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| Robinson, Jonce Jr. 3-16/WIM161228; Waukegan, WI - found deceased | |
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| tatertot | Aug 29 2017, 09:27 AM Post #1 |
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May Jonce Rest in Peace ![]() http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/huma...2a09c02c39.html Human remains found on Lake Michigan shore last year ID'd as Waukegan man By DENEEN SMITH 21 hrs ago Human remains found at the bottom of a bluff on the shore of Lake Michigan in December have been identified as those of a missing Waukegan, Ill., man. According to the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department, the person was identified as Jonce Robinson Jr., 38. Robinson’s remains were found on the rocky shore Dec. 28 by a group of people who were walking on the rocks. At the time, authorities described the remains as partial skeletal remains, along with some clothing. A key ring with a car key to a Cadillac and gas station reward card were found in a pocket; the car had regularly been used at a Thornton’s station at Green Bay Road and Sunset Road in Waukegan. Sgt. Mark Malecki said media coverage of the discovery of the remains and description of the clothing and belongings led Robinson’s family members to reach out to authorities. Malecki said DNA from family members were compared with DNA from the skeletal remains, with testing done by the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification. The cause of Robinson’s death is unknown. “This brought closure not only to Jonce’s family, but to the long hours put in by the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department detectives and the Kenosha County Medical Examiner’s Office,” according to a statement from the Sheriff’s Department. Robinson was last seen by his family in March 2016. Medical Examiner Patrice Hall said that while the identification was painful for Robinson’s family, it also brought them closure. “Now they have his remains, and they can have a funeral service, and they are no longer searching for him,” Hall said. “I’m glad I can give him back to his family. That’s what we’re here to do is to give him a name.” Center plays a role Robinson’s identification is the second time the Sheriff’s Department and the medical examiner have used the Texas center to identify remains found in the county. Last year, the lab was able to identify skeletal remains found along the West Frontage Road in Paris as those of Hozia D. Jackson, a 47-year-old Chicago man who had been missing since 2012. In that case, the center was able to match DNA found in the remains to Jackson through a DNA database. The center works with the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), a national database that seeks to match missing persons with unidentified remains. Hall said that while both Robinson and Jackson’s families had filed missing-person reports with their local police, those reports were then not forwarded to NamUs. Hall said she hopes that it becomes standard nationally for police departments and medical examiner offices to enter their missing persons or cases of unidentified remains into the system. “NamUs is what helps find a bridge between the missing and the unidentified,” she said. |
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May Jonce Rest in Peace



2:04 AM Jul 13