The Chilling Tip That Led Police to a Hidden Grave

A homeless man tells a local artist in Deshong Park in Chester, Pennsylvania, he knows where a body is buried in the park. The artist passes along the information to law enforcement and days after the homeless man approached the artist with a crazy story about a body buried in the park, investigators find the remains of a decomposed corpse buried in a shallow grave. The victims fingertips had been removed and the decomposed remains had been buried for at least three months, making identification difficult. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack investigate the remains found in the park, take a close look at the "finder" and explain how Othram used Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing to change the name of the deceased from "Jane Doe" to Dorraine Wilkins. 00:00 - Introduction: A Strange Discovery 01:18 - The "Finder" 03:52 - Investigating the Park Encampment 07:06 - Challenges of Forensic Work in Homeless Camps 13:14 - Verifying the "Finder's" Account 16:00 - Determining Cause and Manner of Death 18:02 - Understanding Clandestine Graves 21:54 - Environmental Factors and Human Decay 25:28 - What Defines a "Shallow Grave"? 30:20 - Blunt Force Trauma to the Neck 36:44 - A Gruesome Detail: Missing Fingertips 40:10 - The Digital Trail: Johnson’s Phone Searches 41:24 - Identifying the Victim: Dorraine Wilkins 43:52 - The Role of Othram and DNA Solves 46:36 - Justice for Dorraine Wilkins