Cold Case

Detectives Revisit Cold Case

POSTED: 11:10 am PST October 31, 2006
UPDATED: 12:00 pm PST October 31, 2006


BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Detectives in Whatcom County are asking for the public's help identifying a man whose charred remains were found in a chimney at Bellingham’s Georgia Pacific Plant nearly two decades ago.

Police are hoping someone will recognize the man based on two sketches. The images were drawn years apart in 1987 and 2000 by different artists.

Detective Al Jensen hopes if enough people see the drawings someone will recognize the man who was found with no wallet, identification, keys or useable DNA.

“Because of the temperatures the skeleton had been exposed to we could literally find no DNA, so we couldn’t get a DNA match off it," Jensen said.

The man’s skull showed that he had dental work with silver and gold fillings, “It was not indigent dental work, it was good quality care for that time frame the mid 80s,” Jensen said.

Despite the fact that the man was almost completely burned, investigators recovered part of a Continental Airlines ticket or baggage claim, but could not make out the numbers to trace the ticket.

Monica Caison
CUE Center for Missing Persons
PO Box 12714
Wilmington, NC 28405
(910) 343-1131
(910) 232-1687 24 Hour Line
Email: cuecenter@aol.com
Website: http://www.ncmissingpersons.org/

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