Post by Scumhunter on Jun 18, 2019 16:30:53 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: Unidentified Wiki and/or National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC))
From NCMEC's missingkids.org website:
Date Found: Feb 26, 1999
Location Found: Decatur, GA
Estimated Age: 4-8
Sex: Male
Race: Black
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Unknown
Estimated Height: 3'10" to 4'2"
Estimated Weight: 45 to 60 lbs
An unidentified deceased boy was found on February 26, 1999. His body was found in a wooded area near a small church cemetery on Clifton Springs Road in South DeKalb County, Georgia. The boy had been deceased for several months before he was found. He is estimated to have been between 4-8 years old at the time of his death in late 1998 to early 1999. He stood approximately 4’00” tall and weighed about 50 pounds. The child was found wearing a blue plaid and navy hooded sweatshirt (size XL), red denim jeans (size 3), and Timberland boots (size 11). Images of the shoes and sweatshirt are featured above. Advance forensic analysis of his teeth and bones suggest that he was born and raised in the Southeastern United States, most likely from Georgia or Florida. The images above are a facial reconstruction completed by NCMEC Forensic Artist that depicts what the child may have looked like in life.
api.missingkids.org/poster/NCMU/1105216/1/screen
Thoughts? I am unsure if Dennis's case was ever on America's Most Wanted or other crime shows (reason his case is being placed in exclusive as opposed to tv unsolved), but he was actually one of Angeline Hartmann's stories as a news reporter in Atlanta before she joined AMW as a correspondent. Her podcast "Inside Crime" has a few episodes devoted to Dennis: www.stitcher.com/podcast/inside-crime/e/59001780 (episode 1 of 5)
Also, I know on missingkids.org they don't mention it, but it is the internet/media where the boy was given the nickname Dennis, such as Unidentified Wiki. Some addition info from Unidentified Wiki:
"The body was found skeletonized. The child appeared to have been well-cared for and may have been from either Georgia or possibly northern Florida.
In October 1999, a woman using the name "Dawn Anderson" called the coroner's office and stated the child's name was Cabell Brown. It has been stated due to the woman's emotional state as well as the quality of the phone call, the child's actual name could have been somewhat different than what was recorded.
The call was traced to the Florida Institution of Technology in Melbourne, Florida, They were unable to locate someone using the woman's name or any report of a missing boy with the same name. "
Unidentified Wiki link: unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Dennis
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