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Police to expand search to ID remains
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Dr. Humphrey D. Germaniuk and Bazetta Detective Joe Sofchek unveil a sculpture done by the FBI of a bust of a man whose body was found near Mosquito Lake in 2006. Call Bazetta police at 330-638-5503 if you have any information on the man.
Identity Mystery
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In a cold-case investigation worthy of television, Trumbull officials unveiled an FBI reconstruction of the head of the man whose skeleton was found along the southern edge of Mosquito Lake July 23, 2006. The bones of the black male, thought to be about 50 years old and roughly 5-feet-8-inches (plus or minus 3 inches), were found mostly intact in a marshy, grassy area on the north side of the Mosquito Lake dam along state Route 305.
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BAZETTA
The detective working to identify the human remains found along the southern shore of Mosquito Lake State Park in 2006 says he has received about a dozen new leads since an FBI reconstruction was unveiled to the public Monday.
All the calls received so far by Detective Joe Sofchek of the Bazetta Township Police Department have come from people in the Warren-Youngstown area, though he believes the photograph and information about the body have been disseminated as far away as Cleveland and Akron.
Sofchek said he doesn’t believe the story has gone beyond Ohio yet, so the department is compiling a list of news media from Michigan, Canada and elsewhere and planning to contact them to get the story out.
He’s also contacting other national news media, such as ABC’s “Good Morning America” show.
“I’m leaning more and more each day that it’s out of the area,” Sofchek said of the home of the man.
Scientists say the body belongs to a black man at least age 50 and about 5 feet 8 inches tall (plus or minus 3 inches).