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Remains in Galax identified as 5-year-old boy missing for 20 years, charges expected
Logan Bowman was a 5-year-old child who went missing in Grayson County in January of 2003.
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Human remains found in Galax in 2022 have been identified as a 5-year-old Grayson County boy who went missing 20 years ago.
On September 6, 2022, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) responded to the area of Iron Ridge Road in Galax for reported human remains found in a wooded area. Throughout the investigation, it was determined that the remains had been in that area for a long time, according to the CCSO.
The sheriff’s office received help from Othram Inc., a private company based in Texas specializing in Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing and Forensic Genetic Genealogy. Othram Inc. was able to develop a full DNA profile which allowed them to use Forensic Genetic Genealogy, and two direct DNA comparisons of family members to identify the remains as Logan Nathaniel Bowman.
Bowman was a 5-year-old child who went missing in Grayson County in January of 2003.
Bowman's biological mother Cynthia Davis and her then-boyfriend Dennis Schermerhorn were charged in 2003 in connection to his disappearance. The sheriff’s office said this is still an ongoing investigation and new charges are anticipated.
GrandmaBear
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Another baby, look at him. More horrible parents/people. I wonder if they've known these months that a body was found where it was even while LE was on trying to determine who it was. They would know where they had dumped him. Pieces of dung.Remains in Galax identified as 5-year-old boy missing for 20 years, charges expectedRemains in Galax identified as 5-year-old boy missing for 20 years, charges expected
Logan Bowman was a 5-year-old child who went missing in Grayson County in January of 2003.
Human remains found in Galax in 2022 have been identified as a 5-year-old Grayson County boy who went missing 20 years ago.
On September 6, 2022, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) responded to the area of Iron Ridge Road in Galax for reported human remains found in a wooded area. Throughout the investigation, it was determined that the remains had been in that area for a long time, according to the CCSO.
The sheriff’s office received help from Othram Inc., a private company based in Texas specializing in Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing and Forensic Genetic Genealogy. Othram Inc. was able to develop a full DNA profile which allowed them to use Forensic Genetic Genealogy, and two direct DNA comparisons of family members to identify the remains as Logan Nathaniel Bowman.
Bowman was a 5-year-old child who went missing in Grayson County in January of 2003.
Bowman's biological mother Cynthia Davis and her then-boyfriend Dennis Schermerhorn were charged in 2003 in connection to his disappearance. The sheriff’s office said this is still an ongoing investigation and new charges are anticipated.
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I never know whether to hit the angry face or the hug. This child should have been hugged not beaten, abused and killed so... I'm so angry though too. Each and every time. So 20 years free, so wrong. This child would be through college by nor and/or maybe have kids of his own.
Then one has to wonder if they had more kids either of them and how they've been treated. Has their safety been ensured through all these years... Such evil.
RIP sweet boy.
GrandmaBear
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20 years bites but out of the blue he was found and they are going down as they should. HOPEFULLY it isn't looked at by a jury as old and not important, i am wondering in that other case with the old man and the child. I think almost always juries are better than that and smarter but when seeing someone who is older and who has maybe been in no trouble the decades after in their lheir life and the victim is long gone, I worry they go soft... Or one might. Generally I always believe in juries but these old ones are harder.
I don't recall the case either. I think seeing it now is a first for me.
Last KNOWN victim of Gary Ridgway identified as an already known vicitm.
DNA identifies ‘last known remains’ of victims of notorious Green River Killer, cops say
The “last known remains” of victims killed by serial killer Gary Ridgway have been identified as a 16-year-old girl, Washington authorities said.
Tammie Liles disappeared in 1983, and she was identified as a victim of Ridgway in 1988, three years after some of her remains were found in Oregon, according to KUOW.
More of her remains were found in August 2003 in Washington, but they were left unidentified and labeled as Bones #20 for over 20 years — until recent DNA testing, the King County Sheriff’s Office said in a Jan. 22 news release.
Some of Liles’ remains were first discovered in 1985 near the Tualatin Golf Course near Tigard, Oregon, deputies said, and identified through dental records. She was identified as a victim of Ridgway in 1988.
In June 2003, Ridgway led authorities to a site on the Kent-Des Moines Road in King County, Washington. He said he had left a body there, deputies said.
Investigators said they found bones and teeth, but the skull was missing along with other major bones.
These remains were sent to the University of North Texas where a DNA profile was created and then submitted to a DNA database of missing people, deputies said.
An identification was never made, and the remains were labeled Bones #20.
In 2022, investigators reopened the case around Bones #20 and contacted Othram, a lab in The Woodlands, Texas, that specializes in forensic genetic genealogy.
Othram used Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing and created a DNA profile from the remains. Bones #20 was “tentatively identified” as Liles in August 2023, deputies said.
Investigators contacted her mother and had her submit a DNA sample, which confirmed the remains found in 2003 belonged to Liles.
DNA identifies ‘last known remains’ of victims of notorious Green River Killer, cops say
The “last known remains” of victims killed by serial killer Gary Ridgway have been identified as a 16-year-old girl, Washington authorities said.
Tammie Liles disappeared in 1983, and she was identified as a victim of Ridgway in 1988, three years after some of her remains were found in Oregon, according to KUOW.
More of her remains were found in August 2003 in Washington, but they were left unidentified and labeled as Bones #20 for over 20 years — until recent DNA testing, the King County Sheriff’s Office said in a Jan. 22 news release.
Some of Liles’ remains were first discovered in 1985 near the Tualatin Golf Course near Tigard, Oregon, deputies said, and identified through dental records. She was identified as a victim of Ridgway in 1988.
In June 2003, Ridgway led authorities to a site on the Kent-Des Moines Road in King County, Washington. He said he had left a body there, deputies said.
Investigators said they found bones and teeth, but the skull was missing along with other major bones.
These remains were sent to the University of North Texas where a DNA profile was created and then submitted to a DNA database of missing people, deputies said.
An identification was never made, and the remains were labeled Bones #20.
In 2022, investigators reopened the case around Bones #20 and contacted Othram, a lab in The Woodlands, Texas, that specializes in forensic genetic genealogy.
Othram used Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing and created a DNA profile from the remains. Bones #20 was “tentatively identified” as Liles in August 2023, deputies said.
Investigators contacted her mother and had her submit a DNA sample, which confirmed the remains found in 2003 belonged to Liles.
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Atlanta man burned to death in 1996 kerosene attack identified
A man who was brutally killed in 1996 when he was doused in kerosene and lit on fire during a suspected robbery in Atlanta has been identified thanks to the work of a nonprofit group.
The DNA Doe Project announced Thursday that its volunteer researchers had identified David Brown as the man who died from severe burns after the attack in southeast Atlanta on April 24, 1996. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office shared a sample of Brown’s DNA with the group earlier this year, and the victim was identified as Brown after researchers pieced together his family tree.
Brown was found in a vacant lot at the corner of Dorothy and Lansing streets suffering from burns over most of his body when police responded, The Atlanta Constitution reported at the time. Police told the newspaper the man screamed for help and told witnesses he’d been attacked with kerosene by someone trying to rob him. His condition was considered critical when he was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he later died. Brown had no form of ID on him and his fingerprints could not be taken.
Brown was reported missing by his family around the time of the attack, according to the DNA Doe Project, and the vacant lot was just a few blocks from his home. However, the two cases were not linked until this year.
The group used the DNA sample from the Fulton ME to create a genetic profile of the victim. Then, volunteer genealogists spent months researching and building his family tree.
Atlanta man burned to death in 1996 kerosene attack identified
A man who was brutally killed in 1996 when he was doused in kerosene and lit on fire during a suspected robbery in Atlanta has been identified thanks to the work of a nonprofit group.
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The missing person lived only blocks from where the body was found at the time the missing person report was filed and nobody linked them???Atlanta man burned to death in 1996 kerosene attack identified
A man who was brutally killed in 1996 when he was doused in kerosene and lit on fire during a suspected robbery in Atlanta has been identified thanks to the work of a nonprofit group.
The DNA Doe Project announced Thursday that its volunteer researchers had identified David Brown as the man who died from severe burns after the attack in southeast Atlanta on April 24, 1996. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office shared a sample of Brown’s DNA with the group earlier this year, and the victim was identified as Brown after researchers pieced together his family tree.
Brown was found in a vacant lot at the corner of Dorothy and Lansing streets suffering from burns over most of his body when police responded, The Atlanta Constitution reported at the time. Police told the newspaper the man screamed for help and told witnesses he’d been attacked with kerosene by someone trying to rob him. His condition was considered critical when he was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he later died. Brown had no form of ID on him and his fingerprints could not be taken.
Brown was reported missing by his family around the time of the attack, according to the DNA Doe Project, and the vacant lot was just a few blocks from his home. However, the two cases were not linked until this year.
The group used the DNA sample from the Fulton ME to create a genetic profile of the victim. Then, volunteer genealogists spent months researching and building his family tree.
Atlanta man burned to death in 1996 kerosene attack identified
A man who was brutally killed in 1996 when he was doused in kerosene and lit on fire during a suspected robbery in Atlanta has been identified thanks to the work of a nonprofit group.www.ajc.com
65-year-old cold case of dead child found on side of Wisconsin road is solved with DNA
Though Chester Alfred Breiney's adoptive parents admitted dumping his body, prosecutors lacked the evidence to prove a crime was committed.
www.nbcnews.com
65-year-old cold case of dead child found on side of Wisconsin road is solved with DNA
Though Chester Alfred Breiney's adoptive parents admitted dumping his body, prosecutors lacked the evidence to prove a crime was committed.A cold case from 1959 involving a missing 7-year-old came to a conclusion last week through DNA identification, decades after charges against the boy's adoptive parents were dropped for lack of physical evidence.
A human skeleton was discovered on the side of the road in Mequon, Wisconsin, on Oct. 4, 1959, which investigators determined to be the skull of a 6- to 8-year-old child.
At the same time Mequon police officers were following leads about the skull, deputies in nearby Houghton County, Michigan, were looking into the disappearance of an adopted child, Markku Jutila, whose parents fled to Chicago.
Relatives of William and Hilja Jutila became suspicious of the child's whereabouts after the Jutilas relocated from the Michigan area to Chicago. The Houghton County Sheriff's Office began working with the Chicago Police Department on the matter.
According to the Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Office in Wisconsin, the couple were interviewed in Chicago and admitted dumping their adoptive son's body in a ditch in Mequon.
The skull found in Mequon had features similar to Markku Jutila, but the charges against the Jutilas were later dismissed because prosecutors lacked corpus delicti — the legal principle that there must be sufficient evidence a crime occurred, such as a body, before someone can be prosecuted for it.
And since prosecutor's could not definitively identify the skeletal remains as Markku’s, the charges were dropped.
The case was dormant until last year, when agents with Wisconsin's Justice Department began working with the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory to identify the remains.
GrandmaBear
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Wow. First tof all, back in that day and age to connect the two places is pretty impressive imo. However, there were probably a lot less bodies of children found in those days and they may have had some reason to connect such but still, MI to WI.
The other thing that stands out to me is it was a day and age we'd say adoption was much harder and parents vetted compared to nowadays where it is too easy and no following up goes on in many a case and no vetting, not good enough vetting that's for sure. I mean one example is the Wests in CA should never have been able to foster much less adopt children.
Yet here we have a case from way back when where the adopted parents killed the child apparently.
It seems LE knew but did not have that defining definitive evidence.
Now they do.
Kudos to a cold case solve and following up on it.
A bit different than the norm.
I did not read the link but assuming the parents are passed just based on the year.
So no justice other than maybe some from beyond, and now people can know them as what they were, child murderers, one or both, and covering up their crime.
It's a bit unfathomable when they told LE where they dumped him that that wasn't enough but...? That's the law I guess for ya.
Poor child, I wonder what his background was before hey got him. Guessing he never had much of a good life. Sad.
The other thing that stands out to me is it was a day and age we'd say adoption was much harder and parents vetted compared to nowadays where it is too easy and no following up goes on in many a case and no vetting, not good enough vetting that's for sure. I mean one example is the Wests in CA should never have been able to foster much less adopt children.
Yet here we have a case from way back when where the adopted parents killed the child apparently.
It seems LE knew but did not have that defining definitive evidence.
Now they do.
Kudos to a cold case solve and following up on it.
A bit different than the norm.
I did not read the link but assuming the parents are passed just based on the year.
So no justice other than maybe some from beyond, and now people can know them as what they were, child murderers, one or both, and covering up their crime.
It's a bit unfathomable when they told LE where they dumped him that that wasn't enough but...? That's the law I guess for ya.
Poor child, I wonder what his background was before hey got him. Guessing he never had much of a good life. Sad.