Identify John Doe: AI-Generated Image of Spine Surgery Hardware

0:00It's April 27. This is Birmingham News Today, AI-powered stories from your city. Jefferson County Coroner's Office is asking for the public's help to identify skeletal remains of an adult male found last year in a wooded area near. Adamsville, Alabama A utility worker spotted them on November 10, 2025, around 11.30 a.m. in Vineson Branch Creek, off the 700 block of Basswood Drive. His case number, 2025-5398, and Adamsville police are on it too. DNA tests confirm it's an adult male, but no hits in the national database, so he's still a John Doe. Investigators can't pin down his height, weight, when or where he died, or even the cause details are tough with just bones. The big clue here is orthopedic hardware from next surgery, the anterior cervical kind implanted in the front. They found expressions brand pants, size 33, and Hane's men's underwear nearby, but

1:00no jewelry or IDs. To help out, officials released an AI-generated image showing what that hardware looks like, not a photo of the actual remains. If you got a missing loved one who had that type of spine surgery, reach out. Your tips could give a family the answers they've been waiting for, call the coroner's office at 2AC-0-5930-3603.