Identifinders International

Identifinders International, in conjunction with the Houston Institute of Forensic Sciences and audiochuck, announces the identification of 1981 Harris County murder victims as then 21 year-old Harold Dean Clouse and spouse 17 year-old Tina Gail (Linn) Clouse.  The bodies of the newlywed couple were found together in a heavily wooded area 100 feet south of Wallisville Road in Houston, Texas. They had been deceased approximately two months prior to their discovery on January 12, 1981, when a dog led searchers to their remains. Mr. Clouse was found beaten, bound and gagged. Ms. Clouse had been strangled. The couple left their home in Volusia County, Florida in 1981 with their one year-old baby for Mr. Clouse to [...]

In September 2016 a black suitcase was discovered off Interstate 45 in Madisonville, Texas. Packed inside the suitcase was a pink dress with hearts and butterflies that said ''Follow Your Dreams'' a size-4 diaper, and the skeletal remains of a girl with a feeding tube. The Madisonville Sheriff's office along with The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children have been working with Identifinders International to identify this child. Our initial genetic analysis shows that the child has strong ancestral ties to El Salvador as well as Nuevo Leon, Mexico. She had long, thick, dark hair that came to just past her shoulders. Her remains also suggested that she had [...]

On November 10, 1980 hunters in Harrison County, Mississippi (near Biloxi) found the skeletal remains of a 19-25 year old female in the woods near a small creek. Anthropologists have determined that she was a white female, 5'2"-5'5" tall, and had been in the woods approximately 3-18 months prior to discovery. Homicide is strongly suspected. An abnormality in her jaw muscle suggests this young woman may have played a wind instrument. She also had a deformity that may not have been noticeable in life but she may have appeared "pigeon chested." Our initial genetic analysis shows her ancestry appears to be Greek, Armenian or Northern Italian. [...]

**BREAKING: The Identifinders team has identified Bibb County, Alabama’s 1961 John Doe as then 15-year-old Daniel Paul 'Danny' Armentrout from Miami, Florida.  Danny was hitchhiking through rural Alabama when he was killed on March 27, 1961 when the car he was riding in hit a guard rail and plunged into the Cahaba River. The driver survived, but his passenger did not.  The boy had told the driver he ran away from home after his parents separated, but he wasn’t in the car long enough to give the driver more details.  Bibb County authorities at the time kept the boy’s body in the morgue for about two weeks and exhausted all [...]