2025 Year in Review
Happy New Year from the Trans Doe Task Force. As we continue to weather the political storm that threatens the lives and wellbeing of LGBTQIA+ people throughout our country, we will never stop advocating for the most vulnerable of our community.
We began 2025 with a crisis brought on by executive orders that undermined our ability to reach identifications and missing persons back to their loved ones. In February, NCMEC and NamUS altered every Transgender missing and unidentified case listing to conform to standards that caused postmortem harm to the unidentified and put the missing in greater danger. The LAMMP database then became the only place where this information was preserved correctly. It made our job harder, but all the more important.
Last year also saw the long-awaited identification of Julie Doe as Pamela Leigh Walton. This was the first case that the Trans Doe Task Force worked to get into the Forensic Genetic Genealogy pipeline. Lee and Dr. Redgrave were the original team leads on this case at the DNA Doe Project and had to leave her behind when the Trans Doe Task Force was officially incorporated and became our primary focus, but she never left our thoughts.
We also finally began genealogical research on Harris County 2019 Doe. We're still working on them and hope to have an update in the coming year.
Yearly LAMMP statistics
In 2025, we added 11 new unclaimed persons, 83 unidentified and 615 new missing persons cases to the LAMMP database.
Identified this year:
- Milan Batista
- Pamela Walton
Missing and found deceased:
- Jay Lee
- Aubrey Dameron
- Blair Lumpkins-Crabb/Blair Styles
- Shanice Harris
- Clyde Dicks
- Lia Thomas
- Blake Sturm
- Danny Siplin
- Lilou Fontenille
- Alex Spady
- Meabh Byrne
- Danica "Tynee" White
- London Thomas
- Marcus Freiberger
- Gabby Shull
- Charlotte Fosgate
- Jax Gratton
- Tyler Goodrich
- Ryan "J.J. Godbey
- Paxton Reifsnyder
- Amber Simone Shelton
- Jennifer Michaell Chavez Ramos
- Hope Youngblood
Finally, we would like to thank those who have supported, donated and awarded grants to the Trans Doe Task Force this past year. We depend on you to be able to serve our community.
Hail the unknown dead and fight for the living.
Sincerely,
Trans Doe Task Force - Board of Directors
Dr. Anthony Redgrave, Ed.D.
Lee Bingham Redgrave
Viktor Veltstra
