Human remains found Thursday afternoon, May 13, near Paul Quinn College have been identified as the body James Alan White, a gay man who has been missing since last October. Dallas police said Friday, May 14, that no cause of death has been determined yet and that the investigation into his death remains ongoing.
According to the Dallas Police Department blog, DPD Beat, a survey crew working for the college found the remains shortly after noon Thursday in a wooded area northwest of the Paul Quinn campus and called 9-11. The Dallas County Medical Examiner positively identified the remains as those of White on Friday.
White was last seen leaving the L.A. Fitness gym at CityPlace around 6 a.m.. on Thursday, Oct. 22. Surveillance video from a gas station on Inwood Road at Maple Avenue showed him shortly after leaving the gym, filling the tank of the Porsche SUV he was driving before pulling out of the parking lot and driving off down Inwood in the direction of his home.
White never showed up for a zoom meeting he had scheduled that morning, and his husband reported him missing that afternoon. Police found the Porsche Macan SUV a week later, on Oct. 29, in south Dallas.
Police ask that anyone with information related to White’s death contact Detective Eric Barnes at 214-283-4818 or by email at eric.barnes@dallascityhall.com, referencing case 188623-2020.A private fund is offering a $10,000 reward for information in the case, and Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for information leading the to arrest and indictment of a suspect in the case.
— Tammye Nash
The Dallas Police Department REALLY needs to step up their game. My aunt was also killed in Dallas last year. This is what you get when you let the NRA and the republicans run the state.
Bullshit! Dear god not about politics my friend. Get a grip
No, its what happens when a liberal city council, manager and mayor hire social justice warriors as police chief. Want to see a positive change, start electing pro-police candidates. Until then, reap what you sow.
I betcha $100 this was a Grindr/Scruff hookup gone horribly wrong.
His body was found less than a mile from his abandoned car. Lost dogs are found in less time. The DPD investigation always seemed extremely disinterested. I wonder why? Sad ending.
Lost dogs also have microchips where they can be tracked. Humans don’t. I’m sure the police searched for his phone and where it last pinged and came up with nothing. The DPD is also severely undermanned so they have other cases to tend to first. But you seem to be an expert on their intentions so nothing i say will convince you otherwise.
There are three comments before mine. Two of them take opportunistic swipes at political parties. The other leaps to an unfounded assumption that a gay man who was apparently murdered must have been hooking up. None seem to acknowledge that a real human being has died. He was loved and he is mourned, and no matter what, he did not deserve to die.
I can’t fathom the terror he may have felt in his last moments of life, or what or whom he thought about. But I am certain politics and hook-up sites were far from his mind.
The first couple of posters,,, get a grip. This has nothing to do with politics. I’m believe in the Democratic party’s values, but republicans have nothing to do with this. He was murdered by someone who probably doesn’t care about the human race, much less our political beliefs. So incredibly sad what happened… I have followed this story since the beginning. I hope we can one day figure out what happened to him and his killer(s) brought to justice.
Oh blah blah blah blah blah! Deal with it Mary!! Were you there? If not then you don’t know what lead to it, so take your fake concern and condescending tone and go f*** yourself.
I do believe the DPD could have done better here but it is not because he is gay. They do a pretty poor job with all the missing heterosexual women in Dallas too. Marissa Botello was found by a dog rescue woman who goes to areas of Oakcliff the police don’t go to rescue abused and abandoned dogs. They left evidence behind when they first came down, she had to call them back, it wasn’t until the FBI stepped in that they cleared the scene appropriately. They do not do a good job… period.
This is my theory. He left the gas station and headed home. Odds are there is no way he got car jacked on the way home that early in the morning. Someone would of had to met him in his driveway or something.. A small part of me thinks his husband has something to do with it. He didn’t report him missing until later that day.. which was total out of character for him.. and.. the police had to get a warrant , which took a week, to search his cell phone records when his husband could have authorized it right away. Something just isn’t right.. its too clean for a car jacking . I doubt it was a hook up gone bad.