Unidentified Persons Case #17369

Posted by: Stacy | on October 17, 2018

In the news today it was reported that a body was found near Glamis, or partial remains. Now I don’t remember and I don’t have the heart to go back and look it up because I rabbit-trailed over to the Missing Person’s site and found an unfortunately promising lead.

This: https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/17369/details is what I found.
If you scroll to the bottom, you will see, after

Condition of Remains
Not recognizable – Partial remains with soft tissues

Clothing and Accessories
Item Description Accessories

Black bag Near the Body

Footwear

Black and white Adidas shoe size 13 On the Body

Jake’s shoe size is/was 13. Part of why he limped was that he’d insisted on cramming his feet into size 10 boots.
So if these are Jake’s remains, he was at least wearing shoes that fit.

Why, in the face of insane tragedy, do we focus on ridiculous details?
How will I breathe?

I need to know. To this end I’ve emailed the case manager and a PI.
I also do not want to know.

And oh, my famous words, finding meaning.
There’s no meaning in this hideous suffering, only in doing something useful.

I was not careful in what I wished for, was I? http://onegirlriot.com/2017/11/27-november-2017/ Why wasn’t I more careful with my words?

The only hope I have is that they ran the DNA through a database and came up with nothing.
I am sick with hope.
I should have kept looking for him.
I should have guessed he would have walked till he dropped.

Today’s partial sanity is brought to you by quilting and the sound of rain: