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july 11 1963 jackson county oregon a
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suspicious bundle is found by a local
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fisherman
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at the keene creek reservoir
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when the fisherman opened up the
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blankets
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he got the shock of his life
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right away
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knew there was something wrong and went
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to local law enforcement and reported it
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and that was when they found this
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concealed body of a of a young child
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an investigation is immediately launched
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to find the little boy's family
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baby boy doe
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name known only to god
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police finally run out of leads the case
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goes cold
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this is the story of baby boy doe also
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known as the boy and the bundle
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his name and his background remain
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unknown for nearly 60 years until
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finally he is identified through the
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science of genetic genealogy
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i'm nancy grace this is bloodline
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detectives
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1963 a summer day in jackson county
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oregon a local man out fishing with
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friends at the keene creek reservoir
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he notices a suspicious bundle lying
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half submerged in the water
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the fisherman who was out with his
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family he ended up
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snagging and bringing up this bundle
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when he reeled it in and he looked at it
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and he opened it up
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the shock of his life
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there was a baby a child
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this little body was discovered wrapped
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in blankets and then wrapped in a
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homemade quilt
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it was also bound with wire and then
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weighted down with some weights he
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alerted the oregon state police i
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believe through a local fire resource in
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that area the oregon state police took
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an initial statement from him and
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notified the jackson county sheriff's
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office
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the bundle removed from the reservoir an
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autopsy very carefully performed
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he was taken to a funeral home for that
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examination just based on facilities
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that were available at the time
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i think everyone in that room was
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probably horrified because as you're
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unwinding this wire
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you see this homemade quilt which is
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just such a personal object and you
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unfold that and there's another blanket
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and you unfold that and then there's
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this child probably quite unrecognizable
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at that point based on how long he'd
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been there
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there was an aqua blanket there was a
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patchwork quilt there were many windings
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of wire different kinds of wire to hold
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the bundle together and inside the
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bundle were some iron molds used in
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mining to weight the body down
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they could find no
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damage to the child's skull they could
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find no broken bones in the child's body
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there was no indication that the child
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had been hit
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or there was some kind of injury left
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marks on the body
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he was wearing some little trainer shoes
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he was wearing corduroy pants he had a
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red and white striped shirt on
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and they were good quality clothes so it
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made them think that the little boy
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didn't come from
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perhaps like an impoverished family or a
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transient family he seemed to be well
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cared for
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investigators now try to establish the
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identity of the little boy using
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every tool they know
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at the autopsy they couldn't determine
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who he was there was no missing child in
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the area that matched his description
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they thought he might have died of
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natural causes and then
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a parent disposed of him in this way
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of course there's the possibility that
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he died in an accident or
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was murdered and then he was hidden away
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investigators were able to take
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footprints and they
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sent those to the fbi and the fbi was
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able to check
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the hospitals all over the country for
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those matching footprints if you could
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get that footprint and compare it to the
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birth certificate footprint you might be
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able to get a match
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investigators believe the boy might be
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from the local area
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all the residents had to be interviewed
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what did they know had they seen
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anything had they heard anything were
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they aware that a child was missing they
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would put out flyers literally posting
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them on a tree
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so that people would be aware that there
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was a child who had been found
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police make some progress in identifying
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some of baby boy doe's clothing
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they did discover that some of the
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clothing came from jcpenney they talked
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to shoe store owners and found out about
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the shoes that the little boy was
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wearing but unfortunately that style of
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shoe was sold up and down the west coast
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so
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again not something that they could use
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to help pinpoint
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exactly where did this child come from
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and who might have bought the shoes
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the clothing that he was wearing would
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have been considered more high-end
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clothing for the time so
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you know being in a rural area not a lot
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of people would have access to clothing
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like that
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investigators also try to find out more
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about the weight that anchored the tots
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little body in the reservoir
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they were so thorough in their
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investigation talking to so many people
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in the mining industry that they found
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the exact type of mold listed in a
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catalog and it cost 1.25 they knew the
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exact model of the mold
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the police took these iron objects to
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the mining companies around
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oregon and around medford
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nothing
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i think a lot of people would
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think about it as if this was my child
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or if this was a child that i was
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involved in their life
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you know
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this would not be what i would want for
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my family or what i would like to see
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for my family not what i want in my
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community
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police go after every lead that comes in
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and even get help from top officials at
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the fbi
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there was a letter signed by j edgar
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hoover
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who was the head of the fbi in
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washington d.c where he was sending out
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requests to police agencies for
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information
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there is incredible interest in the
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outcome of this case
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as we see next on bloodline detectives
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investigators are confident that they
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will discover the identity of baby boy
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doe
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jackson county oregon july 1963
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police investigating the discovery of a
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taut boy's body at king creek reservoir
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that summer the case is known locally as
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the boy in the bundle
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the community obsessed with the
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sheriff's office solving the case
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i think initially they believed it was
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going to be a local child
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at a certain point they were working any
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missing children leads
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for for that time frame
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investigators lose their initial
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confidence the case of baby boy doe
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goes cold
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and no one's working the case and then
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you look at the date and that was
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during the time of the kennedy
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assassination and it was all efforts on
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that
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the materials were put away in a box and
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then not discovered until later when
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they decided again to do another sweep
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for cold cases
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the community and the investigators did
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organize
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a burial for the child
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he was buried at hillcrest memorial
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cemetery baby boy doe
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name known only to god
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45 years after baby boy doe was found
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dead bundled submerged in a reservoir
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his case reopens there at jason county
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sheriff's
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detective colin fagan had found some
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boxes full of old files and he asked an
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investigator named jim tattersall to
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look through those
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and jim tattersall found this case of
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the king creek boy as they called it at
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the time and said here's one where it's
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the body of a small child that was
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discovered in king creek reservoir and
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nobody has been able to find the
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identity yet
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they decided to exhume the child's body
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and extract dna
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it looked like a crime and while maybe
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there was some innocent explanation
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the affidavit that they submitted to the
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judge said
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this appears to be a crime it is
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probable cause to issue a warrant
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for the exhumation of the body
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they went to the cemetery they
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made a scheduled appointment with all of
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the investigators that were on the case
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at that point the medical examiner was
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there and they simply knew exactly what
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plot he was in they took all of the dirt
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away got his casket out and then
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proceeded to do a second examination on
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him
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the immediate question
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what will be the condition of baby boy
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doe's body when he is exhumed
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will his remains be
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in any shape that would allow
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an extract of a dna sample for testing
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this body was placed in an embalmed
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situation where
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once you open that casket
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it should be well preserved this body
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had deteriorated
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we were able to re-examine the skeleton
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we were able to apply new resources to
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it forensic anthropologists took part in
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that
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who are experts in bone development
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congenital defects
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body structure body composition
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there was a sample that was taken from
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his upper thigh bone and that was sent
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to the university of north texas
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center for human identification
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and they provided dna analysis and
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processing to us and they created
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or concluded with a dna profile from him
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his entire dna profile was uploaded into
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the national
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dna system and began to search against
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missing people and there was never an
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association at that point
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dna
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wasn't as widely used so a lot of
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dna databases in the country were
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basically just databases of criminals
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investigators get assistance from a very
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unlikely source
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two local dentists had a new 360 degree
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imaging machine so they took the child's
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skull there and also with the help of an
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anthropologist who helped to rebuild the
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skull they were able to reconstruct the
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skull and get good images of that
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anthropologists will usually reconstruct
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faces
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just for a visual examination and a
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visual cue to try and determine really
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what this
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child looked like
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the dentist said that there were some
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facial characteristics
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with the skull that were consistent with
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down syndrome and so at that time that
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became another
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source of information in the case
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now for the first time investigators
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finally put a face
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to baby boy doe
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they provided this three-dimensional
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illustration or composite if you will of
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this little guy's facial features and it
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was something that we had never had
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before
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this composite of this little toddler is
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so personal and you can see
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that he was a little person he was a
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little guy it makes it hit home quite a
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bit more to see his face and to see his
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facial characteristics
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dna databases at that time mostly fill
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with convicted felons so the search for
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a match for baby boy doe comes up empty
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investigators now try circulating the
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new face they have for baby boy doe
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hoping it sparks a lead
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[Music]
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time
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kind of works in our favor in that
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people that may have known something at
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the time didn't want to say anything
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didn't want to be involved
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typically those reservations will go
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away and we'll get more information from
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them so this was an effort to
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solicit more of that information and
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maybe give folks something tangible to
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look at
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that went on a national basis out to law
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enforcement agencies and through the
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media
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it was a black and white image it didn't
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have really any defining
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characteristics other than structure
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when folks think of
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other people familiar people loved ones
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typically they'll say oh he had brown
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hair he had blonde hair it was really
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distinct because it was white or he had
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green eyes
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the case of baby boy doe the boy in the
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bundle haunts investigators they now
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turn to advanced forensic science to try
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and solve this mystery that's next on
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bloodline detectives
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jackson county oregon 2008 police
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reopened the cold case of a tot boy a
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child found in a reservoir half
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submerged in water in 1963
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baby boy doe's tiny body wrapped tightly
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in a blanket with metal wire and weighed
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down with cast iron molds
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a 3d reconstruction is made from skull
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fragments and a picture emerges of what
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this baby boy doe
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may have looked like in life
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there were tips that were coming in
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about who this little guy could
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potentially be none of them were leading
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anywhere and so i think it was very
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frustrating to the detectives that were
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working on it at that point just as it
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had been extremely frustrating to those
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detectives who had worked on it in 1963.
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investigators have another suspicion
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about baby boy doe
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they very carefully examined this 3d
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model
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baby boy doe's physical features
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lead investigators to believe the top
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boy may have suffered from a congenital
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health defect
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this child's head was flattened
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not a traumatic injury but just an
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ordinary flattening which was the result
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of a congenital
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birth defect
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all children are vulnerable and some are
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even more vulnerable and
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i know for the investigators definitely
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it just created even more of a desire to
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find out who this little boy was and
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what had happened to him
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more dna samples are obtained from the
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boy's femur bone
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these samples submitted to existing dna
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database in the hope of a breakthrough
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they exhumed the body
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and they were able to get dna out of
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that to try to search for any sort of
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match
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at that point i think
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everyone expected that the the dna would
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be a hit
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but the dna does not find a match the
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case goes cold yet again
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in order for something to hit or
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associate genetically to each other you
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have to have
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something to compare it to
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finding something new to do with a case
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this old with so few
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resources or so few
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tangible leads was next to
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insurmountable
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then investigators get a tip from a very
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unusual source
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it showed up on facebook a drawing of a
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little boy who was anywhere between one
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and three and i just said oh my gosh
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that boy looks like a williams syndrome
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baby
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she thought that this child looked very
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similar with the facial characteristics
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that her
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child did and so she gave
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the investigators that tip
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i found out that the case was out of
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oregon in the county and emailed the
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police department there and asked if
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they could pass it along to whoever had
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this case right now
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the sheriff received the tip and he
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passed it on to me said hey see what you
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can do with this and that's when i
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started making phone calls
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police reach out to the oregon state
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police medical examiner
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i suggested to the investigators that we
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take the dna sample that we already had
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and do a completely innovative dna
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technique on it
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a new type of dna testing is now
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available it's called
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phenotyping
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phenotyping is looking at locations
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in the genes
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with that dna profile to look
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specifically
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at
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the location that determines eye color
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the location that expresses skin color
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it's significantly more sophisticated in
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the characteristics that it pulls it
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looks at more genetic markers within
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that dna than a dna sample say for codis
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would look at they look at very specific
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markers and fewer of them
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the phenotyping results were amazing
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because it really confirmed a lot of
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what our investigators had first thought
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when they created the new composite
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based on those factors even though it
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was a very similar picture to the black
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and white composite that had been
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constructed
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it gave it a much more real
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feel
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he was of northern european ancestry and
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so he was either very fair or fair in
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his skin color he had hazel or brown
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eyes which was something we had never
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known before so great piece of
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information
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he had dark blonde
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to light brown hair so again information
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we had never had that now we have
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those might seem insignificant as far as
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characteristics but to investigators at
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this point that was a huge jump in the
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investigation because now
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we could go to that existing
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illustration and we could put color on
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it and we could give him even more of an
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identity
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this new technology opens the case up to
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possibly using forensic genetic
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genealogy
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investigative genetic genealogy is
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really a way to find genetic connections
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between people
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we have the ged
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databases and what they permit us to do
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is to take the sample
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of dna from a victim
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or the deceased or somebody involved in
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the crime
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run that sample through the genealogy
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the ged
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data
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and determine
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who are the relatives
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of the child
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that's the way
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we solve cases on these unidentified
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cases in oregon is we look at the
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familial connection
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investigators now enlist cc moore one of
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the leading scientists in dna genetic
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genealogy
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when she and i first started talking on
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some of the other cases that we had
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worked on
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it just struck me how committed she was
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to these cases
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her commitment to our cases
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was so apparent
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sometimes we
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try to work on a case and the dna is
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very challenging and it looks
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questionable as to whether we will be
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able to use investigative genetic
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genealogy so i was very concerned that
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the dna might be too degraded or too
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contaminated on this case
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but because of whole genome sequencing
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and our bioinformatics scientists we
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were able to do so and i was so thankful
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because this was a case that was
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incredibly compelling to me and i could
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tell how much dr vance and the
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investigators cared about it and really
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needed to make this identification
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investigators discussed the findings of
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cece moore's research
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would the mystery of baby boy doe's
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identity finally be solved
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jackson county officials and
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investigators our medical examiner
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personnel were all there and cece was
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there to provide us the information that
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she had found
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and on page two of her report
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she gives
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a theory
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and it's in bold and it's in italics
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it was amazing i could not believe how
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much information she was able to
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to glean and the the things that she was
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able to find
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i think we all wanted to scroll to page
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two at the very beginning but she's very
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methodical about the way she explains
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things
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and when we got to page two and we saw
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that bolded paragraph
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and it documented the grandparents of
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who this little boy was and then her
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theory
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we were blown away
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bloodline detectives hopeful their
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teamwork along with the new science of
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genetic genealogy can finally solve the
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mystery who is baby boy doe
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that's next on bloodline detectives
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2021 jackson county oregon police
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investigating the 1963
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cold case
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of a murdered infant baby boy doe the
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tots body carefully wrapped in a blanket
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and put in the king creek reservoir his
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identity goes unknown for nearly 60
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years but now
00:24:25
investigators hopeful that recent dna
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technology breakthroughs will help them
00:24:30
search for very distant family members
00:24:34
leading to one that may give the boy in
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the bundle back his real name
00:24:42
numerous investigators and detectives
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have retired without solving this case
00:24:47
so we were cautiously optimistic
00:24:51
when i first received the match list on
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this case it was not very promising i
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had a around 100 centimorgan top match
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which is a good match it's maybe a
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second cousin once removed or a third
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cousin but i didn't have a lot of
00:25:06
supporting matches many of the other
00:25:08
matches were very distant and so i was
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concerned that it was going to be very
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challenging to identify this little boy
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she was able to
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link fourth and fifth generation
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relatives
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and then
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through birth records death records
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driver's licenses other historical
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public
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documents was able to narrow down a very
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small window of people that would have
00:25:36
been associated with this child
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i was finally able to narrow it down to
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three sisters that i believed likely one
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of those was going to be this little
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boy's mother but i really couldn't get
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it any further
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and then something very important
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happened in january 2021 and that is
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that the owners of ged match made the
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decision to allow unidentified remains
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or jane and john doe cases to be
00:26:05
compared against the entire database
00:26:07
which is about 1.5 million people
00:26:10
that was the critical piece that we
00:26:12
needed you know nobody was going to come
00:26:14
up with tips especially after 58 years
00:26:17
when that happened
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we received a first cousin level match
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to this little boy
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investigators now have the breakthrough
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they've been waiting for all these years
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when that report came out and cece was
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telling us that she had found his family
00:26:36
and then her theory about the fact that
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his name was stevie crawford
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i was ecstatic
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i don't typically reach out to the
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matches in these cases but when somebody
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so young dies
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there are often no records that i am
00:26:53
able to access to find that this person
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ever existed
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we all knew then exactly what everyone's
00:27:01
role was at that point our investigators
00:27:03
need to keep investigating they need to
00:27:04
keep talking to
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the people that had been involved from
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the very beginning and now they had
00:27:10
names and phone numbers and addresses of
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people that may be this little boy's
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relative
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i reached out to the manager of that
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profile who was the wife of the first
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cousin of this little boy and she was
00:27:26
very interested in helping with this
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case she was immediately deeply impacted
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by it
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police began interviewing family members
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to build a picture of what may have
00:27:38
happened to stevie crawford back in
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1963.
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she started reaching out to their more
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immediate family members and asking if
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there had been a little boy that had
00:27:52
disappeared when he was a toddler and
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she pretty quickly
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heard a story about a little disabled
00:28:00
boy that had existed and that had lived
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in oregon for a very short time and then
00:28:06
had disappeared
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one
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woman actually stated that
00:28:14
she remembers stevie she remembers
00:28:16
playing with him she remembers holding
00:28:18
him she was the daughter of stevie's
00:28:21
mother's second husband
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so they were children together she was a
00:28:25
little older than him here's this woman
00:28:27
who remembers him remembers that he was
00:28:30
disabled but loved him dearly so that's
00:28:33
a wonderful human connection that we now
00:28:35
have
00:28:36
said she came home from school every day
00:28:38
and held him and really loved him
00:28:41
that is one thing that really warmed my
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heart and made me feel a lot better
00:28:45
about this whole case
00:28:47
that he was loved
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and then one day
00:28:53
stevie was there and one day stevie
00:28:55
wasn't there and they never talked about
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it
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his mother and her
00:29:02
new husband had moved up to the pacific
00:29:04
northwest area for a very short time and
00:29:07
that when they came back to
00:29:10
their home
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town that they no longer had him with
00:29:13
them
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genetically we need to confirm
00:29:17
who this little boy is because
00:29:20
interviews can only do so much we wanted
00:29:22
to confirm exactly who he was so a half
00:29:25
brother
00:29:26
emerges from all the family history
00:29:31
and the police started questioning the
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half brother what do you remember
00:29:37
did you have a half brother oh yeah yeah
00:29:40
i
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i was a child and
00:29:43
and my mother had had this child and and
00:29:46
and so he was funny what do you mean he
00:29:49
was funny
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well he had down syndrome
00:29:53
tell us some more the police said
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well one day
00:29:59
my
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mother
00:30:01
traveled a lot and she would go to all
00:30:03
these places and she would take my my my
00:30:06
brother with her and she came back and
00:30:09
she says
00:30:10
we don't have to worry about
00:30:12
stevie anymore
00:30:15
as their investigation and questioning
00:30:17
goes on investigators get more
00:30:19
information about stevie crawford's
00:30:21
background a picture of a very troubled
00:30:24
family begins to emerge
00:30:28
we know that the mother of
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this little boy
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had a very rough childhood in and of
00:30:34
herself she had seen her mother kill her
00:30:37
father the grandfather had been abusive
00:30:40
and the grandmother said she had killed
00:30:43
him in self-defense
00:30:45
stevie's mother
00:30:47
had dealt with this horrible tragedy and
00:30:49
i think that led to her living a very
00:30:52
unstable life
00:30:54
here's this poor girl who's seen so much
00:30:56
trauma and violence in her life
00:30:58
she goes on and has a series of
00:31:01
marriages
00:31:03
she had a lot of children that she ended
00:31:05
up not raising herself some stayed with
00:31:08
their father some went to other
00:31:09
relatives and so
00:31:12
what happened to stevie is not that
00:31:13
surprising when you look at this entire
00:31:17
family
00:31:18
in context
00:31:20
investigators search for any information
00:31:23
any public record they can find about
00:31:26
stevie crawford
00:31:28
i was told a very specific place where
00:31:31
the family thought he could have been
00:31:32
born which was not oregon and i was
00:31:35
communicating that to the investigators
00:31:37
and then they were immediately taking
00:31:39
that information and finding more
00:31:41
information
00:31:44
and lo and behold they found the name
00:31:48
and they found the birth record
00:31:51
really i think detectives put the lid on
00:31:53
the case
00:31:55
when they found his birth certificate
00:31:56
which really confirmed that he did exist
00:31:59
he was born his name was stephen
00:32:02
alexander crawford
00:32:03
and he was the exact age that we thought
00:32:05
he should be
00:32:08
the birth certificate confirmed
00:32:10
everything that cece moore had been able
00:32:12
to research
00:32:14
and find
00:32:16
it tied all those together and made it
00:32:18
all one piece
00:32:22
investigators must now obtain a dna
00:32:24
sample from one of stevie's blood
00:32:27
relatives to confirm his identity
00:32:32
and he says i would be happy
00:32:34
to have you collect dna and do a
00:32:36
confirmation test with my dna
00:32:39
compared to this little boy's because
00:32:42
i believe i am his half brother and so
00:32:44
that was completed we collected his dna
00:32:47
parabon nanolabs again
00:32:50
processed that dna and did what was
00:32:52
considered a kinship inference
00:32:54
analysis so that's again looking at
00:32:57
connectedness between the dna from our
00:32:59
little boy
00:33:00
and the dna from this adult man
00:33:03
who they think is a half brother
00:33:07
dna lab results provide solid proof
00:33:10
police can finally confirm the identity
00:33:13
of baby boy doe
00:33:16
is stephen alexander crawford
00:33:19
the results were conclusive it showed
00:33:22
that this man was indeed a half-brother
00:33:25
of stevie crawford
00:33:27
and that information really just sealed
00:33:30
the genetic picture for us
00:33:34
the press release came into the office
00:33:36
and it said we broke this cold case from
00:33:39
1963
00:33:40
and i looked at the just the amazing
00:33:46
chain of events that
00:33:47
they had gone through
00:33:50
it finally happens investigators
00:33:53
accomplish the unbelievable they
00:33:56
identify little stevie crawford after
00:33:59
nearly 60 years but as we see next on
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bloodline detectives they've got a lot
00:34:05
of questions about how this tiny tot
00:34:09
ends up dead in keene creek reservoir
00:34:24
jackson county oregon 2021 a dedicated
00:34:28
team of detectives and scientists
00:34:30
identify a little boy
00:34:32
tied down and left in a reservoir
00:34:36
60 years ago
00:34:38
they now know the tot's name stevie
00:34:40
crawford but what they want to know is
00:34:43
who put stevie in the reservoir
00:34:49
if there's more to the story we want to
00:34:52
know what that is
00:34:53
if there was an accident that took place
00:34:56
if
00:34:57
there's a credible history to
00:35:01
um to assign to the death where it could
00:35:03
have been a natural circumstance you
00:35:06
know we want to rule all those things
00:35:07
out and if you know if if the worst
00:35:10
happened to stevie you know we want to
00:35:12
make sure that those people are brought
00:35:13
to justice
00:35:15
obviously it's very disturbing that
00:35:17
someone
00:35:19
didn't take the time to report what had
00:35:21
happened
00:35:23
and
00:35:24
definitely didn't take the time to make
00:35:26
sure he had a proper respectful burial
00:35:29
stevie crawford's remains were found in
00:35:31
a very remote location
00:35:34
and one could speculate why that is
00:35:37
perhaps they didn't want him to be found
00:35:39
perhaps it was just a beautiful location
00:35:42
where a little boy could lay to rest
00:35:48
mothers cry
00:35:50
they spend a lifetime crying
00:35:52
over their lost child
00:35:54
not here
00:35:56
we didn't talk about it anymore since
00:35:58
the half-brother we're not going to have
00:36:00
to worry about stevie anymore said the
00:36:03
mother and never mentioned it again
00:36:06
there was no crying
00:36:08
there was no
00:36:09
wailing and lamenting about the loss
00:36:12
of a child
00:36:14
every mother's worst nightmare didn't
00:36:17
happen here
00:36:18
a lot of people don't have the resources
00:36:21
to bury their loved one to get them
00:36:24
a marker that type of thing and this is
00:36:27
not something that necessarily means
00:36:29
they didn't care about that individual
00:36:32
it was common that
00:36:35
children with you know mental delays
00:36:37
cognitive issues you know down syndrome
00:36:40
other syndromes were institutionalized
00:36:43
and they were taken and just put in
00:36:44
homes and that was just how it went back
00:36:47
then it's really speculation about what
00:36:50
her life is like at that point but it
00:36:52
had to have been very very hard
00:36:56
the case of stevie crawford affects
00:36:58
everyone involved in this investigation
00:37:04
these cases are all
00:37:06
very very near and dear to my heart and
00:37:08
i want the best for them i want the best
00:37:11
for the families that are missing them
00:37:13
and i want the best for the
00:37:15
investigators
00:37:16
that have tried so hard to find a
00:37:19
resolution for these cases but we're
00:37:20
just not there yet
00:37:23
it makes me think about
00:37:26
the care
00:37:27
and how the health was for special needs
00:37:30
children back then and having all the
00:37:32
medical
00:37:33
advances that we've had to help save
00:37:35
these kids that couldn't have been saved
00:37:37
back then
00:37:39
the painstaking work of investigators
00:37:42
and scientists and the advances in
00:37:44
forensic science
00:37:45
give little stevie crawford back his
00:37:49
name
00:37:51
it was such a remarkable
00:37:54
sequence of events each one of those
00:37:56
little pieces you know led to where
00:37:58
we're at today
00:38:01
they never stopped wanting to find his
00:38:04
identity and provide answers to any
00:38:07
family that might be out there and as it
00:38:10
turned out there was family that loved
00:38:12
stevie and wondered what had happened to
00:38:14
him and so their quest really was very
00:38:17
important
00:38:18
i feel as if we can
00:38:22
bring resolution to so many more cases
00:38:24
based on the success of this one
00:38:28
investigators still wonder if there can
00:38:31
be any finality in a case like little
00:38:35
stevie crawford's where so many
00:38:37
questions remain
00:38:39
unanswered
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it would have been really nice to
00:38:45
interview firsthand
00:38:47
those folks that were directly involved
00:38:49
and
00:38:50
you know discover what exactly happened
00:38:53
unfortunately
00:38:55
time
00:38:56
has not allowed for that
00:38:58
when you talk to families about closure
00:39:00
they always shake their head and they
00:39:01
say no
00:39:02
nothing's closed i feel now that i can
00:39:05
turn a corner i can start to grieve i
00:39:08
can start to plan i can start to reflect
00:39:13
from those family members that knew him
00:39:15
i think he was a sweet little boy
00:39:18
i think he was very lovable and i think
00:39:21
he loved
00:39:22
very deeply he could have died of
00:39:24
natural causes he was not a healthy
00:39:27
little boy and this family just may not
00:39:30
have had the resources
00:39:32
to
00:39:33
bury him the way he should have the way
00:39:34
we all wish that he had been
00:39:38
his family members remembered playing
00:39:40
with him when he was a tiny boy
00:39:43
the community never forgot about him
00:39:45
so regardless of what may have happened
00:39:48
to him
00:39:49
he was never forgotten nobody stopped
00:39:51
fighting for him everybody wanted
00:39:53
answers
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it took more than half a century
00:39:57
it took 58 years
00:40:00
but it was worth it
00:40:04
the case of little stevie crawford
00:40:06
touches so many of our human emotions
00:40:11
on one hand the picture of human frailty
00:40:15
a special needs child
00:40:17
an abused mother who can't cope with a
00:40:21
baby boy like stevie it's also the
00:40:25
picture of the strength
00:40:27
of the human spirit
00:40:29
the strength demonstrated by hundreds of
00:40:32
people led by bloodline detectives whose
00:40:35
own humanity and perseverance simply
00:40:38
want to save the spirit
00:40:40
of the little boy
00:40:42
in the bundle
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i'm nancy grace thanks for joining us on
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bloodline detectives
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