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Body Of NYC Financier Washed Ashore In Spain Weeks Ago – But Desperate Family Kept Searching Body Of NYC Financier Washed Ashore In Spain Weeks Ago – But Desperate Family Kept Searching
Body Of NYC Financier Washed Ashore In Spain Weeks Ago – But Desperate Family Kept Searching A New York City banker who vanished during a sailing trip to Spain earlier this year was found dead – though his desperate family continued searching for weeks before getting the devastating news. Grant Barr, 37, disappeared on Tuesday, Jan. 28, while visiting friends and family in Estepona, a coastal town along Spain’s Costa del Sol. The discovery of his passport, boating license, and pants near a beach that same day sparked a desperate search. But on Monday, April 7, Barr’s father, Michael Carr, shared devastating news on Facebook: “It is with profound sadness that I speak of the passing…
Jawbone Of Marine Who Died In Training Exercise ID'd By Ramapo College Students Jawbone Of Marine Who Died In Training Exercise ID'd By Ramapo College Students
Jawbone Of Marine Who Died In Training Exercise ID'd By Ramapo College Students Students at Ramapo College helped identify the missing remains of a marine who had been dead for 73 years. In July of 1951, Leland Yager, a U.S. Marines Captain, died in a military training exercise. His remains were recovered in California and buried in Missouri. Years later, a child was doing a scavenging exploration in Arizona when they discovered an unidentified human jaw bone. Last year, enforcement in Arizona referred the case to the Ramapo College Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center and students began working on the case, along with the North Texas Center for Human Identification …
Troopers Identify Remains Found In Schuylkill County Troopers Identify Remains Found In Schuylkill County
Troopers Identify Remains Found In Schuylkill County The human remains discovered off a residential road in St. Clair Borough last spring belonged to a 60-year-old woman, according to state police.  Karen Rosemarie Rohrbach was identified after her DNA was submitted to PSP's Forensic Division, troopers said in a release Tuesday, Jan. 2.  Her cause of death was ruled natural causes and authorities said foul play is not suspected.  Rohrbach's remains were located near Fernwood Avenue last March 26, according to the release. 
Dismembered Body Found In Suitcase By California Fisherman In 1973 ID'd As NJ Mother Dismembered Body Found In Suitcase By California Fisherman In 1973 ID'd As NJ Mother
Dismembered Body Found In Suitcase By California Fisherman In 1973 ID'd As NJ Mother A break in a California cold case has prompted a search for the New Jersey victim's killer, 50 years later. Arminda Grangela Rodrigues da Silva Ribeiro, a Newark mother, has been identified as the victim of a 1973 San Diego killing, according to the SD Crime Stoppers. Her body was found June 13 of that year by a fisherman, in the San Diego Bay between Laurel Street and the US Coast Guard Station. Arminda's body had been dismembered and placed into an orange suitcase and several plastic bags.  In 2020, Arminda's remains were exhumed by the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s …
Wife ID'd After Hunting Club Dismemberment In GA, Husband Arrested In PA Wife ID'd After Hunting Club Dismemberment In GA, Husband Arrested In PA
Wife ID'd After Hunting Club Dismemberment In GA, Husband Arrested In PA Mindi Mebane Kassotis has been identified months after she was found dismembered at a hunting club in Georgia, and her husband has been arrested in Pennsylvania, authorities announced on Friday, May 12, 2023.  The 40-year-old was found strewn across three miles of the hunting club grounds in  Liberty and Mcintosh Counties on December 2, 2022, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation explained in the release. The following day the investigation into her identity began and on Jan. 5, 2023, the GBI announced that forensic analysis determined that her body had been placed in the field sinc…
Cold Case: Police ID CT Woman 45 Years After Body Was Found Cold Case: Police ID CT Woman 45 Years After Body Was Found
Cold Case: Police ID CT Woman 45 Years After Body Was Found For nearly 45 years, police in Massachusetts only knew the body of a woman found shot in a wooded area in the Hampshire County town of Granby simply as the "Granby Girl."  They now know the Connecticut resident's name, but who killed the 28-year-old and left her out there remains a mystery.  Patricia Ann Tucker was identified as the "Granby Girl" at a press conference on Monday, March 6. Northwestern Massachusetts First Assistant District Attorney Steven E. Gagne announced the findings with some of Tucker's family in attendance.  Gagne said investigators IDed the 28-year-old…
'Boy In The Box' Could Be ID'd Next Week: Reports 'Boy In The Box' Could Be ID'd Next Week: Reports
'Boy In The Box' Could Be ID'd Next Week: Reports A boy who was well-groomed with a fresh haircut found dead in a box in 1957 in Philadelphia now has a name, multiple media outlets are reporting. And it's not just "The Boy in the Box" or "America's Unknown Child."  The boy's body was found in February 1957 stuffed in a bassinet box along Susquehanna Road. Retired Det. Sgt. Bob Kuhlmeier previously said that the cause of death was blunt force trauma, according to CBS3. According to CBS3, officials plan on releasing the name of the young victim sometime next week. A recent DNA sample linked the boy, between ages 4 and 6, to a family in De…
DNA Samples ID Victims Killed In 80 Car Pile-Up On I-81 DNA Samples ID Victims Killed In 80 Car Pile-Up On I-81
DNA Samples ID Victims Killed In 80 Car Pile-Up On I-81 DNA samples were what ultimately helped officials identify the six victims killed in a nearly 80-car pileup on Interstate 81 caused by a snow squall last month, authorities said. The people who are listed together were riding in the same vehicle, according to state police. Their names were released Thursday, April 21. Terri Stull, 56, and Douglas Teeter, 57; both of Lexington, Massachusetts Rita Matos, 40, and Edward Ramos, 43; both of Carlisle William Douglas, 69, of Pine Grove, West Virginia Domingo Diaz, 66, of Brooklyn, New York There were 39 commercial and 41 passenger vehicles i…
Bensalem Police ID Human Remains In 1995 Cold Case Bensalem Police ID Human Remains In 1995 Cold Case
Bensalem Police ID Human Remains In 1995 Cold Case The human remains found behind a diner in Bensalem over 26 years ago have been identified, authorities announced. The adult skeletal remains, which were found on Sept. 18, 1995, in the woods behind the Club House Diner on Street Road, belong to Merrybeth Hodgkinson, according to the Bensalem Police Department. She was unclothed and wrapped in a plastic tarp, police said. The death was classified as a homicide by unspecified means and investigators said that the body had been there for two to three years. At the time, police only knew the victim was an adult white female between the a…