It was 1:30 a.m. when a car went off the road and crashed into a tree, killing the driver and passenger instantly.
It was one of the long highways typical of the United States, where nothing happens for miles, so based on the timing and the way the car went off the road, it is assumed that the driver had fallen asleep.
The driver was a 21-year-old young man. When the authorities arrived at the scene of the accident, they called his relatives to identify him.
The problem started with the other young man, the passenger. Unfortunately, he was so disfigured by the accident that no one could recognize him. It was believed that he was a person who had asked the boy he was driving for a ride.
To make matters worse, he could not identify himself, the only thing that was known about him was that he was a fan of the band "Grateful Dead" as he was wearing a T-shirt, in addition, he had two tickets to a concert of the same band in his pocket, so it was confirmed that he was a fan.
Blood tests were done, but they didn't help much, they couldn't provide photos either, the accident had disfigured him, they took some portraits, but as you understand, they were too simple to be recognizable.
The case was archived for more than 20 years, and it was the case of "Grateful Doe," the boy who could never be recognized.
Except on Facebook, thanks to groups that shared all the information about the case with each other, better portraits of "Grateful Doe" were created over time.
A user named greymetal, made a post summarizing the whole story with all the updates she had at that time, in late 2014. In this way, the user became an amateur detective, dedicated to reorganizing the case, moderating and answering questions.
One day, another user named Steve said that he recognized the boy, he told him that he reminded him of a classmate named Jason, although he couldn't remember his last name, at the time he worked at McDonald's, he was a fan of the Grateful Dead and he lost a few days to go from one side to the other.
He handed him a few photos so he could see the resemblance, and then they were exchanged in all the groups until the mother of "Grateful Doe", Margaretta Evans, recognized him, and when the DNA was compared, there was no longer any doubt that it was "Jason Callahan".