Authorities use DNA to identify skeletal remains found in south Sacramento storm drain [The Sacramento Bee]
Jan. 28 Authorities used to DNA samples to identify the skeletal remains of a missing man who was found early last month by a county crew cleaning out a storm drain in south Sacramento.
The remains of Jack Larson, 60, were found in the storm drain along the 5300 block of Gordon Drive near Stockton Boulevard, according to the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office, which listed Larson’s initial classification of his death as “undetermined.”
Employees from the Sacramento County Department of Water Resources were clearing the storm drain on Dec. 8, when they found a shoe while unclogging their vacuum machine. The workers thought it was “a stick out of the muck that clogged the machine, ” according to a county news release.