Donald Hadland Jr. used a different name before he checked into a hotel in Nogales where he died. Students in New Jersey worked on his case for months.
TUCSON, Ariz. — The year was 2002, and a hotel in Nogales, Edward C. checked into a room. He presented his I.D. to the person at the front desk and it said he was from Saint Petersburg, Florida.And to a lot of people’s surprise….his name….wasn’t Edward C.; it was Donald Hadland Jr.
Carienn Binder, the director of the investigative genetic genealogy certificate program at Ramapo College of New Jersey, along with students at the college started studying the case back in February.However, the case was a tough one because this John Doe had gone by two names. “The fingerprint match came back to Mister Hadland, but because of the conflicting accounts and the conflicting information, that wasn’t enough to make an ID,” Binder said.The students also started building Hadland’s family tree.
“The matches that we saw to Mr. Hadland in the database were pretty close. Enough that we could quickly figure out that his identity was that of Mr. Hadland,” Binder said.That’s what caused a breakthrough in the case. This John Doe was confirmed to be Hadland. While Binder and her students might be done with this case, their work isn’t over. They will be continuing to take on cases from Arizona.“We’ve got more cases in Pima County, more cases in Arizona that we’re working on. We’re looking forward to the next identification,” Binder said.
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