On August 2, 1986, two U.S. Forest Service workers were out collecting timber data on a remote logging road in the Mt. Hood National Forest near Government Camp when they stumbled upon a human skull, bone fragments, and a single tooth.

Investigators took photos of the scene and the remains were transported and inventoried at the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.

The coroner estimated that the skull had been in the woods for about a decade, which meant the person had died around 1976. Investigators released those details to the public and they got dozens of leads through a tip line.

But to no avail, the case went cold. It was just another body found in Oregon’s woods unclaimed, unidentified.

On episode four of The Unidentifieds, hosts Regan Mertz and Dave Killen go back to one Oregon case that found a resolution weeks before the world shut down in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Regan and Dave take listeners to the dense woods near Government Camp to revisit the decades-old case.

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