(CNN) — More than 20 years after a mother found a human jawbone hidden in her son’s rock collection, genetic genealogy experts have unraveled the discovery and identified the partial
In 2002, a mother contacted the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office after finding a human jaw bone in her son’s rock collection. The identity of that jaw bone remained a mystery for decades until the office received some help from out of state.The bone already appeared to be several decades old and made identification especially difficult for the office.
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DNA testing revealed the bone belonged to US Marine Captain Everett Leland Yager, who was killed in an aerial accident over Riverside County, California , in July 1951.