Unidentified Person

Unidentified person — Birmingham (1999-02-25)

NamUs case UP14996 concerns skeletal remains found by a bulldozer operator in a field used to dump coke-oven debris. The official record is open and unresolved, but the supplied text does not verify the archive’s Birmingham location or Feb. 25, 1999 date.

Incident date: February 25, 1999
Location: Birmingham, Jefferson County
Independent sources: 2

The record

An unidentified person’s case associated by the archive’s case information with Birmingham and Feb. 25, 1999, remains listed as open and unresolved in the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. The supplied NamUs record for UP14996 does not publish a recovery date, location, demographic description or investigating agency.1

According to that record, skeletal remains were discovered by an employee operating a bulldozer in a field used as a dump site for debris from coke ovens.1 No additional circumstances are provided in the supplied record.

A second supplied NamUs page concerns a different identifier, UP13985. The page identifies itself as an unidentified-person record and says it was created April 12, 2021, but the supplied text contains no case details connecting it to Birmingham, Jefferson County, Feb. 25, 1999, or UP14996.2 It therefore cannot corroborate the recovery circumstances or the archive’s date and location.

The identity of the person in UP14996 remains unknown in the supplied official record.1

Timeline

February 25, 1999Unknown
Archive-provided incident date for the Birmingham case; neither supplied NamUs document states this date.
April 12, 2021Confirmed
NamUs says the separate UP13985 page was created.
Current in supplied UP14996 recordConfirmed
NamUs lists UP14996 as open and unresolved.

Documented claims

NamUs case UP14996 is open and unresolved.
Confirmed
Source: National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), U.S. Department of Justice · Single-source claim.
Skeletal remains were discovered by an employee operating a bulldozer in a field used as a dump site for debris from coke ovens.
Confirmed
Source: National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), U.S. Department of Justice · Single-source claim.
The supplied NamUs UP14996 record does not publish the recovery date, location, demographic details or primary investigating agency.
Confirmed
Source: National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), U.S. Department of Justice · Single-source claim.
The supplied NamUs page for UP13985 is an unidentified-person record created April 12, 2021.
Confirmed
Source: National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), U.S. Department of Justice · Single-source claim.
The supplied UP13985 text does not establish a connection to Birmingham, Jefferson County, Feb. 25, 1999, or NamUs case UP14996.
Unknown
Source: National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), U.S. Department of Justice · Single-source claim.
The case is associated with Birmingham, Jefferson County, and Feb. 25, 1999, in the archive-provided case information, but those details are not present in either supplied source document.
Unknown
Source on file · Single-source claim.

Sources

NamUs official record UP14996 — National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), U.S. Department of JusticeOpen
Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP13985 — National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), U.S. Department of JusticeOpen