Overview of John Ashley, Jr.
John J. Ashley, Jr. was last seen walking home after attending school and basketball practice. Another 17-year-old Wilmington boy disappeared the same night and was later found drowned Feb 1972 in Wilmington. NOTE: Mitochondrial DNA testing of three siblings and the mother of John Ashley has excluded him from any biological connection to OCME skeletal remains case 78-N-253 (dated 4-4-1978) which is NAMUS unidentified case #2185; these skeletal remains were strongly suspected of being the remains, John Ashley.