Doe ID 'Rock Collection John Doe' Captain Everett Leland Yager

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Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Episode 115 Doe ID 'Rock Collection John Doe' Captain Everett Leland Yager

A strange mystery unfolded after a boy in Arizona inherited a rock collection from his grandfather in 2002. The boy's mother while looking through the collection found something disturbing; something she knew was not a rock. It was a partial human jawbone containing several teeth. She contacted the Yavapai County Sheriff's office about the disturbing find. It was theorized at first that the remains could have come from a nearby Native American burial grounds, but they soon discounted that theory, and without any kind of clues to go on, they dubbed the remains 'Rock Collection John Doe'.

In 2023, The Ramapo College of New Jersey’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center, decided to take on identifying the remains. They were successful; the remains belonged to a Captain Everett Leland Yager. There was just one problem, Captain Yager had died in plane crash in California in 1951, and he was laid to rest in his home state of Missouri. The identification of the Captain's remains solved one mystery, but opened up another; how did Captain Yager's jawbone wind up in Arizona decades after he was laid to rest in another state?

After more than two decades, 'Rock Collection John Doe' finally has his name back; it's Captain Everett Leland Yager, and this is his story.

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0:57.0	The On July 29, 2002, a woman whose name has not been publicly released called the Yavapai County, Arizona
1:29.6	Sheriff's Office. She told the investigators that she found something in a rock collection
1:33.9	her eight-year-old son maintained, that wasn't a rock at all. The boy was an avid rock collector
1:39.8	and had inherited a collection from his grandfather, along with his grandfather's enthusiasm for geological
1:44.9	specimens. The mother didn't usually pay attention to any of it, any more than I would have if
1:49.7	my kids brought a rock inside and said, look, mom, a rock. But when she did take a look, she saw that
1:55.0	this item in the rock collection wasn't a rock. The rock was immediately recognizable as a segment of human
2:00.4	jawbone, with a molar in place.
2:03.2	The place where the bone had been found could not be specifically recalled, but it might have been
2:08.2	in the San Carlos Reservoir area in Arizona. The little rock collection owner also didn't
2:14.3	remember when the bone was found or whether he had even been the one to find it,
2:17.7	or perhaps his grandfather did.
2:20.3	The sheriff's office and the Yavapai County Medical Examiner's Office started working to figure
2:24.9	out where this bone had come from. I don't know whether they suspected the bone's origin
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