Doe ID: 'Charlotte Walmart John Doe' Kenneth McCarthy

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Episode 175 Doe ID: 'Charlotte Walmart John Doe' Kenneth McCarthy

In 2016, a John Doe was found behind a WalMart in Charlotte, NC. With no identification and very few personal possessions, he remained unidentified, known only as Charlotte WalMart John Doe. When a cold case detective took a class on IGG analysis, he applied the new technique to Charlotte WalMart John Doe's case, and found relatives who had been looking for him for 12 years. This is the story of Kenneth Robert McCarthy.

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0:00.0	You're listening to DNAID.
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0:57.0	The On January 29, 2016, an unhoused person was scrounging for items of value or purpose in a wooded area behind the Walmart at 7735 North Trion Street.
1:38.2	This was off University Point Boulevard in the University City Division of Charlotte, North Carolina.
1:46.5	Among the trees, the person came upon a very tattered, weather-worn sleeping bag lying on the ground. It was nighttime, and as the homeless
1:51.7	person peered into the sleeping bag, he or she, I don't know which, was startled, and I imagine
1:56.8	horrified, to find a human skull and some body bones still inside clothing.
2:02.4	Deputies from the Charlotte Mecklenburg PD responded to the scene, and opening the
2:06.9	sleeping bag found skeletonized human remains. Exhaustive searches of the area the following day
2:12.5	discovered more human bones in the vicinity of the sleeping bag. These were transported to the Mecklenburg County
2:18.6	Medical Examiner's Office, where a pathologist analyzed and cataloged the remains, which were
2:23.7	determined to be an incomplete skeleton. An anthropologist next evaluated the remains, and it was
2:29.8	determined that the deceased person was a white male between the ages of 30 and 40, and he stood
2:35.0	between 5 foot 4 and 5 foot 8 inches tall. The bones bore no evidence of violence or foul play.
2:42.8	While the exact cause of the man's death could not be determined, the manner of death was listed
2:47.9	on the decedent's death certificate as being due to natural causes,
2:51.7	and he'd been dead for as long as one to several years. The cause of death was just one of the
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