To get so moved over unidentified bodies?

[TheHouseOnBellSt]

I recently had cause to check a website which lists unidentified bodies found in the UK. It was for a work project...I don't work for the police though and so I was shocked by it all.

I was especially touched by one woman whose body was found last year...almost a year ago anyway...she was found at the bottom of Beachy Head....it says she jumped.

She's aged 30-40 and nobody has identified her. I must be getting morbid in my old age but I keep checking to see if anyone has identified her and nobody has. :(

I know it's unhealthy for me to think too much about things like this but I so wish I could name her. There are so many others of course but maybe this one touched me because she's similar in age to me. There are sensitive photos of her and though they upset me (they're not gory just sad) I keep looking at her and googling missing people to try to find who she could be.

Thanks BishopBrennan, it's comforting that in the end, he had actually been listed as a missing person - that someone knew who he was.

I guess a lot of people escape abusive families, disappear on purpose, have MH problems and end up living a day to day life on their own. They may chat to neighbours etc, or people that think 'oh, I wonder what happened to so-and-so' but would never go as far as to report them missing.

It does make me feel sad.

Doe when I lived in London I could FEEL that around me. I lived in pretty low rent areas and all around me people were so alone....

Its partly why I don't like London. It's so vast and so anonymous it chills me.

I am a member of Websleuths, and there are 2 very recent cases of unidentified childrens remains, one in the US and one in Australia, that have really touched me :(

Good gracious that missing persons website is so upsetting but I am heartened that there is a nation wide effort to try to find out who these souls are

Doe I did love it while I was at college there because I was part of a tight community of fellow students. But once that ended, I spent 3 years trying to make it there and it just got sadder and sadder. At one point I was living in a small council flat in a big block and had a terrifying vision of being there as an elderly woman with nobody around me....I left and came back up North...best thing I've ever done.

I'm sure there ARE some good communities there but I wasn't in one....here in the North, everyone in my street looks out for on another.

Atticus how terribly sad :( I hate that children aren't claimed. Sometimes it does all work out though....there was the case of Grateful Doe...an unidntified young man who died in a crash in the USA...he had a Grateful Dead ticket on him and that was all the info they had....for years he was unclaimed and then someone on Reddit posted about him and someone popped up saying they'd known him (the photos of him had been touched up and made into good images) and now they're waiting for DNA results from his supposed mother who has had mental health issues and so didn't look for her missing son.

here is the thread about it with pictures it's incredibly moving. He looks like such a nice lad.

Here's a horrible one:

www.nydailynews.com/news/national/skeletons-found-salvaged-oklahoma-cars-match-6-missing-decades-article-1.1482645

There is "baby doe" found at Deer Island, Mass, US, with a mocked up photo of what she possibly looked like. She was around 2/3 years old, found a few weeks ago and so far no one has claimed her. It is so sad. The other case ais skeletal remians found in a suitcase in Australia about a week or so ago, they think its a child who died violently, also aged about 2-5. How can these babies go unclaimed? Breaks you heart to think about.

There is an American one where a boy aged about 4 or 5 has been unidentified since the 1950s. It's highly unlikely he'll ever be given his name back now.

Baby doe

Australian child

American boy, known as the boy in the box

Doe, is that the "boy in the box" case? So sad.

Oops, cross post!

I just had a look at that website :( very sad.
With adults who've ended up homeless and unidentifyable/no one to indetify them, someone I knew who worked with homeless people once said sometimes they found it so hard that almost all of them would have been a baby someone adored, and wanted the best for and had hopes for. No one wants their child to end up like that.

That always stuck with me.

I won't be able to look at the link I'd be a mess. My first thought is always 'that's someone's baby' :( I watched 'dreams of a life' and it broke my heart I was upset for a long time after and still gets me now if I think about it. Very sad

Atticus, I've been following those two child cases too, so sad.
Did you follow Caylee's case? That was the first one that really got to me, especially the tragic ending.

Wishful ah yes, poor Joyce Vincent...so, so tragic. Such a lovely woman...normal childhood...:(

Very sad that the man who they think was the Grateful Dead concert goer who died, seemed to have lots of friends, but no one who reported him missing.

I understand why people have no one that notices they have gone missing, especially if they are not in regular employment.

With the young children, I suspect the parents are involved in their murders. If you murder your young child, then move where nobody knows you, it is feasible that nobody would miss that child. But incredibly sad.

Such sad cases :(

You would think with social media it would be easier to share the less sensitive images quite widely. Someone must know something. :(

aw those links are so

I hope one day they will all be identified and the families informed.

The not knowing must be horrific.

and what kind of life must they have had if they can't be identified. no school? no record of birth? no friends?

or that parents may not have been able to report her missing and never be able to have a funeral for fear of being deported or whatever.

so many awful possibilities.

I would love to hear if a school friend from primary is okay. Makes me so sad to think she could have died and no one has claimed her.

Larant but he was pretty transient...I was his age in those days and we met all kinds of people...who passed through our lives but didn't hang around.

A few years ago a young man froze to death by the side of a local railway station. He was never identified. The police believe he may have been a illegal immigrant so didn't seek help when he found himself sleeping rough.

I've thought about him sometimes and wondered is there someone out there, - parents, siblings, friends - who are worried about him, or wondering why he hasn't been in touch since he headed off to his new life in the UK. It's very sad to think he may never be identified and the people who care about him may never know what happened.