Body (ID'd Steven Ralph Hudson) near FERMI II power plant Monroe, MI

[Nut44x4]

Autopsy unable to ID man's body


MONROE - The human remains that washed ashore near Detroit Edison's Fermi 2 nuclear power plant Tuesday are those of a man, 6 feet, 5 inches tall, who weighed about 240 pounds, Michigan State Police said yesterday.

The body was discovered about 8:50 a.m. Tuesday.

The man had been dead for some time, troopers said.

An autopsy was completed in Detroit yesterday, but it failed to identify the person, a spokesman for the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office said.

Trauma is not believed to be the cause of death, the spokesman said.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080508/NEWS03/805080350

[Nut44x4]

Body washes ashore near FERMI II power plant

Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 at 4:10 p.m.

MONROE -- Michigan State Police are investigating a deceased body that was found on the shore of Lake Erie near the FERMI II nuclear power plant in Monroe, Michigan Tuesday morning.

The body was discovered shortly before 9:00 a.m.

The cause of death, gener or identity is not known at this time. Police say that the appears to be that of an adult. They also say it appears to have been deceased for some time.

Michigan State Police along with the Michigan State Crime Lab and Coast Guard continue to investigate the incident.

Anyone with possible information on the identity of the subject is asked to contact the Michigan State Police Monroe Post at 734-242-3500.

http://www.nbc24.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=130894

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http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090123/METRO/901230456

Michigan State Police artist helps to identify body of missing Canadian

http://cmsimg.detnews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C3&Date=20090123&Category=METRO&ArtNo=901230456&Ref=AR&Q=100&MaxW=290&MaxH=290

Friday, January 23, 2009

MONROE -- Michigan State Police today said a forensic artist's 3-D facial reconstruction has helped them identify a man whose body washed ashore near the Fermi II Nuclear Power Plant in May.

The body is that of Steven Ralph Hudson, a Toronto-area resident who'd been missing for more than a year.

Hudson's photograph is posted on a missing persons website, and his case has been featured three times on a Canadian television show since his disappearance in Jan. 14, 2008.

When the body turned up on the bank of Lake Erie, no usable fingerprints, DNA or matches on missing-persons databases, investigators turned to Michigan State Police forensic artist Trooper Sarah Krebs of the Detroit Post to perform a 3-D facial reconstruction, police said.

When the reconstruction was in the final stages, Krebs began attempting to match the unidentified remains to missing persons reports. She viewed more than 100 possibilities before searching missing persons websites.

"One web site I came across included the photograph of a missing man out of the Toronto area whose significant other had posted his photo," Krebs said in a statement released today.

"The image struck me immediately as being very similar to the reconstruction, including his distinctive teeth," she said.

Upon further investigation, Krebs confirmed the clothing description was an exact match, down to the brand name "Guess" jeans. When he went missing, Hudson also was wearing a beige sweatshirt and a beige suede waist-length winter jacket.

The identification was confirmed by a forensic odontologist , a person who specializes in the structure, development, and abnormalities of the teeth.

According to the National Center for Missing Adults, Hudson, who was 36 at the time of his disappearance, was last seen at the cross streets of Winston Churchill Blvd. and Dundas St in Mississauga, Ontario. On Jan. 21, 2008, his silver 2006 Jeep Liberty was found locked in the Sobey's grocery lot in Amherstburg, Ontario. His wallet, ATM and credit cards were inside the vehicle.

The case is being investigated by the Peel Regional Police in Ontario, Canada.

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/METRO/901230456

[Alibar]

So strange that all his IDs were in his car. I'm glad he has been identified.

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http://www.torontosun.com/news/2009/01/24/8134976.html

'Face detective' solves missing person case

Saturday, January 24, 2009 Toronto-

Forensic reconstruction of the face from the human remains found near a Michigan nuclear power plant last May solved the mystery of the disappearance of a Mississauga man.

Steven Ralph Hudson, 36, a sunglasses salesman, vanished Jan. 14, 2008, and his Jeep Liberty was found abandoned in Amhurstburg, Ont., eight days later.

Michigan State Police found the remains near the Fermi II Nuclear Power Plant in Newport, south of Detroit and across from Amherstburg, Ont., five months later and it was impossible to confirm the person's identity without forensic help.

Police said forensic artist Trooper Sarah Krebs of the state police's Detroit Post developed a 3-D facial reconstruction after fingerprints and DNA samples failed to match any records.

Krebs failed to match the unidentified remains to any missing persons reports from the area and then turned to missing persons Web sites, state police said.

"One Web site I came across included the photograph of a missing man out of the Toronto area whose significant other had posted his photo on a missing person site," Krebs said in a MSP news release. "The image struck me immediately as being very similar to the reconstruction, including his distinctive teeth."

Police in Peel and Michigan don't believe foul play was involved in Hudson's death.

[Nut44x4]

I have this in Who Am I
http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?p=216184&highlight=Fermi#post216184

I'll post news there so it can be marked and moved or merged.

[Nut44x4]

Body that washed up in Michigan last May that of missing Ontario man: police
January 24, 2009 - 15:14
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MONROE, Mich. - A body that washed ashore in Michigan last May has finally been identified as that of a missing Toronto-area man.
Thirty-six-year-old Steven Ralph Hudson went missing in January 2008.

His unidentified body washed up near the Fermi 2 nuclear plant on Lake Erie some 50 kilometres south of Detroit on May 6.
A Michigan State Police facial reconstruction artist was called in after fingerprints and DNA failed to identify him.
Trooper Sarah Krebs, who did the reconstruction, was completing her work when she saw Hudson's photo on a missing person website.
Police in Ontario are investigating Hudson's disappearance.
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=w012451A

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I have this in Who Am I
http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?p=216184&highlight=Fermi#post216184

I'll post news there so it can be marked and moved or merged.


I think this story would also be helpful to those looking for ways to find their missing loved ones so I put it in Info and Support for missing too (but it was moved). It's the kind of story that has many categories to be placed under.

[packy]

Thanks, Nut. Glad they had a follow up.

My condolences to Steven's family.

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http://mississauga.com/article/23373

Wife never stopped looking for missing husband

http://media.mississauga.topscms.com/images/12/72/cd415b6a491d9ad67a56a2351fe4.jpeg

Michigan State and Peel Regional Police announced Friday they had identified the remains of missing Mississauga man Steve Hudson.

January 26, 2009 09:15 AM - The determination shown by Steve Hudson's common-law wife, who spread the news of his disappearance far and wide, is one of the reasons forensic investigators in Michigan were able to identify the missing Mississauga man's body.

Michigan State and Peel Regional Police announced Friday they had identified Hudson's remains, His body had washed up last May in Michigan, almost directly across the water from the spot where Hudson's abandoned vehicle was found in Amherstburg, Ont. just over a year ago.

A Michigan State trooper named Sarah Krebs, an artist who specializes in drawing missing persons from forensic evidence, solved the mystery after she visited a website and saw a photo of Hudson that eerily matched a likeness she had created. Her drawing was a reconstruction done using computer technology and the skull of the unknown body that washed up in Michigan.

“I recognized him right away,” Krebs said in a story published in The Windsor Star. “Then I started to read the details ... where his car was abandoned, the clothes he left in.”

Those clothes were a significant detail in confirming the identity.

“He had pretty decent clothing on at the time we found the body,” Krebs told The Windsor Star. “He had brand name jeans, brand name shoes. Something we wouldn’t expect out of somebody that had gone missing for so long. Usually, someone missing that long, it’s a case of a homeless person where nobody’s really looking for them."

Krebs said that Hudson's partner, Agata Mirowska, is the one who really led to the identification because of her diligence in posting information about him on a website, on Facebook and on YouTube.

“Without her persistence that his face be seen, I don’t think it would have been solved,” Krebs told The Windsor Star. “She was very vigilant in getting the word out there. I could tell that she’d really been looking for him for a long time. It goes to show you that people doing this stuff at home can really solve crimes.”

A week before Hudson's body was found, Mirowska told The News that she still remembered every detail of the day she last saw him in the home they shared in Mississauga, near Winston Churchill Blvd. and Dundas St. W.

The couple would have celebrated their fourth anniversary that April and had just returned from a vacation in the Dominican Republic.

“Steve was not the kind of guy who would walk away from his family and his life,” Mirowska said.

In her own efforts to locate Hudson, 36, Mirowska spent hours contacting area churches and homeless shelters in case he’d become disoriented and wandered in.

She set up a Facebook page called Steve is Missing, posting numerous photos of Hudson. She also wrote a blog to keep people informed of developments.

In a message posted Saturday on her blog, Mirowska says, "I'm sorry to report this news, but the police had ID'd Steve's body. He was found in Michigan in the river and they don't suspect any foul play. Myself and all his family and friends are understandably upset with the news, but at least we have some answers now. Thank you all for the continuing support."

Police don't know if foul play was involved. Because Hudson's body was decomposed, it was impossible to tell if he had suffered any injury.

[packy]

Goes to show how helpful it can be when the pictures and descriptions are out there in the public.

[annalyzer]

http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/local/article/173681

Reconstruction ID’s missing man

http://media.metronews.topscms.com/images/fe/59/197353374754a182e2144d9eee93.jpeg
A 3-D clay facial reconstruction by Michigan State Police Trooper Sarah Krebs, left, has led to the identification of the body of Steve Hudson, who went missing from Mississauga in January 2008. His body washed ashore in Michigan last May.


Steve Hudson’s body found in Michigan

TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
January 29, 2009 05:19

The first thing Trooper Sarah Krebs noticed on the unidentified skull were the teeth. Shiny, white, well-cared-for teeth.

“You could tell he was someone who took care of himself, someone other people cared about,” the eight-year Michigan State Police veteran said.

And so began a long process, including 120 hours of intricate 3-D clay reconstruction, that led Krebs, a forensic police artist, to give the skull a face and ultimately identify the body of Steve Hudson, missing from Mississauga for more than a year.

His car was found last January in Amherstburg, near Windsor, but there had been no sign of him since.

Hudson’s decomposed body washed ashore near a nuclear power plant in Michigan May 6.
Police found no signs of foul play.

Krebs was called in to work with the skull after fingerprints, DNA and vague tips led to a dead end.

She was readying a media release when Hudson’s picture stared out at her from a computer screen.

“I thought it was pretty uncanny how much recognition I got in the face,” she said. “It jumped right off the website at me.”

Tests confirmed the body was of the 36-year-old man from Peel.

Peel police have closed their missing person file on Hudson, Const. Adam Minion said yesterday.

[Nut44x4]

Here is more of Michigan's work on reconstructions/sketching>>
http://michigan.gov/msp/0,1607,7-123-1589_31786_32003-189611--,00.html