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VOLUSIA COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 21-35 - found in Bulow State Park,
FL - Jan 18, 1986 *Kip Evans*
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Date: February 11, 2020, 1:49 am
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The victim's skeletal remains were located on Beach Pump House
Drive off Old Dixie Road on Jones Island.
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Re: VOLUSIA COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 21-35 - Skeletal remains found
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Date: February 11, 2020, 1:49 am
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Clay reconstructions
Date of Discovery: January 18, 1986
Location of Discovery: Bulow State Park, Volusia County, Florida
Estimated Date of Death: 1985 to 1986
State of Remains: Skeletal
Cause of Death: Homicide
Physical Description
Estimated Age: 21-35 years old
Race: White
Sex: Male
Height: 5'8" to 5'10"
Weight: 150-160 lbs.
Hair Color: Light brown with a red tint, worn in a pony tail.
Eye Color: Unknown or Missing
Distinguishing Marks/Features: A deformity of the lower right
jaw known as hemifacial microsomia that caused the jaw to
protrude to the right side of his face, and would have been
noticeable.
Identifiers
Dentals: Available. Poor oral health with periodontal disease.
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: A dirt stained gray or light green pullover shirt with
three-quarter length black sleeves, black leather cap with brown
trim that had a roach clip inside the brim along with a
Confederate flag pin and an "F.T.W." pin, leather belt with a
Harley Davidson metal buckle, blue jeans (size 32), gray socks
with blue stripes, and black leather boots (size 11).
Jewelry: A silver necklace that had a silver and turquoise
wedding band style ring. A silver KKK pendant that read "member
in good standing," a silver ring with a Grim Reaper design, and
a silver ring with skull and cross bones.
Additional Personal Items: Buck knife case on belt, two guitar
picks in his pocket, and a biker-type wallet chain with no
wallet.
Circumstances of Discovery
The victim's skeletal remains were located on Beach Pump House
Drive off Old Dixie Road on Jones Island.
Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Volusia County Medical Examiner's Office
Agency Contact Person: Marie Herrmann or Joseph Mullin
Agency Phone Number: 386-258-4060
Agency E-Mail: MEDEX(at)co.volusia.fl.us or
Jmullin(at)volusia.org
Agency Case Number: 1986-00024
NCIC Case Number: U187346470
NamUs Case Number: 1233
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Re: VOLUSIA COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 21-35 - Skeletal remains found
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Re: VOLUSIA COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 21-35 - Skeletal remains found
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Re: VOLUSIA COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 21-35 - Skeletal remains found
in Bulow State Park, FL - Jan 18, 19
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Volusia County John Doe (1986)
Sex: Male
Race: White
Location: Volusia County, Florida
Found: January 18, 1986
Unidentified: for 33 years
Postmortem interval: Weeks - 1 year
Body condition: Skeletal
Age approximation: 21 - 35
Height approximation: 5'8 - 5'10
Weight approximation: 150 - 160 pounds
Cause of death: Homicide
Volusia County John Doe was a man found murdered in Florida in
1986.
Physical Characteristics
He had light brown hair, worn in in a ponytail.
He suffered from Hemifacial Microsomia, resulting in his jaw
protruding to the right side of his face.
He had poor oral health causing periodontal disease
Theories
He could have been affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, as a KKK
pendant was found with his body.
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Re: VOLUSIA COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 21-35 - Skeletal remains found
in Bulow State Park, FL - Jan 18, 19
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Date: February 11, 2020, 1:50 am
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The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help
in solving the murder cases featured below. For more information
on these cases, check out our interactive Cold Case Homicide
Map.
If you have any information regarding these or any other
unsolved crimes, please email ColdCaseUnitTips@vcso.us, or call
Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida, toll-free, at (888)
277-TIPS. Callers to Crime Stoppers will remain anonymous and
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Almost 30 years ago, in some remote woods often used as a biker
campsite near Ormond Beach, a man cutting palmettos found the
skeletal remains of a homicide victim.
The man’s remains were found the afternoon of Jan. 18, 1986, in
dense woods off Jones Island Road in Bulow Creek State Park,
about four miles north of the park’s entrance.
A forensic artist with the University of South Florida recently
provided the Sheriff’s Office a facial reconstruction of the
victim in the hopes someone might recognize him. The victim is
believed to be a white male, approximately 20 to 35 years old
and about 5 feet, 9 inches tall. It’s believed he had a facial
deformity which caused his jaw to appear lopsided and gave him
an exaggerated, noticeable overbite.
Anyone who has information on this case or thinks they recognize
the victim is asked to call the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office
at (386) 254-1537.
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Re: VOLUSIA COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 21-35 - Skeletal remains found
in Bulow State Park, FL - Jan 18, 19
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Date: February 11, 2020, 1:50 am
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Re: VOLUSIA COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 21-35 - found in Bulow State
Park, FL - Jan 18, 1986 *Kip Evans*
DIR By: Scorpio
Date: April 22, 2020, 4:38 am
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After 30 years, two Volusia murder victims identified through
DNA tests
A man and woman violently killed in separate Volusia homicides
who remained nameless for at least 30 years, their cases going
cold, have finally been identified through their DNA, officials
said on Monday.
A man and woman violently killed in separate Volusia homicides
who remained nameless for at least 30 years, their cases going
cold, have finally been identified through their DNA, officials
said on Monday.
Volusia County sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Gant said that John
Doe 1986 has been identified as Howard “Kip” Evans, and Jane Doe
1991 was identified as Doris Regina Chavers.
Evans’ skeletal remains were found on Jan. 18, 1986, off Pump
House Road near Jones Island Road in the Ormond Beach area. His
remains had been there for an undetermined amount of time, Gant
said.
A forensic examination of Evans’ skeleton revealed violent
trauma and that he was murdered.
Volusia County sheriff’s investigators worked Evans’ case,
following various leads and tips throughout the years, but were
unable to get his identification so Evans’ case went cold and
became known only as “John Doe 1986,” Gant said.
Between 2006 and 2011, DNA was obtained from Evans’ skeletal
remains and sent to several laboratories for comparison to DNA
in the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), but there were
no matches.
Not giving up, investigators in 2014 generated facial
reconstruction models through the Florida Institute of Forensic
Anthropology and Applied Science at the University of South
Florida, Gant said.
And in 2019, the Major Case Unit received information about
social media posts generated in a Missing Persons group,
discussing that a woman’s son, Howard Evans, had been missing
since 1984 and was last known to be in Volusia County. Evans was
about 29 years old at the time he went missing, Gant said..
No formal missing person’s report was done on Evans and since he
had been missing for six years, his family had him legally
declared deceased in 1990, investigators said.
As the follow-up investigation continued, detectives obtained a
DNA sample from Evans’ mother, who resided in South Carolina.
The DNA analysis performed by the University of North Texas
Center for Human Identification (UNTCHI) and the FBI, this
month, determined that John Doe 1986, was the South Carolina
woman’s son, Evans, authorities said.
Evans would have been 65 on March 3, Gant indicated.
Evans’ mother was notified that her son, who she last had
contact with nearly 36 years ago, had been located. The Medical
Examiner’s Office is working with Evans’ family for the release
of his remains, Gant said.
In Chavers’ case, the woman was last seen alive at her mother’s
Sanford home in August 1989. She was 32, Gant said.
Chavers was reported missing on Aug. 1, 1990 to the Seminole
County Sheriff’s Office.
Then, on Aug. 19, 1991, Volusia County deputies were called by
two fishermen who found skeletal remains in a heavily wooded
area off the 400 block of Enterprise Osteen Road in Osteen.
Due to the condition of the remains, identification was not
possible. At that time, DNA technology was not what it is today,
Gant said.
In September 1991, an autopsy determined that the remains were
that of a woman, potentially in her 30s or 40s, and that she had
died from violent trauma. Jane Doe 1991′s death was ruled
a homicide, investigators said.
As the death investigation progressed, detectives searched
databases at their disposal for any and all means to identify
the victim. Detectives entered the case into an FBI database in
an effort to identify Jane Doe and to generate possible leads.
Unfortunately, these efforts were unsuccessful, and the case
went cold, according to a news release from Gant.
In August 2018, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office conducted
further investigation into the Chavers missing person case and
detectives were able to track down Chavers’ biological daughter
and obtain a familial DNA sample, which was sent to the
University of North Texas Center for Human Identification
(UNTCHI).
On Jan. 21 of this year, both Volusia and Seminole detectives
were notified by UNTCHI that the familial DNA sample collected
from Chavers’ biological daughter was a match to the skeletal
remains found in Volusia County in 1991, Gant said.
Volusia detectives contacted Chavers’ daughter to deliver the
news and said she was relieved that her mother had been found,
authorities said.
The daughter said she always felt that something terrible must
have happened, and that her mother would have never just
abandoned her, Gant’s news release states.
The investigations into Evans’ and Chavers’ cases are ongoing
and anyone with information about either case is encouraged to
contact the Volusia Sheriff’s Office Major Case Unit at
386-254-1537.
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Re: VOLUSIA COUNTY JOHN DOE: WM, 21-35 - found in Bulow State
Park, FL - Jan 18, 1986 *Kip Evans*
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Date: April 22, 2020, 4:39 am
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Howard ''Kip'' Evans
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