Unidentified Person

Unidentified person — Birmingham (2005-03-25)

NamUs case UP75752 concerns an unidentified newborn found dead inside a box placed in a Salvation Army donation box on March 25, 2005. The official record is listed as open and unresolved, but the supplied text does not publish a precise location or investigating agency.

Incident date: March 25, 2005
Location: Birmingham, Jefferson County
Independent sources: 2

The record

An unidentified newborn was found dead on March 25, 2005, according to an open record in the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs.1

NamUs states that the newborn was found inside a box that had been placed in a Salvation Army donation box.1 The public record does not provide the newborn’s name, sex or ethnicity, and its supplied text does not identify the precise recovery location or investigating agency.1

The case is listed as NamUs UP75752 and remains open and unresolved.1

The NamUs entry is the only supplied source concerning this case. A second supplied article concerns unrelated adult male remains discovered in Adamsville in November 2025 and provides no information about the newborn.2

Timeline

March 25, 2005Confirmed
A newborn was found dead inside a box that had been placed in a Salvation Army donation box.
Current NamUs recordConfirmed
NamUs case UP75752 is listed as open and unresolved.

Documented claims

An unidentified newborn was found dead on March 25, 2005.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice NamUs · Single-source claim.
The newborn was found in a box that had been placed in a Salvation Army donation box.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice NamUs · Single-source claim.
The NamUs record does not provide the newborn’s name, sex or ethnicity in the supplied text.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice NamUs · Single-source claim.
The supplied NamUs text does not publish the precise recovery location or primary investigating agency.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice NamUs · Single-source claim.
NamUs case UP75752 is listed as open and unresolved.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice NamUs · Single-source claim.
The supplied ABC 33/40 article concerns a different case: unidentified adult male skeletal remains found near Basswood Drive in Adamsville on November 10, 2025.
Reported
Source: ABC 33/40 · Single-source claim.

Sources

NamUs official record UP75752 — U.S. Department of Justice NamUsOpen
Authorities Seek Help Identifying Unidentified Man after Remains Found in Jefferson County — ABC 33/40Open