Matthew Cecelich– DNA testing in Texas has put a name to the human remains found in Erie’s Frontier Park during several searches in the spring and summer of 2019.
Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook said Wednesday that authorities have determined through DNA testing done at the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification that the remains first found in the park in April 2019 are those of Matthew Cecelich, 44, who once lived in Erie.
The cause and manner of Cecelich’s death is undetermined as there is no way to determine them based on the remains that were found, Cook said. He noted, however, that no signs of trauma were found on the bones that were recovered, including the skull.
Also unknown is when Cecelich might have died. Cook said members of Cecelich’s family said they had not seen him in years. (more at link)
Emma Grace Cole was a girl whose remains were discovered in Smyrna, Delaware in 2019. While unidentified, she was known by the nickname “Baby Elle”. She was identified in October 2020, and two persons of interest were arrested in connection to her case. The pair have been identified as a couple that formerly lived in Smyrna, Delaware.
The child’s remains were discovered in a softball field on the afternoon of September 13, 2019. A man walking his dog came across the remains, which were located directly across from a junior high school. There appeared to be evidence of a fire at the scene, although it has not specified if it was intentionally set or was related to the case.
Police stated they would withhold certain details about the case. They did, however, state that the child may have died earlier than the postmortem interval that was determined.
In October 2020, Brandon and Kristie Haas were arrested in connection with Emma’s death. Emma was three years old when she died. Police are not sure what Brandon’s relationship with Cole is, but court records from Indiana indicated Cole was Kristie Haas’s daughter.
Kristie and Brandon Haas https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=213843119377051&set=a.101237570637607 Credit: Facebook 
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Emma_Cole
Doris Regina Chavers (April 4, 1957 – 1989) was a woman found murdered in Florida after an anonymous individual reported the location of her remains. She was last seen alive at her mother’s home in 1989. Doris was reported missing a year later. She was mistakenly identified as Asian or Pacific Islander prior to identification.
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Doris_Chavers
On Aug. 19, 1991, Volusia sheriff’s deputies responded to a report from two fishermen who found skeletal remains in a heavily wooded area off the 400 block of Enterprise Osteen Road in Osteen. Due to the condition of the remains, identification was not possible. At that time, DNA technology was not what it is today.
In September 1991, an autopsy determined that the remains were of a female, potentially in her 30s or 40s, and that she had died from violent trauma. Jane Doe 1991’s death was subsequently ruled a homicide…
..In August 2018, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office conducted further investigation into the Chavers missing person case. Seminole sheriff’s detectives were able to track down Chavers’ biological daughter and obtain a familial DNA reference sample. That DNA sample was subsequently sent to UNTCHI.
https://www.forensicmag.com/563509-DNA-Identifies-Two-Cold-Case-Victims-in-Florida/
Winston Richard Morris had been travelling around the New England states at the time of his murder and had been released from Vermont State Prison in May, 1969. He was last seen in Vermont on July 25, 1969.
Morris’ body was discovered on August 7, 1969, in a water-filled pit on the exit side of I-93 in Salem, New Hampshire. He had been shot twice in the head, once in the neck and once in the torso.
Efforts to identify the victim came up empty as fingerprint searches through databases turned up negative results. Eventually, a description of the fingerprints were entered into the FBI’s Automated Biometric Identification System by hand by New Hampshire criminologist Timothy Jackson, and Morris came up as a match.
‘Old School’ Technique Helps Identify Victim in 50-Year-Old Killing
A longtime criminalist in New Hampshire manually plotted the details of one of the victim’s fingers to find a match.
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Skip_Morris
Gary Albert Herbst was a male whose partial remains were discovered in a wooded area of Barron County, Wisconsin in 2017.
On December 3, 2017, police were dispatched to a local residence in Dallas, Wisconsin after the property owner found a human skull fragment on his driveway. The property owner claimed his dog found it and brought it back. Further searches of the surrounding woods yielded skeletal remains, which uncovered more skeletal remains.
He was identified by the DNA Doe Project
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Gary_Herbst