Doe:ID Jeffrey Kimzey

DNA: ID

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Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Episode 107 Doe:ID Jeffrey Kimzey

On April 15, 1997, a young boy in Union Grove, Alabama decided to skip school and go fishing at his favorite spot off of Eagle Rock Drive. When he got to his spot, he made a gruesome discovery. He found a decomposing body in the water, and raced home to tell his parents. Police responded to the scene, and when they retrieved the body from the water, the gruesome find became even more shocking. The body, which belonged to a man, had been mutilated. His hands, feet, and head had been removed. In addition, his heart had also been taken. It was believed that he had been shot or stabbed to death. There was no ID with the body, and in the days before DNA, there wasn't much that the authorities could do to identify the man. Their best guess was that he was a White male between 20 and 30 years old, who weighed about 150 pounds and was five feet, nine inches tall. Since police had no missing men in that area who fit that description, they believed he was traveling through the area, and not a local. Their only clues were a bunch of air fresheners found close to the victim, and an eyewitness who spotted a very distinct truck in the area before the body was found.

As time passed and DNA Science evolved, investigators had a sketch created based on the victim's DNA makeup. They released it hoping someone would recognize him, but no one did, which further backed up their belief that he was not local. Eventually, genealogy would provide John Doe's real name; it was Jeffrey Douglas Kimzey. He was from Santa Barbara, CA. He was 20 years old at the time he was killed. Police now know his name, and now they are trying to figure out who killed him, and what brought him to Alabama. The investigation continues.

This John Doe finally has his name back; it's Jeffrey Kimzey, and this is his story.

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0:40.3	The On April 15, 1997, a teenage boy was playing hooky from school to go fishing. He knew exactly
1:14.9	where to go, Cateco Creek. This was a small running creek that sometimes flooded when swollen
1:20.6	with rainwater's a runoff, but at this time of year, it was at a normal level. This all took place
1:25.9	in Union Grove, Alabama, a rural area of Marshall County.
1:29.9	The creek access the teen went to was off Eagle Rock Drive, three miles west of the small town of
1:35.0	Arab, and about a half a mile from the Marshall Morgan County line. At around 11 a.m.,
1:41.4	the teenager saw something up ahead on the creek bank. It wasn't a fish.
1:45.7	He must have had the shock of his life to find the body of a man lying halfway in the creek bed.
1:50.3	The man was wearing clothes, but some things were notably missing. His head, his hands, and his
1:55.2	feet. The boy ran home and told his parents. I couldn't help wondering whether he got in trouble
1:59.9	for playing hooky, but I would imagine not. What he saw that day, no doubt impacted him for the rest of his life
2:05.2	and not in a good way. Deputies from the Marshall County Sheriff's Office arrived summoned to the
2:11.3	location by the teenagers' parents' phone call, and there, in the woods on the edge of the creek,
2:15.9	just as the boy had reported,
2:23.4	was the mutilated body of a white male. His ankles were still tied together by a piece of rope and wire ties. Additional pieces of matching rope lay on the ground nearby. Diligent searches of the
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