DOE: ID 'Nogales John Doe' Donald Sigurd Hadland Jr.

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🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Episode 80 DOE: ID 'Nogales John Doe' Donald Sigurd Hadland Jr. In September, 2002, a man using the name 'Edward C', checked into the low budget Time motel in Nogales, Arizona. He claimed to the hotel manager that he was there to get surgery in Mexico. Just days after checking in, the mysterious Edward C was found dead in his hotel room. An autopsy determined that the guest had died of an apparent accidental overdose. When the authorities tried to notify the man's next of kin, they discovered that he was using a false identity; one that had been stolen from a real Edward C, and he was alive and well in Florida. That began a years-long search for the man's identity. Eventually, in 2023, a determined group of college students taking a genealogy course provided the answer. The man who had been dubbed 'Nogales John Doe' was actually Donald Sigurd Hadland Jr. His family had lost track of him years before. Although the authorities finally knew who he was, questions remain, including just why it was that he chose to steal the identities of others. "Nogales John Doe' now has his name back; it's Donald Sigurd Hadland Jr, and this is his story.

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0:00.0	You're listening to DNAID.
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0:40.3	The On September 8, 2002, the manager of the low-budget Time Motel in Bordertown, Nogales,
1:12.9	Arizona, entered one of the guest rooms and observed an unmoving person on the bed.
1:18.4	The original police reports from this incident were destroyed many years ago, so we have
1:22.9	no information on whether a housekeeper first found the body or whether the man was supposed to check out and didn't.
1:29.3	But anyway, the manager confirmed that the man on the bed appeared to be deceased and summoned police.
1:35.4	Arriving first responders determined that the man was dead and that he had died recently of undetermined causes.
1:42.2	The police sent the man's body off with a medical examiner for an autopsy
1:46.0	and searched his room for signs of identification. They found a driver's license with the man's photo
1:51.9	and the name Edward C. The last name has never been released. It was a Florida driver's license
1:58.1	and the man had registered at the motel under that same name.
2:01.9	There are no reports as to whether the deceased man had a vehicle with him at the motel,
2:06.3	but I'm guessing he didn't since I've never heard any mention of one and neither had the investigators when I talked to them.
2:12.4	But because Nogales Police had a driver's license with an address on it,
2:16.3	they contacted the local PD in Florida
2:18.7	to ask that they tracked down the next of kin using the man's name and address in St. Petersburg
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