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Unidentified Person New York City - Puerto Rico

2/13/2020

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missing person New York New Jersey Puerto Rico
Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP56377
Male, Hispanic / Latino
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Date Body Found: September 25, 2018
Location Found: New York, New York
Estimated Age Range: 50-60 Years
Height: 5' 1"(61 inches) , Measured
Weight: 177 lbs, Measured

Circumstances of Recovery: Hispanic male found unresponsive at a hotel in Lower Manhattan. Possible names of Jesus Hernan Garcia, Juan Garcia, Luis Hernandez, and Luis Espinosa. None of these names have been verified and next of kin has not been located. Likely from Puerto Rico.

Right forearm: Monochromatic tattoo "US Army"
Left upper arm: Monochromatic tattoo of "PR" and "Perdon Madre" and abstract shapes

Other distinctive physical characteristic: Depigmentation of the skin near his mouth, fingers and palms of the hands, and the soles of the feet.

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/56377/details
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Unidentified Person New York - 1993 Blizzard

4/9/2018

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missing person New York New Jersey Connecticut
This elderly gentleman was out traveling during the great blizzard of 1993.
60 to 80 year old White Male

Date found March 13, 1993
​New York County, New York
​Circumstances:
Unknown white male was witnessed to collapse on a northbound A train at the 125th street station.
Tattoo of an eagle on right forearm, tattoo of Native American chief on upper right arm, two multicolored tattoos on left arm, depicting military designs with stars and "1948"and "1949" "Jack" "Good.....For......"
https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/7958
missing person New York New Jersey Connecticut
missing person New York New Jersey Connecticut
missing person New York New Jersey Connecticut
missing person New York New Jersey Connecticut
Location Found:
Burial Information:
​https://www.hartisland.net/burial_records/3429-male-unknown?date_of_death=1993-03-13&referer=search

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Unidentified Person​ New York Army

9/14/2017

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missing person NYC elderly black male unidentified john doe
55 to 85 year old Black/African American Male

​Date found February 29, 2016 Kings County, New York 

Possible homeless individual squatting in the abandoned house. Dog tags with "Army Strong" on one side and a quote from Joshua 1:9 on the other side. Used a bed roll.

​https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/15406
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Unidentified Person New York Submarine Manila

9/13/2017

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unidentified missing person New York City Staten Island homeless veteran
50 to 65 year old White Male

Date Found: August 29, 1992 
Location: Richmond County, New York 

Tattoo: eagle and shield inscribed "United States Submarine Manila 1945" on right arm


Circumstances of Recovery: Unknown white male, homeless, entered the JFK Ferry docked at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, went below deck into the fire vessel room, and somehow activated the fire alarm system, which caused the room to fill with carbon dioxide. When the FDNY responded they found the male unconscious, taken to Bayley Seton Hospital, where he was pronounced.

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/8482
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Unidentified Person New York

9/13/2017

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missing Person New York bronx
30 to 40 year old White Male

Discovered on June 10, 1991 in Bronx, Bronx County, New York

Unknown white male, homeless, jumped in front of a southbound #6 train 100 feet north of the Hunt's Point Station. Tattoo of a cross and a candle on the upper right arm/shoulder, tattoo of an anchor on mid upper right arm, fish and a flower on upper left arm.

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/7335​
missing person New York Bronx
missing person New York Bronx
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Unidentified Person New York Danny US Navy

9/13/2017

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missing person Dan New York 1988 Christmas Eve
35 to 55 year old White Male 

Discovered 
December 24, 1988 Kings County, New York ​

multicolored dolphin on right forearm, tattoo of words on upper right arm and shoulder (probably saying "Danny" and US Navy", multicolored tattoo of a heart on left upper arm with a scroll across it, multicolored figure of a baby and another design on left forearm.

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/9119
missing person Dan New York 1988
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Unidentified Person Massachusetts

9/13/2017

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Missing Person 1975 Boston Massachusetts
Late 20's - early 30's White Male

Discovered on May 22, 1975 in Burlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

He was wearing an army field jacket (size regular small), a t-shirt, jeans, cheap canvass sneakers with black socks, a garrison type belt with a distinctive buckle and a necklace around his neck with a unique medallion, attached to it.

Also, the black socks and gold fillings in those days usually meant you were associated with the military or law enforcement. Dental records would easily confirm the man's identity.
​https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/14005
Unidentified missing Person new york Massachusetts
Unidentified missing Person new york Massachusetts
Unidentified missing Person new york Massachusetts
Police seek answers in 30-year Burlington mystery

http://www.woburnonline.com/frontpage/april05/4705-4.html
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By STEVE DeMARCO [email protected]
BURLINGTON — It is a grave at Chestnut Hill Cemetery that is just grass, there is no stone, but it does have a designation — Section D, No. 550. An unidentified man is buried there whose body was discovered in a wooded area off Muller Road nearly 30 years ago.

The site's emptiness reflects the fruitless results of the work of some detectives in the Burlington Police Department, who have tried off-and-on for those 30 years to identify the man.

According to Inspector Frank Nardone, the man was murdered (shot twice in the back of the head), and his body was buried in about two feet of dirt off Muller Road, near what was known as a "lover's lane" in 1975 (the entrance has since been blocked off with large hay bales).

Since that time, "We have had several leads, and they have all come up short," said Nardone.

"I figured that with all of the computers (accessibility to data) we have now, we would have identified him by now," Nardone went on to say. "But some of those missing-person sites, they can be very depressing.

"We (Nardone, Inspector Gary Burdick, Sgt. Glen Mills, and State Trooper Peter Sennott) have been going at this for the last two years full-blast," said Nardone. "There has got to be an answer out there somewhere."

In defining the difficulty he has had in trying to make strides in the case, Nardone said he received the autopsy on the body just two years ago. The law requires that autopsy reports only go to next-of-kin and the district attorney's office.

"He has to have family, hopefully, his family is alive," Nardone said. "Sometimes, people leave, lose complete contact with their family. That could be the case here."

"This is someone who lost his life, but they stole his name," Nardone went on to say. "Some people may have thought he was bad, but he started out good.

"If I can do this (identify the body) before I retire," Nardone continued, "I feel I will have accomplished something."

Possible military connections

Reports indicate the body was discovered May 22, 1975, by two men who were in the Muller Road woods walking a dog.

"He was wearing an army field jacket, dungarees, and canvas sneakers with black socks," said Nardone. "Wearing black socks in those days usually meant you were associated with the military or law enforcement."

Police officials deduced at the time that the body had been buried there "anywhere between six months and a year."

He had "excellent dental records" of the man, Nardone said, but "all dental records were sent to St. Louis in the late 1970s and were destroyed in a fire."

The inspector added that there were several gold fillings in the man's mouth, and "the only people who had gold in their mouths in '75 were mostly military people."

Nardone also said the man was wearing a belt with a unique, Garrison-style buckle, and a medallion suggestive of association with a motorcycle gang.

"At that time, there were reports of motorcycle gangs in town," Nardone recalled. "There were a couple of houses where four of them, five of them would live."

A witness came forward in the 1980s whom Nardone initially considered credible, he said. He led them to a motorcycle group in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., "but that trail eventually went cold," Nardone stated.

Nardone said he later learned this witness "spelled his last name two different ways," which cast further doubt on his credibility.

Next steps

Nardone said he would like to exhume the body, and that is a daunting task, he said, "because there are a lot of hurdles you have to get through, you just can't exhume a body."

That will require a court order, Nardone said, as well as permission from the local Board of Health because "we are digging up a body. I am trying to get the state (medical examiner's office) to exhume the body."

If the body is exhumed (it is first sent, casket and all, to the state medical examiner's office) that could ultimately reveal a lot, Nardone said.

"With all the technology and advances, we can do a lot more than we could do in 1975," he said. "I have an artist who could draw a picture of his face, and two other people I have could make a clay model of his skull."

Nardone also said advances with DNA could aid in identifying the man.

A local funeral home has offered to donate a new casket for the body, Nardone said, because the original casket "has likely been destroyed, or at least decayed."
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