Details: In February 1979, Peter Hanchett, Benjamin Kalama, Ralph Malaiakini, Scott Moorman and Patrick Woesner set sail for a pleasant fishing trip off a seventeen-foot Boston whater called the Sarah Joe. They had a good day at start, but the wind picked up and a storm came in. Peter's father, John Hanchett, grew concerned and went out to look for them, latScott Moorman
er joined by marine biologist John Naughton and Captain Jim Cushman of the Coast Guard by the third day. No trace of the Sarah Joe or the five-men was ever found. Ten years later, John Naughton was on a wildlife expedition to a deserted atoll called Taongi, a part of the Marshall Islands, where he discovered a small boat he could tell was registered in Hawaii and several feet from that, a shallow grave with a human jawbone protruding from a pile of rocks. The Coast Guard linked the boat to the Sarah Joe and dental records proved the jawbone was part of the remains of Scott Moorman from the missing Sarah Joe fishermen. It is entirely possible that the boat made it to the island within three months, but the problem is that a Government survey of the island six years previously would have found the boat and remains on the island. Were the other four men lost at sea during the interim and arrived after the expedition or did someone arrive on the island to leave the boat and Moorman's remains? A possible clue rests on the island. Moorman's jawbone had been buried with an unbound stack of papers 3/4 inches by 3/4 inches alternated by slips of tin foil material between the pages. The cryptic papers may be part of a Chinese burial ritual representing money and fortune in the next life. Gold and silver foil such as the ones inside the papers also represent money or good fortune for the dead to bring with them into the next life.
Suspects: None Extra Notes: The original airdate for this case is October 11, 1989. Results: Unsolved Links: This case has a page on the Unsolved Mysteries site.
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