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Cold cases: When even the victims are a mystery - Long Beach, CA
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Cold cases: When even the victims are a mystery Updated: 06/03/2012 02:00:57 AM PDT
Editor's note: This is the second and final part in a series on the Long Beach Police Department's Cold Case Unit, which is closing after its funding ran out last month.
LONG BEACH -- Hunting for a cold case killer can be one of the toughest tasks that fall to police.
Even harder, say the three detectives who make up the Long Beach Police Department's Cold Case Unit, are the cases in which even the victims are a mystery, with no name and no family to claim them.
Those, however, are also among the most satisfying cases once solved, said Homicide Detective Bryan McMahon and retired detectives Michael Dugan and Stephen Jones, who came back to work the Cold Case Unit part-time after it was relaunched in 2009.
Take the case of the 18-year- old Marine who was identified this year, nearly 40 years after he was killed and dumped in an East Long Beach condominium complex.
It was just last March, after many months of hard work, that the unit received official confirmation that John Doe No. 155 was actually Pfc. Oral Alfred Stuart Jr., or "Buddy" as his family and friends called him.
Though DNA evidence wasn't available from the case, the victim had a Marine Corps emblem tattooed on his arm. Detectives worked with Navy investigators to identify a missing Marine who was never found and who was near the Long Beach region at the time of the slaying.
Once they had a name, Dugan and Jones then tracked the closest living relative, Carl Stuart, to his home in Phoenix, where detectives there showed the older brother an autopsy photo and Buddy was identified.
Buddy had been declared a Marine Corps deserter in November 1974, a little more than a week after he was murdered.
Making the call to Carl to let him know that Buddy hadn't deserted, but had been killed, was a major highlight for the unit.
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Saying goodbye
Standing next to the spot where his brother's body was dumped, Carl shook his head Thursday.
"It seems cold," he said, as Dugan and Jones explained the site looks today almost exactly it did in 1974.
"Yeah, such a young guy, it's sad," Dugan agreed.
"It's just a carport, but it's significant," Jones added.
Carl decided to make the long drive from his home in Phoenix to Long Beach last week to meet Dugan and Jones after hearing their last day at work was Thursday. Until this month, the Cold Case Unit was funded by federal grants, but now is being shuttered.
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Nameless victims
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Of the Long Beach Police Department's 921 unresolved homicide cases, 10 involve Jane and John Does like Buddy -- men and women who were killed and, for one reason or another, never identified.
Some of the victims' identities are shrouded by a transient lifestyle, one that leaves little in the way of recent records or ties to society to help find a name. Other unidentified victims involve cases in which the bodies were so decomposed, or destroyed by the method of death, that little remains to identify the person.
Then there are cases like John Doe No. 146 and Jane Does No. 40 and No. 16. All three were people killed at a young age, people who appeared well-kept and cared for, people who -- one would think -- would be missed, the detectives said.
"You have these three individuals where you have to wonder, `Why aren't they identified?"' Dugan said. "One is just a 17-year-old kid, the others are both young women. ... Someone's got to be missing them.
John Doe No. 146 could have still been in high school when he was strangled and his body was dumped in 1978, face down in the street in Belmont Shore. The long-haired teen looks like he is sleeping in the yellowed crime scene photos. Neither his body, found near Corona Avenue and Division Street, nor his clothing showed any signs of living on the streets.
Jane Doe No. 40 looked to be in her 20s or perhaps early 30s when she was strangled in 1974 and her body was found on the beach, on a jetty that used to be located behind the Villa Riviera on Ocean Boulevard.
She was left face down, and remained clothed in her pastel jumpsuit and a furry jacket, her long hair tangled with sand. Though part of the jumpsuit was pulled down, her killer didn't take her small diamond ring.
Jane Doe No. 16 also was found still wearing jewelry; a gold ring with a design of a goddess or mermaid surrounded by small red stones. Her dark curly hair was pulled back with a red hair clip covered in sequins and she wore only a dark fur coat.
Her body was left face up in an alley on the Westside, north of Esther Street.
"It's weird that someone like her, someone who looks like they had a life ... (but) no family comes forward," Dugan said.
The original description given to a Press-Telegram reporter in 1989 listed the victim as African-American. In the crime scene photos, Dugan mused, she looks more Middle Eastern or Indian.
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Of the 10 unidentified Long Beach victims, five have yielded DNA profiles, though no names were found to match the profiles in any database, Jones said.
Before detectives Jones and Dugan's last day on the job Thursday, all five profiles were entered into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), on the chance that a match might still be found.
A relative can be swabbed and have their DNA compared to the DNA of the victims, though only if the relative is male, because an X chromosome must be present to make a match, Jones explained.
Though Jones and Dugan have left the Cold Case Unit, McMahon is continuing his work for now, though he is set to retire in July.
Carl and other family and friends of victims served by the unit, those whose killers were identified and those whose identities were confirmed, say they hope funding can be found to continue with the cold case work.
"It's a terrible thing, not knowing," Carl said. "It's important work. It needs to continue."
http://**/california/ci_20769916/cold-cases-when-even-victims-are-mystery
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