This is the Fall Line.

On this special episode of The Fall Line, we speak with friend of the show Anthony Redgrave.

If you keep up with True Crime News, then you've likely seen Anthony on TV.

He was a lead researcher in the oldest dope pace solved by forensic genealogists who were

working with law enforcement.

At the time, Anthony was a volunteer for the DNA Doe project, and the team he describes

in the interview was created and managed by that organization.

Anthony has since moved on to other genealogical work.

The victim in question has been known as the Clark County John Doe, the torso in the

cave Doe and Buffalo Cave Doe.

His partial remains were discovered in Buffalo Cave Idaho in 1979, and he had long been

assumed to be a fairly recent homicide victim.

Through the work of a number of forensic anthropologists, scientists, and genealogists, all

volunteering their time via the DNA Doe project, the Clark County John Doe was recently

identified.

Normally, that would be where the story ends, a person given back their name, and a family

delivered resolution.

But this was no ordinary case.

In our interview, Anthony delves into the life of the man we now know as Joseph Henry

Loveless.

Henry, who went by his middle name, also used the alias Walter Karnes and left a trail

of confusing biographical information that took months to unpack.

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