Unidentified Remains on December 21

Unidentified Remains (41)

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Unidentified Male

Male · Falfurrias, Texas

Found Dec 21, 2016 · 10 years ago

On December 21, 2016 the skeletal remains of an unidentified body were found on Cage Ranch, in Brooks County, Texas.

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 65 · Brunswick, Georgia

Found Dec 21, 2021 · 5 years ago

Decedent found inside a vacant house.

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Unidentified Male

Male · Gila Bend, Arizona

Found Dec 21, 2006 · 20 years ago

Skeletal remains in Gila Bend found near ME 06-4998, (NamUs # 1995) .

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Male, est. age 40 · Gila Bend, Arizona

Found Dec 21, 2006 · 20 years ago

These human remains were found by U.S. Border agents near Gila Bend Arizona while in the pursuit of persons entering the country illegally. Remained were found near Case # 06-4999. (NamUs # 1994) .

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 47 · Los Angeles, California

Found Dec 21, 1996 · 30 years ago

REMAINS FD BY A HIKER IN GRIFFITH PARK, LA,

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Unidentified Female

Female · Virginia Beach, Virginia

Found Dec 21, 1996 · 30 years ago

12/21/96, The body of a full term infant female was found wrapped in a red polo shirt in a plastic bag hanging on clothes rod in the employees locker room at Lillian Vernon Warehouse in Va. Beach, Virginia.

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 45 · Elizabeth, New Jersey

Found Dec 21, 1986 · 40 years ago

Body was found in a rooming house fire in Elizabeth, NJ.

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 35 · San Jacinto County County, Texas

Found Dec 21, 1981 · 45 years ago

F0UND IN CLEARED RIGHT 0F WAY BENEATH P0WER LINES 300 YARDS 0FF HWY 1725 IN SAN JACINT0 C0UNTY

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 29 · Oldham County County, Texas

Found Dec 21, 1981 · 45 years ago

Unidentified decedent found in Oldham County, Texas on December 21, 1981.

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 40 · Marin County County, California

Found Dec 21, 1976 · 50 years ago

Male decedent found on beach.

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Unidentified Person

Unsure · NW of Lukeville, Arizona

Found Dec 21, 2025 · 1 year ago

Remains were discovered in a remote desert wash by Fish and Wildlife personnel. (USBP)

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Unidentified Male

Male · Ajo, Arizona

Found Dec 21, 2024 · 2 years ago

Incomplete skeletal remains discovered southwest of Ajo, AZ in remote desert area.

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Unidentified Male

Male · Ajo, Arizona

Found Dec 21, 2024 · 2 years ago

Isolated cranium found in remote desert area southwest of Ajo, AZ by humanitarian group.

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 50 · Queens, New York

Found Dec 21, 2023 · 3 years ago

Found unresponsive near 87-46 168th Place. Tentative name of Fernando Hernandez-Hernandez, but this name has not been verified and family has not been notified.

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Unidentified Female

Female, est. age 24 · Baltimore, Maryland

Found Dec 21, 2020 · 6 years ago

Skeletonized remains found in vacant residence.

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Unidentified Female

Female, est. age 30 · Sasabe, Arizona

Found Dec 21, 2018 · 8 years ago

Skeletal remains found by a local humanitarian group in a remote desert area.

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Unidentified Male

Male · San Juan, Puerto Rico

Found Dec 21, 2017 · 9 years ago

Found in a street with multiple gun shot wounds.

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 99 · Santa Rosa, Arizona

Found Dec 21, 2010 · 16 years ago

Incomplete skeletal remains were found by hunters in a remote desert area near a wash just northeast of Ajo, AZ.

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 50 · Winterhaven, California

Found Dec 21, 2004 · 22 years ago

On 12/21/2004 a Hispanic, male subject was found in the All American Canal in Winterhaven, California. It is believed the subject drown while attemting to enter the USA illegally. The subject had several tattoos on his body such as the face of Bob Marley…

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 70 · Brooklyn, New York

Found Dec 21, 2004 · 22 years ago

Decedent reportedly went to a stranger's home for help and collapsed, was DOA at Wyckoff Hospital.

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 19 · Sasabe, Arizona

Found Dec 21, 2000 · 26 years ago

Decedent discovered by a rancher in remote desert area.

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 60 · Bronx, New York

Found Dec 21, 1994 · 32 years ago

Unknown male found unresponsive, wrapped in a blanket at East 158th St and Walton Ave in the Bronx. It appears he was sleeping there.

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 60 · Bronx, New York

Found Dec 21, 1992 · 34 years ago

Unknown male found on the rocks underneath the Whitestone Bridge in Ferry Boat Park.

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Unidentified Female

Female, est. age 80 · Near Dragoon, Arizona

Found Dec 21, 1982 · 44 years ago

Partial skeletal remains were recovered from mine shaft, which was officially closed in the late 19th century

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 30 · Pima County County, Arizona

Found Dec 21, 1979 · 47 years ago

Cranium found in desert

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Unidentified Person

Unsure · Santa Teresa, New Mexico

Found Dec 21, 2025 · 1 year ago

Skeletal remains located in desert area by Battalion Search and Rescue

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Unidentified Person

Unsure · Santa Teresa, New Mexico

Found Dec 21, 2025 · 1 year ago

Skeletal remains found by Battalion Search and Rescue

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 45 · Sumter, South Carolina

Found Dec 21, 2023 · 3 years ago

Skull found in wooded area

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Male, est. age 40 · San Ysidro, California

Found Dec 21, 2019 · 7 years ago

On the morning of 12/21/2019, United States Border Patrol agents came upon partially skeletonized remains. San Diego Police Department were notified and officers were dispatched to the scene and confirmed the findings.

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Unidentified Male

Male · Webb County County, Texas

Found Dec 21, 2019 · 7 years ago

found on the Memo Vela Ranch in Webb county

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Unidentified Female

Female · Brooks County County, Texas

Found Dec 21, 2018 · 8 years ago

Remains found on the King Ranch near the Barrosa gate.

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 45 · Pima County County, Arizona

Found Dec 21, 2013 · 13 years ago

Skeletal remains found in remote desert

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 30 · Ocotillo, California

Found Dec 21, 2009 · 17 years ago

In area commonly used by undocumented immigrants through the rocky mountainous terrain of Mountain Springs area

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Unidentified Person

Unsure, est. age 20 · Springfield, Missouri

Found Dec 21, 2007 · 19 years ago

Parietal and occipital portions of cranium.

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Unidentified Female

Female, est. age 1 · Los Angeles, California

Found Dec 21, 2004 · 22 years ago

DNA C0LLECTED, INFANT BODY FOUND AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX IN LOS ANGELES.

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Unidentified Female

Female, est. age 45 · Bellport, New York

Found Dec 21, 1999 · 27 years ago

Found buried under concrete patio. Believed killed 1983.

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Unidentified Female

Female, est. age 45 · Newton County County, Missouri

Found Dec 21, 1993 · 33 years ago

Victim standing in road and struck by pickup truck at US 66 at Junction I-44 at the 0-33 mile marker. Foot prints available. Blood type is O positive.

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 60 · Indio, California

Found Dec 21, 1989 · 37 years ago

Firefighters extinguished a fire at a newly erected shack built on a vacant lot and discovered the body of a male adult. Allegedly the decedent ,a known transient in Indio who went by the name of "Jimmie or Jimmy", was seen by others making the shack. An oil…

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Unidentified Female

Female, est. age 30 · Los Angeles County County, California

Found Dec 21, 1975 · 51 years ago

On 12/20/1975 @ 1400 hours the decedent arrived at a friend's house apparently under the influence of drugs. At 2300 hours she began to vomit and 9-1-1 was called. Pronounced dead at the scene. Friend had met the decedent at a bar @ 9th and Vermont Ave. in…

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 80 · San Francisco, California

Found Dec 21, 1973 · 53 years ago

The subject was found lying comatose in the bushes in St. Mary's Square by an unknown citizen who called emergency services. The subject was transferred and admitted to San Francisco General Hospital with a diagnosis of hypothermia, hypotension, coma…

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Unidentified Male

Male, est. age 80 · Upland, California

Found Dec 21, 1970 · 56 years ago

SKULL ONLY FOUND IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CURATION WITHOUT ANY DOCUMENTATION " CURATION LIST " INDICATED UPLAND DUMP 12/21/70.

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