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* ''Series/{{Lewis}}'': The backstory to episode "[[Recap/LewisS4E1 The Dead of Winter]]" involves Linda Grahame, the wife of Crevecoeur Hall estate manager Ralph Grahame, running off with another man years ago. Supposedly Steven Black, the murder victim at the start of the episode, was the man who ran away with Linda, and Ralph killed Stephen and then himself in a murder-suicide. In fact, TheButlerDidIt, and he also killed Linda seven years ago and buried her under a fountain on the estate. The episode ends with the cops finding remains.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jason_Callahan Jason Callahan]], also known as the Grateful Doe, is one of the more well-known cases due to the role played by the online community. He was initially unable to be identified after dying in a 1995 single-car accident, but in 2015, an online appeal for information reached someone who thought he might have been a former roommate of the Doe, providing pictures for comparison; those pictures in turn drew the attention of Margaretta Evans, who recognized the man in the photos as her son Jason, who she had lost contact with around the time of the accident. Evans then got in touch with investigators and provided a DNA sample, proving Grateful Doe was indeed her son.

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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jason_Callahan Jason Callahan]], also known as the Grateful Doe, is one of the more well-known cases due to the role played by the online community. He Callahan was initially unable to be identified after dying one of two people killed in a 1995 single-car accident, accident in 1995, but he wasn't carrying ID and the family of the driver didn't recognize him[[note]]the commonly accepted theory is that the driver picked up Callahan as a hitchhiker[[/note]], so he went unidentified for almost two decades. Then, in 2015, an online appeal for information reached someone who thought he might have been a former roommate of the Doe, providing pictures for comparison; those pictures in turn drew the attention of Margaretta Evans, who recognized the man in the photos as her son Jason, Jason Callahan, who she had lost contact with around the time of the accident. Evans then got in touch with investigators and provided a DNA sample, proving Grateful Doe was indeed her son.

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* After Harold is kidnapped by Root in ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', John and Carter chase a lead, thinking they've finally found Root, and investigate Hanna Frey's disappearance from a Texas small town 15 years earlier. The girl in question turns out to be Root's childhood friend and they end up finding her body under the patio of the man who killed her, whose death Root had orchestrated years before.

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* After Harold ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' has used this more than once. A few examples:
** "The Curse": A hunter in rural Maryland stumbles across a drop-tank half buried in the woods. When he opens it, he finds (among other things) the mummified corpse of a Navy lieutenant who went missing ten years ago after a robbery on board his ship.
** "Black Water": A car
is kidnapped by Root found sunk in ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', John a lake. When the car is pulled out, inside are the remains of a Marine officer who vanished mysteriously three years before. The presence of a bullet among the remains suggests strongly that he was murdered.
** "Mind Games": Years ago, Gibbs caught Kyle Boone, a serial killer who hid his victims so successfully that none of them have ever been found. Now Boone says he'll reveal the location of his killing-ground, complete with the bodies, in exchange for his sentence being changed from "death" to "life in prison." Gibbs is determined to give Boone nothing, so he commits his team to finding the bodies some other way. They do,
and Carter chase a lead, thinking they've Gibbs finally gets to see Boone [[VillainousBreakdown break down in a screaming rage]] as his entire scheme, years in the making, collapses before his eyes.
--->'''Gibbs:''' Enjoy Hell.
** "Caged": The just-discovered skeletal body of a Navy petty officer is
found Root, to match two other murders committed by a very disturbed woman. [=McGee=] is sent to interview the woman and investigate Hanna Frey's disappearance from a Texas small town 15 years earlier. The girl in question turns find out to be Root's childhood friend if this is another of her kills, and they end he promptly gets caught up finding her body under the patio of the man who killed her, whose death Root had orchestrated years before.in a prison riot.


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* After Harold is kidnapped by Root in ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', John and Carter chase a lead, thinking they've finally found Root, and investigate Hanna Frey's disappearance from a Texas small town 15 years earlier. The girl in question turns out to be Root's childhood friend and they end up finding her body under the patio of the man who killed her, whose death Root had orchestrated years before.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Despite being named as a major player behind the scenes in the Black Tongue organization it turns out [[spoiler:Delicieu]] was killed long before the story began and his killer is using his name. His skeletal remains are only found decades after his death.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jason_Callahan Jason Callahan]], also known as the Grateful Doe, is one of the more well-known cases due to the role played by the online community. He was initially unable to be identified after dying in a 1995 single-car accident, but in 2015, an online appeal for information ultimately connected internet sleuths with Callahan's mother, who was able to provide a DNA sample to confirm that Grateful Doe was indeed her son.

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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jason_Callahan Jason Callahan]], also known as the Grateful Doe, is one of the more well-known cases due to the role played by the online community. He was initially unable to be identified after dying in a 1995 single-car accident, but in 2015, an online appeal for information ultimately connected internet sleuths information reached someone who thought he might have been a former roommate of the Doe, providing pictures for comparison; those pictures in turn drew the attention of Margaretta Evans, who recognized the man in the photos as her son Jason, who she had lost contact with Callahan's mother, who was able to provide around the time of the accident. Evans then got in touch with investigators and provided a DNA sample to confirm that sample, proving Grateful Doe was indeed her son.
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** In 2015, for instance, investigators were finally able to identify the victim of a 1979 homicide as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tammy_Alexander Tammy Alexander]] and a fatality from a 1995 car accident as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jason_Callahan Jason Callahan]].

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** In 2015, for instance, investigators were finally able to identify the victim of a 1979 homicide as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tammy_Alexander Tammy Alexander]] and a fatality from a 1995 car accident as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jason_Callahan Jason Callahan]].Callahan]], also known as the Grateful Doe, is one of the more well-known cases due to the role played by the online community. He was initially unable to be identified after dying in a 1995 single-car accident, but in 2015, an online appeal for information ultimately connected internet sleuths with Callahan's mother, who was able to provide a DNA sample to confirm that Grateful Doe was indeed her son.
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* In 1969, a young woman named [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Reyna_Marroquin Reyna Marroquin]] vanished after a frightened phone call to a friend. 30 years later, a man found her remains stuffed in a barrel hidden in the crawl space of the home he had just purchased. It turned out that the previous owner, Howard Elkins, had been Ms. Marroquin's employer and lover and killed her after she became pregnant and called his wife and told her about the affair. He'd intended to dump the barrel in the ocean, but couldn't lift it, resulting in him stashing it in his garage. Elkins killed himself shortly after the police arrived at his house to question him. This case was profiled in an episode of ''Series/ForensicFiles''.

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* In 1969, a young woman named [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Reyna_Marroquin Reyna Marroquin]] vanished after a frightened phone call to a friend. 30 years later, a man found her remains stuffed in a barrel hidden in the crawl space of the home he had just purchased. It turned out that the previous owner, Howard Elkins, had been Ms. Marroquin's employer and lover and killed her after she [[ImperiledInPregnancy became pregnant and called his wife and told her about the affair.affair]]. He'd intended to dump the barrel in the ocean, but couldn't lift it, resulting in him stashing it in his garage. Elkins killed himself shortly after the police arrived at his house to question him. This case was profiled in an episode of ''Series/ForensicFiles''.

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