Joseph Henry Loveless

Joseph Henry Loveless (December 3, 1870 – c. May 1916), formerly known as Buffalo Cave John Doe, was an American criminal who escaped prison after allegedly murdering his common-law wife, Agnes, with an axe in May of 1916.However, his final wanted poster after his jailbreak describes him as wearing some of the same clothes that were found with his remains: a light-colored hat, brown coat, red maroon sweater, and blue overalls over black trousers.[4] Samantha Blatt, bioarchaeologist at Idaho State University, speculated that Loveless may have been killed by his deceased wife's family as revenge for her murder.[5] In 1979, a family searching for arrowheads in Buffalo Cave near Dubois, Idaho, discovered human remains in a burlap sack, consisting of a headless torso.[6] In 2019, Idaho State University anthropologists, Samantha Blatt and Amy Michael, along with Clark County authorities solicited help from the DNA Doe Project, a nonprofit that seeks to identify previously unidentified deceased persons via forensic genealogy.
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