Antonio Planas is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
Authorities in Arizona have identified remains found by construction workers near the Hoover Dam more than a decade ago as those of a man who had not been seen by his family for nearly 30 years. William Herman Hietamaki was identified this month using genetic genealogy after construction workers initially found human bones near the Hoover Dam in 2009, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement this week. It is estimated that Hietamaki died between 2006 and 2008.
, a genetic lab in Texas, told its investigators in April that a grant it received would help pay for forensic genetic genealogy testing. In the technique, which law enforcement is more commonly using to solve cold cases, commercial DNA databases are searched to find family matches to the DNA of a crime suspect, a victim or a missing person. This month, the sheriff’s office learned that the John Doe in the case had ancestors with roots in Michigan dating to the 1800s.
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Human remains found in Arizona in 2009 identified as missing Michigan manHuman bones found near the Hoover Dam in 2009 have been positively identified as the remains of a Michigan man who was last seen in by his family in 1995.
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Human remains found in Arizona in 2009 identified as missing Michigan manHuman bones found near the Hoover Dam in 2009 have been positively identified as the remains of a Michigan man who was last seen in by his family in 1995.
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