Internet Sleuths On Facebook And Reddit Solved The 20-Year-Old Mystery Of A Missing Teenager

Twenty years after the delivery had to leave the road in northern Virginia, 10 years after the Internet began to try to close the case, a man known only as 'Grateful Doe' end is God name.On Wednesday, WBF-TV reports the coroner's office both in Virginia and the Missing and Unidentified National Grateful Doe confirmed that a 19 year old, Jason - Callahan, the man recognized first by detectives on Reddit and Facebook almost a year ago.



Callahan, a native of South Carolina, was tracking the East Coast after Grateful Dead '95 tour when the car was involved in which he was traveling in a fatal car accident in Emporia, Virginia. The driver of the car, a man 21 years, immediately recognized his family. But no one knew the man was the passenger and his injuries difficult to describe or sketch accurately.To worse, called Grateful Doe found a missing persons report. Since she was not sure when or where his son had actually gone since he left his home, his mother Callahan, Margaretta Evans never introduced report.It just heartbroken, 'said Lauren Rutley, a Novak helped the event to promote on-line. 'I was so young, and no one was reported as disappeared time.Rutley one of dozens of volunteers and amateur detectives who worked on the case DOL appreciate almost 10 years. Was Websleuths users, popular forum cold cases and the real fans criminals cross-references Grateful Doe case against the hundreds of records in a database of missing persons since July 2005. Only 'heated to December last year, However, when it took months case.That reddit Australian woman to handle greymetal subreddit opened thanking Doe and published his picture you want to Imgur. She and other volunteers widely distributed image, especially in the context of the Grateful Dead fan communities; Also published in places and similar Buzzfeed.More half a million people saw the picture, and things began to happen quickly. In early January, two men were reportedly met Doe, the first name was Jason and he was Myrtle Beach. South Carolina. Greymetal, Rutley ragtag band of other volunteers, many of them organized now, Facebook began Blitzingen local newspapers and TV stations in history, in the hope that it will report on it. History is a great game in Myrtle Beach, where Evans was when he learned that on January 13She sent a report on the missing Callahan next day, and police immediately launched an investigation. It took 11 months to run Doe DNA.THE NEWS !!!! We stayed 'two volunteers available on Facebook on Wednesday.' (I) here as long as he sat in shock as the grief of his family and the fact that here in Facebook making a difference. Since everyone here artificially finally be going home !!! Evans did not immediately respond to a message from a reporter for the Washington Post.; A volunteer says it is in touch with the family wrote to Facebook 'she is hurt more than anyone should.Since media Evans son 11 months, however, she was active in the movement detective online. Facebook, which publishes photos of dogs constantly abused and missing children.