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FLM810313/La Chow, Jack; St. Petersburg March 13 1981
Topic Started: Jan 8 2007, 02:36 PM (613 Views)
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Name: John Doe - Age 30 - 50
Case #: 81-23296
Date Last Seen: 3/13/1981
Location Found: 3/10 of a mile northeast of 115th Ave North and 300 yards east of 4th St. North, St. Petersburg, FL
Synopsis: John Doe is a white male, 5'11", 165-185 lbs., brown hair, and brown eyes. The left eye is artificial glass.

The victim was found buried in a shallow grave. The body was fully clothed and he was still wearing a watch. All other ID was missing. Date of death was estimated 3 to 7 days earlier. Clothing consists of dark blue, long-sleeve jogging shirt, dark blue double knit wool pants (brand name St. Michael), black belt with square silver buckle, light color boxer shorts, dark nylon socks, black Florsheim loafers (size 10E), and a Jules Jurgensen self-winding, 17 jewel calendar watch with gold Speidel band.

Anyone with information related to this case should call the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office Homicide Unit by telephone at (727) 582-6200 or by email at mring@pcsonet.com.
Lauran

"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente.


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Lauran

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Specific Case

Medical Examiner District: 6
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Their Case Number: 1981-23296
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Date of Death or Discovery: 1981-03-13
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Estimated Age of Decedent: 36-45
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Presumed Race: White
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Gender: Male
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Estimated Height: 5'-6'
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Estimated Weight: 165 to 185
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Additional Details:


Location Found: 4th Street North and 115th Avenue, St. Petersburg

Hair: Short, brown

Eyes: Brown, (brown glass eye in left socket)

Facial Features: Left side of face showed evidence of previous injuries. Decedent may have had a moustache.

Tattoos: No details available

Scars, Surgeries and Other Dental and Medical Information: Dental records available

Jewelry: 'Jules Jurgensen' self-winding, 17 jewel calendar watch with gold 'Speidel' band.

Clothing and Shoes: Dark blue, long sleeve jogging shirt, dark blue double knit wool pants (brand "St. Michael"), black belt with square silver buckle, light-colored boxer shorts, dark nylon socks, black 'Florsheim' loafers (size 10E)

Personal Effects: See above

Other Details: Estimated age between 30 and 50 years old. Fingerprints are available, as well as DNA, for comparison.

For more information about this case, contact:
Michael Britt with the District 20 Medical Examiner Office
239-434-5020, extension 1 or
michaelbritt@colliergov.net


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FLUIDDB Case ID: 498
Lauran

"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente.


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http://www.sptimes.com/2005/12/04/Southpin...o_warm_up.shtml

Police try to warm up cold cases
Two murder victims were found in the same area within weeks of each other in 1981. Neither case has been solved, but investigations are open.
By CHRIS TISCH, Times Staff Writer
Published December 4, 2005

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Over a three-week period in the winter of 1981, the bodies of two men were found along the eastern lip of St. Petersburg.

Their bodies were discovered by fishermen, about 3 miles apart. One was buried in a shallow grave, the other tossed in Tampa Bay with a barbell tied to his feet.

Both men died of gunshot wounds to the head or neck.

Neither body held many clues. No identification cards were found. Both men may have been killed somewhere else, then dumped here.

Perhaps by the same person.

Both men had distinguishing features that normally would aid identification. One had a glass eye, the other a denture plate.

If anyone reported these men missing, detectives likely would know. Then they would have a place to start.

But 22 years went by before the man found tied to the barbell was identified as a Tampa man named Steven Clancy.

The man found buried in the shallow grave never has been identified. Because he has a glass eye, detectives simply call him "One Eye."

The 25th anniversary of both murders is just a few months away. The killer or killers never have been caught.

Detectives poke at the case files when the rush of other murders and violent crimes settles.

The case file for One Eye is just a few inches thick, thin for murder cases, which can produce enough paperwork to fill boxes and boxes.

But the file for the Tampa man has grown fatter since he was identified. With a name and a history, detectives can find people to talk to and leads to follow - even though memories have faded over a quarter-century.

Investigators hope a little publicity about the cases will spark someone to remember something, and to make a phone call.

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On Feb. 21, 1981, a group of fishermen noticed something floating about 300 yards offshore and about 150 yards off the Gandy Bridge. They joked that maybe it was a body.

The object drifted slowly toward them and they realized it was.

The body floated upright, as if standing. A 17-pound barbell was tied to the man's legs, enough to keep most of him underwater, but not all of him.

Detectives believe he had been in the water three to five days. He had a single gunshot wound in his neck.

Descriptions of the man and his clothing were released to the media, but no one came forward to say he was family or friend.

The man had a denture plate etched with what appeared to be a Social Security number. But it didn't match anyone's. There also was faded writing inside of his shorts and shirt. It looked like a last name, either Clausy or Claucy.

The case went cold.

In the spring of 2003, at a cold case meeting in Tampa, longtime Pinellas sheriff's homicide investigator Mike Ring met the agent-in-charge of the Social Security Administration Office in Clearwater.

Ring told the agent about the case, specifically the number on the dental plate. The agent said his agency's computer specialists could help.

Figuring the numbers on the denture plate were a digit or two off, specialists started with a database of 400-million Social Security numbers.

They looked for a white man, 20 to 40 years old, who had not earned wages since 1981. The list was shaved to 27,000 names, then 7,600, then to 26 names.

One of the names was a Tampa carnival worker named Steven Clancy. His Social Security number was a few digits off the number on the dental plate. His family confirmed he had gotten a dental plate while he was in the Army.

Detectives found he had been arrested for waving a gun in a bar two weeks before the body washed up. They culled fingerprints from that arrest report and compared it to the poor, soggy prints taken from the body. They were a match.

Detective Jim Beining, a veteran homicide investigator, went to work on the case.

He discovered Clancy, who was 25 when he died, was from Massachusetts. After the Army, he had trouble holding down a job and had joined the carnival circuit. He traveled with the now-defunct Fiesta Carvivals up and down the East Coast.

His family, which didn't approve of his wayward job, had last seen him a month before the murder.

Beining learned family members had gone to the Florida State Fair asking workers if they had seen Clancy, but had no luck. Though they feared something bad had happened, they never reported him missing.

Clancy's family could not be reached for comment for this article.

Beining said searching for Clancy's killer has been a challenge. Solving the murder of a transient with no ties to the area would be hard enough right after the murder. It's even more difficult to do two decades later.

"It was a great feat in getting him identified," the detective said. "There's not a whole lot on him here."

Beining, who has been involved in solving a few cold cases in his career, said he has received no tips on the case, even after widespread media reports of the identification in 2003.

The case is about as cold as they get.

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At least Beining has a name, a photograph of the deceased, a few records and people to talk to. No such leads exist for One Eye.

On March 13, 1981, a married couple were searching for fiddler crabs in thick mangroves at the end of a dirt road in the area of Fourth Street N and 115th Avenue.

The man noticed something protruding from the dirt. He kidded with his wife that he had found a body. He got a shovel from his van and poked at it. Moments later, he realized it was a knee.

Investigators figured this man had been buried for three to seven days.

Like Clancy, this man had been shot, though with a different gun. The killing initially was described as execution-style. The wounds were to the top and back of the head.

Though the body was somewhat decomposed, investigators determined the man was between 30 and 50 years old. He was 5-foot-11 and had short, brown hair. He may have had a moustache and may have been Latino.

He wore a blue sweat shirt, dark knit pants and size 10E shoes with buckles. A Jules Jergunsen, self-winding watch was on his wrist.

Most distinctively, the man had a brown glass eye in his left socket. The left side of his face also had been previously injured somehow, perhaps in an accident or a fight.

Detectives consulted optometry organizations. Over the years, they found more than two dozen missing persons reports involving people with glass eyes. None were their guy.

They ran fingerprints through databases, but nothing matched.

In 1983, investigators exhumed the body and used the skull to mold clay into a likeness of the dead man's face. It got them nowhere.

Detectives now plan to enter the man's DNA into a national missing person's database, hoping it will turn something up.

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There is nothing concrete to link the two men's deaths, though there are similarities. Detectives say if they ever got One Eye identified, they could see if there was any link between him and Clancy.

That could pave the way to a killer.

"In the span of a month you have two bodies show up, both shot in the head, less than 3 miles apart," said Ring, now a lieutenant in the criminal investigations division. "You can't say they're not related."

Ring said his unit has requested extra funding next year for another detective to investigate cold cases exclusively.

"They only get worked when leads come in or there's free time," Ring said. "And when something else comes up, they go back on the shelf."
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Lauran

"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente.


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Name : JACK LA CHOW
Case : 81-23296
Date of last Seen : 03/13/1981
Location of Last Seen : 3/10 of a mile northeast of 115th Avenue North and 300 yards east of
Synopsis : JACK LA CHOW is a white male, 5'11", 165-185 lbs., brown hair, and brown eyes. The left eye is artificial glass. The victim was found buried in a shallow grave. The body was fully clothed and he was still wearing a watch. All other ID was missing. Date of death was estimated 3 to 7 days earlier. Clothing consists of dark blue, long-sleeve jogging shirt, dark blue double knit wool pants (brand name St. Michael), black belt with square silver buckle, light color boxer shorts, dark nylon socks, black Florsheim loafers (size 10E), and a Jules Jurgensen self-winding, 17 jewel calendar watch with gold Speidel band.
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