Inside the Hamilton County Coroners office hangs a reminder every
day when I walk into my office and I walk
past it,
we got a lot of work to do.
We're not going to forget you.
A year ago, Jeff Jellison reopened an investigation identifying victim
remains of suspected serial killer her baummeister found on his
former property,
Fox Hollow Farm. All of a sudden,
state police got a match and they're emailing these reports.
A break came this week identifying Alan Livingston,
who'd been missing for 30 years.
I know it's there. I know he's there.
I know that man got him.
I just know what I feel that we spoke to
Alan's mother,
Sharon, in December. She submitted the DNA sample that led
to the match after a push from her nephew,
Eric Pranger, a former employee with the Marion County Coroner's
Office.
Last year I started doing more shower transport services and.
I just kept thinking about Alan a lot on on
several runs and decided to do something about it.
Eric called me a year,
almost a year and a half ago.
And said hey, our family would like to have.
Somehow it is because of that phone call we were
able to get the ball rolling that identified his cousin
and will identify many people in the future.
I'm sure now pranger and his family's long lasting question
has been answered.
I am happy and sad at the same time.
Happy because Sharon got some closure and I'm sad because
we got confirmation that it's Alan Jealous.
It says he's proud of what he and his team
have accomplished over the past year but knows there's more
work to be done.
Putting a name to the 10,000 unidentified human remains that
were found here just because we got one.
Yeah, we're thankful and we celebrated.
We got to continue to put our nose back to
that guy.
So get back to work and start identifying more people
in Westfield.
John Duran, 13 News.