On Episode 5 of The Unidentifieds podcast, we explore the case of John Doe 79-1862: The human remains found off the steep trails near Oregon's most famous waterfall.
REGAN MERTZ: East of Portland, along the northern border of the state of Oregon, is the Columbia River Gorge. It’s a dramatic sight, one on par with some of the most impressive natural wonders in the world. The Columbia River, which divides Oregon and Washington, is more than a mile wide in places, and the cliffs it has spent eons carving out of the earth on either side rise, spectacularly, hundreds of feet into the sky.
REGAN: A news article from The Oregonian archives states that the remains had, “been exposed to the elements for quite some time.” REGAN MERTZ: Even so, the checkbook didn’t offer any answers. Investigators also found large, gold-rimmed aviator glasses. They were missing the left nose plate, and a bandage was wrapped around the right temple bridge.
REGAN MERTZ: They would share whatever update they had at the time, and the two would keep moving in their separate directions. But Jeffery knew one thing for sure. DAVE KILLEN: The black and white drawing shows a man with a slight open-mouth smile surrounded by a beard. The portrait was accessorized with items found with his remains. The baseball cap with the letters “NT” pushed his hair out on either side.
CAT CARUSO: If you travel not very far beyond Portland, you have a lot of really, sort of wild, natural places that are available for you to explore. What you will run into is the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. It’s this rugged, steep cliff channel that’s been carved out by the Columbia River over many, many, many eons. It’s this very vertical space with these cliffs and these, you know, and running water that just comes down. It’s a very peaceful place.
DAVE KILLEN: And I think one thing that we can say for sure is that this is a pretty isolated area. If you did have a medical event here, despite being able to see the freeway and hear the freeway, you know, just a stone’s throw away, kind of like we’ve talked about on some of these other cases, the odds of someone coming by are pretty slim I think. So there’s not going to be any way to get help, at least not immediately.
DAVE KILLEN: Nici believed the case of the remains found near Multnomah Falls was solvable, so it was an ideal candidate for the grant. In 2020, the state’s Medical Examiner’s Office enlisted the help of Parabon NanoLabs.REGAN MERTZ: During a video interview with forensic sketch artist Joyce Nagy, I noticed a skull sitting on her desk in the background. So I had to ask about it.
DAVE KILLEN: And genetic genealogist CeCe Moore says that building family trees for Black Americans is more challenging since there aren’t a lot of records available before Emancipation. REGAN MERTZ: If he had laid down on this log any certain way, could someone walk by and see him lying there?DAVE KILLEN: From listening to your interview with Jeffery Pape it’s hard to know exactly where he would have been, but I think, again just looking at what’s in front of me here, it’s really easy to imagine that you would not be seen from the trail.
DAVE KILLEN: One of them, was Larry Jackson. Larry had never cared much for history in school, but now he’s curious about his own family’s history. CHRISTINA ASHER JONES: Because the way they made it sound, it was like he has to kind of give his permission to be contacted, so we just thought he didn’t want to be contacted. You know, it’s kind of one of those things where you feel the person doesn’t want to be bothered, so you don’t bother ‘em.
DAVE KILLEN: This confirmed that she was the sister of the man whose remains had been found, and proved definitively that he was Freeman Issac Asher Jr. Here’s what we now know about him: DAVE KILLEN: In the 70s, a time filled with turmoil between Watergate, the Vietnam War and unrest over civil rights, Freeman worked as a youth supervisor at the Maricopa County Detention Home in Phoenix.
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