The Monterey Police Division, at the side of the Monterey County District Lawyer’s Unsolved Case Process Pressure, is asking for the general public’s assist in figuring out human stays present in 2010.
Police discovered the decrease half of a human leg on a seaside in Monterey on December 30, 2010. The leg, which was intact beneath the knee, appeared to have been within the ocean for a number of weeks.
The division is working with Othram, a personal forensics lab primarily based in Texas, to run particular exams to attempt to establish the heritage and origin of the particular person the stays belong to.
Preliminary outcomes tentatively recognized the foot as belonging to a Southeast Asian man, presumably Vietnamese, Cambodian or Laotian, between the ages of 20 and 50.
A DNA pattern from the foot was uploaded to the DNA database of the California Division of Justice’s Part of Lacking and Unidentified Individuals, however no matches have been discovered. For police, that meant no identified lacking particular person report might be matched to the legs.
Since then, police have labored with the District Lawyer’s Unsolved Case Process Pressure, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Workplace of Investigation, the California Division of Justice and Otram to assist conduct extra DNA testing.
Othram launched Forensic Genetic Family tree in 2023, using DNA evaluation and conventional genealogical analysis to assist establish investigative leads in each unidentified human stays and violent crime instances.
If potential relations are discovered, police can use DNA comparability to verify id. It’s going to additionally assist police decide how the stays ended up in Monterey Bay and the circumstances surrounding their presumed deaths.
Anybody with info relating to the investigation is inspired to contact Monterey Police Division Hotshot Investigator Invoice Clark, assigned to the Monterey County District Lawyer’s Hotshot Process Pressure at (831) 646-3971 or e mail at bclark@monterey.org.
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