Unidentified Person

Unidentified person — Birmingham (2023-08-18)

NamUs case UP109418 remains open and concerns partially skeletonized, decomposing remains found by a citizen behind a vacant housing complex. The supplied official excerpt omits the recovery date, location and basic demographic information, while the second source covers unrelated 2025 Jefferson County cases.

Incident date: Not documented
Location: Jefferson County
Independent sources: 2

The record

An unidentified person whose partially skeletonized and decomposing remains were discovered behind a vacant housing complex is listed in the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System as case UP109418. NamUs describes the case as open and unresolved.1

According to the official record, a citizen discovered the remains. The supplied NamUs material does not publish the person’s sex or ethnicity, the date of discovery, the location, or the primary investigating agency.1

The case title supplied to Alabama Unsolved associates the record with Birmingham, Aug. 18, 2023, and Jefferson County. Those details do not appear in the supplied NamUs excerpt and could not be independently verified from the source documents.

A December 2025 WBRC report concerned two other sets of unidentified remains in Jefferson County: skeletal remains found in a condemned Bessemer house in June 2025 and a man found near a Birmingham Family Dollar on Dec. 5, 2025.2 The report said relatives had been reached in both matters and that the Birmingham man was identified as 49-year-old Vincent Jermaine Matthews.2 WBRC did not mention NamUs case UP109418 or connect either 2025 recovery to the remains found behind a vacant housing complex.

No identification, recovery date, precise location or investigating-agency information for UP109418 is established by the supplied documents. The NamUs record should be checked directly for any update before publication.1

Timeline

UnknownConfirmed
A citizen discovered partially skeletonized and decomposing remains behind a vacant housing complex.
December 15, 2025Reported
According to WBRC, the Jefferson County Coroner's Office sought public assistance in two separate 2025 unidentified-remains cases.
December 17, 2025Reported
WBRC reported that relatives had been reached in both 2025 cases and that the man found near a Birmingham Family Dollar had been identified as Vincent Jermaine Matthews.

Documented claims

NamUs case UP109418 concerns partially skeletonized and decomposing remains discovered by a citizen behind a vacant housing complex.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, NamUs · Single-source claim.
NamUs lists UP109418 as open and unresolved.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, NamUs · Single-source claim.
The supplied NamUs excerpt does not publish the unidentified person's sex or ethnicity, the date found, the location, or the primary investigating agency.
Confirmed
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, NamUs · Single-source claim.
The case title supplied by the editor associates UP109418 with Birmingham, Jefferson County, and Aug. 18, 2023, but those details are not stated in either supplied source document.
Unknown
Source on file · Single-source claim.
WBRC reported that the Jefferson County Coroner's Office located relatives connected to two separate 2025 unidentified-remains cases.
Reported
Source: WBRC · Single-source claim.
One case covered by WBRC involved skeletal remains found in a previously condemned Bessemer house in June 2025.
Reported
Source: WBRC · Single-source claim.
The other case covered by WBRC involved a man found near a Birmingham Family Dollar on Dec. 5, 2025; WBRC reported that he was identified as 49-year-old Vincent Jermaine Matthews after media coverage helped reach his family.
Reported
Source: WBRC · Single-source claim.
The WBRC report does not mention UP109418 or connect either 2025 case to the remains described in the supplied NamUs record.
Reported
Source: WBRC · Single-source claim.

Sources

NamUs case UP109418 — U.S. Department of Justice, NamUsOpen
Jefferson County coroner says both families have been reached in cases of unidentified remains — WBRCOpen