.
Marilee Bruszer		1978	Murder	US	A victim originally thought to have been eleven years younger than she actually was and whose physical characteristics were inaccurately estimated. She was identified through DNA.
Michelle Busha		1980	Murder	US	Busha, aged 18, was murdered by a Minnesota state trooper while hitchhiking. Her murder was solved in 1989 but she remained unidentified until 2015.
Jason Callahan		1995	Road traffic accident	US	A man found after a single car accident in Emporia, Virginia, along with another male. He was identified after he was reported missing 20 years after his initial disappearance.
Roberto Caraballo		2002	Murder	US	In the afternoon of May 8, 2002, the burned body of a white or Hispanic man was discovered in a wooded area of a blueberry field in Grand Haven, Ottawa County, Michigan. The man was killed by blunt force trauma and was then set on fire after being transported to the area. He had extensive dental work, including a partial dental plate, crowns, and restorations. However, they had not been performed within a decade before he died. It is believed that he received such care in the southern United States or Mexico. His clothing included a shirt originating from southern California, boxer shorts, and a watch. He was 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) to 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) tall and was fairly healthy when he was alive. His remains were found in a footlocker that had been set on fire. A charred cushion, which was placed below the remains, was also found. Because of the size of the footlocker and the absence of disturbance to the surface of the earth, it is believed that more than one person was involved in disposing of the corpse. Because it had rained the morning of the discovery, trace evidence at the scene was no longer available. In 2015, authorities received tips that "Jack" may have been Caraballo and were able to identify him in April 2015. They also identified the scene of the killing in Charlotte, Michigan. His wife, daughter, and another man were charged with the murder.
Carol Cole		1980	Murder	US	A runaway teenager from Texas. She was later murdered in Louisiana.
Deanna Criswell		1987	Murder	US	A teenage runaway from Washington who was killed in Arizona. Her murder was solved before her identification.
Bina Emery		1988	Murder	US	Bina, 14, disappeared from Detroit, Michigan on February 23, 1988. In July 1988, her body was found in the Detroit River. The cause of death was undetermined. She was identified through DNA in April 2015.
Beverly Lynn England		1980	Murder	US	England went missing from Salida, Colorado, on June 12, 1980. Her remains were found in 1992 and identified in September 2015.
Brenda Gerow		1981	Murder	US	A woman from New Hampshire found in Arizona. She was identified after a photograph in a convicted murderer's possession was identified to be her by her family and was then matched by DNA to her body.
Holly Glynn		1987	Suicide	US	A woman who jumped to her death from a cliff in Dana Point, California. Her case was featured on Unsolved Mysteries.
Delores Diane Gonzales		1974	Murder	US	Gonzales disappeared from Gulfport, Mississippi, on June 21, 1973. Her remains were found in Choctaw County, Alabama, in 1974. She had been shot twice in the head. The remains were not identified until April 2015.
Kerry Graham		1978	Presumed murder	US	Discovered alongside her friend's body, both are believed to have been murdered when they disappeared in December 1978. Kerry Graham's body was originally thought to be male before DNA testing proved otherwise.
Erika Hill		2007	Murder	US	A teenager who was abused by her adoptive mother. She was identified after her adoptive sister discovered her case file online.
David Lytton		2015	Probable suicide	UK	Lytton was found dead on Saddleworth Moor from a lethal dose of strychnine on December 12, 2015. He carried no identification and was not linked with any missing person cases. He was later identified from CCTV footage in a London train station and an airline passenger manifest.
Rosemma Mendenhall		1990	Murder	US	Mendenhall was a transient who went missing from Eureka, California in 1990. Her mummified remains were found east of Corning, California in October 1990. Her death was due to stabbing. She was not identified until June 2015.
Martha Morrison		1974	Murder	US	A teenager from Oregon murdered in 1974 after she left an argument with her roommate. Morrison's remains were found in Washington a few months later. Suspected serial killer Warren Leslie Forrest was arraigned for her murder in 2020. He is currently serving a life sentence for another 1974 murder.
Marguerite O'Brien		1985	Road traffic incident	US	On August 3, 1985, a woman was killed when she attempted to cross a highway in Fontana, San Bernardino County, California. The female was between 25 and 35 when she died. She was identified in 2015 as Salem, Massachusetts native Marguerite O'Brien.
David Stack		1976	Murder	US	A man killed while hitchhiking to California. He was identified by DNA after similarities between his dental charts and the unidentified body were discovered.
Francine Trimble		1978	Presumed murder	US	Found alongside her friend, Kerry Graham in 1979.
Glenn Wilson		2008	Presumed murder	US	The body of a white male between 35 and 55 was located on April 5, 2008, in the Sandy River Reservoir in Prince Edward County, Virginia. The man was discovered by fishermen and was already decomposed beyond the point of taking fingerprints. The cause of death could not be determined, yet officials believe he was murdered. He was identified in 2015.
Janice Marie Young		1973	Road traffic accident	US	On June 9, 1973, a young girl was pushed in front of a moving vehicle in St. Petersburg, Florida during a physical altercation. On May 20, 2015, 42 years after the incident, authorities identified the decedant as 15-year-old Janice Marie Young of Virginia. She had run away after being raped by her adoptive brother. She had used her birth name at the time she died, which had been changed to match that of her adoptive family. Her biological brother searched online to see if she had ever been found and recognized a police sketch and noticed very similar circumstances between the then-unidentified girl and his sister.

2016

Name	Image	Year of death	Cause of death	Location	Circumstances
Lannie Melissa Albritton		1986	Murder	US	Albritton, known by the nickname "Lissy," went missing from Chula Vista, California on July 1, 1986. Two weeks later, her body was found in a desert area off a dirt road in Lancaster, California, but remained unidentified until May 2016. She had been strangled.
Sonja Blair-Adams		1969	Murder	US	On June 1, 1969 (some sources state June 2), a young white woman's body was found near a hiking trail on Pine Mountain, Harlan, Kentucky. She had been dead for several days to several weeks and was decomposed beyond recognition, possibly having been killed at another location before being taken to Pine Mountain. Near her body, fragments of a man's sweater and a ticket stub originating from an Ohio restaurant were found. The victim was between 16 and 22 years old and had been stabbed to death. Because of the condition of her body, it is not known if she had been sexually assaulted. She was later identified as 21-year-old Sonja Blair-Adams of Kentucky. She had never been reported missing.
Charles "Chuck" Cornell		1989	Road traffic incident	US	A white man between 20 and 40 years of age was killed after a tractor trailer collided with his body on Highway 52 in Hamburg, Ashley County, Arkansas on May 24, 1989. DNA later identified the victim as 30-year-old Charles Cornell of Battle Creek, Michigan. Cornell was last seen by his family in 1986 and was reported missing three decades after he disappeared. Authorities believe Cornell was voluntarily missing and law enforcement had no record of his disappearance.
Cynthia Louise Day		1990	Murder	US	Day went missing from National City, Illinois on August 10, 1990. Her body was found only sixteen days later in a secluded area of Pike County, Missouri, but remained unidentified until July 2016, when a thumbprint revealed her name. Her bones had been boiled after being discovered to preserve them which had led to the destruction of DNA and delayed her identification.
Crittenden County John Doe		1982	Drowning	US	A black man between 30 and 60 years old was found in the Mississippi River on October 28, 1982, in West Memphis, Crittenden County, Arkansas. He may not have been from the area, as he also was found with pamphlets detailing the area as well as a map. He was identified in 2016, but his identity was withheld.
Francine Frost		1981	Murder	US	Frost disappeared from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on February 16, 1981. Her remains were found in Muskogee County, Oklahoma two years later, but remained unidentified until August 2016.
Reet Jurvetson		1969	Murder	US	A Canadian woman killed in Los Angeles, California. She may be a victim of Charles Manson and his followers or an unidentified suspect.
"Laundry Lady"		1987	Road traffic incident	US	A woman was struck and killed by a vehicle while she walked on Highway 61 on September 9, 1987, in West Memphis, Crittenden County, Arkansas. She was propelled approximately 150 feet and subsequently died. The female was between 45 and 60 years old. The woman earned her nickname for a bag near the body that had various personal hygiene items as well as a box of laundry detergent. The woman carried a business card that was traced to a man who had stated he had given the woman a ride seven days before in Nashville, Tennessee. He also claimed she had said her first name was "Mary" and was native to Phoenix, Arizona. She was identified in 2016, but her identity remains withheld.
Darlene Rene McKenzie		1975	Murder	US	McKenzie disappeared from Detroit, Michigan around 1975 when she was 16–17. Her body was found later that year in Farmington Hills, Michigan, but remained unidentified until December 2016.
Kimberly McLean		2010	Suicide	US	A woman who stole the identity of deceased Becky Sue Turner and later changed her name to "Lori Erica Ruff" in 1988. She committed suicide in 2010 after her marriage failed. She was identified as a woman who had left her Pennsylvania home in 1986 after she turned 18.
Cheryl Ann McMillan		1968	Drug overdose	US	On June 8, 1968, a white female between 20 and 28 was found dead on a picnic table in Griffith Park in Hollywood, California. She was identified in 2016 as 21-year-old Cheryl Ann McMillan of Campbell, California through visual identification and by the ring she wore, as no identifying information such as dentals, DNA, or fingerprints were ever taken.
Pulaski County John Doe		1999	Murder	US	On November 6, 1999, the skull of a 30- to 50-year-old Native American or Asian man was discovered in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. He had been shot in the head. In 2007, the rest of his remains were located, along with some clothing. He had been dead for up to six years before he was found. He was identified in 2016, but his identity remains withheld.
Rapides Parish Jane Doe		1998	Murder	US	On April 12, 1998, a woman's body was found in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. She had begun to decompose and was left naked at the scene. It is possible that she was disposed of by a trucker, as the interstate ramp the body was found was often used as an "unofficial truck stop." She had died around one to six weeks before at an age between thirty-five and forty-five. The location of her remains also indicated she could have come from any place in the country, a similar predicament as the Hudson County Jane Doe. Her hair was a dark blond and was worn in a ponytail, bound with a purple ribbon. The victim was between five feet five to five feet eight inches tall at a weight of 110 to 130 pounds. By examining her teeth, it was discovered that she had "unique dental work" and some teeth were missing, which may have occurred after her death or possibly had never developed. The exact cause of her death is unknown but considered to be a homicide.
Joseph Norman Spears		1973	Traffic accident	US	Joseph was hit and killed by a vehicle in Texas City, Texas, while attempting to cross a freeway. He had run away from a juvenile detention facility in Gulfport, Mississippi on July 30, 1973. His remains were identified in August 2016 through photo identification by his mother.
Teala Patricia Thompson		1967	Murder	US	Thompson's body was discovered in a landfill in Salem Township, Pennsylvania. She had disappeared from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 5, 1967, which was two weeks before the discovery. The remains had been buried in a potter's field and were not identified until August 2016, when the exhumation of the body provided enough material to do an identification.
Mark "Duane" Woodard		1977	Murder	US	On March 22, 1977, the skeleton of a male between 17 and 25 years old was found in Summerfield, Florida. He was probably white, although he may have been descended from someone from the Caribbean. A possible bullet wound was present on the skull, and a bullet casing was found at the scene. He was identified as Mark "Duane" Woodard in 2016.

2017

Name	Image	Year of death	Cause of death	Location	Circumstances
Patrice Corley		1990	Murder	US	A 29-year-old woman from Louisville, Kentucky, who was found dead behind a gas station west of Hebron, Ohio, on Thursday, April 19, 1990. Corley's family reported her missing in October 2016.
Joseph Decker		1967	Murder	US	On October 31, 1967, a white male was shot and left in the hallway of a hotel in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. He was a young man, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was estimated to be between twenty and thirty years of age when he died. He was five feet ten inches tall and weighed 148 pounds. He was wearing a white shirt, white boxers, suede shoes, brown socks, and tan pants when his body was found shortly after neighboring hotel guests heard the gunshot and reported the murder to the police. The man had a distinct, foot long, scar on his abdomen. He was identified in 2017 and his identity was released to the media in 2018.
John Clifton Downey		1984	Murder	US	Downey was found dead in an area of brush alongside a dirt trail in Des Moines, Iowa in 1984. Despite having several unusual tattoos on his body, Downey remained unidentified until an upgraded fingerprint system by the FBI in 2017 confirmed his identity.
James Haakenson		1976	Murder	US	Haakenson, aged 16, was one of eight still-unidentified victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy at the time of Gacy's 1994 execution. His were the 24th set of human remains to be discovered in the crawl space of Gacy's Norwood Park ranch house in December 1978, but his body would only be identified via DNA profiling in July 2017.
Frank Haynes		1921	Train accident	US	Formerly known as Some Mother's Boy, Haynes died from injuries sustained as he attempted to beat a train across the track in Georgetown, Kentucky. His family knew of the circumstances behind his death a few months after it occurred due to photographs, but had not known that Haynes had remained officially unidentified for over 90 years.
Andrea Kuiper		1990	Vehicle accident	US	A young woman, between the ages of eighteen and thirty, was killed after she stepped into the path of an oncoming vehicle on April 1, 1990, on the Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, California. The case was featured on the show Unsolved Mysteries. The victim was identified in May 2017.
"Julissa"		2004	Murder	US	The strangled body of a Hispanic, possibly Dominican, woman was located in New York City on April 27, 2004. The woman was dead less than a day and was between 20 and 30 years old. Because she wore a gold earring with the name "Julissa" engraved into it, some believe that it may have been her first name. The woman was allegedly killed after attending a party with three men during an argument. There were scars on her body, one which appeared to have been the letters "J" and "M". The victim's identity remains withheld. The victim was identified in mid-2017.
Angel McAllister		1999	Murder	US	On October 9, 1999, in Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona the body of a white female aged between 15 and 22 was discovered within hours after her death. She had been shot in the face with a shotgun, which left her unrecognizable. According to some evidence, it is possible that she may have been from Mexico and murdered in the United States. In 2017, she was identified as Angel Marie McAllister, who had left her foster home when she turned 18.
Joseph Pace		1986	Murder	US	In Ontario, San Bernardino County, California, the body of a Caucasian male was discovered in the bedroom of a vacant house on August 21, 1986. His body was left nude approximately a week before it was discovered. He was between 17 and 22 years old. He was identified in 2017.

2018

Name	Image	Year of death	Cause of death	Location	Circumstances
Laytwan Brown		1998	Murder	US	On May 29, 1998, the skeletonized remains of a black male were found by fishermen in the Coosa River in Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama. There were multiple bullet wounds to the skull and stab wounds to the sacrum and right hipbone. Evidence of burning was also present. He was aged between 17 and 21 at the time of death. He was identified in 2018 as Laytwan "Twan" Brown.
Larry Norman Frost		1973	Murder	US	Frost was one of the 32 victims of the UpStairs Lounge arson attack.
"Alfred Jake Fuller"		2014	Natural causes	US	A middle aged man found expired in his hotel room in Oakland, Maine. He used the alias "Alfred Jake Fuller" when checking in. In 2018 the DNA Doe Project took on his case and identified him. His family requested for his true identity to remain confidential.
Marcia King		1981	Murder	US	Found murdered in Ohio. She was identified through DNA.
Elizabeth Lamotte		1985	Murder	US	A teenager who disappeared from New Hampshire in 1984. She was found murdered in Tennessee a year later.
Cynthia Merkley		1991	Murder	US	On April 26, 1991, a woman's body was found lying face-up in Vacaville, Solano County, California. The victim had died either by strangulation or suffocation. She was twenty-five to thirty-five years old and was approximately five feet five inches tall. She is presumed to be white with Native American characteristics and had long hair that was brownish-blond. Although she was too decomposed to determine eye color, her fingerprints were obtained along with her dental information and DNA. She had fillings and five missing teeth, but three of them had been lost after her death. She was wearing a long-sleeved dress that was dark along with a sweater and a blue tank top, with a wool cap. No other clothing was found, except for a jacket covering the body and her dress had been pulled above her waist, indicating she was sexually assaulted. A ring with a green stone and a watch with a silver-colored face were also worn by the victim. Her body was exhumed in 1998. Along with wearing a large amount of clothing, the victim's legs were not shaved, possibly indicating she was a transient. She was identified in 2018 through fingerprinting.
Leroy Bernard Matthews		1997	Accident	US	A black male was electrocuted after coming in contact with the railway tracks in a substation on June 23, 1997, in New York City. He was estimated to have been between twenty and thirty years old.
Robert Ivan Nichols		2002	Suicide	US	Nichols committed suicide in Eastlake, Ohio in July 2002. He had been going by the name of Joseph Newton Chandler III since 1978. He stole this identity from a boy who died in a car crash in Texas in 1945. Nichols was identified in 2018, after a CODIS match with his son. He was a World War II veteran; married, had children, divorced, and became estranged from his family; they reported him missing in 1965. He lived in various states afterward and was a known hermit with eccentric and odd behavior, who rarely engaged with neighbors or coworkers. It's been heavily speculated as to the reason why Nichols stole Chandler's identity (potentially hiding a criminal past), but nothing has yet been proven.
Linda Pagano		1975	Murder	US	On February 5, 1975, the skeletal remains of a young woman were found by children on the riverbank of the Rocky River in Strongsville, Ohio. She had been shot to death and some teeth had been sawed away from her skull by her presumed killer postmortem. Her mandible was not recovered. She was later buried in a potters field in Cleveland Cemetery. In 2018, a Reddit user was searching through cemetery documents while investigating another case, when she came across Pagano, still unidentified. She sent the information to forensic artist Carl Koppelman, who noticed a distinct similarity in the jaw of Pagano, who had recently been posted to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System and the unidentified remains. He submitted the potential match and DNA was compared to that of Pagano's family, when it was confirmed to be a match. Pagano had gone missing from Akron, Ohio, in the fall of 1974, after having an argument with her stepfather. Her killer has not yet been identified.
Espy Pilgrim		1985	Murder	US	A woman believed to be a hitchhiker, found in an abandoned refrigerator along a Kentucky highway. Pilgrim is believed to be a victim of the so-called Redhead murders, which occurred in the Southeastern part of the US in the mid-1980s.
Lina Reyes-Geddes		1998	Murder	US	On April 20, 1998, a woman's body was discovered near Maidenwater Spring in Garfield County, Utah. She had been shot to death before being covered in plastic bags and duct tape, tied with rope, stuffed into a sleeping bag, and wrapped in a rug. Her fingers had been severed, preventing identification via fingerprints. In 2018, an amateur sleuth noticed similarities between Jane Doe and Lina Izaguirre Reyes-Geddes, who had disappeared while traveling to Dallas, Texas from Austintown, Ohio. The match was confirmed in November of that year. Serial killer Scott Kimball is considered a suspect in this case, as Lina was killed and disposed of in a similar way to other victims.
Haydee Rodriguez		1991	Murder	US	On February 3, 1991, the skeletal remains of a young to middle-aged possibly Hispanic woman were found by a pair of men using metal detectors inside of the wooded median of Interstate 95 in rural Stafford County, Virginia. Her cause of death was initially unknown. She was estimated to be between 30 and 45 years old, was between 5 feet and 5 feet 4 inches tall, and weighed between 100 and 125 pounds. She was estimated to have been deceased for between a few months to two years. She was also described as having "near-perfect teeth", with the extraction of two wisdom teeth or back molars. In 2018, renewed testing on the woman's remains found a match in Marta Haydee Rodriguez, who had gone missing from Arlington, Virginia in 1989. Her husband, Jose Rodriguez-Cruz later pled guilty to her murder, after being convicted in 2009 of an unrelated murder. Police found a woman in 2000 in Florida who had been using Rodriguez's identification, which initially closed her missing persons report, but the woman was later found to have stolen the ID.
"Lyle Stevik"		2001	Suicide	US	A 25-year-old who hanged himself in a hotel in Amanda Park, Washington. He used the alias "Lyle Stevik," believed to be taken from a Joyce Carol Oates novel. He was identified in May 2018, but his family declined to release his name.

2019

Name	Image	Year of death	Cause of death	Location	Circumstances
Michael Anthony Baulch		1981	Murder	US	A victim of serial killer Dean Corll. His older brother, Billy, had earlier been killed by Corll in 1972.
Donna Gayle Brazzell		Between 1978 and 1980	Murder	US	On November 5, 1980, the partial skeleton of a young white female was found by a hunter in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. The victim, aged fifteen to nineteen, was approximately five feet to five feet five inches tall (152–165 cm); her weight could not be estimated. She had received dental care, as some fillings were found in the teeth of the skull. The skeleton of a dog was also found near Jane Doe, but it is not possible to confirm if it was hers. A local man stated he had shot the dog but did not know of the victim's presence at the scene. A pair of gray cotton or wool socks were the only clothing found at the scene. Shoulder-length brown hair was also found near the body, which was presumed to be the victim's. Her remains may have been at the location from two months to two and a half years and one or both of her hands and arms were never found. Her cause of death has never been determined. In 2019, the victim's grandmother noticed a similarity between a facial reconstruction by the LSU FACES lab, and DNA was compared, resulting in her identification. It was then confirmed that Brazzell had been raped and murdered; two suspects were later charged. One man is already in prison for additional crimes.
Audrey Lee Cook		1985	Murder	US	A suspected victim of the Texas Killing Fields murder spree. Cook was one of two long-term unidentified victims and was never reported missing. She was identified through genetic genealogy testing.
Nathaniel Terrence Deggs		2015	Natural causes	US	A black man's remains were discovered in a shed in Mill Creek, Washington, on January 11, 2015. His cause of death remains undetermined and there was no indication he was murdered. He was between 50 and 65 at the time of his death and was between 5'9" and 6'1." His weight estimation could not be ascertained. The man's right little finger had been amputated at one point during his life. He was found clothed, wearing a plaid tan-colored button-down Eddie Bauer shirt, a short sleeve turtleneck shirt, tan Banana Republic pants, and black wool socks. He also carried a red lighter. The area where the remains were discovered was a known place for transients to reside. It is rumored a man known as Jerry Diggs or Deggs lived near the location the body was found, although there is no evidence they were the same person. In 2018 the man's DNA was submitted to the DNA Doe Project, an organization that uses forensic genealogy to find potential identities for unidentified remains. On September 26, 2019, the DNA Doe Project announced they had identified the man and had a DNA match with his sister. This was a natural death and initially, his name was withheld.
Dana Dodd		2006	Murder	US	Dodd, last known to reside in Jacksonville, Florida, was discovered burned beyond recognition in Kilgore, Texas. She was identified 12 years later with the aid of the DNA Doe Project. She was nicknamed "Lavender Doe" before her identification.
William Fiegener		1985	Murder	US	On October 27, 1985, the skeleton of a male between 14 and 21 was found in Springtown, Parker County, Texas. The victim's remains were found on a ranch along State Highway 51. He could have died as early as 1984, as a coin with that date was found at the site. The boy was a white male but may have had black ancestry. Because only some bones were located, his height and weight could not be estimated. His torso, along with one or both hands and limbs, was not recovered. The victim had received dental care, as fillings were found in his teeth. He had short brown hair and wore two gray jackets, one made of fleece and the other of cotton. He also wore jockey underwear and jeans. His exact cause of death is unknown, although his death is considered to be a homicide. In December 2019, the victim was identified as William Arthur Fiegener, who was actually 22 at the time of his death.
Louise Flesher		1981	Murder	US	A woman found in 1981 in Lawrence County, Ohio, concealed in a cistern as early as 1979. She was identified through genetic genealogy in 2019.
Perrean Gray		2001	Murder	US	The burning body of a black female aged sixteen to thirty (most likely between eighteen and twenty-four), was found in a dumpster in Sacramento, Sacramento County, California on June 29, 2001. The victim was discovered to have been alive at the time the fire was set, as damage in her airways indicated. Her hair color and eye color remained unknown, although they may have been dark in color. She was previously believed to be white, until DNA analysis by the Parabon Nanolabs indicated she was of primarily African descent with some European ancestry. The testing also indicated her hair may have been black and her eyes could have been brown or hazel. Her teeth were very well cared for. She had no known cavities at the time of death and had many plastic sealants and porcelain caps on her teeth. She presumably had braces at one point (or she had been prepared for them) and her wisdom teeth were present, two had not emerged. Her body, found wearing only jeans, was wrapped in a comforter and was then set ablaze when disposed of. The killer may have owned an orange Datsun car, which was seen leaving the scene before she was found. She had broken her nose at one point in her life. She was between five feet to five feet six inches tall and at a weight between 90 and 140 pounds. She was between a slender to average build when alive. In November 2019, the victim was identified as 20-year-old Perrean Gray through forensic genetic genealogy. It is known she was reported missing from San Francisco prior to the discovery of her body.
Tracey Hobson		1987	Murder	US	A young woman discovered murdered in 1987. After 31 years, she was identified as a resident of the same city in which her remains were discovered.
Marlyse Honeychurch		c. 1978	Murder	US	One of four victims found in Bear Brook State Park. She was found with her oldest daughter in 1985; her infant daughter was found in 2000 alongside the unidentified daughter of their suspected murderer. The victims died around November 1978.
Debra Jackson		1979	Murder	US	A woman aged 15–30, later nicknamed "Orange Socks," was discovered on October 31, 1979, in Georgetown, Texas. The victim had been strangled and sexually assaulted and was found wearing only a pair of orange socks and an abalone ring. Henry Lee Lucas falsely confessed to the victim's murder in 1984, resulting in a death sentence that was eventually overturned. DNA testing in 2019 revealed that multiple men were involved in the victim's murder and also confirmed her identity later in the year. She had not been reported missing.
Peggy Lynn Johnson		1999	Murder	US	A woman's body was discovered on July 21, 1999, by a father and daughter walking their dogs in a cornfield in Raymond, Wisconsin. The victim had suffered from weeks of apparent neglect and long-term physical abuse prior to her death. Isotope tests would later suggest she was originally native to Alaska, Minnesota, or Canada and was likely between 18 and 35 years old. She was given the name "Racine County Jane Doe" by investigators. She was identified in November 2019 as 23-year-old Peggy Lynn Johnson of McHenry, Illinois and a suspect was arrested in connection with her murder. In March 2022, Linda La Roche was convicted of her murder.
Roger Kelso		c. Fall 1963	Murder	US	Construction workers discovered the skeletonized body of a young male, later nicknamed "Oscar," on April 23, 1985, in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County. The body, discovered concealed inside a metal trash bin, was that of a white male aged between 16 and 25 years old who was between five feet eight and five feet eleven inches in height. He likely weighed between 155 and 162 pounds and was of a slim build and had light brown hair. Discovered with the decedent were a comb, keys, nail clippers, coins and three sheets of paper. He wore a wool sweater, which was blue and black, beige slacks and black, laced leather shoes. It was believed he could have been killed up to fifteen years before. One of his hands was not found at the scene. In 2019, genetic genealogy analysis by the Parabon NanoLabs identified the victim as 19 or 20-year-old Roger Hearne Kelso, who had disappeared from Glen Burnie in the fall of 1963. He was not reported missing by his family, whom he'd told he was "going away."
Annie Lehman		1971	Undetermined	US	A teenage girl whose remains were discovered in Cave Junction, Oregon in August 1971. She was identified with the assistance of the DNA Doe Project.
Joseph Henry Loveless		1916	Murder	US	Loveless is believed to have died in 1916 after escaping from prison. He was accused of murdering his wife. His remains were found in the Civil Defense Caves, 15 miles east of Dubois, Idaho, in 1979 and 1991. The DNA Doe Project identified his remains in 2019 via forensic genealogy, noting that it was the oldest identification they had made.
Dana Lowrey		2007	Murder	US	The victim, believed to be the first victim of serial killer Shawn Grate, was discovered on March 10, 2007. She remained unidentified for 12 years, until June 2019, when the DNA Doe Project identified her through genetic genealogy.
Sarah McWaters		c. 1978	Murder	US	One of four victims found in Bear Brook State Park. Her mother and half-sister were discovered in 1985.
Sandra "Sandy" Morden		1980	Murder	US	On February 1, 1980, the partially skeletonized remains of a girl between the ages of 13 and 18 were discovered in woodland near Amboy, Clark County, Washington (although her NamUs profile states the remains were discovered on February 24). She is estimated to have died circa 1978 and was the victim of a homicide. The girl's weight and height could not be estimated because the bones of her torso were never found. One or both of her hands were also not found at the crime scene. Her exact race is not known, but she may have been biracial. After examining her bones, it is believed that the muscles on her neck would have been "well developed." Soon after a 2016 review of the case, internet users began referring to her case as the "Fly Creek Jane Doe" case. The victim was identified via genetic genealogy research by the Parabon NanoLabs in October 2019. The victim was last heard from in 1977; it is unknown how long she was alive afterward.
Darlene Wilson Norcross		2015	Unknown	US	The remains of a white woman between 35 and 60 were discovered in a wooded area near West Chester, Ohio, on March 7, 2015. The body was skeletonized, making the process of determining weight and eye color impossible. The woman was about 5'6" tall, had graying brown hair, and unique and costly dental implants. She also had given birth in the past. She wore a white shirt with red and blue stripes and Faded Glory jeans. Some items were found nearby, including pairs of glasses and a denim bag, but may not have belonged to her. In 2018 the DNA Doe Project processed her DNA and entered the data into a genealogy database in the hope of identifying potential relatives to the decedent and in 2019 she was identified as 61-year-old Darlene Wilson Norcross.
Donna Prudhomme		1991	Murder	US	One of two long-term unidentified victims of the so-called Texas Killing Fields. She was identified through genetic genealogy testing and was never reported missing. Little is known about Prudhomme's activities preceding her murder.
Mary Silvani		1982	Murder	US	Silvani, 33, was discovered in the Sheep Flats area of Lake Tahoe, Nevada on July 17, 1982. The victim was shot in the head and was sexually assaulted. She was identified through genetic genealogy. Further tests on the rape kit identified her killer as a man who committed suicide in prison after his arrest for unrelated murders.
Marie Vaughn		c. 1978	Murder	US	One of four victims found in Bear Brook State Park, alongside her mother and half-sister.

See also

• List of formerly unidentified decedents, 2000-2009
• List of formerly unidentified decedents, 2020-2029

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