In the fall of 1987, a map maker was surveying the grounds

of a Boy Scout ranch in eastern Missouri.

Suddenly, something strange caught his eye.

At first, it looked like a turtle shell, but it was a skull.

A mystery now unfolded.

To solve it, detectives would have to put a face on the grisly discovery. The S-Barr-F Boy Scout Ranch covers 5,400 acres of picturesque countryside in rural Missouri.

The map maker had discovered the human skull in a remote area of the ranch.

Tina Orling was his supervisor.

He was a professional mapmaker from Finland, and he saw the skull within the first few days here.

He did not say anything to me or to anyone else about it because he was

afraid. But three months later, just before he returned to Finland, the mapmaker finally told

Tina about the skull. Using a detailed map of the ranch and following the mapmaker's directions,

Tina and the scout rangers searched for the skull.

They found what they were looking for in a sparsely wooded clearing. Along with the skull,

searchers found a few strands of hair, a lower jaw, and about 40 bones, including a pelvic bone, a femur, and some ribs.

My initial thought was that it may possibly be an Indian grave

until we saw the blue gene material.

Searchers unearthed the tattered remains of a pair of jeans,

pieces of a flowered shirt, remnants of a plastic shopping bag,

and a metal button.

To begin the task of identifying the victim, the physical evidence was sent to the forensic

crime lab in Jefferson City, Missouri.

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