James L. Hamm (April 9, 1949 – c. 1984) was a male whose skull and other partial remains were found in a wooded area of Giddings, Texas on November 17, 1984. He was identified in October 2020.
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/James_Hamm
Tamara Lee Tigard (April 18, 1959 – March or April 1980) previously known as “Lime Lady” was a young woman found murdered in 1980 in Oklahoma. She received her nickname from the quicklime poured over her body in an attempt to quicken decomposition, which had actually mummified her and preserved evidence.
Tamara was born in California in 1959 and later moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. She was a veteran of the United States Army. Her parents had passed away in the 2000’s and her sister passed away in 2010, without ever knowing what happened to their loved one.
In March 1980, Tamara went for a walk near her home in Las Vegas, Nevada and never returned home. She was reported missing, but her report was cleared due to a woman in Ohio using her identity. The woman has never been named as a suspect and her true identity is unknown.
Her unclothed body was recovered on the shore of the North Canadian River on April 18, 1980. She had been shot three times with a .45 caliber revolver. Following her death, the responsible party poured quicklime on the remains in an attempt to quicken decomposition, which ended up preserving the remains. She was discovered on what would have been her 21st birthday.
When she was shot, one of the bullets hit a dime, which had been drawn into her body, indicating she was clothed when murdered, as there was also clothing fibers found along with the dime. The shooter was facing the victim and moving toward her when they fired.
Her case was taken on by the DNA Doe Project. After her DNA was uploaded to GEDmatch, the DNA Doe Project found a suitable candidate within a day and a half. After obtaining dental records from the United States Army, the match was able to be confirmed. They were unable to confirm the match through DNA as all of her immediate relatives on the west coast were deceased.
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Tamara_Tigard
William Ernest Thompson (April 15, 1935 – 1983/1984) was a man found deceased in Pensacola, Florida in January 1985. His case is being actively worked as a homicide.
He was identified in October 2020 after a relative read about the case and recognized the victim’s belt buckle with the hand-engraved initials “W.T.” Law enforcement verified his identity through DNA.
“The last time William Thompson made contact with his family was on Sept. 23, 1983,” sheriff’s office officials said. “He called his mother from an unknown location on Pensacola Beach.”
Despite the lack of contact after that day, Thompson’s family never filed a missing person report.
“This is another example of the never-ending quest for justice,”
Escambia County Chief Deputy Chip Simmons said.
“While we haven’t yet solved the homicide, it is a step forward and can give the family some closure until the case is solved.”
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/William_Ernest_Thompson
Shirley Mae Cassel
In the morning of Saturday, July 28, 2018, a child found a semi-decomposed leg from the knee down floating in Buena Vista Lake in Kern County, California. After extensive search of the area, no other body parts were located. A forensic anthropologist found no evidence of trauma to the leg and no evidence the leg was severed by traumatic means. Cause or manner of death could not be determined. And other than that the person from whom the leg came was female and relatively small, no other descriptive information (such as race, age, height, weight, etc.) could be gleaned by the anthropologist. Registry of DNA of the leg tissue with DOJ did not reveal the identity of the person belonging to the leg.
On October 15, 2020 the Kern County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) announced the identity of a partial leg and, recovered at a different time, the body of a 63-yer-old African American woman found in a submerged car in Buena Vista Lake, California as Shirley Mae Cassel. The DNA Doe Project (DDP) had been working on the case since February 2019 to identify the leg through genetic genealogy.
Cassel was 63 when she went missing from her residence in Santa Ana, California on August 21, 2017, according to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office. Cassel’s landlord reported her missing weeks later.
Ginger Lynn Bibb (May 7, 1958 – c. 2003) was a woman whose remains were discovered on April 21, 2004.
Ginger Bibb was born on May 7, 1958, possibly in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Perryton High School in Perryton, Texas, in May of 1976. She would live in numerous residences for the next 27 years, mostly in Texas, but also in Florida, and Arizona. The last known place she resided in was in Glendale, Arizona. After 2003, she was never heard from again.
From June 1999 to December 2001, records show Ginger had committed multiple criminal acts, She had run past a stop sign, had overdue licenses, and had even been arrested for marijuana and narcotics possession. Ginger failed to appear at most of her court appearances and arrest warrants were often issued for her, even in 2011. However, it appears that her record had stopped after December 2001, which wouldn’t make sense as she had a warrant out for her arrest in 2011, and it’s thought she lived until 2003.
The circumstances of her disappearance are unknown, but her skeletal remains were discovered inside a rolled-up carpet on the side of the road near 43rd Avenue and Baseline Road in Phoenix, Arizona in 2004. Not much is known about her death, but the police do believe that Ginger’s death was a homicide. It does not appear that she was reported missing. A $1000 reward is being offered to anyone who can help answer what exactly happened to Ginger.
She was identified by the DNA Doe Project.
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Ginger_Bibb