page_title: List of unidentified decedents in California
section_title: "Paul Deering" (1993)
hierarchical_section_title: List of unidentified decedents in California / "Paul Deering" (1993)
caption_attribution_description: English: Forensic facial reconstruction of an unidentified suicide victim found in 1993 in Los Angeles. He was found at a Century Blvd Hotel.
context_page_description: Unidentified decedents are a group of people who have died but officials were unable to discover who they were when they were alive. Several victims are not identified for several years or even decades after their deaths, one case being that of Barbara Precht, who died in 2006 and was identified in 2014. Around 40,000 decedents still remain unidentified in the United States.
context_section_description: A man between thirty and forty-five years old checked into a hotel in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California on October 21, 1993. He signed in using the name "Paul Deering" and provided the address "790 East Ute." In Salt Lake City, Utah. When he failed to check out 2 days later, hotel staff found him slumped in his bed. The victim had committed suicide by ingesting lethal amounts of cyanide. Police discovered that a "Paul Deering" was living in the address the victim provided, but he was confirmed not to be the decedent. He was determined to be Caucasian and had brown hair and blue eyes and was five feet nine inches tall and weighed 182 pounds. The man wore a red shirt with beige pants, underwear and shoes and a belt that were both brown. The victim was likely married, as he wore a ring on his left hand. Apart from this, the only personal item with the body was a set of car keys.
caption: 1993 Los Angeles County John Doe
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