But there is also the question of dignity. Without a name, she couldn’t inform the man’s family of his death or return his remains, and the police would have a tough time investigating foul play. Nelson sees each unidentified body as a problem both practical and existential. “Even if this were your family member, you wouldn’t have recognized him,” Nelson told me.
A tall, bald man with a long gray beard, he carried no wallet and offered few clues as to his identity. He appeared to have been dead for at least two weeks, and that time in the water had radically altered the shape of his face, lips and eyes. An investigator in the Spokane County, Washington, medical examiner’s office at the time, Nelson was in the morgue, looking down at the body of a man whom authorities had retrieved from a logjam in the Spokane River.
If you’d like to take some of your quarantine time and play armchair detective, head over to the BCI cold case murder and missing persons website, click here.Which is why, in June 2016, Elizabeth Nelson had a problem.
Tips that come into this website are shared with the various agencies and can really help jumpstart a case. “Let’s get involved in getting information to these law-enforcement agencies, you know tips, there are pictures out there that some agencies don’t even have of the victims, if anybody can round pictures up, newspaper clippings anything of that will help,” Mackay said. Many departments already have Detectives assigned to cold case murder and missing persons cases but they tend to be very labor-intensive and time-consuming. The Tiger King, I don’t know if that’s real useful but this is going to help the families that are just still waiting for that resolution,” Mackay said. “I here the public all the time, they want to get involved, this is a time to get involved! We’re all sitting in front of our TVs you know? Let’s make it a useful time. Officials say many times it only takes one solid tip to put a cold case right back on the front burner. The site has been upgraded and streamlined over the past two years and now features more than 400 cases, some are high profile while others are not, some go back more than 50 years.
“So that’s why I feel it’s very valuable for the public to get involved, we need you, you know, this is important,” Kathy Mackay, Cold Case Crime Analyst with Utah DPS, said. Why not spend some time scrolling through Utah’s cold case murder and missing person website? Well if you’ve run out of ideas of what to watch, Folks with the Utah Department Of Public Safety, Bureau of Criminal Investigations has a suggestion for you. That’s certainly one way to pass the time and a lot of folks seem to really enjoy true crime series and documentaries. So you’ve been self quarantining at home, trying to help flatten the curve and in the process, you’re also binge-watching a lot of TV shows and movies.
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