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DNA profiling helps solve case of remains found on Saturna Island
Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist
January 28, 2021 03:26 PM
A breakthrough in DNA profiling helped solve a nearly 54-year-old missing persons case involving a man from the B.C. Interior whose remains washed up on a beach on Saturna Island.
The 41-year-old man was last seen in Coquitlam on May 27, 1967. His family reported the disappearance to their local police in Kamloops, which launched what would become a decades-long investigation.
On August 20, 1972, unidentified human remains were found on a beach on Saturna Island. Despite an autopsy, the B.C. Coroners Service was not able to determine an identity. The body was buried on Salt Spring Island until it was exhumed for further investigation last September.
Although the remains had degraded, the B.C. Institute of Technologys forensic DNA laboratory was able to produce a DNA profile, said Cpl. Jesse ODonaghey, spokesman for the B.C. RCMP.
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