The bones discovered near Kitterman Road earlier this summer have been identified, putting to rest the mystery of a homeless man who was last seen 16 years ago.
“They were buried by time,” said Sheriff Ken Mascara, referencing the bones of Calvin Douglas Parrott. He would have been 70 this year.
His remains were discovered in mid-July by a construction crew clearing land behind the Speedway gas station on Kitterman. The Sheriff’s Office conducted an “exhaustive archaeological” dig of the area over the course of two days, according to Mascara.
The bones were sent to the regional crime lab and, ultimately, transferred to the C.A. Pound Human Identification Lab in the Department of Anthropology at University of Florida. It was there that investigators were able to make a positive identification using a host of techniques, the sheriff said.
Parrott’s dentures were the final element that cemented the identification.
Sheriff Mascara said Parrott’s wife was the last known person to see or hear from him in 2002.
She told investigators “he kind of fell off the grid,” Sheriff Mascara said.
Parrott had no known health issues and investigators found no signs of trauma on his bones – nothing to indicate that his death was anything other than natural.
