Human stays dragged to a Heart Level residence by a canine 4 completely different instances in a single yr have now been recognized as a 25-year-old man lacking since 2024.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Workplace on Thursday recognized the sufferer as Curtis Taylor Jr., a visually impaired man who vanished almost two years in the past.
Chief Deputy Coroner Invoice Yates mentioned investigators used DNA and dental data to positively establish Taylor.
His dying is being investigated as a murder.
Taylor, who was visually impaired, was final seen Feb. 6, 2024, when he instructed his mom that he was going to spend a while together with his father. Each dad and mom lived within the Heart Level space, however Taylor on the time was residing together with his mom.
His mom assumed that’s the place he was, however when she hadn’t heard from him in two weeks, she reached out and discovered he had not gone to his father’s residence.
Taylor was legally blind however had some sight. He attended the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind.
The household filed a lacking individual’s report with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Continued searches for Taylor had been unsuccessful.
For the second time in 4 months, a canine in east Birmingham has proven up at residence with what may very well be human stays.(Carol Robinson)
On Aug. 20, 2024, Orlin Manchame Marroquin noticed his 2-year-old German Shepherd combine, Chicarin, taking part in with a cranium on the roadway subsequent to their residence and referred to as police.
Yates mentioned on the time a search of the world across the residence discovered no different human stays.
Chicarin, a 2-year-old German Shepherd combine, introduced residence this lengthy bone on Aug. 8, 2025. It was the fourth time in a yr she has dragged human stays again to her Heart Level residence.(Particular to AL.com)
On Dec. 12, 2024, Chicarin was present in possession of a protracted bone, once more within the residence’s entrance yard. The bone was decided to be a tibia.
Yates mentioned investigators checked close by properties and woods behind the house at the moment.
Investigators additionally checked with space residents and requested them to take a look at their Ring cameras to see if they might decide the place the canine was going to or coming from.
One neighbor, Yates mentioned, did report seeing the canine strolling up the road. One other reported seeing the canine “gnawing” on a bone.
Yates even stopped a mailman to query him.
Authorities the next day mentioned the medical examination of the cranium confirmed the sufferer had been shot and the case was deemed a murder.
A full DNA profile was compiled, however the DNA profile didn’t match anybody listed CODIS, or the Mixed DNA Index System, which is a nationwide DNA database that enables legislation enforcement to match DNA profiles from crime scenes, convicted offenders, arrestees, detainees, and lacking individuals.
The FBI maintains the nationwide index.
In March 2025, DNA evaluation confirmed the cranium recovered on Aug. 20 and the left tibia recovered on Dec. 12 belonged to the identical individual.
Chicarin, a 2-year-old German Shepherd combine, has dragged residence human stays 4 instances in a yr.Carol Robinson
On April 10, 2025, Chicarin was discovered with a femur, once more within the yard. A search of the yard additionally turned up a human mandible, or a jawbone. These bones additionally belong to the identical sufferer.
GPS trackers had been then positioned on the canine and outlined her roaming space and patterns.
Searches of areas incessantly visited by the canine didn’t flip up any extra stays, till sheriff’s investigators found the extra stays on Aug. 8, 2025.
Yates mentioned these extra stays discovered 4 months in the past had been in a wooded space on the property of Taylor’s household which is throughout the road from the house Chicarin’s homeowners.
The investigation is ongoing by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Anybody with data is requested to name investigators at 205-325-1450 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
