CAN YOU HELP? Jason Futch of Lake City founded Suwanee County Unsolved, and when he was a teenager he became interested in the case of a John Doe found in the Columbia County woods who 44 years later still has not been identified.
On Nov. 24, 1978, a motorist accidentally hit a deer on I-10 near a Columbia County rest stop. He stopped to see if he could find the deer and while searching in the pine needles, he found skeletal remains scattered among the pine trees. Other than a piece of denim found near the bones, there wasn’t much to go on for investigators looking to identify the remains.
“This case has actually stuck to me since I was a preteen and I just remembered it over the years, looking at the forensic art and understanding the facts of the case,” said Futch. “I also befriended the detective who picked up the case in 1996.”An anthropology team at FSU examined the bones and determined they were those of a male between 35 and 50 years of age. He was 5 feet, 9 inches tall, and he may have walked with a limp. And they made some other approximations as well.
In 2019, Anthony Redgrave, an artist and lead genealogist with Redgrave Research Forensics Services created a new forensic approximation. And now, in 2022, with advanced technology, Redgrave created what Futch believes is a more accurate rendering.“What he did in this new release is he revised the release to his current standards and he was able to give this John Doe a more life-like appearance,” Futch said.
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