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112UMNY
Topic Started: Apr 2 2006, 12:34 PM (1,866 Views)
monkalup
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Clarence Owens
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/112umny.html
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/9844

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1878dmil.html

Little to go on here, few stats available for Clarence Owens
Brow arch is similar. Distance between mouth and nose seems similar, Chin seems weaker for Clarence.
Lauran

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ceestar92
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Timing and age would not work with this match.
Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world
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monkalup
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Yes, age is most certainly a factor. As is distance I would think.
Lauran

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Ceestar I respectfully disagree with your observation. Stats, as we know them do match and there is definitely a resemblence.

The man was 65 when he disappeared and the age estimate is 60-65... why do you think the age isn't working???? I must be missing something.

If you go to the Doe Network's source document there is a clearer photo of the portrait.

http://www.rrstar.com/localnews/your_commu...208-11295.shtml

True the locations are 17 hrs apart... but then the vehicle was never found....

I think this is a pretty good match!
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No vehicle found, His friend not found, I am leaning toward them being in water somewhere. The age would work if the unidentified had been at the location 20 years. When they say 10-20 years I tend to think more on the 15 year line.
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Published: February 8, 2004

LOCAL NEWS: Rockford
Time ‘a killer’ in investigation

By CORINA CURRY‚ Rockford Register Star
ROCKFORD — Three years from now, Tom Owens of rural Stephenson County will have lived his life in two contrasting halves: 28 years as the middle son of Clarence “Jum” Owens, and 28 years wondering what happened to his dad.

The elder Owens disappeared Feb. 19, 1976. He and a friend were spotted at a farm auction near the Ogle-Winnebago county line and were never seen or heard from again. The car they were traveling in is gone. No bodies ever were found, let alone a murder weapon.

Without any physical evidence, Tom Owens believes the answer to his father’s disappearance and assumed slaying lies in people — someone who saw something before but didn’t think it was important, someone who learned what happened but was protecting a loved one, someone who was involved in the crime and their conscience is eating away at them.

This is his hope. These days, after the exhaustion of lead after lead, it is his only hope.

“Realistically, you know. The longer it goes, the more difficult it would be to have any successful prosecution,” Owens said. “Our best hope at this point is that a family member or associate who had direct knowledge might have a conscience, a reawakening and will come forward and talk.”

Owens is confident that those people are out there, the ones who hold the key to putting his family’s mystery to rest.

“I think about it every day. Every day. I don’t think that will ever go away,” Owens said. “Where are they? Not so much who did it anymore, but where are they and what happened.”

Having no crime scene is a challenge, Owens said. All of the advancements in DNA mean little when you have nowhere to look. Owens said hope lies in a fresh look at an old case, new eyes that cast new suspicions and a different way of approaching individuals.

“Law enforcement has come so far over that period of time,” said Owens, who was a Rockford cop when his dad disappeared. He left the force in 1987.

Suspects came and went over the years. One man was investigated immediately, but the lead turned out to be bad. Another suspect was interviewed a couple years ago in a nursing home. He was incoherent.

At least four men confessed to killing Clarence Owens, 65, and his friend, Everett Hawley, 72. Police checked out each one, Owens said. Each one proved impossible.

“I worked a lot of homicides back in the day,” Owens said. “In this kind of case, we knew we were always working against time. Memories can get fuzzy. People pass away. Evidence can get lost or deteriorate. ... Time is not a friend. Time is a killer.”

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Tom Owens looks at the portrait of his father, Clarence Owens, that hangs over a small gallery of family photos in his living room

http://www.rrstar.com/localnews/your_commu...208-11295.shtml
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The UID could only have been in the swamp no longer than 16 years at the most.

His glasses weren't manufactured until 1974 and the coins in his pocket had dates minted as late as 1972.

Looking at the two pictures I believe they have several resemblances and I think that without more info on Mr. Owens I wouldn't be able to say it isn't him.

I like the brow line, eye spacing, ear placement, and cheek bones.

The facial shape is really hard to tell (the photo isn't really that sharp and it is only a 1/2 sketch) so it can go either way.

These both are so very old (cases). I wish Mr. Owen's son would supply more information on his father.

Alot of distance, but the location where the UID was located was very remote at the time (just north of state game lands) and very easily accessible. Lots of woods and swamps to hide bodies and cars, etc...

I really do like this match and have been working on it for a while...not getting any further than this...lmao

Yes the UID had a spinal (back) condition...but again, there is very little details on Mr. Owens. There was never a report filed on his friend from what I could find either.
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These guys could be a candidate for the bones found under the tree that Eric posted the article about...



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