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by Contributor on Friday Jan 29 2021
BC RCMP and the BC Coroners Service continue to see results in their partnership reviewing and revisiting historical missing person’s cases, with yet another missing person case that dates back to 1967 now solved through DNA profiling.
In May 2021 it would have been 54 years since the unexplained disappearance of a man from the BC Interior, who was last seen in Coquitlam BC on May 27, 1967. The man’s family reported his disappearance to their local police in Kamloops who launched an investigation, which spanned decades. The man was just 41 years of age at the time he disappeared.
VICTORIA A decades-old missing person’s case that spanned British Columbia has recently been solved through advancements in DNA profiling. BC RCMP and the BC Coroners Service say that a missing person’s case that dates back to 1967 was resolved nearly 54 years later. The case began in Kamloops when a family reported the disappearance of a man on May 27, 1967. He was last seen in Coquitlam and was 41 years old at the time. Years later, in 1972, unidentified human remains were discovered on a beach on Saturna Island, one of B.C.’s southern Gulf Islands. While an autopsy was performed at the time, the remains were never identified and were buried on Salt Spring Island.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — RCMP say they ve identified the remains of a man who went missing more than 50 years ago thanks to DNA profiling technology.Mounties say in a news release the 41-year-old man from . . .