The skeletal remains of someone authorities dubbed “Chimney Doe” was identified nearly 35 years after he was found in the pipe of a Madison, Wisconsin, music store.The circumstances leading to the death of Ronnie Joe Kirk are still a mystery to the Madison Police Department, but Chief Shon Barnes told reporters on Monday he’s hopeful the identification of the remains will lead to new information. According to NBC News affiliate WMTV in Madison, Kirk had connections to Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama and Wisconsin.”Someone will remember him and we’ll do everything that we can to try to trace down if he worked here, if he lived here or if he was just passing through, or going somewhere else,” Barnes said. “We don’t know.”Kirk’s remains were found in September 1989 by the owners of Good ‘n Loud music store on University Avenue, in Madison, who noticed a skull visible in a pipe connecting the boiler to the chimney. The skeleton was in what Barnes described as “feminine” clothing and an initial autopsy determined the remains belonged to a white male between ages 18 and 35.In 2019, detective Lindsey Ludden decided to refer the “Chimney Doe” case over to the DNA Doe Project. The organization was founded just two years earlier and is dedicated to using investigative genetic genealogy to help identify unknown persons.It took two years to be able to build a genetic profile from DNA extracted from a piece of rootless h …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnThe skeletal remains of someone authorities dubbed “Chimney Doe” was identified nearly 35 years after he was found in the pipe of a Madison, Wisconsin, music store.The circumstances leading to the death of Ronnie Joe Kirk are still a mystery to the Madison Police Department, but Chief Shon Barnes told reporters on Monday he’s hopeful the identification of the remains will lead to new information. According to NBC News affiliate WMTV in Madison, Kirk had connections to Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama and Wisconsin.”Someone will remember him and we’ll do everything that we can to try to trace down if he worked here, if he lived here or if he was just passing through, or going somewhere else,” Barnes said. “We don’t know.”Kirk’s remains were found in September 1989 by the owners of Good ‘n Loud music store on University Avenue, in Madison, who noticed a skull visible in a pipe connecting the boiler to the chimney. The skeleton was in what Barnes described as “feminine” clothing and an initial autopsy determined the remains belonged to a white male between ages 18 and 35.In 2019, detective Lindsey Ludden decided to refer the “Chimney Doe” case over to the DNA Doe Project. The organization was founded just two years earlier and is dedicated to using investigative genetic genealogy to help identify unknown persons.It took two years to be able to build a genetic profile from DNA extracted from a piece of rootless h …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
