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ONE-EYED JACK: WM, 25-35, found in Tok, AK - 20 August 1979 - m
issing left eye *GRAPHIC*
By: Akoya Date: February 8, 2020, 10:57 am
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The victim was a hitchhiker from Boise, Idaho who was brought to
Alaska and killed. His left eye was missing and he wore a
leather patch. The mandible was not recovered.
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Re: ONE-EYED JACK: WM, 25-35, found in Tok, AK - 20 August 1979
- missing left eye *GRAPHIC*
By: Akoya Date: February 8, 2020, 11:01 am
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Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP12375 Male, White / Caucasian
Date Found
August 20, 1979
Location Found
Tok, Alaska
Case Information
Case Numbers
NCMEC Number
ME/C Case Number
03-00887
Demographics
Sex
Male
Race / Ethnicity
White / Caucasian
Estimated Age Group
Adult - Pre 40
Estimated Age Range (Years)
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Estimated Year of Death
1978
Estimated PMI
Years
Height
6' 0"(72 inches) , Estimated
Weight
185 lbs, Estimated
Circumstances
Type
Unidentified Deceased
Date Found
August 20, 1979
NamUs Case Created
April 15, 2014
ME/C QA Reviewed
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Location Found Map
General Location
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Tok, Alaska
County
Fairbanks North Star Borough
Circumstances of Recovery
Hitchhiker picked up and travelled with killer to Alaska. UP
killed and dumped. Mandible not recovered
Details of Recovery
Condition of Remains
Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton
Physical Description
Hair Color
Brown
Head Hair Description
long hair
Left Eye Color
Unknown or Missing
Right Eye Color
Unknown or Missing
Eye Description
Left eye missing, UP wore a leather patch over his eye
Clothing and Accessories
Item
Description
ClothingheadbandNear the Body
EyewearLeather eye patchOn the Body
Contacts
Investigating Agencies
Alaska State Troopers
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Agency Case Number
79-7425
Lantz Dahlke
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Case Contributors
Stephen Hoage, Medicolegal Death Investigator
Alaska Medical Examiner's Office
(907) 334-2200
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Re: ONE-EYED JACK: WM, 25-35, found in Tok, AK - 20 August 1979
- missing left eye *GRAPHIC*
By: Akoya Date: February 8, 2020, 11:02 am
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Re: ONE-EYED JACK: WM, 25-35, found in Tok, AK - 20 August 1979
- missing left eye *GRAPHIC*
By: Akoya Date: February 8, 2020, 11:04 am
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NamUs UP # 12375
HTML https://identifyus.org/en/cases/12375
Found August 20, 1979 near Tok (Fairbanks North Star County),
Alaska
Physical Description
Estimated age Adult - Pre 40
Weight (pounds) 185, Estimated
Height 72 inches (6 feet, 0 inches), Estimated
Hair Long, Brown
Eye description: Left eye missing, UP wore a leather patch over
his eye
Eyewear Leather eye patch
Clothing with body headband
Body conditions
Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton
Probable year of death 1978
Identifiers
Fingerprints Fingerprint information is currently not available
Dental Dental information / charting is available and entered
DNA Not Available
Circumstances
On August 20th 1979, skeletal remains were found off a remote
section of the Alaskan Highway near the town of Tok Alaska.
There was significant evidence found by the investigators that
conducted the scene investigation. Subsequently an individual in
custody in Nevada admitted to murdering a hitchhiker that he had
picked up in September of 1978 while driving in Alaska. The
suspect was Jesse Burt Bishop DOB:03/26/44.
Bishop confessed to the murder and provided the following
information about the victim.
He picked up the victim/hitchhiker near Boise Idaho while
driving to Alaska. The victim stated that he was headed for
Pendleton Oregon originally. As they drove Bishop told the
victim he was headed for Alaska and the victim asked if he could
go along. While driving through Canada, the victim got on his
nerves because of the way he acted and Bishop decided to kill
him.
After entering Alaska they stopped alongside the roadway in a
remote area. After getting out of the vehicle, Bishop stabbed
and strangled the victim to death leaving his body in the woods
along the roadway.
Bishop stated that the victim had an Oregon driver’s license. He
described him as a white male adult, 32 years of age,
approximately 71” and about 165 pounds and he was a smoker. The
victim had long dark hair and wore a headband. He could not
remember the victim’s name but thought that it might be Jack or
John. Additionally the victim wore an eye patch over his left
eye which was completely missing.
Bishop thought that the victim could have been hurt during a
logging accident from a choker cable in Oregon. Bishop stated
that he thought the victim had worked for a Lincoln car
dealership in Colorado or Utah where he washed cars. The victim
told Bishop that he had been married but Bishop stated that the
victim lied to him quite a bit. Bishop described the victims
clothing also. he victim could be from anywhere in the northwest
area of the united states.
The victim had been ravaged by animals. The clothing information
provided by Bishop matched the clothing remnants at the scene.
The skull and various bones were scattered throughout the area.
Amongst the remains was a piece of scalp with long brown curly
hair, with a dark leather eye patch tangled within the hair. A
large white marble with orange coloration was found in the
victims pants, it was suspected to be used by the victim as a
glass eye.
Examination of the remains by an anthropologist provided that
the victim was a white male, 25-35 yoa with brown medium length
curly hair approximately 72” tall. A composite drawing and
dental chart were completed of the victim.
Bishop died while still in custody in August of 2003. The victim
has yet to be identified.
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Re: ONE-EYED JACK: WM, 25-35, found in Tok, AK - 20 August 1979
- missing left eye *GRAPHIC*
By: Akoya Date: February 8, 2020, 11:05 am
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HTML http://reallifeishorror.blogspot.com/2017/03/one-eyed-jack-doe.html
Monday, 20 March 2017
One eyed Jack Doe?
There are many motivations behind the reasons why killers kill.
Sometimes money is the motivation for murder, sometimes jealousy
and revenge, but in the case of an unidentified John Doe
murdered in Alaska in 1978, the reason for his untimely death
was due to how “annoying” his travel buddy found him to be.
The man responsible for his murder (a man named Jesse Burt
Bishop who died in prison in the early 2000’s) had picked him up
while driving nearby Boise, Idaho. Although John Doe stated to
the driver that he was making his way to Oregon, he ended up
jumping in the vehicle and riding along to Alaska instead.
Doe was described as being in his mid-thirties with long brown
curly hair and a leather eye patch worn over his missing left
eye. Apparently he was working as a logger and lost the eye in a
work related accident. Due to this distinguishing feature the
unidentified man came to be known as “One eyed Jack Doe”.
According to his killer, one eyed Jack might have actually been
called Jack, or John, although he couldn’t remember which. A
marble was found in the dead man's pocket and was assumed to be
used as a false eye.
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Bishop also said that the man was a smoker and had an Oregon
driver’s license, which if true narrows down the search. However
bear in mind this case is from the Seventies, and this man was
hitchhiking wherever he could get a ride to, which makes me
wonder if / how long exactly he’d been living his nomadic
lifestyle.
I imagine the only people who would have a chance of identifying
him would be those that he possibly could have worked with
around various parts of the US. He was hitchhiking to Oregon
originally, and his license was also from there, though, so it’s
possible he has connections and maybe even roots there. Would
anyone remember one eyed Jack Doe some 40 years later?
His remains were found in 1979 in Fairbanks North Star, Tok,
Alaska (where from what I can gather he was murdered and tossed
out onto the highway). The reports I found about his case state
the cause of death as “undetermined” but a poster on Websleuths
writes that Doe was stabbed and strangled. (edit: they copy and
pasted from J.D's NamUs profile)
Also it’s noted that his mandible was never recovered, so in
many of the composites and reconstructions his likeness is
estimated from the nose down. (it was later updated)
His body had been torn apart by wildlife and his bones, hair and
skin were scattered. Ripped material from the deceased's
clothing at the scene corresponded with the description provided
by Bishop, confirming his statement about his responsibility for
the crime.
When asked why he killed the man, Bishop simply stated “He was
getting on my nerves”.
Case details have him at around 185lbs and 6ft tall.
He remains unidentified.
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Re: ONE-EYED JACK: WM, 25-35, found in Tok, AK - 20 August 1979
- missing left eye *GRAPHIC*
By: Akoya Date: February 8, 2020, 11:07 am
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Operation Doe
August 18, 2016 ·
Unidentified Male Tok, Alaska 1979 – M454AK79
On August 20, 1979, the skeletal remains of an unidentified male
were found in Tok, Alaska. The victim apparently hitchhiked to
Alaska in 1978 with another man and was then murdered by his
companion who confessed but has since died in prison. He was 6
feet tall, weighed about 185 pounds, and was less than 40 years
old when he was killed. The man’s left eye was missing. He wore
a leather eye patch. Other features include that he had long
brown hair worn with a headband. The killer had seen the
victim's Oregon driver's license, and said his name might have
been John or Jack. He described the victim as 32 years old,
about 5'11", had long curly hair, and was missing his left eye
as a result of a logging accident He wore an eyepatch. During
the journey, he told his killer that at some point he worked in
either Colorado or Utah washing cars for a Lincoln Auto
Dealership. The unidentified male is sometimes referred to
informally as “One-Eyed Jack”.
HTML http://www.operationdoe.org/database/454/
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Re: ONE-EYED JACK: WM, 25-35, found in Tok, AK - 20 August 1979
- missing left eye *GRAPHIC*
By: Akoya Date: February 8, 2020, 11:10 am
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One-Eyed Jack (Tok, Alaska, 1979)
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One-Eyed Jack is not your typical missing person. We have his
body, we know what happened to him, but we don’t know who he is.
In September 1978, Jack was picked up somewhere near Boise,
Idaho. The driver was headed for Alaska, and, despite saying he
was going to Pendleton, Oregon, Jack went along for the ride.
They entered Alaska and, as the driver later told police, Jack
annoyed him. So he killed him and dumped his body on the side of
the highway. He led the police to the remains a year later, and
was sent to jail. It was then that things got weird.
The killer said he had seen the victim’s Oregon driver’s
license. Maybe his name was John, maybe it was Jack. Jack stuck.
A logging accident had taken his left eye, and he was around
5’11” with long curly hair. No ID was found on his body. Over
the next few decades, authorities tried to track this man down,
but to no avail. In essence, they had uncovered a ghost. All
they had to go on was what the killer remembered from that
night. But even that was lost when he died in prison in 2003.
So who is One-Eyed Jack? Where was he going? Did the killer
truly have no other motive besides being annoyed? Today, with no
known family, it’s likely that we will never have answers.
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Re: ONE-EYED JACK: WM, 25-35, found in Tok, AK - 20 August 1979
- missing left eye *GRAPHIC*
By: Akoya Date: February 8, 2020, 11:11 am
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unidentified_murder_victims_in_the_United_States#%22One-Eyed_Jack%22
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Alaska
"One-Eyed Jack"
On August 20, 1979, the skeletal remains of a man were
discovered in Tok, Alaska. The decedent had apparently
hitchhiked to Alaska in 1978 with another man and was then
murdered by his companion. He was 6 feet tall, weighed
approximately 185 pounds, and was less than 40 years old when he
was murdered. The man's left eye was missing, and he wore a
distinctive leather eye patch, which may play a crucial role in
his future identification. Another feature pertaining to his
identity is that he had long brown hair worn with a headband.
The likeness of One Eyed Jack was created by police sketch
artist Carl Koppelman. The image is based on only the cranium,
as the victim's lower jaw was not recovered.
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Re: ONE-EYED JACK: WM, 25-35, found in Tok, AK - 20 August 1979
- missing left eye *GRAPHIC*
By: Akoya Date: February 8, 2020, 11:13 am
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HTML http://unidentified.wikia.com/wiki/One-Eyed_Jack
One-Eyed Jack
One-Eyed Jack was a man who was murdered after he accepted a
ride from a murderer while hitchkiking in Alaska in 1978. His
remains were found in 1979, although his mandible was never
found.
Case
'Jack' was seen near Boise, Idaho when he accepted a ride from a
man whose name has not been revealed. He was intending to head
to Oregon but instead decided to go to Alaska with the man,
where he was killed in an unknown manner. His killer was
sentenced to life in prison and died in 2001.
According to his killer, this man's name was John or Jack and he
was 32 years old. He had an Oregon driver's license and he also
mentioned losing his eye in a logging accident and having a job
washing cars in Colorado.He was also married. Killer was not
sure if any of the information was accurate as, according to
him, victim lied to him quite a bit.
When asked why he killed the man, the suspect simply stated “He
was getting on my nerves
One-Eyed Jack
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Sex Male
Race White
Location Tok, Alaska
Found August 20, 1979
Unidentified for 39 years
Postmortem interval One year (1978)
Body condition Skeletal
Age approximation Below 40
Height approximation 6'
Weight approximation 185 pounds
Cause of death Homicide
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Re: ONE-EYED JACK: WM, 25-35, found in Tok, AK - 20 August 1979
- missing left eye *GRAPHIC*
By: Akoya Date: February 8, 2020, 11:14 am
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