Unidentified Person

Unidentified person — Birmingham (1988-06-03)

NamUs records that surveyors found scattered skeletal remains behind Birmingham’s former North Birmingham Golf Course and lists case UP15892 as open and unresolved. Two inaccessible news-report headlines suggest the remains may later have been identified, requiring a current-status check.

Incident date: Not documented
Location: Birmingham, Jefferson County
Independent sources: 3

The record

An unidentified person’s scattered skeletal remains were discovered by surveyors in a wooded area behind the former North Birmingham Golf Course, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s NamUs database. The site is now occupied by Carver High School.1

NamUs lists the unidentified-person case as UP15892 and describes it as open and unresolved.1 The supplied NamUs material does not publish the person’s name, sex, ethnicity, recovery date or primary investigating agency.

Two news reports supplied for this case could not be retrieved, so their apparent statements that the remains were later identified cannot be evaluated or included.23 The discrepancy between those headlines and the supplied NamUs record should be checked before publication.

Timeline

UnknownConfirmed
Surveyors discovered scattered skeletal remains in woods behind the North Birmingham Golf Course, now the site of Carver High School.
UnknownConfirmed
NamUs listed UP15892 as open and unresolved in the supplied record.
UnknownUnknown
WVTM 13 and CBS 42 published reports whose headlines suggest the remains were identified, but the supplied pages could not be retrieved and the claim could not be assessed.

Documented claims

Surveyors discovered scattered skeletal remains in a wooded area behind the North Birmingham Golf Course.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice NamUs · Single-source claim.
The former North Birmingham Golf Course site is now the location of Carver High School.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice NamUs · Single-source claim.
NamUs case UP15892 is listed as open and unresolved in the supplied official record.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice NamUs · Single-source claim.
The supplied NamUs material does not publish the person's name, sex, ethnicity, recovery date or primary investigating agency.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice NamUs · Single-source claim.
The supplied WVTM 13 and CBS 42 pages could not be retrieved; their headlines indicate reporting that Birmingham remains were identified, but the underlying claims cannot be evaluated from the supplied documents.
Unknown
Source: WVTM 13 · Corroborated by 1 additional source: https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/birmingham-mans-remains-identified-38-years-after-he-disappeared/

Sources

NamUs case UP15892 — U.S. Department of Justice NamUsOpen
Birmingham remains missing man identified DNA — WVTM 13Open
Birmingham man's remains identified 38 years after he disappeared — CBS 42Open