DNA shows us what a headless 1997 Alabama murder victim looked like in life
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Investigators believe, based on DNA analysis, that this is the face of a headless body found in a ditch in 1997 in rural Marshall County. Investigators revealed the image at a press conference Wednesday, May 19, 2021 in Guntersville, Ala. (William Thornton / wthornton@al.com)
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Marshall County investigators can now see the face of a headless body that has gone unidentified for almost a quarter century.
This morning authorities in Guntersville presented a DNA analysis which aims to reconstruct the features of a man who has gone unidentified since his body was found in a creek bed off Eagle Rock Road in Union Grove, north of Arab, on April 15, 1997.
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