Doe ID 'Rosemount John Doe' James Everett
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🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On September 26,2014, the remains of an unidentified man were found in a decommissioned railroad switching shed located behind American Legion in Rosemount, Minnesota. Although the remains were mostly skeletonized and too decomposed to determine a cause of death, it appeared that he had died of natural causes. Items and belongings found with him were indications to the authorities that the man was possibly homeless, and had died from exposure due to the cold Minnesota winter.
He was dubbed 'Rosemount John Doe'.
In July 2022, using DNA and forensic genealogy, 'Rosemount John Doe' was identified as James Everett of New York State, who had voluntarily gone missing for reasons unknown in September of the previous year. Why he left his life behind, and how he wound up living in a railroad shed in Rosemount still remain a mystery, but his family and friends are happy to have some closure knowing what happened to him.
'Rosemount John Doe' finally has his name back, it's James Everett, and this is his story.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to DNAID. |
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| 0:27.5 | Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The On September 29, 2014, a railroad electrician for the Union Pacific Railway tried to open the |
| 1:14.8 | swinging door of an unused railroad switching shed. This was located along the east side of the train |
| 1:20.7 | tracks on 146th Street West, one half-block east of Burnley behind the American Legion Post-65 in Rosemount, Dakota County, Minnesota. |
| 1:30.7 | The door wouldn't budge. |
| 1:32.7 | The railroad worker recalled that he had tried to open the door to the shed some months earlier as well, with the same result. |
| 1:39.5 | The door was secured. |
| 1:41.4 | He had chalked this up to the railroad closing the shed down after it was replaced by a new |
| 1:45.9 | one across the tracks the previous year. But now, tugging on the door, he could see that it was |
| 1:51.4 | being held shut by a piece of rebar jammed into the interior handle. This worker later told police |
| 1:58.2 | that, quote, brute force yanked it open. |
| 2:06.5 | Peering inside the darkened shed, the man smelled decomposition and noted a pair of pants, |
| 2:11.8 | which may have had legs in them lying on the floor. He backed out, closed the door, and called the police, saying he might have found a body, but he wasn't sure. Police responded at around 12.15 p.m. and inside the shed |
| 2:20.0 | found the nearly skeletal remains of a man. He had clearly been dead for some time, given how |
| 2:25.4 | decomposed his remains were. Officers noted that although there were some items apparently belonging |
| 2:31.1 | to the deceased man in the shed, there was no identification that allowed |
| 2:35.0 | investigators to give him a name. The body was removed for autopsy by the Hennepin County Medical |
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