UNIDENTIFIED: Flathead County Doe

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Flathead County Sheriff's office and the DNA Doe Project are so close to identifying a man who’s been a doe for almost 17 years, but they need your help get this case across the finish line. Could you be related to the Flathead County Doe? Based on his DNA, the DNA Doe Project believes that his family lineage could be linked to one of 11 family names in one of 3 different counties. Please keep in mind this does not exclude other last names or locations. He could potentially be related to family members or ancestors from: Harlan County, KY with the last names: Saylor, Helton, Brock, or Blanton He could potentially be related to family members or ancestors from: Montgomery County, IN with the last names: Ward, Linn, or Barrett He could potentially be related to family members or ancestors from: Hancock County, TN with the last names: Greene, Epperson, Seales, or Trent The DNA Doe Project asks that anyone who has taken a Direct to Consumer DNA test (like Ancestry, 23andMe, etc), to please upload your DNA to GEDmatch.com and "Opt-In" to help solve this and other cases!

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0:00.0	Hi, Crame Junkies. Just Ashley Flowers here to bring you a very special midweek episode. Didn't see that coming did ya?
0:08.0	Well, I'm here because I got a very special request from the Flathead County Sheriff's office out in Montana.
0:14.8	They have an open cold case of a John Doe that they have been working tirelessly to solve.
0:19.8	But before they can determine how or why this person died, they have to know who he is.
0:26.7	They have enlisted the help of the DNA Doe project and you guys know we love the DNA Doe project and they have gotten so close to the finish line.
0:36.8	But the Sheriff's office needs your help because you out there listening right now.
0:43.6	They believe you could hold the final key to solving this mystery.
0:48.6	So listen close to the story of Flathead County, John Doe.
1:18.6	According to the Farmers Allmanac, late October 2003 was cold in Flathead County, Montana.
1:32.9	It's a good time for hunting though and two hunters were taking advantage of the good conditions.
1:37.9	They were walking at the top of a cliff near a wooded area when they spot something.
1:43.4	It's a tattered nylon bat.
1:45.9	They look at each other and decide to realize that no one seemed to be around as far as they could see.
1:51.8	And it didn't seem like the kind of bad that another hunter would just leave out here so they decide to take a peek.
1:57.8	Inside one of the hunters finds a 22 caliber pistol and nearby there's a butterfly knife and a nickel.
2:05.6	And this is strange, yes, but honestly to two dudes out there that day it didn't mean much.
2:12.3	However, one of the hunters told his wife about his findings when he got home.
2:17.2	And I have to believe that she was a crime junkie based on her response because she tells him,
2:22.7	maybe you should go back out there and see if there's anything else like you found this at the top of a cliff and no one around like think about that honey top of a cliff.
2:32.6	You got to go check the bottom of that cliff.
2:34.9	So the guy goes back on October 26th and sure enough, wife he was right.
2:40.4	There at the bottom of the cliff among brush was a human skull.
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