Doe ID: Robert Mullins

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Episode 93 DOE: ID Robert Mullins

On November 1st, 1991, hunters in Circleville, Ohio discovered unidentified human remains in a shallow grave near a private farm. Based on the size of the remains, the authorities thought that they belonged to a young woman. They also found evidence that the Doe's head had been moved with some kind of toothed saw, possibly indicating a homicide. After searching for missing women who might be a match for the Doe, police came up empty, and the case went cold. Over the years, various teams and experts worked with the remains, and the DNA gathered from them, and eventually discovered that the Jane Doe they had was actually a John Doe; the victim was a male. Eventually, DNA & genealogy led the authorities to ID the remains as belonging to Robert A. Mullins who was reported missing by his family. He had disappeared in Ohio in late 1988, or early 1989 when he was 21. Now the investigators knew who their victim was, but the search to find out the circumstances of his death, and who was involved, goes on.

The case remains an open homicide investigation with the Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office. Anyone with information about the case is urged to contact Lt. Jonathan Strawser at (740) 474-2176.

This Doe finally has his name back; it's Robert Mullins, and this is his story.

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0:40.3	The On November 1st, 1991, some hunters were tromping through a farm field off a private farm lane
1:14.5	south of Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio. When they saw something that didn't look right,
1:20.4	a human femur bone was sticking up out of the mud on the side of a drainage ditch. The hunters
1:25.8	summoned the Pickaway County Sheriff's Office to the scene.
1:29.2	And there, on the south side of the private farm lane that branched off from the north side
1:33.5	of State Route 56 east, just west of State Route 159, the investigators found skeletonized
1:40.2	human remains buried in the mud. There was no skull. Initial assumptions were that the remains
1:48.0	were the remnants of an indigenous American. The area surrounding Circleville Township had been home to
1:53.1	several Native American tribes, and Native American burial sites were plentiful in the area. But that
1:59.0	didn't prove to be the case. The bones were collected
2:02.5	for analysis by the coroner's office, which determined the following. Based on the diminutive size of the
2:08.2	bones and the feminine bone structure, the remains belonged to a female with an estimated height
2:13.5	of 5'1 to 5 foot 4. She was likely around 25 years old. She had no clothing, objects,
2:20.6	or any identifying items with her, and her fingerprints were non-existence, so her name was unknown.
2:27.2	But that wasn't all. Her head, which was never found, had been removed from her body by a sharp
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