Unidentified Person Alabama - Cahaba River

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP13483
Male, White / Caucasian
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Date Body Found March 27, 1961

Location Found Bibb County, Alabama
Estimated Age Range 14-17 Years

Height 5' 6"(66 inches) , Measured
Weight 120 lbs, Measured

Newspaper reports indicate the teen told the driver he was hitchhiking from the Carolinas to San Diego California to join the service. 

​Circumstances of Recovery
Unidentified hitchhiker -

Bibb County residents were shocked to hear reports about a 14-17 year old Caucasian male hitchhiker who died in a crash when the vehicle he was being escorted in collided with the bridge rail and plunged into the Cahaba River near River Bend. The young boy drowned.

On his person besides the clothes he was wearing, was a Timex wrist watch, a carrying bag with several shirts and pants, a brown plastic wallet without any identification, and a pack of Pall Mall cigarettes with a South Carolina tax stamp.

The boy was 5’6” 120 lbs, with blue eyes and light brown hair. The boy had a tattoo which bared the inscription RY + LOVE. The autopsy revealed that the unknown boy might have walked with a slight limp.

​https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/december-1961.pdf/view