WAUKESHA COUNTY, Wi. (WJHL) – Authorities say the body of a Bristol, Tennessee man has finally been identified after 44 years of investigation.
According to a press release from the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office in Wisconsin, in 1977 deputies pursued an unidentified man driving a reported stolen vehicle out of Illinois.
While the driver tried to escape, the release said he lost control and crashed. He died at the scene, and the county coroner and deputies found nothing in the car that could identify him.
“Over the years, numerous detectives from the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office and staff with the Waukesha County Medical Examiner’s Office worked on trying to identify this male who was listed as a ‘John Doe,'” the release said.
In 2015, 38 years later, the remains of the unidentified man were exhumed and DNA samples were collected. According to the release, there were no matches at the time within national databases.
Four years later in 2019, the Medical Examiner’s office gave case details and samples to the DNA Doe Project, a non-profit that focuses on using DNA technology and genetic research to discover the identity of bodies found throughout the United States.
The release said a DNA profile was uploaded to GEDmatch and Family Tree DNA, and genealogists picked up the case in 2020.
In 2021, 44 years after the man’s death in Wisconsin, investigators located a family member and matched her DNA to the man’s.
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