Human remains discovered in 1974 near a northeastern Illinois creek have been identified through forensic DNA testing as a suburban Chicago man who vanished in the early 1970s, officials said.
The skeletal remains are those of Donald M. Rozek of Harvey, Illinois, and Rozek's cause of death remains undetermined, the Will County Coroner's Office The coroner’s office and the Will County Sheriff’s Office worked with Othram Inc.
— a private laboratory that conducts advanced forensic DNA testing — to identify Rozek’s remains, Hunters found the skeletal remains in November 1974 near a Will County creek bed northeast of Interstate 55 and Route 6. The remains were eventually buried but were exhumed in December 1993 for more analysis by the sheriff's office. The man’s identity remained unknown, but the coroner's office began working on the case through a cold case unit formed in 2009.
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