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Radio to P.R.X.

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A few years ago, a man was found

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dead near a park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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The police couldn't identify him. His

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body was buried in a pine coffin in a

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mass grave on Hart Island, a

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narrow strip of land in the waters off of New

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York City.

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The only marker was a white post that

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read, plot 383.

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More than a million people are buried on Hart Island,

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but there are no headstones or plaques, so

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it isn't easy to find out who they were.

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It's known as a place where people end up

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when their bodies are unclaimed or when they've

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been forgotten. But the man

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in plot 383 actually had several people

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looking for him. Neil

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Harris was last seen in Inwood, New York

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on December 12, 2014. He

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was last seen wearing a tan Carhartt jacket,

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black hoodie, blue jeans, tan work boots,

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and a backpack. If you have seen

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or know Neil's whereabouts,

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this was a missing persons flyer

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that we made. And

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that went out every week. Every

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week like clockwork on Mondays. And

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then a year went by.

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Nothing. And

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then another year, still nothing. From

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Radio Diaries and Radio Topia, this is the

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Unmarked Graveyard, a new series

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where we untangle mysteries of people buried

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in America's largest public cemetery. Stories

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about how they ended up there, the lives they lived,

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and the people they left behind. Hi,

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baby.

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There were thousands

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of questions. Where's his family?

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Where's his people?

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Uncle Caesar was estranged from our family 40

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to 50 years. The

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playwright, novelist, and author of Happy

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Island, Miss Dawn Powell.

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Holy s***, I know that person.

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And it's got a name

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attached to it, Neil Harris

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Jr. You can't help but wonder

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what her life has been. I never went

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back and I never looked well

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again. And I found you, she

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found us, and we're here. Now

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we know who you are.