GREENBELT, Md. — The DNA Doe Project has identified a man whose remains were found along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Greenbelt back in 1981. Forty-five years later, the man was identified as 24-year-old Edward “Eddie” Octavis Devone.
Devone, a native of Baltimore, was last seen by his family in the late 1970s.
U.S. Park Police detectives found Devone’s body wrapped in a blanket alongside a Baltimore-Washington Parkway guardrail on Aug. 3, 1981. Investigators determined that he was 15-25 years old, about 5’2” and weighed 106 pounds. The young man also had distinctive, severely deformed teeth with unusual lengths, odd angles, and gaps. His cause of death could not be determined…