A body that was found on the side of a Maryland highway in 1981 has been identified as a Baltimore man, providing some answers in a 45-year-old cold case, according to the nonprofit organization DNA Doe Project.
John Doe was identified as 24-year-old Edward “Eddie” Octavis Devone, a Baltimore native who was last seen by his family in the late 1970s, the organization said.
His body was found wrapped in a blanket along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway on August 3, 1981, by U.S. Park Police…