Unidentified Person

Unidentified person — Birmingham (1990-02-03)

NamUs case UP109420 concerns a portion of a human mandible found on abandoned-home property on Feb. 3, 1990. No additional remains were found, and the supplied official record lists the case as open and unresolved. Two news links suggesting an identification could not be retrieved, leaving the current status in need of editorial review.

Incident date: February 3, 1990
Location: Birmingham, Jefferson County
Independent sources: 3

The record

A portion of a human mandible was found Feb. 3, 1990, on the property of an abandoned home, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. A juvenile boy made the discovery, and a subsequent search of the property found no additional human remains.1

NamUs lists the unidentified-person case as UP109420 and says it remains open and unresolved.1 The supplied record does not publish the person’s sex, ethnicity, exact recovery location or primary investigating agency.

Two supplied news links could not be retrieved, so their reporting could not be assessed or used to corroborate the NamUs record.23 Their headlines refer to remains associated with a Birmingham man being identified, but the available source material does not establish whether those reports concern NamUs case UP109420.

Timeline

February 3, 1990Confirmed
A juvenile boy found a portion of a human mandible on the property of an abandoned home.
February 3, 1990Confirmed
A subsequent property search found no additional human remains.
Date not statedConfirmed
NamUs listed case UP109420 as open and unresolved.
Current status unknownUnknown
Two inaccessible news headlines suggest Birmingham remains may have been identified, but no connection to UP109420 could be established from the supplied material.

Documented claims

A juvenile boy found a portion of a human mandible on the property of an abandoned home on Feb. 3, 1990.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, NamUs · Single-source claim.
A subsequent search of the property found no additional human remains.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, NamUs · Single-source claim.
NamUs case UP109420 is listed as open and unresolved.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, NamUs · Single-source claim.
The supplied NamUs record does not publish the unidentified person’s sex, ethnicity, exact recovery location or primary investigating agency.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, NamUs · Single-source claim.
The available source material does not establish whether the two inaccessible news reports concern NamUs case UP109420.
Unknown
Source on file · Single-source claim.

Sources

NamUs Unidentified Person Case UP109420 — 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