Students of a new course at Ramapo College of New Jersey helped identify “Nogales John Doe” – a 60-year-old man who mysteriously died at an Arizona hotel in 2002.
In 2002, a 60-year-old man used the named “Edward C.” to check into a squalid motel in an Arizona border town ahead of a scheduled surgery in Mexico. But he never checked out.
Ramapo, a public liberal arts college in Mahwah, launched its remote Investigative Genetic Genealogy program in January, offering a 15-week, non-credit course to teach “The man previously known to authorities as “Nogales John Doe” was identified as Donald Sigurd Hadland by Ramapo College of New Jersey students, via investigative genetic genealogy 21 years after his mysterious death.
David Gurney is director of Ramapo’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center. Cairenn Binder, right, oversees IGG’s certificate program, which launched in January.A fingerprint search led to Donald Hadland, however — but investigators couldn’t rule out if that, too, was a fake name. “We call it an investigative lead,” she continued. “When we come up with the identity of a person based on their genetic matches, we hand that over to the medical examiner and that was done in early May.”
Hadland died from an accidental opioid-barbiturate overdose, Pima Country officials confirmed to The Post. Attempts to reach his relatives were unsuccessful.
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