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Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 4:36pm.
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» In March of 1998 a unidentified body was found on Sheldon Rd in Thurston County. (I have not been able to find where Sheldon Rd is, the linked sites don't have other information on the location.) The victim is estimated to have been born anywheres from 1970 to 1978, meaning he would have been either in his early or late twenties when found. A new artist's rendition has been created. Artist renditions are an inexact science and should not be assumed to be the flawless likeness of the John Doe. This is not the only John Doe in Thurston County.
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This Is Really A Perplexing Case
Submitted by JstPlnOnry on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 5:13pm.and he was found a year before I moved here but I just find it odd somebody who is missing a family member this long hasn't contacted police and provided dental records. It's very sad.
"A point of view is only a view from a point..." ~ Unknown
He could be from another
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 5:20pm.I'm assuming this took place in unincorporated Thurston County, making me wonder if it's drug related. Especially with the method in trying to destroy the body.
I understand that people might not have anything constructive to say if they don't see a recognition in the drawings, or remember rumors concerning a burning body from the late 90s, but it's a shame this and the other Doe generate nowheres near the volume of responses as some of the other topics here. Within a couple days this will be swept along and forgotten, just as these two men have been.
You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Your work is worthwhile
Submitted by Sarah on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 5:25pm.I wish I could do more, but
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 5:41pm.There are other Does in Washington State, some gruesome, all of them sad and haunting. The young man, possibly Canadian, who the week of 9/11 got a motel room in Amanda Park under an assumed name and hung himself - The well-dressed elderly woman who left a suicide note in a posh Seattle hotel room before OD'ing - The man found in the smokestack of a factory on the Key Peninsula who was so badly damaged through heat that there was no DNA - The woman found decapitated in the Spokane river whose skull was found 14 years later.
Even those who are eventually identified - Such as the baby found in a Southern Washington River and her dismembered Mom found in a separate river - remain haunting and horrifying.
You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche
So many missing persons
Submitted by security_six on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 8:16pm.So much ground, so many in the population, so many without meaningful family ties, so many things conspire to keep the missing unidentified...
In a sick way though it gives me comfort that people can still slip through the cracks in our society.
"si vis pacem, para bellum"
Fifteen-year old Katrina
Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 8:32am.She was a runaway, not an abduction, so while her family worried about the circumstances of her present life there wasn't any doubt that she was somewhere needing to be found.
The last thing anyone would have guessed was that she was lying in Watershed Park all that time. What happened from her point of disappearance to her point of recovery? How and why did she end up there? What happened?
She had an age-progressed photo while she was still missing. There are many of those pictures, especially of kids who disappeared decades ago such as Jeffrey Bratcher who was abducted from Ocean City State Park at age seven when I was an infant. How many of those age-progressed photos are of people who never reached that age?
You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche