A Queens man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing of a WWI veteran who went missing in 1976.
Seitz's disappearance became a missing persons case and remained unsolved for over 40 years, until 2019, when an, Queens, and the discovery of human remains that would turn out to be those of the missing war veteran.
Investigators used forensic tools and technology not available in the 1970s to identify the human remains. In addition to DNA, the FBI helped the Queens District Attorney's office by using genealogy to find Seitz's living relatives. Such work is usually reserved for identifying criminals, but this time was used to identify a victim.
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