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Baguely, Scott 7-13-16/ORM170402; Beaverton, OR - found deceased
Topic Started: Apr 14 2017, 07:37 AM (12 Views)
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:( May Scott Rest in Peace :(
http://www.chinookobserver.com/co/free/201...each-identified

Body found on Brookfield beach identified
Federal funding cuts may cripple similar successes in the future
Natalie St. John
Published on April 13, 2017 3:04PM

CATHLAMET — Investigators have identified the man whose remains washed ashore in Western Wahkiakum County earlier this month.

They belonged to Scott John Baguely, 61, of Beaverton Ore., Wahkiakum County Prosecutor and Coroner Dan Bigelow said on April 2.

Boaters discovered Baguely’s body on the shore of the Columbia River near the former town of Brookfield. His body washed ashore very close to where another boater found the remains of a missing West Seattle man, Richard Arneson in May 2016, Bigelow said.

According to NamUs, a national database of unidentified and missing people, Baguely was last seen in Beaverton on July 13, 2016. His abandoned car turned up in the parking lot of a Rainier, Oregon church on July 21. The church is close to the foot of the Lewis and Clark Bridge, which spans the Columbia River between Rainier and Longview, Washington.

Following the April 2 discovery, Bigelow sent the body to two of the state’s leading forensic experts, anthropologist Dr. Kathy Taylor, and odontologist Dr. Gary Bell. Both have helped to identify other local remains, including those of Arneson and Killian Tsogo, an 18-year-old Raymond man who disappeared in May 2012. Tsogo was discovered in the woods outside of Raymond this January and identified in March.

Bell identified Baguely by comparing his teeth with Baguely’s dental records. Bigelow said that due the condition of the remains, it will not be possible to determine the cause and manner of death for Baguely. However, investigators do not suspect foul play.

In recent years, Bigelow and other Southwest Washington coroners and investigators have successfully identified the remains of several people, often with help from the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, where Taylor works, and from the DNA experts at the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification.

Fed funding cut

It will likely be more expensive and more difficult for Bigelow and other investigators in small jurisdictions to solve missing and unidentified persons cases in the future. Until recently, the UNT lab processed about 1,200 DNA samples annually, for police agencies, crime labs, medical examiners and coroners across the U.S., according to an April 1 article on the investigative news site www.revealnews.org. Together, these samples made up about 80 percent of the lab’s work.

Baguely was discovered shortly after the federal government cut a nearly $1 million grant that paid for much of the lab’s work. As a result, lab leaders say they can no longer afford to accept samples from agencies across the country.

Bigelow said he was saddened to learn of the change, because it will affect the families of the dead and missing.

“This is the program that brought closure to the families of both Molly Waddington and Richard Arneson,” Bigelow said in an email. He added that Taylor and other Washington forensics experts worked to try to keep the UNT program alive. Among other things, Bigelow said, they proposed a subscription model, in which states would each contribute something to the lab’s budget.

Taylor cited Arneson as an example of one Washington case that might not have been solved without help from UNT. However, according to Reveal, lab leaders say the program simply isn’t set up to work on a fee-for-service basis.

The program may be able to find a new source of money in the future, but for now, Wahkiakum and other small governments will have to do without DNA testing for missing people and unidentified remains, or come up with the roughly $2,000 to $4,000 it would cost to send their samples elsewhere.
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