Western Reserve Rd John Doe 1982

Western Reserve Rd John Doe 1982

Doe-Nate Fund Goal: $5,500 This case was fully funded by the Porchlight Project. Description:  While walking westbound on Western Reserve Road near Route 7 in Boardman, Ohio, just before midnight in August, 1982, this John Doe was struck and killed by a car traveling...
Brooklyn Tracks John Doe 2023

Brooklyn Tracks John Doe 2023

The DNA Doe Project team began working on the case of Brooklyn Tracks John Doe in July 2024. Recent East European ancestry complicated the investigative genetic genealogy research as people from this background are underrepresented in databases used for law...
Kingsbury Run John Doe #4

Kingsbury Run John Doe #4

Description:  Known as the “Tattooed Man”, John Doe #4 was a victim of a notorious Cleveland serial killer called the Butcher of Kingsbury Run. On June 6, 1936, his decapitated body was found next to an old freight shed near railroad tracks. His head was located...
Kingsbury Run John Doe #6

Kingsbury Run John Doe #6

Description:  A notorious serial killer known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run was responsible for at least 12 decapitated and dismembered victims in the Cleveland, Ohio area in the 1930s. John Doe #6 was located on the Cleveland lakefront in plain view of City...
Stark Co. John Doe 2001

Stark Co. John Doe 2001

2001 Cold Case John Doe Identified DNA Doe Project Identifies Anthony Bernard Gulley’s Remains Canton, OH – Human remains found near an oil well in a remote field near Canton in 2001 have now been identified as Anthony Bernard Gulley, a young man authorities...