unidentified body
Nameless dead person
An unidentified body is a human corpse whose identity has not been established.
The term appears in police reports, news coverage, and forensic contexts when someone is found dead but cannot be immediately identified through documents, fingerprints, or recognition: An unidentified body was discovered near the riverbank.
Such cases may remain open for years.
- corpseDeceased human body
- cadaverBody for dissection
- John DoePlaceholder for unidentified males
- Jane DoePlaceholder for unknown woman
- morgueCorpse holding facility
cold storage · autopsy · cause of death · forensic · crime lab · remains · deceased · toe tag · cold case · dental records · fingerprints · decomposed · next of kin · murder · crime scene · detective · anonymous · unclaimed
- unnamed peopleJohn Doe, Jane Doe, anonymous author, stranger, foundling
- missing peoplemissing child, lost child, lost hiker, lost tourist, abductee
- true crimetrue crime, cold case, crime docs, unsolved mystery, murder mystery
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