April 3, 1974 Cleveland, Ohio John Doe

On June 27, 1973, a building in Cleveland, Ohio was firebombed and gutted by fire on March 14, 1974. On April 3rd a man would go through the building and discover bones. Police were called and it was discovered that a man had crawled in a crawl space and died. However, he likely died in the 1930's as his shoes and a bottle indicated he was from that time. The bottle of beer he had with him was bottled in Cleveland in 1938.

John Doe was a male between 35 to 40 years old. He was around 5'10". He was wearing a pair of shoes that were of the type that a male might have worn in the late 30's, they were ankle high and the last three eyelets were of the hook type. There was a beer bottle from the Royal Beer Company, Cleveland, Ohio that was bottled in 1938.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Disappearance of Ruthie Kindness

On February 7, 2011, 20-year-old Ruthie Fawn Kindness was released from police custody in Federal Way, Washington. She was arrested for an outstanding warrant. On the same day, she was last seen in the area of 126th St and South Pacific Ave in Parkland. She did call her mother from a pay phone at the Paradise Bowling Alley on Pacific Avenue. She was never heard from again and is considered endangered.

 At the time she was homeless and did not have a cell phone. She was also a freshman at the California State University. She frequented the Federal Way, Puyallup, and Milton areas. She may use the alias name, Anna Heger or Hegger.

Ruthie is a Native American Woman and was 20-years-old at the time. She's 5'3" to 5'4" and 110 lbs. She has brown hair and at the time she had highlights and brown eyes. She has pierced ears and acrylic nails.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

International Missing Persons

Murder of Santana Acosta

Around 2 p.m. on December 12, 2016, 32-year-old Santana Acosta was found dead in a canal in the area of 6700 W. Dobbins Rd in Phoenix, Arizona. He had been murdered. At the time he was a drug user and seller, a gambler, and was transient.

SOURCES:
FBI
Silent Witness

October 23, 2001 Detroit Michigan John Doe

On October 23, 2001, partially skeletonized remains of a man were found in a vacant dwelling by workers removing rubbish in Detroit Michigan. He had been dead for months possibly since 2000. He was wrapped in a green blanket and a dirty floral sheet. It's not stated if they think the man may have been a transient.

John Doe is a black male between 35 to 50-years-old. He was around 5'10. He has black kinky textured hair. He appeared to be a heavy smoker one or both hands were not recovered. He was wearing work-type overalls.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Unidentified Wiki

August 1724 Plaxtol, England A Poor Traveling Woman

 On August 24, 1724, a poor unknown traveling woman was buried at the Plaxtol Parish Churchyard in Plaxtol, England. 

SOURCES: 

Find a Grave

Murder of Desiree D. McGraw

On June 6, 2006, it was voting day in Deptford, New Jersey. The Jericho Firehouse on Mail Avenue was one of the places for voting. At 9:30 a.m. The place had been open for a few hours when a firefighter decided to take a walk around the building. This was when he found the body of a woman laying in a stone-covered area behind the firehouse.

It was the body of 27-year-old Desiree McGraw. She was only dressed in a 5xl black t-shire and a hoodie. She had been shot in the head and killed. This however was not the scene of the crime as there was no evidence of her being killed there and it's believed her body was dumped there. 

At the time Desiree was on the streets for the last three years. At the time she was a drug addict, but in the days leading up to her death, she told her family she wanted to sober up and get her life together. She was tired of living on the streets. Even though she was living a rough lifestyle she would make sure to visit her family every other day.

Police believe that the murder had been premeditated. Desiree's family thinks that it's possible that someone was out to get her and she knew. This could be the reason she wanted to change her lifestyle in the days leading up to her death.

SOURCES:

Gloucester County New Jersey

True New Jersey June 5, 2011

True New Jersey June 5, 2013

Courier Post June 2, 2016

Murder of Helen Duffner

On April 27, 1977 the body of 63-year-old Helen Duffner was found off the Mount Rose Highway south of Reno, Nevada. She was found near an old shack and her 1964 white Chevy Nova was parked nearby. Helen had been shot twice in the back and once in the back of the head. It was described as an execution-type murder. Witnesses stated they heard the gunshots that morning. The area at the time was known as Mercury Mine and was frequented by hikers, dog walkers, motorcyclists, and 4-wheel-drive areas. 

Helen was from Santa Rosa, California but was living out of her vehicle in Nevada for a while. 

SOURCES:

Washoe County Sheriff

Reno Gazette-Journal April 29, 1977

Reno Gazette-Journal May 23, 1977

Nevada Evening Gazette May 23, 1977

Disappearance of Laura Lee Alber

On February 8, 1990, 38-year-old Laura Alber was last seen in Lansing Michigan. It is stated that she may be homeless as she has schizophrenia.

Laura is a white female and was 38-years-old at the time. She is 5'5" to 5'6" and 180 lbs. She has brown hair and green eyes. She has a large mole in the center of her back, a scar on her arm from a polio vaccination, and a scar on her right cheekbone. She has schizophrenia.

Laura may use the first name Charity and or the last names Trbovich, Kiril, or Rearick.

  

SOURCES:
NamUs
Charley Project
Doe Network

Murder of Angela Wilson

On October 2, 2005 the body of 44-year-old Angela Wilson was found in the Willamette River near the Jasper Bridge in Jasper, Oregon. At the time Angela was homeless and frequented homeless camps in Glenwood and Eugene. She suffered from mental illness and substance abuse. She was assualted before she was murdered.

SOURCES:

Lane County Oregon

1855 Nacogdoches County, Texas The Traveler

 

In about 1855 a Traveler got sick in Nacogdoches County, Texas in what is now Cushing. He would spend the night in the settlement and die. No one knew who he was and he would be buried at the Fuller-Nichols Garden Cemetary. 

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

Disappearance of Eddie Korey Smith

 In February of 1980 30-year-old Eddie Smith was last heard from by family members. At the time he was known to be a transient in Pheonix Arizona. 

Eddie is a Native American Male He's 5'4" and around 150 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes. He has a scar over one of his eyes and a scar on the lower leg. He has a tattoo of a knife on one of his arms. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

Jan 21, 1961 Spokane, Washington John Doe

 On Jan 21, 1961, the body of a man was found sitting upright on the north bank of the Spokane River on Howard St. in Spokane, Washington. He had died around 3 days prior from a heart attack and was believed to possibly be transient or homeless. He was considered unrecognizable due to rats. He was a white male between 50 and 70-years-old. His fingerprints were taken at the time and put through the FBI database without a match. It's unknown if the fingerprints card has been located and put into AFIS. 

SOURCES:

Doe Network

NamUs

Murder of Charles Dale Roberts

58-year-old Charles Dale Roberts arrived in Billings, Montana on March 30, 2007. Charles was traveling from Everett, Washington to Missouri by bus. The bus had to stop in Billings due to the snow storm that hampered traveling on the highway. 

His body was found around 12:30 p.m on April 2, 2007. He was beaten and impaled by an object near the railroad tracks in downtown Billings on the 2500 block of Montana Ave. It appears he was transient living down by the railroad tracks in his time in Billings.

SOURCES:
City of Billings Police Department
The Billings Gazette 1 (Newspapers.com)
The Billings Gazette 2 (Newspapers.com)

Murder of Terrence Demildenhall and Fred Edgi

Photo of Fred Edgi

On September 2, 1986, the body of 22-year-old Terrence Demildenhall was found in his sleeping bag shot to death next to the sea wall in the Waterfront Park 100 yards north of the Morrison Bridge in Portland, Oregon. Terrance was a transient at the time and was last seen alive and sleeping in the same spot around 12:30 a.m.

5 months later on Feb. 27, 1987, 36-year-old Fred Edgi was found shot to death in his sleeping bag under the west side of the Burnside Bridge near Front Ave, now Naito Parkway, just before dawn. A handwritten note near the body was found and it was claiming responsibility. Fred Edgi was a transient originally from Canada and had recently come to Portland. He was a talented amateur artist.

Both murders are believed to have been done by the same person. Fred and Terrance were both transients found shot to death in their sleeping bags in the early hours less than a half a mile apart. They both were described as heavy drinkers. They were different races though. Terrance was white and Fred was Native American. 

SOURCES:

City of Portland (Terrance)

City of Portland (Fred)

Disappearance of Paula Agnes Lynch

In the late 70's Paula Agnes Lynch left ger home on Sandusky, Ohio to go see the world. Her mother last heard from her in 1978 and she told her she was in Marathon, Florida. In 1979 her brother got a letter from her. It's unknown where she had sent it from.

She's a white female and was 21 at the time she was last heard from. She's 5'8" and 120-135 lbs. She has blonde hair and hazel eyes. She has a birthmark near her right eye, a tattoo of something with wings on her chest, and a tattoo of the rolling stone tongue on her lower abdomen under her belt line, and may have a tattoo of a butterfly on her shoulder.
SOURCES:
NamUs
Charley Project