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This series discusses crime scenes, details from autopsy and

skeletal analysis, discussions of drug use and official and media references

that may use outdated language regarding a variety of social issues,

including topics like immigration, housing insecurity, and sex work.

Listener discretion is advised.

This is the fall line.

Usually, This is the fall line.

Usually unidentified persons cases are the most open-ended of any investigation. They're just full of unknowns.

Law enforcement don't know who the decedent is. If the case is a homicide,

there's no clear trail of clues that leads them to the killer. That's because those things

begin with the identity of the victim themselves.

Though people are killed by strangers, we are more likely to be killed by those we know,

and if investigators cannot identify us, how can they follow those trails in our lives?

Where we work, where we live, who we love, it all matters, where money is owed, rivalries, family conflict, abusive situations.

Every piece is vital.

Imagine walking backward in footprints left in dirt that take you from a person's body to the one who killed them.

Those connections are built on relationships and one way or another on interactions. But many John and Jane Doe's are eventually

identified. We know this. At the time of the writing of this episode, the GBI

here in Georgia announced that the Jenkins County

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