Unidentified Person

Unidentified person — Birmingham (2001-03-22)

NamUs case UP14992 concerns skeletal remains found by land-clearing workers in woods beneath high-power lines, between Pratt Highway and railroad tracks. The official record is open and unresolved, but the supplied extract does not state a recovery date or demographic details.

Incident date: March 22, 2001
Location: Birmingham, Jefferson County
Independent sources: 3

The record

An unidentified person’s skeletal remains were recovered in a wooded area in Birmingham, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. The NamUs record, UP14992, remains open and unresolved.1

NamUs states that workers clearing land beneath high-power lines discovered the remains. The wooded recovery area was between Pratt Highway and a set of railroad tracks.1

The supplied NamUs material does not publish the person’s sex, ethnicity, recovery date or investigating agency. Although the case submission identifies March 22, 2001, as the incident date and Jefferson County as the reported county, those details are not present in the supplied source text and could not be verified from it.

Two news links supplied for review could not be retrieved.23 Their contents therefore were not used to establish facts or connect the unidentified remains to any named person or criminal case.

Anyone seeking current information should consult NamUs case UP14992.1

Timeline

March 22, 2001Unknown
Case-submission date for the reported recovery; the supplied source text does not independently state this date.
Date not published in supplied recordConfirmed
Workers clearing land beneath high-power lines discovered skeletal remains in a wooded area between Pratt Highway and railroad tracks.
Status shown in supplied NamUs recordConfirmed
NamUs case UP14992 is open and unresolved.

Documented claims

NamUs case UP14992 is an open, unresolved unidentified-person case.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, NamUs · Single-source claim.
Skeletal remains were discovered in a wooded area by workers clearing land beneath high-power lines.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, NamUs · Single-source claim.
The recovery area was between Pratt Highway and a set of train tracks.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, NamUs · Single-source claim.
The supplied NamUs extract does not publish the unidentified person's sex, ethnicity, recovery date or primary investigating agency.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, NamUs · Single-source claim.
The case submission identifies Birmingham as the city, Jefferson as the reported county and March 22, 2001, as the incident date, but those details are not stated in the supplied source documents.
Unknown
Source on file · Single-source claim.
The supplied CBS News and AL.com documents could not be retrieved, so their contents could not be evaluated or used to establish a connection to this NamUs case.
Unknown
Source on file · Single-source claim.

Sources

NamUs Unidentified Person case UP14992 — U.S. Department of Justice, NamUsOpen
Janet Luxford 2001 cold case: Brian Jones confesses murder, leads police to body — CBS NewsOpen
Man waits 20 years to admit he killed woman, stuffed her inside suitcase in 2001, Bessemer police say — AL.comOpen